Who were you?
 

I started the round in 8:2, who were gracious enough to exile me when I explained that I'd rather land in a galaxy with friends. I stuck in c200 for about 12 hours and then landed in 2:4 together with Lok, Stoom and Alki. Alki had gone Terran and that really shaped the gal's round in many ways. We ended up getting some good exiles, and the gal was doing quite well despite a lot of incoming.

I started out doing a little CO, but lost my first 60k voyagers to stupidity. Then I went pure BS, which made capping roids easy. I built defense as I needed it, supplying the galaxy mostly with fake or real tycoons. The high point of the round was this landing on Nitro together with Alki.

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Was quite an strange round, I started out in Spookyvince's galaxy and thought well, **** that, so exiled and landed with Digital and friends. It was an quite quiet round really, had a few cool landings and decided instead of attacking I would more or less defend all round.

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You are: Inevitable Feeling (9:2:6)CATHAARGH (Clear)
Size: 2,618 16
Value: 8,536,428 7
Score: 9,605,568 6
XP: 17,819 276


Ships (1,018,503 total)
Spider 371,000 Beetle 200,000
Black Widow 200,000 Scarab 120,000
Tarantula 30,000 Roach 70,503
Scorpion 20,000 Mosquito 5,000
Hornet 2,000

(yes i ****ed up with the roaches)

My round began in a fun way, i rushed cr and landed with cr tick 91 didnt leave the t10 at all unless i had stuff in prod.

Cathaar was shocking i owe alot to my gal, i managed to achieve top cath by along way. My hilight was yesterday WP launching 11 waves and 35 fleets to pull all of them

Total Fleets Launched: 204
Total Incomings Received: 429

Ah well. i had fun altho getting up to incs almost every day was crap and cath cr was REALLY overrated. I launch/recalled when i could but usually ended up attacking afternoons when the incs had cleared and my roaches had returned from ingal def against fr.

Fun times :

http://game.planetarion.com/show_news.pl?id=9659 --> cat suicide fake, which made these 2 waves land thinking cr was out.
http://game.planetarion.com/show_news.pl?id=9752
http://game.planetarion.com/show_news.pl?id=9753

Re: Who were you?
 

Started the round as 15:6:1, BPed with Kenny. After 137 ticks we decided the gal was too shit to stay in, so we exiled out. After 2 exiles I ended up in 2:7, which already had 5 Ascendancy in it before I showed up, so I decided to stick around. Spent the round scanning (clocking in at nearly 6000 scans) and defending ingal. Lost 17 amps to a cov opper around tick 400 (56 base alert is a killer), after which I had to abandon my plan of 150 amps at tick 755 and build some SCs. After having experienced it, myself I started resource hacking people and donating it to the galfund, as my ships cost too much (+25% cost is a killer) and were too slow (+25% production time is a killer). Incomings all day every day, though not as much as 2:4 (hi Alki). Overall not too bad a round for me.

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Size: 605 740
Value: 7,261,039 17
Score: 7,746,979 16
XP: 8,099 816

Ships (1,688,711 total)
Harpy 1 Wyvern 5,012
Dragon 4,746 Leviathan 1,415
Spider 19,715 Viper 23,085
Beetle 6,425 Black Widow 14,702
Scarab 1,351 Tarantula 9,310
Roach 14,609 Scorpion 75
Mosquito 1,617 Hornet 666
Banshee 713,024 Phantom 345,828
Shadow 6,765 Nightmare 12,035
Illusion 119,897 Vampyre 1,842
Corsair 201,977 Thief 64,528
Cutter 13,543 Buccaneer 6,856
Pirate 13,477 Rogue 4,844
Marauder 27,131 Privateer 1,400
Ironclad 322 Galleon 482
Voyager 9,687 Vendor 1,027
Ranger 11,887 Dealer 17,041
Tycoon 7,767 Broker 3,824
Rambler 561 Baliff 237

Lost 600k value yesterday because of a huge mistake.
Apart from that 2.4 rocked.

Re: Who were you?
 

I've always enjoyed this thread every round in picticular.

As you can see on my sandmans, I never had more than 600 roids until after PT 900. Only for the last 4 days of the round did I have any WP def, totaling my total out of galaxy defence fleets for the round: 4. I choose a mines+FCs construction strategy, for a value round, and protected my ships whenever possible, though I did have two crashs from oversleeping during the round. I designed my fleet based on what I needed to protect myself against, and in the end I've got a basic immunity to CO via vendors, FI via theifs+anti-co, FR via 2.9k tycs + 38k harps, DE via 70k cutl + 300k banshee, CR via 12k maras, BS via 36k pirate+de flak (I had somewhere around 50k pirates until i stole off of a careless CT guy during the final ticks here). I bearly had any incoming for the last 300-ish ticks when I had a well developed fleet, and could cover multiple inc classes with my fleets. Attack-wise I used a LOT of fake fleets, some of the better ones i'll include below:

FI as FR
http://game.planetarion.com/show_news.pl?id=10375
CO as FR
http://game.planetarion.com/show_news.pl?id=10376
CO as DE
http://game.planetarion.com/show_news.pl?id=9582

I had a LOT of fun with Zik this round. It was ace!

On an intresting side note, in round 19 I had my planet changed from the ruler/planet "Sophie Moore" of "Precious Pink" as my entire BP (LORD-NIKO, BA, and some others) had chosen porn star of porn movie ruler/planets, but due to the game's PG rating, I was forced to change my ruler/planet by the admins. Well, this round I chose another iffy-ruler/planet combination, but this time I wasn't forced to change it.

the dirty mind of a maternal copulater (13:1:6) (Zikonian)

-NitinA

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I haven't contributed here before really, so I hope this is adequate.

Xandathrii were a tricky race this round and required superlative planet management. I set my self a gameplan of small gains and to have value gains to match my roids and I have to say it paid off very well, as I'm the 4th biggest Xan. I went with Feudalism but didn't opt for mass finance centres. I went for mining to gain a minimum level of income and curtailed my ability for finance centres by getting amps, dists, reasonably early fleet analysis for a xan going feudalism and security centres to protect the stockpile I planned for.

I buddypacked with Stoom and Alki who went terran, which meant I got a lot of constant incoming but that also meant my tactic was the best one to pursue, as i ended up having 4 days off all round which meant I had to keep it tight. My fleet balance was greatly helped by jesterina, who I consulted with as to what ships what we needed for me to attack and make gains and as to what we needed for in galaxy defence.

My main source of roids early on was using sandmans to get my targets of choice which were terrans with FI. I then added a serviceable FR fleet and did the same. Midround I decided to shift to bigger targets by going on raids and I built my roidcount up to a healthy 2.2k, which was the highest for any xan at the time. Obviously this was helped by impeccable management of defence by jesterina and stoom in 2:4, which meant that a reasonably high level of incoming was dealt with without too many problems. Their input to my planet is highly appreciated and I hope they take some pride in my ranking.

I then got wrecked by a good portion of conspiracy attacking me, fortunately by that point I had built up a 120 million stack and used it to build an insane amount of FI and decided to lead a party to pick off a large Etd. Had I know how effective mass FI were, I'd have joined the party sooner, it's very very difficult to stop. I'm not sure if i've got the highest FI count in the universe, I hope so though.

Xan had a tough round where you needed to be prepared to sacrifice yourself to defend to be of any use to your galaxy or alliance and i often found myself 3 fleet defending because that was the best way to save roids for me and my galmates. My hat goes off to Achilles who has played a superb round with Xan in equal adversity and has finished #1 xandathrii. I have no doubt that he deserves it.

Infact there are a few xans who deserve much higher ranks than they got, because they were a very technical, methodical race to play and needed a lot of thought to do well with if you mainly relied on your galaxy. This isn't my best rank, but it's the best I've played so far, simply because of the planning that went into playing it, the discipline I showed by sticking to my gameplan 100% and the fact that there was a degree of difficulty to do well with Xandathrii this round.

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The Mighty of Walldo Experience (18:8:3) (Xandathrii)

You are: The Mighty (18:8:3) Xan (Clear)
Size: 969 342
Value: 3,822,634 114
Score: 4,900,054 115
XP: 17,957 271

Total Round Roids: 4,739
Total Lost Roids: 3,770


It was a fun and good round, in the beginning It was easy to keep a good value as a xan, midround, it went very bad. Lotsa Bs/Cr/Fr inc. Builded alot anti cr/Bs. The Cr inc stopt, but it never mattered how much Spectres I got, they kept comming. I had more Etd-Bs inc as Xan-Fr inc. Strange thing, I never had Ter-Bs inc.

I roided mainly with a Fi fleet. Only the last 3 weeks I builded a fr fleet. But still got more roids with my Fi pods as the Fr one.

For Gzambo -- I had 3 ziks in my gal, who sended me so many ingal defence fleets. Thanks to harps and tycoons.

btw my gal started with 4 Xan - 4 Ziks. nice setup, we had no Cath whole round and got 1 Terran later. A totally ****ed up gal setup. But gal defence was ace!!! trough the whole round, I think the best I have seen sately.

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u forgot to mention my leet anti fr def in gal walldo

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Started out in 12:2, not a very active galaxy, but ok considering i was slow starting anyway by finishing ship & eta research first, mainly defending ingal and picking up some extra salvage that way. Left on holiday for 9 days roughly 2 weeks into the round. Considering my size and value i decided to keep my planet open, gambling on not being owned while i was away (as i had no intention of logging in). Turned out my planet happily gathered 12mil of each resource while i was away (including the salvage from my fleet being killed), and thus me still having a respectable value despite having missed about half of the round up to that point. When i got back my original gal had died, did one exile and ended up in 17:2 which turned out to be a very nice gal (although a bit inactive towards the end).

I didn't really attack that much, out of my 110 launches 27 were attack missions. My Merchants, Dealers, Investors and Tycoons where a much needed defence tool and i ended up wasting most of my slots with them. I basicly used my BS fleet to attack with and get some roids (didn't have a decent CO fleet untill the last week of the round), rarely used my Tycoons there as i kept them home to help defend ingal or cluster vs the nasty Xan FR. I always kept a 'balanced' fleet and generally made sure i could stop roughly equal ship value in each class (apart from Merchants and especially Brokers which i had more off, and Voyagers which i had only in low numbers).

Had a fun round (apart from my daily unofficial DC shift :() and was happy to see we (as in xVx) managed to get 7 planets in the top 100.

Re: Who were you?
 

You are: FAN (9:2:7) Zik (Clear)
Size: 1,369 147
Value: 7,012,605 20
Score: 7,469,085 24
XP: 7,608 857


Ships (1,044,612 total)
Harpy 10,187 Drake 13
Pegasus 43 Wyvern 369
Dragon 241 Demeter 5
Leviathan 44 Spider 9,682
Viper 942 Beetle 855
Black Widow 35,472 Scarab 23,158
Tarantula 3,639 Roach 3,070
Scorpion 253 Mosquito 230
Hornet 428 Banshee 222,693
Phantom 87,322 Bomber 34,140
Wraith 18,893 Shadow 119
Nightmare 1,626 Illusion 17,427
Vampyre 267 Corsair 116,595
Thief 43,170 Cutter 95,244
Buccaneer 2,162 Pirate 34,543
Rogue 25,381 Marauder 26,215
Privateer 1,802 Ironclad 487
Merchant 2,238 Voyager 202,151
Vendor 6,116 Ranger 1,071
Dealer 947 Investor 2,000
Tycoon 2,029 Broker 8,932
Rambler 2,350 Baliff 61



Pretty darn funny round, exiled into a awesome gal a little while into the round and the fantastic cooperation ingal really made this round good for me. Had it not been for my galmates my fairly laidback playingstyle would not have gotten me as high as it did. I didnt really have any good attack fleets through the round as i spent most of my time doing the same as Benneh, just deffing ingal and sending out attacks in the afternoons. I seemed to be well hated by CT this round(4 times more inc from them than the any other ally) so they had a nasty habit of whacking me down evertime i got some roids :(

All in all a awesome round, zik was quite good except for the pain to get enough anti fr and bs.

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The awesome tactic of initiating 12 roids! (16:6:4) Zik
Size: 1,455 125
Value: 1,121,320 #840
Score: 4,258,420 #184
XP: 52,285 #3
Total Round Roids: 8,902 #1 \o/
Total Lost Roids: 7,447 #3


This round began just as expected. I went random as a free planet and got exiled several times because of my low ammount of initiated roids and the fact that i played a free-account, heh.
People did not believe me that 12 roids are just enough to have fun with.
I never had any big value because i never managed to hold on those rocks for longe once i capped some.
Then I started my little war again WP and i must say this was the best thing to do. I dont know exactly how many roids i got from them, maybe 3k??
All i know is that i managed to grab 1500 within two nights :-) Always attacking much bigger targets than me of course!
FAKING FTW!!!!!!!
As every round it is amusing to see incompetend dc that do not manage to send the right def. Or is it my l33t skill that makes it impossible to get the right def?? Maybe its the god of beer giving me part of his powers.....

Just too bad that my lemmingrun did not work as intended, still got a bunch of ships left. And Antigone´s counter landed same tick as my suicide. So those lost roids did not count and therefore im not #1 total roids lost aswell :-(

All in all it was a funny round

Prost!!!

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You are: i am 1 (18:8:2) Zik (Clear)
Size: 1,138 225
Value: 2,540,378 309
Score: 2,940,758 477
XP: 6,673 924

apart from 3 fleeting ingal with def a fair bit i had a fairly average rd , happy with where i finished up considering most of the rd was played using my mobile phone, but it did seem every time i got near rock's average score the gits had a good gal raid so i probably dragged them down a bit in the end

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Wrath of the Tyrant (5:8:6) (Zikonian)

Value: 5,385,729
XP: 7,485
Score / Rank: 5,834,829 / 58

Ships (1,851,802 total)
Harpy 24,994 Pegasus 70
Demeter 200 Tarantula 277
Roach 401 Hornet 171
Banshee 1,078,312 Phantom 236,002
Shadow 781 Nightmare 3,302
Spectre 400 Illusion 42,258
Vampyre 149 Cutlass 54,229
Corsair 303,265 Cutter 19,976
Buccaneer 5,086 Pirate 38,868
Rogue 1,254 Marauder 40,105
Privateer 500 Ironclad 967
Investor 233 Tycoon 1

Main problems was just attacking targets which gave me little to no xp, building dists when I should have probably only built finance centers, some dumb mistakes ingal due to mis-communication but mostly deffed this round.

Total Attacks: 67
Total Defences: 87
Total Launches: 154

Got highest dp in Subh of 64 and bp'ed with Mystic of Subh and Scream of WP


Also we had our lucky charm (Wishmaster) ;).

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You are: Anna Karina (2:7:5) Etd (Clear)
Size: 2,106 34
Value: 9,930,979 5
Score: 10,380,499 5
XP: 7,492 870



Ships (936,307 total)
Scorpion 8 Merchant 350,000
Voyager 200,000 Ranger 50,000
Dealer 165,000 Investor 84,314
Tycoon 35,000 Broker 45,000
Rambler 6,235 Baliff 750




Total Attacks: 70
Total Defences: 57
Total Launches: 127



i'm awesome. another SPECTACULAR rise from well outside top 200 at tick 500 or so to #4!

Re: Who were you?
 

I think xan were a rather tricky race to get the hang of, most of my fleet composition and target selection came about through a number of inebriated discussions with H1TMAN. I went for mass finance centers and rushed travel time but didn't start attacking until relatively late in it. By that time it was obvious that there weren't going to be many large terrans out there worth launching on and I got my 150k mares rather quickly. Xan fr was an impressive force midround and I landed some big attacks which lead to a largish XP boost early on. Unfortunately later in the round landing FR just got more and more difficult with all the tycoons and harpies flying around - but at that point mass FI was viable again for big ETD hunts.

Getting xp early on proved to be a crutch since I was in a more visible position, with low value, and that xan tag shining like a bright neon "roid me" sign. In the end I think xan, more than any other race this round [except cathaar but who plays them anyway], really required a cooperative galaxy to truly excel with. They could be helpful defenders - at the expense of being able to attack - and required a lot of in-gal def to have any hope of holding roids.

All in all it was an unexpectedly fun round :)

[I believe stoom had the most xan FI by the end?]

Re: Who were you?
 

I was awesome till tick 500-600. Must be because everyone else sucked. Then the influence of hanging with too many Angels kicked in and I started to suck too.

The highlight of my round was making Angels coords public.

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You are: Fading Memories of Imperial Glory (6:6:6) Xan (Clear)

Ships (820,181 total)
Banshee 435,000 Phantom 205,000
Bomber 25,000 Wraith 25,000
Shadow 50,000 Nightmare 50,000
Illusion 20,181 Vampyre 10,000


I clearly had the best co-ords of the round - it didnt take me long to rename my fleets Hells Angels , Devil Worship and Satan is Calling :D. I buddypacked with a former Visionary from long ago who just wanted to play solo and for laughs, so about 15 mins before tick 36 i had a buddymate! \o/.

Early on, i lost 50k bombers due to sheer stupidity on behalf of my C alliance, and after that only slowly rebuilt more. Most of the round i was hovering around the 250-300 score ranks, which with my three jobs and full time uni isnt bad as i never had any time to attack (i'd never be around at landing time :(). Anyway, given that i could rarely attack, i managed to keep quite alot of my value defending which was great.

I really enjoyed defending my galaxy and my alliance with my uber phantom - i had one phantom that made at least 18 fleets recall against it, and then finally it was lost defending against some Zik on tobbe :(. This signaled the end of Sovereign's good fortune, as after that i kept getting attacked (even though i had no roids*) and right at the end of the round i lost about 2/3 of my FI and about 80% of my CO in one miserable defence (against another Zik, of all things - FR faked as DE ofc :( ).

I used the pitiful amount of salvage i received to init some roids - thus i finished with the highest number of roids i had all round :(.

I didnt really use my frigates much for attack - one thrice or so as a secondary excerise - i found that i had (at the time) enough FI to get through on Etd planets often enough, assuming they didnt get much in the way of defence. effectively, i didnt get through all that often, but when i did, it was alot of free roids - which is always good for value players like me :).

*With another buddypack who seemed pretty active and willing to defend in-gal, we got a few good randoms and soon enough everyone (except me) was actively attacking with 2 or 3 fleets. As such, for most of the round my galaxy had a roid rank of about 15, whilst a score rank outside the top 60. The incs were sporadic (which was surprising), but what was really depressing was that the only planet without any roids (me), would get 6 or 7 waves on me, whilst roidfat and valueless (but still reasonable scored) planets would get one or two. I just dont understand who i annoyed, but the incs i received were really quite silly :(.

Anyway, i had a good time and enjoyed myself this round. I dont really regret my choice of Xan, but towards the end i did feel like a farm :(. But i feel that i contributed far more to my galaxy and my alliance through all the fake defence that i sent that resulted in recalls, and all the real def that resulted in total kills, i think it made up for it. I only launched 22 attack fleets (of 124) all round, but most (pretty much all) of those i recalled instantly due to them getting def right away :( - but those 100+ def fleets i sent really made a difference. As others mentioned above, it was really easy to 3 fleet def with Xan (which i often do anyway ;)) both in-gal, in-c (initially, till crusie wasted my time there, heh), and within Vision.

<3

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I tried really hard this round, but I could not hold over 250ish roids for some odd reason. Being cath resulted in people 2-3 times my size attacking me for 40ish roid caps. It was weird, but it opened my eyes to why the same people keep winning.

You are: hiDdEN bOOb joB (2:2:8) Cat (Clear)
Size: 321 1280
Value: 2,003,354 457
Score: 3,028,634 457
XP: 17,088 322

Ships (138,216 total)
Spider 45,120 Viper 13,939
Beetle 27,814 Tarantula 6,453
Roach 41,543 Mosquito 2,020
Hornet 1,327

Re: Who were you?
 

Stoom had more FI than me before I built mine ;)

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Piece of a cake (16:1:4) (Eitraides)
Size: 2,017 45
Value: 4,081,095 103
Score: 4,984,935 101
XP: 15,064 400


Ships (472,225 total)
Wyvern 420 Dragon 506
Leviathan 234 Merchant 84,923
Voyager 306,537 Vendor 5,318
Ranger 11,419 Dealer 15,000
Tycoon 6,755 Broker 36,632
Rambler 3,596 Baliff 885

I would say i stoped before the finish :(
but hey!
i can say i am nearest to top100 :P

Re: Who were you?
 

You are: Meandor (3:9:4) Cat
Size: 1,470 #117
Value: 2,940,412 #230
Score: 4,844,212 #118
XP: 31,730 #31

Spider 130,000 Viper 110,000
Beetle 85,000 Black Widow 60,500
Scarab 4,500 Tarantula 17,700
Roach 13,000 Scorpion 4,000
Mosquito 3,500 Hornet 800

I wanted to play the round as an xp-round from scratch, and as some of our bc obv. didnt honour xp so much I sometimes found myself teaming up with some ally mates for solo attacks. First teamed up co with etd and zik against big cat. One of those cat forgot to launch his fleet or was trapped, and ended up loosing f!ckload flying out of top 100. http://game.planetarion.com/show_news.pl?id=5611 - As we found out it can be easy stoped by buccs, we began throwing in fis, so there be no 0 loss def for that attacks anymore.

Then switched to attacking ziks with cr - hence my comparably high amount of tarants the whole round. As a cat I had lots of incomings all round and it was good I could rely on ally. An ace job done by ToF. Also special thanks to my BP-Partner Dorwyn (Xan) whose defs and fake-defs got me a long way :) .

The war with subh got me Nightwolf (16:10:1) as an enemy by hearth cause after landing at him despite 4 deffleets for xp (a highlight this round: http://game.planetarion.com/show_news.pl?id=8177 - left me and my partner with an overall scoreincrease of 300k) he kept attacking me every other day. As ToF returned on 16:10 on some occasions after that, I knew what target to take :p - and Nightwolf didnt profit from this at all was left with 400 roids when these attacks and counterattacks ended.

one last successful fi/co attack on another subh-guy 2 days to end was this:
http://game.planetarion.com/show_news.pl?id=11333

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You are:Flood of Red (9:3:8) Ter
Size: 877
Value: 3,118,842 197
Score: 4,378,362 166
XP: 20,992 175

Ships (45,463 total)
Harpy 5,000 Chimera 1
Drake 100 Pegasus 400
Syren 3,000 Wyvern 24,362
Dragon 11,885 Demeter 199
Leviathan 516
Tick 1: Why did i choose ter?
that was my biggest mistake all round.. terrans cant self cover anything and cant really defend much.. most fleets target them meaning i had more waves than anyone else although i had 300 roids less! my harpys got killed by a xan putting wraith in his fr fleet which meant i lost my main defence! so i mainly went all out attack.. and tried teaming with a few etds.. in the end it turned out to be a good round.. top 200 and rank 4 terran which i am pleased with.. on the last day i decided to risk landing on 50k pirates which meant i could have lost 300k score or more

but he ran and i landed nicely gaining a 600k score boost combined with my prod on the last tick

now i shall sleep through round 22 and return round 23 :)

Re: Who were you?
 

You are: Towely (14:6:6) Xan (Clear)
Size: 622 717
Value: 2,110,042 424
Score: 3,466,102 325
XP: 22,601 136

Ships (663,656 total)
Banshee 248,192 Phantom 118,980
Bomber 19,998 Wraith 70,000
Nightmare 161,735 Spectre 9,945
Illusion 23,321 Vampyre 11,485

Started the round of ok, was in t100, gal was competing for #1, but then it all just started falling to pieces.
I lacked the willpower to really be active & try so i just ****ed around a bit with frigs & fake attacks (i had over 120 distorters when the round ended).
At first they worked like a charm on xans caus they had to run their co, but after a while people just kept enough wraiths home to kill a fake.

Think i played my most inactive round ever but it was still fun.
But i'd like to thank pa-team for one of the best rounds in stats & gameplay i've seen in along time :) more ships & more value in the universe sure made it alot more fun
(hope this remains for rounds to come)

Re: Who were you?
 

You are: The Immeasurable Joy (9:2:5) Etd (Clear)
Size: 3,472 6
Value: 11,058,142 3
Score: 11,586,982 4
XP: 8,814 772

Ships (1,602,027 total)
Wyvern 819 Dragon 838
Leviathan 304 Merchant 804,863
Voyager 476,626 Ranger 14,821
Dealer 182,000 Investor 26,686
Tycoon 36,801 Broker 56,868
Rambler 1,225 Baliff 176

Went etd and for the double your value 206% value boost. Stockpiled until tick 200 or so and then built bs. After I built bs I think I lost roids once. Spent most of my round sending def-fleets, I finished with 99 def-fleets sent I think :( Spent many wasted mornings organising ingal def but it was fun nonetheless. People crashed a ****load of ships at my gal towards the end of the round, seriously guys xp requires you actually cap some roids. I had some good breps but I don't think I saved many of them so my highlight of the round gets to be my gal banner in which I got to invade Persia.

I was sort of disappointed ascendancy didn't win but realistically I don't think many of us consider it worth the effort needed to do so straight-up. It was a fun round anyways and I certainly don't regret playing, something a lot of other people I've talked to seem to do. I'll probably play again next round but work is fairly gay so I dunno.


Edit: People should do more than just post their score and fleet here :(

Re: Who were you?
 

You are: -=The Witchking=- (11:10:8) Zik (Clear)
Size: 2,250 24
Value: 6,918,116 23
Score: 7,643,756 20
XP: 12,094 562

Ships (1,014,813 total)
Harpy 26,461 Chimera 257
Drake 34 Pegasus 35
Demeter 35 Spider 119
Viper 1,019 Beetle 3,138
Tarantula 4,113 Roach 1,220
Scorpion 4,996 Mosquito 292
Hornet 276 Banshee 242,869
Phantom 135,922 Bomber 2,070
Shadow 42 Nightmare 290
Illusion 43,210 Vampyre 22
Cutlass 188,732 Corsair 160,905
Thief 40,000 Cutter 32,716
Buccaneer 20,000 Pirate 30,000
Rogue 10,000 Marauder 55,707
Privateer 3,324 Ironclad 1,000
Voyager 1 Vendor 1,042
Tycoon 786 Broker 3,767
Rambler 367 Baliff 46

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You are: A Painted Man (2:4:6) Ter (Clear)
Size: 350 1208
Value: 7,517,770 14
Score: 8,183,350 13
XP: 11,093 620

I wasnt online to save my fleet compo, but it went something like this!

Ships (cba adding)
Harpy 150,000 Chimera 40,000
Pegasus 30,000 Syren 13,000
Wyvern 21,000 Dragon 40,000
Demeter 1,500 Leviathan 500


My reason for chosing terran basically came down tome being an idiot, wanting a challenge, and me and benneh making a pact he goes catharrrgh and i go :terran:. Anyway it was pretty fun, I said to my bp(stoom and lok <3) preround that i was chosing terran, and for it to do well we are gonna have to have a pretty good gal. We got pretty lucky with exiles, tycoons and bombers saved my ass ALOT <3.

It was a hard round, but hey thats why i chose terran, my main stratergy for roiding was to attack with de all round, and thats what i did mostly bar the teamups with etd BS, i would always fake my BS on ziks with pegs+dems, it was a really good combination, the pegasus was a very big underrated ship and was one of the most useful to me.

How i decided how i would keep roids, was basically to make a fleet composition whereby 1 fleet ingal would cover me per wave, be it merchants, tycoons, or bombers, nothing else really hit me, had a few co attackers, but noone had enough vipers/vendors to wipe out my chimera, which also was another underrated ship, the chimera was a pretty fantastic anti co ship if you had it in big numbers.

Anyway alot happened in my round and im too lazy to be arsed to go into it, but funnish round, and all my love to 2:4.

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Lemming of The Cliff (14:2:4)

Value: 1,332,037 Score: 2,753,737

Don't remember the exact fleet combo, but was smth like
Black Widow 8,375 Scarab 5,702
Tarantula 12,000 Roach 18,000
Scorpion 4,000 Hornet 1,000


Cause of IRL problems went inactive at 3rd week of game. Returned after ~500 ticks, and XP whored my arse back in game :)
Galaxy was nice, ingal def worked, and i had alot pps to insult :) Some of the galaxy members where old dragons, so i jhad people there who i knew from earlier. made the game more enjoyable. Played this round just for fun. All i need to add is that the alliance who accepted me was better then i expected. ROCK was the alliance. So if any oldtimer feels after playing a round or two just for rember the game, don't thnink, that only top allies can be fun. The smaller are it aswell. Give em a chance.


PS! Thanx for the 5k XP Jester :D

OlaTa

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You are: Goodlookin (3:3:5) Etd (Clear)
Size: 335 1246
Value: 319,989 1550
Score: 1,530,129 894
XP: 20,169 203

Whats left of meh planet of doom - lost 2.8mil value in the end to convert to salvage

Bped with sandvold and greenhills, got a nice active galaxy. but we dint have the ally setup to win the round, had ALOT of inc and not to high activety. after some hard inc in the end. we decided to try a fun lil thing 2-3 weeks from the end we all started stocking for one planet and got the 1 planet rank.

qSp

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Overall a pretty relaxed round. My nick and alliance was pretty much known to everyone by end of protection, so i dropped the fake nick quite early. Taught me not to bp with Ascendancy friendlies in the future :P
I started stockpiling early, which is the best way to keep small / medium alliance raids off ones back. I was landing almost every attack i made, so i had a good source of income. I had 0 corsairs and used my stockpile to build them when i had xan incs, which worked incredibly nice. The corsairs firepower plus the salvage plus feudalism as government meant that i always at least broke even on value, not counting the roids lost.

http://game.planetarion.com/show_news.pl?id=3758
http://game.planetarion.com/show_news.pl?id=6344

Thanks to those steals, my fr fleet (at some point i had 32.5k nightmares, which was around the same similar xan mates had) was quite good and was landing every day.

Highlight of my round was seeing this CT planet suicide on me:
http://game.planetarion.com/show_news.pl?id=8140
He probably didn't get an advanced unit, which would have shown i had 200k phantoms which i stole at some point.

Oh, and my thanks go to the planet who broke the cluster nap to attack me (on the last day). If he hadn't done it, i would not have retaled him, taking 500+ roids off him, which gave me the score boost to land in the top 100 \o/

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Would have been nicer if it taught you not to fakenick in the future...

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All the cool guys do fakenicks, right?

[edit]I love how, every time I end a post with a question, I seem to immediately answer it.

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You are: First (2:7:1) Xan
Size: 427 1045
Value: 6,202,597 30
Score: 6,972,877 31
XP: 12,838 508

Ships
Banshee 1,300,000 Phantom 400,000
Bomber 300,000 Wraith 100,000
Shadow 100,000 Nightmare 250,000
Spectre 80,000 Illusion 50,000
Vampyre 15,000

I have to say I really enjoyed the round overall. I focused on FR early and capped all of my early roids using xan FR solo (90% fakes, Fr held ingal to def) with a change to xan/zik FR combo or mass Fi necessary by the round's end. I have to say that my galaxy deserve as much credit for my top xan rank as I do but I guess having 7 Ascendancy ingal (3 BP, 2 exiles, 2 recruits) meant we had a lot of defensive cohesion. Probably won't play actively next round as it's against my policy for summertime but I imagine I'll scan or something to give me an excuse for occasional irc time.

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1:9:5

rank 33
value player ETD

basically i faked BS for rambler+merchants early on to get roids then 3 fleet deffed galaxy till end of round pretty much, hardly got roided as i was easy to cover and had stockpile for a majority of round so self built a fair bit.. used tycs/vestors/mercs as def usually, in constant use, all 3 great ships...
but winning galaxy because cross def was so good so left me playing a very defensive round but was fun nonetheless

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I believe you have more than your cross def to thank, such as myself :salute: and wolfpack!

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ok i thank how bad Alki was at keeping roids ;)

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You are: Feel Good Hit (2:4:10) Xan (Clear)
Size: 240 1492
Value: 890,750 993
Score: 931,790 1178
XP: 684 1562


Got my fleet nicked several times early on due to no at-home internet connection, then the BP with Game and Nolez broke up. I managed to exile into 2:4 with some of my favorite people, and remained fairly inactive all round.

I could cap roids, I just couldn't get online at early/late hours to keep them ;)

Thieves suck!

Props to 2:4 and everyone in there, especially my Asc mates who were kind enough to keep me around instead of exiling me out for the #1 spot like last round (fking jernub!)

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that was 2 rounds ago you inactive bastard, also i was the only one fighting to keep you in!

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Actually despite being a complete pain and an absolute ****ing liability in the first half of the round, in the second half of the round Alki actually got much less incoming, because he had a very big fleet and in fact became an asset.

Apart from the large attack by however many alliances bothered to launch on us, we were able to cross defend with ease, with a terran. We actually got to a stage where it appeared as if we never got incoming despite constantly being on the wrong end of alliance raids because we were leaking so few roids we were actually gaining roids regardless of us being hit.

If you played like Alki and you had a galaxy good enough to put up with him (and we only just did) once we rode out the storm, our terran planets became fantastic planets for defence.

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Size: 193 1644
Value: 323,322 1546
Score: 1,565,802 881
XP: 20,708 181

My round started as a scanner and had jgps and aload of amps really early. Eventually got Cr and spent shitloads on just roach and hornets thinking that cat Cr doing well so should I. After several crashes etc including one where i was 100% sure that i would land perfect i kinda gave up on the round and went inactive. Spent all my res a few days before and sent it out on a suicide mission for xp which kinda worked, ranked 181st on XP so even in a value round i managed to get a decent amount of xp, shame about no value =/

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I were 9:8:9 - Mastermind of His Domain
Wanted to be Master of His Domain, since i were looking at the cover of a Seinfeld DVD for a ruler/planet name.

Size: 328
Value: 1,493,451
Score: 2,032,551
XP: 8,985

Not my best round ever. Hoped to get a broadband connection in the beginning of may, but played the whole round without broadband. Had a good connection at work, but were mostly busy at work. At home i had to use my celluar with a crappy connection. So i weren't able to get the defpoints needed to get def, and i had to walk 30 minutes to get to my parents house to be able to join attacks on irc.

Considering that, i only did make a few minor mistakes:
1. While having Xan-incs while being drunk, i did for some reason use lots of res on pegs and lost 1600 of'em. Either something were wrong with the calc, or someone used it wrongly. Common sense should have told me it were a mistake to buy pegs.

2. While being drunk at a friend while my ally were at war, i launched 2 attacks. Lost half my de's and all my bs except from 1 leviathan, because i forgot about it and didn't set my alarm. Since my gal got incs that night that 1 levi annoyed me, almost as much as myself.

3. Later on the same day/night as reason #2 my gal got incs, i made 1 more mistake. Since i were probably the only terran with a decent amount of harpies in my ally, i were a bit worried of loosing them. A galm8's asked me to def against a zik with them, and i got all paranoid, because i didn't get a scan and my ally were at war against the ally of the galm8 who asked me to def against the zik. Almost got myself kicked out of the gal after that. What i posted on the forum, or what i mailed to some of the galm8's is something that i hope will be kept secret.

Not my best round tbh, and i got 3 reasons to be ashamed of myself. Still had a fun round though, because i liked my gal. Most annoying part were that i couldn't be more helpful to my ally or my gal. Also seems that i'm cursed with atleast 1 drunken paranoia incident while being drunk every round.

Also got attacked in RL during havoc, by 4 drug addicts that were looking for my brother (rented his house), and since i reported them to the police i'll probably be a bit more careful about when i'm going out to get drunk. That might actually save me from a crashlanding or 2. Or maybe i'll be more paranoid then ever:/
To be continued....

Atleast going to sign up for next round, since it can't go much worse then this round:D