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ellonweb · 2 Aug 2010, 16:40

Bit late to this thread (been busy with other things) but I wanted to record my take on the round somewhere before I forgot.

You are: John Nash (7:3:7) Cat (Clear)
Size: 601 523
Value: 8,191,650 5
Score: 8,937,390 6
XP: 12,429 508

Started a week late as I was busy getting drunk after my exams. Preround, people in Asc generally seemed disinterested in solid/fortress gals and a serious round, so joined Theam in a fence galaxy. I wanted a semi-relaxing round without the pressures of having to deal with serious inc, so we had a plan where I'd spend the round donating my resources to the galaxy. Keeping my value low and being in the fence gal kept incomings on me to a minimal that were easily defended by my gal mates.

Took a while to get going as I'd missed a week and it took a bit of time to catch the roids up, but soon enough I'd donated I think 500k value to Osiris and 250k value to NewDawn galmates. Around this point was when BlueArmy ruined the round for me! :P Being the clear #1, he attracted for a couple of days a lot of incoming, and this brought Asc more seriously into war and the round in general. It became clear that I couldn't continue to donate value away to Ascendancy's enemies, and so I had to change my plan and start playing a proper value planet.

This was at week 3, and I had almost no fleet value and no resources stocked, but I was #1 on size and had quite a large income lead. Asc expected to avoid incoming for another week after that, so after some discussions, it was decided I should start to stock my res and maximise my roiding for one more week, before spending it all in anticipation of the block turning their attention to us. Over the course of week 4 I quickly found my way from ~500th to the t10. While spending my res, I accidentally added 500k Viper to an order instead of 50k, which is why I had the retardedly high Viper count.

Once the incoming started it was clear I wasn't going to stand a chance at winning. I continued to gain on those in front of me for a while but BA and Asc's other top planets had an extreme amount of support in comparison to myself. I had more inc than everyone else over these weeks, BA didn't come close and had about 5 or 6 people DCing for him; I had to do almost every wave myself. Except for a couple of people, Theam especially, most in Asc didn't like the perceived easy route I'd had to my rank and didn't want to help (some people actively refusing to help me). I guess hardcore attacking for three solid weeks is easier than receiving escorts and having a whole gang of support planets dedicated to you. In answer to those that accused me of a lack of team play: had my planet not been in the position it was, that incoming would have still been sent on other Asc planets; who then, would do all the DCing that I did? I had further bad luck as I ended up getting quite ill and having to go to hospital for a bit during weeks 5/6; playing PA became the last thing on my mind and I lost any remaining interest I had in the round.

In the end of round I was happy to help BA win. I didn't really care about the "crash" on coolkat, it didn't affect me really; the people who ended above me were always going to overtake me with the roid leads they had, and they were all Asc planets anyway so I didn't mind. Guess I kind of failed in my preround plan of staying out of the t500!

2 Aug 2010, 16:40	#40
ellonweb Registered User Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 401	Re: Who We Were R37 Bit late to this thread (been busy with other things) but I wanted to record my take on the round somewhere before I forgot. You are: John Nash (7:3:7) Cat (Clear) Size: 601 523 Value: 8,191,650 5 Score: 8,937,390 6 XP: 12,429 508 Started a week late as I was busy getting drunk after my exams. Preround, people in Asc generally seemed disinterested in solid/fortress gals and a serious round, so joined Theam in a fence galaxy. I wanted a semi-relaxing round without the pressures of having to deal with serious inc, so we had a plan where I'd spend the round donating my resources to the galaxy. Keeping my value low and being in the fence gal kept incomings on me to a minimal that were easily defended by my gal mates. Took a while to get going as I'd missed a week and it took a bit of time to catch the roids up, but soon enough I'd donated I think 500k value to Osiris and 250k value to NewDawn galmates. Around this point was when BlueArmy ruined the round for me! :P Being the clear #1, he attracted for a couple of days a lot of incoming, and this brought Asc more seriously into war and the round in general. It became clear that I couldn't continue to donate value away to Ascendancy's enemies, and so I had to change my plan and start playing a proper value planet. This was at week 3, and I had almost no fleet value and no resources stocked, but I was #1 on size and had quite a large income lead. Asc expected to avoid incoming for another week after that, so after some discussions, it was decided I should start to stock my res and maximise my roiding for one more week, before spending it all in anticipation of the block turning their attention to us. Over the course of week 4 I quickly found my way from ~500th to the t10. While spending my res, I accidentally added 500k Viper to an order instead of 50k, which is why I had the retardedly high Viper count. Once the incoming started it was clear I wasn't going to stand a chance at winning. I continued to gain on those in front of me for a while but BA and Asc's other top planets had an extreme amount of support in comparison to myself. I had more inc than everyone else over these weeks, BA didn't come close and had about 5 or 6 people DCing for him; I had to do almost every wave myself. Except for a couple of people, Theam especially, most in Asc didn't like the perceived easy route I'd had to my rank and didn't want to help (some people actively refusing to help me). I guess hardcore attacking for three solid weeks is easier than receiving escorts and having a whole gang of support planets dedicated to you. In answer to those that accused me of a lack of team play: had my planet not been in the position it was, that incoming would have still been sent on other Asc planets; who then, would do all the DCing that I did? I had further bad luck as I ended up getting quite ill and having to go to hospital for a bit during weeks 5/6; playing PA became the last thing on my mind and I lost any remaining interest I had in the round. In the end of round I was happy to help BA win. I didn't really care about the "crash" on coolkat, it didn't affect me really; the people who ended above me were always going to overtake me with the roid leads they had, and they were all Asc planets anyway so I didn't mind. Guess I kind of failed in my preround plan of staying out of the t500!