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jerome` 16:00, 8 January 2007 (GMT) First news post since round 19, and we're a few days away from Round 25 beginning. Nice. A quick summary of the last few rounds: Round 20 was the introduction of 'eitrades' as a race to PA. Politically the round was contested by Vengeance, strengthened by the inclusion of the gosu bg and 2 newly formed alliances Conspiracy and Destiny. All three allies proved to be mediocre, with VGN and Destiny sacrificing a lot of their score in their battle to hold #1 planet (Caj of Destiny and Agony of VGN/Gosu were the main players); however hilariously neither won. Ascendancy organised a more or less murderous raid at Caj's galaxy with the help of Omen and New Dawn and the roid loss set Caj on a frenzy which ended up with him directly attacking Agony, who had him fleetcaught with the help of gosu. Agony's own fleet was involved in the fleetcatch but he pulled from landing in order to save score. Little realising he'd actually pulled into uncovered incoming that set his own fleet back a few million score as well. Paving the way for Ascendancy members to hold all of the top 4. Conspiracy Theory enjoyed this self-destruction too as it more or less set them on a clear path to victory.
Round 21 marked the return of WolfPack who had a more or less uncontested round. Interesting part of this round was the rise of Ascendancy playing for value widespread with great success, with 3 top 5 planets in Kileman, JBG and jerome`. They consolidated themselves into 4 main galaxies (2:4/2:7/9:2 and to a lower extent 15:8) and dug themselves in. This was rather helped by the race of ETD proving to be more or less unroidable this round. One controversy regarding this round was Greenhills being donated many a million through a collected effort by his galaxy that pumped him over Kileman into first place for his second planetary win. Some saw this one up manship characterised by Ascendancy themselves as entirely justified and it was indeed acknowledged as such by many known Ascendancy members. Kileman however, wasn't quite happy (understandably) and has quit PA since this event.
I'm going to have to skip over Round 22 and 23 as I didn't play either. However both were key in the rise of Transcendancy, a channel for free scans and previously, free intel too. Achilles led this revolution against PA MHteam's fairly ridiculous stance on support planets which has now been somewhat recitified. Round 24 saw the first long-awaited win for New Dawn as an alliance. Other contendors were Conspiracy who ended a whisker away from winning their second round and the battlegroup-now-turned alliance Urwins from "old" PA. R24 was also the second round in a row where clear run away winning planets had their leads overturned with healthy sizes of incoming. R23 saw Fenix's apparently maniacal lead murdered and r24 had Ronin and jerome` who were both over 1mil value ahead of every other planet at tick 600, struck repeatedly until the 5:4 planets overtook them. 5:4 employed a strategy somewhat similar to Ascendancy's of r21 in terms of consolidating galaxies with the emphatic fortress race that was the xandathrii for this round. They were also capable of "playing politics" (lol) and this led to the largest gap of victory for a gal since 6:10's or round 14. That covers enough for now.
Squidly 04:51, 28 November 2006 (GMT)
Whoa nelly! Speaking of round-altering events, check this one out! Exilition has apparently merged with their out of tag members Nihilum and have now taken the lead by about 4 million points. Angels and Omen, both under duress due to member/officer activity dropping off did a severe clearing of their member base and have merged into Furious Omen. NewDawn has taken third place, with tides of fire and vision rounding out the top 5. The war is on now, and the race to see if anyone can catch eXilition is on.
Squidly 15:38, 16 November 2006 (GMT)
Round 19 is starting to wind down, with a little less than 4 weeks to go. As it stands right now, there's been a great deal of rivalry going on between two main blocks. It would appear that Post|Mortum unfortunately had to disband, but did a last minute save with vision by merging. Angels have recruited ToF and Vision to their cause, and continue to battle on against the forces of ND, Omen, LCH, and also rumored is exilition at least with one or two of said alliances.
1 NewDawn 38184 79 2,253,266 135,195,962
2 Angels 29572 72 2,075,741 124,544,519
3 Tides of Fire 34048 78 1,967,601 118,056,061
4 Omen 32814 59 1,990,203 117,422,010
5 eXilition 46819 48 2,387,231 114,587,093
6 xVx 31777 68 1,876,223 112,573,407
7 VisioN 29879 74 1,864,532 111,871,925
8 TGV 31477 70 1,629,105 97,746,304
9 [F-Crew] 26322 76 1,468,539 88,112,378
10 Vengeance 18009 49 1,645,166 80,613,167
As it stands now, NewDawn is in the lead with a good chunk of points, followed by angels only 11 million points behind. Angels were the victims of a severe butt-kicking earlier this month, but seem to have recovered from it fairly nicely. Tides of Fire have made a strong showing thus far, kudos to them. Omen, I think has some people including myself, curious. They were at 77 some members about a week earlier, but all of a sudden, it would seem that members are dropping off like flies. Rumor has it that they have a fair chunk of members out of tag and are planning on pulling a surprise upset later on. Exilition once against are a formidable force, and the only reason they aren't winning right now in over-all score is because they have half the members of everyone else. I imagine some are still wary if they are going to pull a victory out from underneath everyone, but who knows! xVx, and vision are quite close in score right now, with TGV, F-crew, and Vgn forming the latter of the top 10.
Check out JonnyBGood's god-like round summary over JBG Ftw
Squidly 23:19, 16 October 2006 (BST) Round 19 is underway!
There was a fairly large number of the usual top 10 alliances that decided to tag up late, in the hopes that much of their planet locations were not given away early on. The top 10 is as follows, with rumors that neither omen or exilition have added a fair number of their larger members into the tag.
1 Angels
2 Tides of Fire
3 NewDawn
4 Post|Mortum
5 VisioN
6 xVx
7 Subh
8 [F-Crew]
9 Vengeance
10 eXilition
Good luck to everyone this round, and may the best planet win!
Squidly 10:05, 7 September 2006 (BST)
Well, Round 18 has come to a close, and some congratulations are in order!
First up, to eXilition, who ran rough-shod over the rest of the competition, beating out second place Omen by over 100 million points.
Secondly, to the galaxy of 7:5, who had a fairly extensive lead over the second place galaxy of 12:2. Looks like that was a fight to the bitter end.
And finally, well done to Almeida (2:7:9) who was the winner of Round 18! Well played by him!
A list of final rankings will be posted up as soon as I possibly can... Stay tuned!
Squidly 16:31, 25 July 2006 (BST)
Round 18 is now part way through, and we're at tick 428. Many alliances have now shown their true colors, and the rankings are as follows.
1 eXilition 34103 65 585,281 38,043,295
2 Subh 23701 63 508,140 32,012,845
3 1up 24050 59 532,948 31,443,987
4 Omen 22651 64 450,531 28,834,025
5 ROCK 18201 66 406,916 26,856,508
There has been a fair bit of [1]controversy as of late, involving both 1up and exilition again. The common theory right now is that exilition have been using out of tag planets as sole covert operations planets in order to hit 1up constantly. Some argue that everything is fair in love/war, whilst some others say that it provides an unfair advantage. Others are trying to slam 1up with being deceitful and manipulative, and putting forth their own support planets via a few of them who are suspected to not be in the tag as of this time.
430ish ticks in, and already things are heating up! I will throw out a 'well done' to ROCK here, as they've made a great showing thus far with their 5th place ranking. Subh as usual are showing what they can do, standing nicely at 2nd. Omen having grabbed a few of the TGV regulars after losing a few of their old exilition players are doing nicely at 4th, and 1up are still hiding a few of their members at third.
Have a good round everybody :D
- Squidly, 09 July 2006 (BST)
Round 18 is now underway! We're at tick 54, and although rankings don't mean much right now, here you are! As it stands right now, Subh is in the lead, followed by Omen, ROCK, xVx, and F-Crew
Good luck to everyone, in this... The Endless Fight.
- killaH 18:38, 20 June 2006 (BST)
Round 17, which finished recently, had the following winners:
Top 3 Planets:
Galaxy: 7:1
Alliance: 1up
- Lok 23:30, 18 April 2006 (BST)
Tick 98 and Round 17 of Planetarion begins in earnest with the first few launches as the round is in its infancy. My choice of favourites would be NewDawn, Omen, 1up (currently untagged) and Angels. However, Insomnia and Howling Rain have also got off to a strong start, although we're still at early doors. Last round's winners, Ascendancy have got off to a slow start but as we all know to them success is a journey, so why bother running. Time will tell if they're to repeat their feats of last round.
- Furball 18:25, 14 February 2006 (GMT)
It's tick 430 and the round has been going for 2 and a half weeks. 1up are first, followed by an energised Subh and NewDawn. By far the most exciting news has been Angels purging itself of 19 members in an effort to clear inactives; in so doing, they have dropped from 3rd to 9th. Taking the greatest advantage of this are Vengeance and TGV who cement places in the top 5, although LCH are hot on TGV's tail. The other suprise is Dingo's holding of the #1 planet rank for a few days, based on a XP-whoring tactic.
- Banned 09:15, 30 January 2006 (GMT)
With protection drawing to an end, Alliance Discussions rejoices at the return of Quha. XtoTheZ has also made a highly surprising and totally unexpected announcement stating that Elysium have returned to play round 16. With a dozen alliances closing on the limit of 50 planets, it looks like there will be a competitive playing field with many outsiders looking to take on the favorites, 1up and Angels.
- Furball 00:15, 3 January 2006 (GMT)
eXilition wins Round 15, defeating NewDawn who take second. Angels unsuprisingly end 3rd, while LCH pip 1up to fourth. Subh, VGN, TGV and F-Crew bring up the rear.
