The Planetarion Wiki and PA history
 

Hi guys, recently I've been updating a lot of the pa wiki, mainly in order so that people can actually find out about the history of the game (which, in my opinion, can be pretty interesting). I've done basic round summaries for all the rounds and, so far, I've done more detailed ones for r1-14+16. It'd be pretty cool if we managed to expand on these even more so I'm asking if people have stuff saved to either upload it themselves or if you're not arsed working it in feel free to send it to me and I'll integrate it. I've already stolen a bunch of stuff from randal's pa website and scouse's history so if your stuff was duplicated there I've probably already got it. Either way feel free to go check it out and if I got something wrong please either edit it yourself (and don't be a retard on this please) or let me know.

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Good work JBG.

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if someone could update that shoutbox it would be rather cool

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yea its 10 rounds outta date =)

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you could enter something like 'the last 10 rounds have been dominated by cardi and jbg and whoever they felt should win.

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Except r27!

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didn't linkie won that round?

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As great as all as I am (and as something as cardi is) I think it is only fair to give r27 to denial. Big lead from early on lost, 3 hc closed, gangbanged on one night by everyone, targeted by nd and vgn for ages and still won. Although linkie did indeed somehow win a round of pa :(

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Januari 2010. Who would've thought. Planetarion is still alive and somewhat kicking. Since jer's last update Planetarion has been playing roughly with 1.5k planets each round, drawing out of a pool of 2-2.5k players. Round 35 has just started with the same people who dominated the last 9 rounds playing together.

Round 25 was won alliancewise by New Dawn, with Elviz adding another planet win (he would also win round 30) for Conspiracy. Round 26 was won by Ascendancy under the tag STOOMTHEREVIVAL, while NoX had a planet win with Cronix. The galaxy rankings were dominated by Ascendancy controlled fortress galaxies, while the round ended in time for the NoX flagship planets to make it. Denial was early on a very dominant force, but with combined efforts and some self footshooting, they ended up 2nd.
Round 27 would be their revenge, with Ascendancy playing on their level, but with emo-ing going on and half the universe gunning for Denial, Denial managed, (although some say through factors they did not control) to win the round with less the 1 million margin over Conspiracy and just 4 million margin over Ascendancy. The unlikely planet winner of this round was Linkie`, who to almost everyone is known as the casual community player, but actually put in effort this round and was greatly helped by others setting up attacks for him and on his biggest opponents. Galaxy win was for Cardinal's galaxy.

Round 28 was assumingly JBG's last round (oh how wrong we were) and Ascendancy set out to make the biggest win ever. Crushing their opposition (mainly CT and ND) Ascendancy won with a landslide. All the top galaxies were Ascendancy controlled or the score came from the Ascendancy planets in that galaxy. Almost double the score of the #2 alliance, an almost 200 million score gap, 25 out of the top 30 planets and an average score of the 31st place in the universe (with a 75 player tag, 60 counted) made it almost impossible in sheer terms of numbers to ever improve this.

Ronud 29 started with Denial in a great position. But the combined efforts of various alliances created their downfall. Once again Ascendancy moved in for the win, winning with a 60 million score gap, dominating the planet rankings with Sunny winning planet over Achi and with JBG's galaxy firmly winning the galaxy rankings. This made Ascendancy win 3 out of the last 4 rounds.

Round 30 was supposed to be the last round ever. With Cardinal, Golan and JBG in Ascendancy's command and Wishmaster restarting Omen as their biggest competitor it would be interesting, especially as this round would last 10 weeks. Ascendancy once again, as in all previous rounds, created fortress galaxies by timed exiling, and DLR did the same with one galaxy, who would be in the top 10 all round. Ascendancy had a rough start with Omen and CT hitting them from the word 'go', but Ascendancy proved to be a tough nut to crack and with CT's erratic focus and constant hits on Omen. CT proved to be unreliable and at some point it was just Ascendancy vs. Omen where Ascendancy came out on top. A combined effort by the universe in various ways was made, but did not last long enough for Ascendancy to be defeated or overtaken by someone else. Not only due to the sheer military efficiency of Ascendancy, but also due to political trickery. The last thing is something Ascendancy got more and more forum attention for and people watching Ascendancy critically. Ascendancy won the round as an alliance, with Elviz winning the top planet and a fenced galaxy winning the galranks. To also dominate that, the round did not last long enough.

Round 31 saw xVx with the lithuanians under Cardinal (who moved out of Ascendancy because he could not get hit lith BG in) move into the top spot early on, with the rest of the universe hitting Ascendancy. Due to a deal with xVx and Ascendancy, xVx stopped hitting Ascendancy and Ascendancy simply defended their incomings while outroiding xVx. Santacruz managed to win the planetrankings for xVx, with achi coming in second. An Ascendancy fortress galaxy won, again. This was also the second round Ascendancy played with a 'fun' tag, TOOT THE ALLIANCE. This was Ascendancy's 4th win in a row, and 5 out of the last 6 rounds.

Round 32, Ascendancy, seeing once more as a big contender, purged their community and played with a very small tag. Cardinal created Apprime (where a lot of exile's form Ascendancy went too combined with a lot of players that Ascendancy defeated in the previous 4 rounds) and Apprime won the round deservedly. However, Ascendancy's choice for terran fortress galaxies and their lateround napping of Apprime ensured a galaxy and planet win for Ascendancy. With Ascendancy having the top 4 planets, and all first 5 planets were from the same galaxy.

Round 33 Ascendancy played with a full tag and took on Apprime. While Ascendancy had fortress galaxies, Apprime was more spread out and Ascendancy had the advantage of being almost 100% Xan. With the stats of that round it meant that they could virtually roid anyone. Playing a good round, Ascendancy moved into the lead never to give it away. Although there was continuous fighting throughout the round, Cardinal at some point thought it was a lost cause, started kicking players and this essentially sealed the roundwin for Ascendancy. A non Ascendancy galaxy won the round and Reese won the planetrankings, with her crew running the #2 galaxy (#1 galaxy last round).

Round 34 saw the departure of Golan and JBG from Ascendancy and with other players who were usually influential (Benneh, Achi, rasputin) Ascendancy was somewhat lesser then the round before, while Apprime improved itself. The universe quickly went hitting Apprime as they got roids fast. Apprime, like Ascendancy, was situated in3 fortress galaxies, with the rest of their players (only a handful) scattered out. Ascendancy and Apprime made such a deal that backing out was neigh impossible and stayed allied throughout the round, sharing bookings, intel and defence (out of tag when possible). The interesting thing of this round was that the opposition consisted of a block of 6 alliance (of which Euphoria and DLR were the core) who consistently hit (with only a few exceptions where one or two of those 6 alliances opted out to go newbie roiding) Apprime, Ascendancy and later on VisioN who allied with both.
The galaxy rankings in the end were dominated by these 3 alliances. A galaxy who started out as subh, but shipjumped to Apprime and having VisioN HC as latestarters won the round due to virtually no incomings, closely followed by 4 out of 6 fortress galaxies, either (almost) full Ascendancy or full Apprime. Wishmaster won the round as a planet (due to shipjumping and being in the galaxy that never got hit) and the galay of Reese and eksero took #2 once again, proven to be a solid crew.

So from r26 to round 34 this makes for: 1 Denial win, 2 Apprime wins and 7 Ascendancy wins. With each round being coloured by either JBG and Cardinal in alliance ranking terms or Reese and eksero in galaxy ranking terms. The notable exception is r26, where Reese and eksero won as alliance but not as galaxy.

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if someone could improve or rewrite that to a less Ascendancy tainted story, please do (or generally improve) otherwise i'd like to see it on the PA wiki.

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It's a wiki theam. You can update it yourself...

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It seems I did manage to do that. I notice now a lot of wiki's strong points (internal linking) has been raped by me. If someone could add that, please do.

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Great summary of last rounds, but im not vision hc, just furniture ;)

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If anyone cares I just finished round 19 (which took me quite a while!) I'm moving onto rounds where I was more personally involved at this point but if anyone has particular viewpoints on r20-22 I don't remember that much from those so I'd be delighted to hear them.

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did 1:2 start as subh last round?
we started the round with 2 subh. Hardly a "subh gal".

in regards to FO in r19, you might wish to add that the merge was one done to prevent both allies collapsing, and we planned to play together as one alliance the next round.
That never happened however.
I dont think anyone realistically thought we could win :(

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@ Theams
Wishmaster won the round as a planet (due to shipjumping and being in the galaxy that never got hit)

Am I the first winning planet to have ever shipjumped? And, we got hit quite a few times, atleast I did.

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its a ****ing wiki, update it if you think it is inaccurate

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we use the wiki for PA history stuff? i thought it was just a place for app/asc to upload coords lists :p

come back pastebin, all is forgiven!! :)

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One does have to ask about the editorial objective on the PA wiki :)

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Personally I'd consider the pa wiki to be simply a store of accurate information. If people remember r21 ascendancy put a bunch of alliance's co-ords up there. Someone added ours and jester left them. That's about as "objective" as you can get.

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Remember remember r21
Gunpowder, treason and plot.
I know of no reason why r21
Should ever be forgot…

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cute..

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Great work JBG. :)

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R21 = when WP came back and won it?

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Ignoring the fact that I somehow doubt you can't remember the round (hint: it's in your signature) maybe you could try opening the link and finding out?

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...but what of the man?

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I thought it was a woman?

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Source
Evey Hammond: [voiceover] Remember, remember, the Fifth of November, the Gunpowder Treason and Plot. I know of no reason why the Gunpowder Treason should ever be forgot... But what of the man? I know his name was Guy Fawkes and I know, in 1605, he attempted to blow up the Houses of Parliament. But who was he really? What was he like? We are told to remember the idea, not the man, because a man can fail. He can be caught, he can be killed and forgotten, but 400 years later, an idea can still change the world. I've witnessed first hand the power of ideas, I've seen people kill in the name of them, and die defending them... but you cannot kiss an idea, cannot touch it, or hold it... ideas do not bleed, they do not feel pain, they do not love... And it is not an idea that I miss, it is a man... A man that made me remember the Fifth of November. A man that I will never forget.

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Whoosh. :(

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But what of the man? I know his name was THESTOOM and I know, in 2010, he is more awesome then ever. But who was he really? What was he like? We are told to remember the idea, not the man, because a man can fail. He can be caught, he can be killed and forgotten, but 2 years later, an idea can still change the world. I've witnessed first hand the power of ideas, I've seen people kill in the name of them, and die defending them... but you cannot kiss an idea, cannot touch it, or hold it... ideas do not bleed, they do not feel pain, they do not love... And it is not an idea that I miss, it is a man... A man that made me remember the r21. A man that I will never forget.

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For the record I've now done round summaries for 1-20, 23, 26 and 28-current (pretty much). I'll try and do up something for the last few when I have the motivation. Mz has also done a ton of updates for terminology and stuff and a few others have added stuff as well, notably a fairly epic round 6 retelling from lokken.

At this point I'd like to ask pateam to for god's sake use the ****ing wiki.

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I hear lokkens rnd6 is fairly shit! Or rather, fairly limited in that it misses most of the backroom deals.

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I deal with your mums backroom tonight.

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I hear one day people will understand what a wiki is and on that day god himself will cry tears of pure joy.

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EFFORT MAN! :( Although if you remind LordN he might actually fill out that a bit, which then someone (me probably :() has to translate to English.

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I could have spilled all of the backroom deals between Xanadu, Elysium, NoS and WP but I was assured they didn't exist and who am I to make stuff up!

Plus I only wrote it because JBG said "write shit I want to improve the wiki".

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From what I hear they did exist. Heck if I'd know really, I was on the FLTV side of things that round.

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Ask Shiva and da goons in Silvercity as a example about their cluster deals about protection to furgion galaxies in exchange for no fltv targetting on them. That's just one of the many in r6.

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If you want to explain what happened and at what points in the round I'd add it onto the wiki myself. Unfortunately I have no idea how to contact shiva or many other people after so many years have gone by!

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I think it's pretty entertaining that people go "haha, the wiki is incomplete, I know something that isn't on there!".

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It's more about the fact it sucks to read about them, when you know their missing half of the context. Even more than watching a movie what's supposedly based on a book, and then doesn't even have all the charachters in it.

It's good work/hobby and intresting to read, but when you where there yourself it isn't that hot when you spot all the time stuff what's supposed to be there and is missing from your own point of view.

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He meant the fact you can edit a wiki yourself. If you can read it and take the time to think about what's missing it's not that hard to add it yourself.


The fact that the wiki and the round summaries are almost entirely based on a few sources, my memory, a few half-decent threads on AD (and bear in mind no AD thread is older than r8) and what I could find on a few sites is the reason why I keep people updated in this thread. So they'll keep reading the wiki and hopefully contribute. Which actually happened today when rabba pmed me and offered to tell me as much as he could from wolfpack's perspective!

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Me, write english? what is actually in grammar.. next to impossible. Anyways I can't give a complete recording of that round, it was so long time ago.. if I can't do something well, I rarely even consider doing it if it's not important.

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Nobody's asking you to use the Queen's English, I'm sure I can correct that at some point. Nor is anyone asking you to provide a complete summary of everything that happened in the universe that round. Just either add the relevant details that you're aware of or shut the **** up about them being missing.

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As I'm sure everyone who visited the PAWiki recently has noticed, it's become spam bot central. Yesterday, I reverted all of the spam that I could find. An hour later, a spambot started putting its shit back again. Another two hours later, all my reverts had been overwritten.

I cried to jester, who updated the MediaWiki install from the ancient v1.5 to v1.19, and installed Akismet, a spam prevention plugin. I have once again reverted all the spam I could find, and this time it should hold.

Everyone say thank you to jester and hopefully the days of spam are now behind us.

P.S. There is no better way of expressing your gratitude than by writing round summaries for r38-47.

P.P.S. Alternatively, click the 'random page' a bunch of times and either revert the spam or report it to me. I can't delete pages, so if a page was created by a spam bot, I can only blank it. Don't worry about reporting blank pages.

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Thank you jester (since I can't get on irc at the moment).

Also thanks to mz jbg and everyone still keeping this site going. Its great to look back on some of the political history through the rounds.

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More than happy to chip in with some edits, give things a slightly different slant.

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It's all very Asc-centric to me. I think it's all fairly accurate, but lacks a well rounded feel for the community and the experiences of players on the other side of the fence.

I really appreciate the detail of it from the Asc side though, it gives those of us who didn't experience it, a glimpse into the mentality of the other team.

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PA was very Ascenancy-centric back then. The OP (and that front page) is over 2 years old. I just necro'd the most recent PAWiki thread I could find.

Feel free to update the front page with something more recent. Go here. That's an open invitation to everyone, obviously.

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Awesome to read some history, though looking back at it it feels like only a few sentences describing so extremely many hours of playing. Great times.

Not many nicks I recognise right now, but will probably play the next round to see whats up in this world so many years later :)

Yupster, Elysium, Legion and Titans (r3-4-5-6ish) and 1up player (r11-12)