Round 8

Round Details

This round abruptly ended early on the 8th December 2002 without warning when the leased servers were reposessed due to Fifth Season not raising enough money to pay for them. Credit card fraud in this and previous rounds was widely blamed as much of the money raised through account subscriptions was paid as chargeback fines for fraudulant transactions. Lithuanian and Romanian players had born the brunt of the blame for this.

During the round both Spinner and fudge left their roles, although fudge maintained the round when there were server problems requiring direct intervention.

Fudge looked at the code, but determined that it would not be worthwhile to rewrite the necessary parts in order to complete the 2 weeks remaining in the round. Zeus made several emotional announcements on the portal and in #planetarion where he gave out as much information about what had happened as possible, however this was limited.

After an outcry from the community Zeus persuaded Fifth Season to sell the Planetarion name and code. During December there was little information about the bidding process although several Planetarion names such as Starbucks placed bids. The winner was eventually Jolt who paid an undisclosed sum.

Round Summary

Round 8 was declared pre-round to be the last ever round of Planetarion. Although both Xanadu and Legion had quit after Round 7 there were still a number of contending alliances who were keen on winning the round. One substantial change from the previous rounds was the re-introduction of random galaxies so that the entire universe was random for the first time since Round 1 itself.

The History of Round 8 by Sonnenbomber

ToT decided to continue the cooperation with FAnG. Together with Adelante we planned to make a triade for R8. Fury claimed to go solo and Titans/LDK/Virus we had seen as main enemy for R8. They had both a lot good players in and a row of good partners what had made them to a great enemy.

Additionally I should remember that R8 was the first round since R3 which only allowed random gals and R8 was planned to become the last one in PA history.

ToT also opened an international wing in R8 which was leaded by bartgymnast. But it always was pretty small wing. We had a really nice roundstart and all worked fine till Adelante became intern problems. Through the great power of Titans/LDK/Virus, our triade and Fury decided to cooperate for destroying them. Already 3 weeks after roundstart, Adelante disbanded and their several wings joined other allys. The Adelante Core BG joined Fury and so the new Triade became FAnG/Fury/ToT. But as longer the war went, more and more FAnG planets become closed for cheating and this became to a big intern problem for FAnG, moral went down, battles were lost. Some final trys to beat LDK/Titans in big battles failed too. At the end FAnG splitted, Rumad and hinch took controll over FAnG and kicked to old HCs. At the end (and after a lot of argues) ToT and FAnG canceled all agreements, so only Fury and ToT were left and fighting virus/titans/ldk.

And to be honest, we failed. through a lot lost battles and the disband from 2 of our allieds, we werent able to fight back. At least we were able to protect our topplayers till the end. Even the round ended much earlier than expected. Planetarion was bankrupt and servers went down. So the round ended 3weeks before the originally planned date. It seemed that PA was finally over.... --[ToT]Sonnenbomber

Final Rankings

• Final Galaxy Rankings
• Final Planet Rankings

See Also

• Alliances
• Ship Stats