Who were we all then (r9.5) ?

[Ultimate Newbie]

As is tradition throughout the rounds (well, since R4 iirc), the Strategy kr3w have told us who we all were - co-ords etc. Usually what also follows is a paste of your overview, and a brief summaray of the round from your perspective - the highs and lows, the good the bad (and dare i say ugly ) encounters with the enemy that we've had.

As some of you may have guessed, i am/was Ultimate Newbie of Dark Aurora (5:9:5). Due to RL, my eventual score of somewhere over 6 mil is quite pitiful, but as i am in the last year of school etc and (again) due to a shoddy timezone, i found it difficult to attack right up untill i had some holidays in these last two weeks.

PA is really good fun when you get a chance to attack more often than once a week - the stress (and dissapointments) that come with failed attacks (and calling people's bluff only to find your tarants firing on 10k Sents ) are overcome with the glee that follows a succesful attack for little or no loss (Cathaars 0wn). i had lost that in the last few rounds, becoming a def whore to the point where my attacks could be counted on one hand.

Nevertheless, just before the end of the round, this is where i called home:
Ships (2450 units total)

Spider 1000 (550 Building) Tarantula 1250
Mantis 50 Guardian 100
Scorpion 50

PDS (550 units total)

Tachyon Beamer 500 (500 Building) Pulse Cannon 50 (100 Building)

Asteroids (352 total)

Metal 181 Crystal 125
Eonium 46 Uninitiated 0

Just before the round finished, i had almost twice as many roids (600), and i had alot more FI in particular - but a Terran put paid to that and kinda spoilt my (imo brilliant) finish.

But still, its better than stagnation .



How about you?

[-QS-]

I am/ was 27:10:5. In the beginning I didnt go roiding for 4 days, after that my old dedication came back. Went roiding every night on 2 targets with good sucess. Roid rank has been top50 while I was in top200. As u can see I didnt go roiding since 2 weeks, after I decided to stop playing PA. After that I started to build PDS/FI/CO, b4 that I had FR/DE and few alliance-cutlass only.

My overview 18/07/2003 08:46 GMT (PT 1095):

Score: 41615384
Metal: 125 Crystal: 141623 Eonium: 3754317 (just spend 10 mio res )

Ships (76656 units total)
Chimera 331 Pegasus 615
Demeter 171 Spider 2639
Beetle 1670 Scarab 3
Roach 2003 Black Widow 468
Culdassa Arrowhead 309 Vulture 46
Andvordian Bomber 153 Tzen Bolt Thrower 181
Hysperian Lancer 173 Cryvellian Broadsword 62
Corsair 14039 Cutlass 23448 (2,4k in prod)
Brig 5000 (1k in prod) Thief 10000 (1k in prod)
Cutter 7000 Buccaneer 1500
Clipper 4695 Marauder 1000
Rogue 400 Astro Pod 750


PDS (31337 units total)
Mesonic Cutter 30000 Tachyon Beamer 1337


Asteroids (2759 total)
Metal 1308 Crystal 985
Eonium 379 Uninitiated 87

[das_experiment]

-=Life Is Like=- of -=A Box Of Chocolate=-
18/07/2003 09:32 GMT (PT 1096) Score: 7896133

29:1:16 was my coords.

Ships (15626 units total)

Spider 2856 Beetle 7866
Roach 2500 Black Widow 1617
Tarantula 318 Mantis 100
Guardian 90 Scorpion 13
Astro Pod 266





PDS (557 units total)

Pulse Cannon 557





Asteroids (641 total)

Metal 281 Crystal 212
Eonium 73 Uninitiated 75



This round was basically horrific for me.

Got stuck in a VERY bad gal, with few people who could play the game, and next to noone was online.

I started round ok(was somewhere in the top100 roid\score).

But then the whole para decided to fleetcatch me for the first time, so i lost all my FI\CO.

Then a bit later, i lost all my CO\FR in a fleetcatch.

And yesterday i lost all my FIs, sleeping late


Think i was attacked somewhere around 30 times this round, and after a while i sorta gave up.

[gzambo]

System Information for (3:6:24)

Ships (29802 units total)
Centaur 28 Chimera 73
Pegasus 72 Demeter 55
Syren 1 Lyvidian Sentinel 4
Culdassa Arrowhead 84 Andvordian Bomber 30
Corsair 17973 Cutlass 4107
Brig 1404 Thief 2599
Cutter 1195 Buccaneer 205
Clipper 806 Marauder 446
Rogue 403 Pillager 126
Pirate 35 Man O War 5
Astro Pod 151

PDS (506 units total)
Mesonic Cutter 97 Tachyon Beamer 394
Pulse Cannon 15

Asteroids (706 total)
Metal 327 Crystal 271
Eonium 88 Uninitiated 20


rd started off ok in my 1st gal but then a cpl of the active players decided that they were exileing themselves, left with no option but to die or exile as we only had 4/5 ppl activeso i exiled into my current gal and a nicer bunch of ppl i could not have hoped for .
special mention to our nightwatchman who has covered the little incoming i have had.

attacking for me this rd was limited to daytime launches as my home pc died a horrible death after 1st week of rd but they proved to be quite fruitful.
it was my first rd playing zik and i have to say i'm sorry i did not play them before, steal shis on def cals and gettign salvage for lost ships rocks.

so all in all i have to say that i enjoyed the rd and if everything goes to plan i'll finish up in a top 50 gal with an ok score ,i could have been better but with very little night time access thru the rd i am hapy with how it will end

[Elfhelm]

I read this place a lot and have posted in a few threads. The round started out okay for me with about five actives in the galaxy, but they all disappeared, so I exiled, and then exiled again, and I can see now I won't have enough time to get enough eonium to exile again. Though this last galaxy is the first one I've been in with a galaxy channel and we once had three people in there simultaneously! :eek: I am currently in the cluster channel with P, and in the cluster private channel with no-one.

At the start of the round I was top 250, but was attacked by the #21 player and didn't get any defence, and now I am top 4000.
I have spent the last couple of weeks just defending alliance mates.

Ships (8546 units total)
Harpy 6486
Pegasus 1554
Demeter 169
Wyvern 255
Dragon 82

PDS (0 units total)

Asteroids (149 total)
Metal 71
Crystal 50
Eonium 19
Uninitiated 9

Not too bad, since having a ratio of greater than 0.5 in c59 is suicide.

[Colt]

Score: 10081683

Sugary Shades of Candy Girls!

Ships (37186 units total)

Vsharrak Fighter 15378(2k in prod) Lyvidian Sentinel 21808

PDS (3551 units total)

Mesonic Cutter 1330(2k in prod) Tachyon Beamer 854
Pulse Cannon 1211 Ion Launcher 156

Asteroids (845 total)

Metal 406 Crystal 252
Eonium 88 Uninitiated 99


I had a very good start for me, and was top50 until i got hit one night at eta7 and my ally gave me no def heh, was rather pissed, but recovered and was doing well until bout 1week ago when my german exchange partner came over and i subsequently got very inactive and one night my gal got quite big incomings and i didnt get covered and so lost 1.1k roids and bout 14mill score! All in all thought a very enjoyable round and being in a top11gal maybe 10 has been fun!!!

[General Martok]

Maglor of Aqualonde, 41:6:16

Was in 34:6 before, but that gal was even worse. Ended up in a gal with one familiar girl (!!) from TFD. I've beena llaincelss this round as I felt I wouldn't have been a real asset to any alliance. got 9M score atm, will finish near 10M.

Ships (45879 units total)

Vsharrak Fighter 13000 Daeraith Pulsar 7072
Lyvidian Sentinel 22201 Culdassa Arrowhead 3000
Vulture 600 Andvordian Bomber 4
Tzen Bolt Thrower 1 Xentrallis Peacekeeper 1

Got attacked inpara by 25M guys lately, could get defence against most of them from friends also inpara. My gal couldn't really help me out, as you can see in this example. I was defending someone about 4 weeks ago with 90% of my fleet, launched just before I went to work. When I got back I had eta 2 incoming fro a cathaar, 650 frigs. Noone in my gal had even bothered to send defence, while I was the only one with fleets out according to galstatusShips

PDS (0 units total)


Asteroids (717 total)

Metal 325 Crystal 259
Eonium 100 Uninitiated 33

Acheaved this roidcount by solo attacks only, while I was still around 5,6M. Haven't attacked lately because I've been busy....

[Andy_r]

36:10:14 Mordac the Preventer of Information Services

Score: 15,839,886

Ships (59646 units total)
Vsharrak Fighter 8429 Daeraith Pulsar 7562
Lyvidian Sentinel 30605 Culdassa Arrowhead 10000
Vulture 450 Andvordian Bomber 2600

PDS (2926 units total) - just to turn my E into score at the end of round
Mesonic Cutter 762 Tachyon Beamer 327
Pulse Cannon 500 Hadron Turret 1337

Asteroids (680 total)
Metal 307 Crystal 244
Eonium 97 Uninitiated 32

I should just scrape into the top 500, which I think is quite good for a non-alliance player (the reformation of YHQ didn't really do as well as it should have).

I peaked at 1000 roids, but a weak galaxy and the desire for a good night's sleep meant losing roids now and then, so I took my foot off the accellerator and concentrated on defending.

[Cochese]

Mouthful of Cavities (7:8:4)

#77

Currently about 40 mil, as I just spent a shedload of res. on Pulse Cannons.


Ships (46685 units total)

Harpy 30800 Chimera 2100
Pegasus 10750 Demeter 1000
Wyvern 2000 Dragon 10
Astro Pod 25


PDS (6685 units total)

Mesonic Cutter 2864 Pulse Cannon 2038
Hadron Turret 1783


Asteroids (3188 total)

Metal 1435 Crystal 1226
Eonium 410 Uninitiated 117


All in all, this was my "best" round so far. I lost less than 30 roids the entire round, and offensively, paid ridiculously low prices for the roids I obtained...lately, through hitting "targets of opportunity" which increased my roidcount by 1k+ for around 50 DE.

I was very lucky to end up in a galaxy with an alliance mate, and also, two very active, very good players. We essentially carried the galaxy, and managed a 70-something galaxy rank.

I started by hitting Caths early, and often. I was 30 hours behind in roid initiation due to going out-of-town, but came back quickly after a few good batches of scans, and the support of my alliance. There were some long dry spells (target-wise) but a little nugget would appear, giving me virtually free roids.

My largest hauls were recently; first by piggybacking Sleikas' pod fleet when LDK fleetcaught Rob (he's in my cluster, so fast eta ) and then by doing a fleetcatch of our own on the =forever= planet.

[SYMM]

I was 31:9:1, -=The Hero of The Day=-
Score: 11623631
Ships (15566 units total)

Spider 4284 Beetle 6168
Roach 3255 Black Widow 871
Tarantula 24 Avenger 397
Guardian 428 Astro Pod 139

PDS (1262 units total)
Hadron Turret 1262

Asteroids (826 total)
Metal 390 Crystal 294
Eonium 137 Uninitiated 5


Which, considering i stopped playing (effectively) 3 weeks ago, isn't half-bad
P9 was great, whatever people say about Yeh, he is a great player, similarly for Thunder and the other [9] HCs, who i had the pleasure of working with.
My galaxy were ace, and due to the teamwork we all showed, even when it got a bit tough, it looks like we might just make top 150.

Before i stopped playing, I had nothing bigger than FR, and attacked with Widows/Pods, adding spids/beetles/roaches where necessary.
I had a few good attacks at the start, but then lost a fair few roids ( when i had about 400) which set me back a bit. More good attacks, thanks to all of Vision and Soulfly for providing the oppurtunities for those , and I'll be back to annoy everyone again in 8/9 weeks (just in time for the inevitably delayed r10? )

[Wombat]

Score: 7453145

++The Love++ of ++My Life++
System Information for (8:10:18)

25k corsairs
500 cutlass
3k cutters
1.5k clippers
200 buccs
250 marauders
100 rogues

Asteroids:

Metal: 203 Crystal: 117
Eonium: 45 Uninitiated: 14

(PDS can go sod itself)

I'd paste but I;m in opera and I won't inflict that on you

that is NOTHING like my actual fleet btw, well I mean if you scan me you'll see it is, but that's only what i built after I got my whole fleet and roids mashed over god knows how many ticks.

The day I went home from Uni, was the same day Webangel decided killing my fleet would be funny. It was a zik fi co fleet that i've raved on about. I *was* top 80 or so? not sure, but I was one of the bigger none LDk planets at the time, certainly in p10 anyway, so I guess it was just a matter of time hehe.

[MAdnRisKy]

god damn it, opera = dummy account heh :/

[Structural Integrity]

Structural Integrity of Eon Blue Apocalypse (6:7:24)


Ships (1372 units total)

Tarantula 900
Avenger 100
Mantis 70
Guardian 200
Scorpion 100
Astro Pod 2

PDS (1664 units total)

Mesonic Cutter 1144
Pulse Cannon 100
Hadron Turret 420

Asteroids (572 total)

Metal 265
Crystal 180
Eonium 63
Uninitiated 64



I had an OK-ish round. I didn't bond with my gal as I did in previous rounds, but we got along fine.
My score is well above 7 mil, better than in some of my other rounds combined.
Playing cath is more fun that I had thought in the beginning. The sheer power of freezing is vastly underestimated IMO.

[Cicada]

same as usual for me, started well, roided well, was top 100 roids and rank till about 1/2 way through the round, then suprise suprise went inactive...

Cicada of Z'ha'dum [7:2:1]
score: 27mill

Ships (111000 units total) 
--------------------------------- 
Vsharrak Fighter 14000   
Daeraith Pulsar 9000 
Lyvidian Sentinel 74000   
Culdassa Arrowhead 10000 
Vulture 1000   
Andvordian Bomber 3000

bog standard Xan fleet....

PDS (17449 units total) 
--------------------------------- 
Mesonic Cutter 17449

Asteroids (1217 total) 
--------------------------------- 
Metal 492   
Crystal 463 
Eonium 190   
Uninitiated 72

[Supernova9]

29:3:10 Deliverer of Really Bad News

Score: 16937372

Ships (26060 units total)
Chimera 72 Pegasus 3
Demeter 1 Roach 171
Black Widow 264 Corsair 3536
Cutlass 7582 Brig 812
Thief 3820 Cutter 4596
Buccaneer 139 Clipper 3014
Marauder 738 Rogue 639
Astro Pod 673

Pretty standard Zik FR/DE fleet, with some FI/CO for alliance defence (to be honest a few too many actually, should have stuck with just FI)

PDS (9756 units total)
Mesonic Cutter 5416 Tachyon Beamer 4340

Built to use up my Eonium stocks and max score.

Asteroids (702 total)
Metal 323 Crystal 261
Eonium 84 Uninitiated 34

Went inactive a while back, haven't roided in ages, LDK was the only people to take roids off me, and I'm still kicking myself coz it was a Xan fake fleet that got me (2000 arrowheads and 300 Vults did the damage). After that I swore I'd never run from Xan incs again unless I was certain it was a kill fleet. (That worked too, other incs I had all pulled as they were fakes).

All in all, my round was spoiled by LDK, they were the only people that attacked me, and my gal's rank (was #7 till about 4 days ago) was ruined by an LDK player getting closed for cheating.

[Scouse]

Splicing single frames of Pornography into family films (8:1:12)

Score: 11,124,548


Ships (50177 units total)
Spider 7350 Beetle 3719
Scarab 367 Defender 454
Roach 3460 Lyvidian Sentinel 859
Culdassa Arrowhead 40 Vulture 2171
Andvordian Bomber 66 Corsair 16809
Cutlass 7132 Brig 5250
Thief 2500


PDS (4507 units total)
Mesonic Cutter 4507


Asteroids (666 total)
Metal 287 Crystal 232
Eonium 110 Uninitiated 37


My first gal (23:3) had 6 active IRC players, we did ok, but got based after a couple of weeks, at which point the 3 most active players (the ministers) decided to exile, on the first day the deletion process swept the universe. They got into decent galaxies, so I decided to follow them, and took the money from the fund and went. I ended up in an already given up galaxy with a score of a couple of mill more than my old one. They had 2 irc players who were very rarely online. We got incoming all the time and noone ever defended each other. Only once or twice. I tried to help the new players in the galaxy as best as I could.

But, I reached my aim, 10 million, and got a nice few stolen ships, which I collected over the course of the round. Happy with my score, having played relaxed ('retired' some people may say) without an alliance and without worries about my planet.

[at0mic.c0w]

Ponder Stibbons of Technomancy (43:9:3)
Score: 42'021'644

Ships (88993 units total)
Pegasus 422 Demeter 80
Black Widow 289 Widowmaker 36
Corsair 66666 Cutter 10000
Buccaneer 2000 Clipper 8000
Rogue 1000 Astro Pod 500

PDS (11000 units total)
Mesonic Cutter 2000 Pulse Cannon 9000

Asteroids (2323 total)
Metal 1033 Crystal 884
Eonium 351 Uninitiated 55


seems like i finished 86th - was a good round all in all, didn't lose a single roid =)

[General1]

I had a good round till tick 500-600 I would say.
Gal was top20 we got inc 2 times till then, I was free from school and covered the with an USA gal m8 the entire galaxy, on both occasions.
WHen my exams begun at school I was less active for 5 days, in those 5 days we got 3 times inc, and we dropped from rank 20 till rank 100, worked ourselfs up a bit till rank 80 again.

I did pretty well, especailly till tick 500-600, was around rank 150 in universe ( was top10 roid and score till tick150). After I could launch an attack for a whole week will haveing exams I dropped till rank 250. Still doing fine, around tick 800, 2 of my RL died in a car accident and checked pa maximum 1time a day. When I checked again at 1 time I got inc from the nr1 player at that time , atm rank 3 or 4, 15:6:22 DELETED ATM grrrrrrr). The bashfleet already arrived when I logged in and I lost 4mil score of my total of 12mil.
The last week I set myself a goal ( I FAILED though) get 2000 roids before then end of the round, I got stuck at 1750 orso
Anyway I was 15:9:9

Rank 543 Nightshade of Sherwood forest

Ships (60543 units total)
Phoenix 55 Gryphon 42
Centaur 58 Chimera 450
Drake 50 Pegasus 718
Demeter 55 Wyvern 81
Scarab 317 Defender 2
Roach 15 Black Widow 4
Culdassa Arrowhead 793 Vulture 94
Andvordian Bomber 34 Tzen Bolt Thrower 10
Hysperian Lancer 3 Cryvellian Broadsword 6
Corsair 44304 Cutlass 6476
Brig 773 Thief 2763
Cutter 1376 Clipper 1081
Marauder 495 Rogue 197
Pirate 25 Astro Pod 266


PDS (12500 units total)
Mesonic Cutter 12500


Asteroids (1787 total)
Metal 814 Crystal 611
Eonium 179 Uninitiated 183

Pds builed 2day ( to increase some score :P)

[Tietäjä]

34:9:12 - Abi Dhalzim of Dreamlands - 11476480

Ships (35994 units total)
Spider 6607 Beetle 25240
Defender 384 Roach 1808
Black Widow 834 Widowmaker 560
Avenger 189 Guardian 172
Astro Pod 200

PDS (759 units total)
Hadron Turret 759

Asteroids (718 total)
Metal 342 Crystal 281
Eonium 95 Uninitiated 0


I will not even comment on my galaxy. In addition to one active Eclipse there, most of the round was quite ****e.

[Gerbie]

coords: 22:7:3
I played cautiously. Too cautious I think now, but I did ok. Was able to do a lot of good defensive work.

Ships (51675 units total)

Vsharrak Fighter 12912 Daeraith Pulsar 4190
Lyvidian Sentinel 32820 Culdassa Arrowhead 620
Vulture 402 Andvordian Bomber 620
Xentrallis Peacekeeper 100 Valaerian Dreadnought 11


PDS (3738 units total)

Mesonic Cutter 2301 Tachyon Beamer 713
Pulse Cannon 713 Hadron Turret 10
Ion Launcher 1


Asteroids (1153 total)

Metal 483 Crystal 369
Eonium 142 Uninitiated 159

[at0mic.c0w]

before i forget to mention it: seems like Strategy-Stonghold of p9 ended 2nd following p5 (by 1'800mil heh)

[ArcChas]

º Firth º of º Fifth º Score: 7667314

System Information for (45:3:6)

Ships (29091 units total)

Spider 8182 Beetle 11509
Scarab 3000 Defender 100
Roach 5000 Black Widow 1000
Astro Pod 300

PDS (0 units total)

Asteroids (260 total)

Metal 146 Crystal 83
Eonium 31 Uninitiated 0


Terrible round (scorewise) - at the start it proved to be almost impossible to hang on to any worthwhile number of roids so I just stopped trying to capture any.

But I had plenty of fun defending - both my alliance and (more towards the end) the "lowbies" in my galaxy - that was almost a full time job.

[furball]

Planet name: Furry Beast of the Nether Regions

System Information for (6:10:3)
Score: 9680548

Ships (22752 units total)

Spider 6327 Beetle 7813
Roach 4291 Black Widow 3547
Tarantula 260 Mantis 44
Guardian 28 Scorpion 27
Astro Pod 415


PDS (388 units total)

Tachyon Beamer 23 Pulse Cannon 340
Ion Launcher 25


Asteroids (439 total)

Metal 223 Crystal 151
Eonium 60 Uninitiated 5


I had a great galaxy that finished 35th. This round was the first that I've played properly for a while, attacking as much as possible.

I built a very confused fleet, attacking with Cathaar CR most of the time but having tonnes of smaller ships for defence and attacking smaller targets with little anti-FR (got 200 roids from a guy with only pegs/dems )

I ran the local cluster alliance, SixX, but it wasn't very useful to me, despite trying to get a few gals to destroy it and roid the smaller galaxies...a lack of interest & activity meant that it never really happened. P10 was fairly quiet, no major wars. Got defence almost every time...we were LDK's #1 gal to attack for a week (or at least it felt like it )

GC finished 50th, nice to see - and most of our free planets were quite active.


furball

[dabult]

30:4:8
70cl. Bottle of Absolut Faggot

Score: 19197748

Ships (90374 units total)

Vsharrak Fighter 25000 Daeraith Pulsar 4000
Lyvidian Sentinel 47774 Culdassa Arrowhead 10000
Vulture 1000 Andvordian Bomber 1100
Cryvellian Broadsword 500 Astro Pod 1000

PDS (0 units total)

Asteroids (1545 total)

Metal 722 Crystal 545
Eonium 195 Uninitiated 83


This is my overview when im eta 3 from crashing and burning all to hell (as viewed quite nicely on pilkara *see siggy*)

Gal started out really really wank. Hovered between rank 350-400, with me holding roidrank 100-150, owning the gal needless to say. Got sick of more than daily plus nightly incs on me and/or the gal, so stopped roiding for a while.
Whole lotta exiles and deletions later we had eventually struggled up to peak at rank 152, then 5 planets tagged along when i went to crash. See pilkara for the 2 days that followed
(the pods was for that attack only, ordered the last day)

[Helveticus]

[39:6:1]
Opener of The Deadhouse Gates.
Roids: 360.
Score: 7,498,583.

Only attacked twice all round, capped approx. 13(!) roids, fleet's not moved anywhere for a couple of weeks now.

Activity is for other people. (Hence no overview paste )

[Razzmatazz]

I was 45:1:15, was in a reasonable gal however things never worked out between us. I joined NewDawn half way the round and that was when I started roiding some more.

System Information for (45:1:15)
Impon Ken of Single Finger Attack
Score: 13858282

Ships (61500 units total)

Vsharrak Fighter 26300 Daeraith Pulsar 3000
Lyvidian Sentinel 27200 Culdassa Arrowhead 4000
Vulture 600 Andvordian Bomber 400


PDS (3425 units total) (score boost obviously)

Mesonic Cutter 1400 Pulse Cannon 2025


Asteroids (546 total)

Metal 310 Crystal 172
Eonium 61 Uninitiated 3

[Parthos]

As I've said before, I'm no expert at the strategy thing, but I post here sometimes and always this thread so here goes

The Incessant Ramblings of A Lippy Bint
Score: 15823660
System Information for (17:5:9)

Ships (10313 units total)
Beetle 194 _ Defender 200
Roach 7500 _ Widowmaker 36
Tarantula 1600 _ Avenger 3
Mantis 160 _ Guardian 260
Scorpion 360 _ _ _
PDS (3002 units total)
Mesonic Cutter 1290 _ Tachyon Beamer 900
Pulse Cannon 812 _ _ _
Asteroids (934 total)
Metal 452 _ Crystal 333
Eonium 117 _ Uninitiated 32

The beetles and PDS were just last minute "guess I will spend my resources" purchases.

I have 2 major strategy confessions about this round:

1) I didn't build fi. Like I was supposed to. I built a few k spiders and beetles a couple times, each time they soon died to some incoming or other in my crappy p . Not building anti fi/co fi was a big nono in my alliance and I felt pretty bad for it, but I tried to make up for it by having loads of roaches for the DE calls.

2) I liked playing cath . Last time I played cath was before it had a) mantis and b) killy ships and I swore up and down I'd never touch EMP again. I found CR roiding to be flawless until about 2/3 through the round, when my targets began getting defense. The efficiency of guardians impressed me and although I rarely got to kill things with them I enjoyed the prospect . Built widowmakers a few times as they are supposed to be nasty on fi/co but, as they kept dying, I decided by my super scientific experience that they sucked in that respect and quit building em.

So, tara/mantis/scorp/guardian were my mainstay roiding fleet, in various combinations, and roach in large numbers for defending folks. Oh, I had bw for a while too, until, yep, they died.

Wasn't playing seriously, hit about 1300 roids then got roided 3 ticks. By a solo. At about 1800 GMT. Pretty sad . Strangely enough, that was in my good gal this round. First one had a few irc actives but was quite inactive overall and began getting lots of incomings; the ministers jumped ship and shortly after, so did I.

By a happy accident landed in the galaxy my old galmate of several rounds, Glacier, was in. There was another Eclipse member in there as well whom I hadn't known very well but turned out to be decently active and a nice guy. Funny thing: Glac was soon in Acolyte, and within about a week we got a new exilee in our gal...who had been in same crappy p as me in the beginning...and was also Eclipse. So, 4 of one alliance in one gal can happen by accident lol.

I found other cath nearly impossible to roid as most had enough roach/tara to stop me; xans, ziks, and terrans were excellent to middling targets, depending on their fleets. Hardly anyone other than cath had cr-targeting ships that I couldn't handle (eg corsairs, gryphons and the like); however dragons in good numbers annoyed me (proving my longstanding belief that terrans should build sufficient dragons) and any t3=all ship annoyed the heck out of me as I wanted roids for FREE dammit, and all those chims and sents tended to be hard to freeze completely. And once again, whose bright idea was it to make a t3=all fi that is the only c dump for the low eta pod race? /me grumbles in her rocking chair.

[LHC]

Ruler Name: Lord High Commander
Planet Name: The Nose of Terror
Coords 28:6:15
Size 778
Score 12,575,896


Ships (11685 units total)

Harpy 3790 Phoenix 1139
Gryphon 384 Centaur 796
Chimera 2316 (1000 building) Drake 9
Pegasus 2310 (561) Demeter 288
Hydra 165 Syren 150
Wyvern 268 Dragon 50
Astro Pod 20

PDS (3190 units total)

Mesonic Cutter 1816 Tachyon Beamer 400
Pulse Cannon 874 Hadron Turret 50
Ion Launcher 50


Asteroids (778 total)

Metal 373 Crystal 280
Eonium 95 Uninitiated 30



I was on holiday for the last week, but I got online for a brief period to buy ships on Wednesday, but I still had loads of resourses when I got in, so ordered some Chimera and Pegasus which was never going to arrive, which would add around 1.3 million onto my score (minus the resourse score). The PDS was simply there so I made it to top 1000 before I went on holiday, which I managed. Considering the amount of roids I lost, I'm pretty well pleased with how I did, ending rank 798 with half a weeks resourses unspent

[SpazMonster]

Rank: 100
Ruler Name: Burninator
Planet Name: The Country Side
Coords: 29:5:9
IRC Nick: Deven
Alliance: Olympians
Roids: 2758
Score: 38.242.380

Ships (178482 units total)

Phoenix 298
Gryphon 21
Spider 701
Beetle 1335
Scarab 1482
Roach 1428
Vsharrak Fighter 49
Daeraith Pulsar 12
Lyvidian Sentinel 48
Vulture 371
Corsair 105792
Cutlass 28975
Brig 11101
Thief 20358
Cutter 3575
Buccaneer 30
Clipper 2025
Marauder 381
Astro Pod 500


PDS (17340 units total)

Mesonic Cutter 17340


Asteroids (2758 total)

Metal 1269 Crystal 1000
Eonium 400 Uninitiated 89

My goal for the round was t100 which I had given up on a week before round end because I was ~120 roid rank and figured no way in heck I'd make it. I had a better xand fleet (3k+ co) but I suicided the arrows/bombers + around 300 vults fishing for free roids after the fleet kill on sliekas. Xand co are crappy so I didn't mind sending them didn't caring about potentially losing them. Figured that move also knocked me out of the running for sure. Apparently I just idled/spent my resources properly to just scrape in (and cheaters getting deleted helped too). A satisfying way to end my pa playing.

Btw, Corsair + Brig + roach totally kicks terran where it hurts. I really never saw a target in the range I hit with enough harpies to make it not worth while, and I could generally kill all the targets pegs in 1 or 2 ticks. I also enjoyed pillaging xand with an attack partner -> vsh + thief is a nasty combo I couldn't get enough of cathaar targets either.. Thief emp resistance is nice and brigs hit top down to make questionable hits alot more threatening looking plus the thirst for roaches and beetles was something fierce =\

[Ultimate Newbie]

Originally posted by Parthos
I found other cath nearly impossible to roid as most had enough roach/tara to stop me; xans, ziks, and terrans were excellent to middling targets, depending on their fleets. Hardly anyone other than cath had cr-targeting ships that I couldn't handle (eg corsairs, gryphons and the like); however dragons in good numbers annoyed me (proving my longstanding belief that terrans should build sufficient dragons) and any t3=all ship annoyed the heck out of me as I wanted roids for FREE dammit, and all those chims and sents tended to be hard to freeze completely. And once again, whose bright idea was it to make a t3=all fi that is the only c dump for the low eta pod race? /me grumbles in her rocking chair.

Yeah, tell me about those Sentinels - that was a really huge blunder imo.

But i still find it interesting that you could attack Xans. Ever since the round started i plainly refused to attack any Xans, and most of the time Ziks were out of the question too (unless they had built DE/FR only with no FI - Yes, i saw two of them this round. heh). I got most of my roids from Terrans, finding that my Guardians normally killed off all the Chimera over three ticks, and at least made attacking terrans viable (ie 10k resources per roid or less) so that was cool. Terrans with Dragons were a pain, as so few can make a large difference and they are impossible to stun :\. Nevertheless, i dont understand why you should have had dramas attacking other Caths? i found them to be free targets all round (Avengers and Defenders were the only Kill ships that targets CR/BA - Avengers being CR [Tarants] and Defenders being CO [Guardians] - and even then i didnt encounter many Defenders (one bloke had like 15k, but i attacked his neighbour instead :P).

so, yeah :\

[Le Mauvais Moine]

Score: 26 million

Ships (59300 units total)

Spider 17500 Beetle 34000
Defender 3000 Roach 1000
Black Widow 2000 Tarantula 1000
Avenger 40 Mantis 60
Guardian 300 Scorpion 300
Astro Pod 100


PDS (4400 units total)

Mesonic Cutter 900 Hadron Turret 3500

I tried CR roiding for the first time. Did not really work. So i built a standard bw, beetle, pod fleet which worked better.

[Parthos]

Originally posted by Ultimate Newbie
Yeah, tell me about those Sentinels - that was a really huge blunder imo.

But i still find it interesting that you could attack Xans. Ever since the round started i plainly refused to attack any Xans, and most of the time Ziks were out of the question too (unless they had built DE/FR only with no FI - Yes, i saw two of them this round. heh). I got most of my roids from Terrans, finding that my Guardians normally killed off all the Chimera over three ticks, and at least made attacking terrans viable (ie 10k resources per roid or less) so that was cool. Terrans with Dragons were a pain, as so few can make a large difference and they are impossible to stun :\. Nevertheless, i dont understand why you should have had dramas attacking other Caths? i found them to be free targets all round (Avengers and Defenders were the only Kill ships that targets CR/BA - Avengers being CR [Tarants] and Defenders being CO [Guardians] - and even then i didnt encounter many Defenders (one bloke had like 15k, but i attacked his neighbour instead :P).

Well, with cath targets it wasn't the kill ships ofc, but as I mentioned the ones I saw tended to have enough roach/tara to stop me cold. Tara seem pretty efficent at freezing other tara. Perhaps I simply didn't build enough tara; you had nearly as many as I did but it looks like you had way more for your score than I did.

As for xans, I built enough scorps with the goal of making roiding xans worthwhile. Near the end ofc xans had generally gotten too much fi to bother messing with, but for most of the round I could usually pick a good one out in a raid.

Ziks... yeah I saw a lot of weird ones that were easy to roid . The ones that built brigs I cursed up and down but there was always some mong zik who built mainly de/fr and not too many brigs or corsairs . Usually only losses to zik were losing a couple bs a tick to their pirates.

Ofc, who knows, perhaps the reason I had such a nice experience this round wasn't the race, but the fact that I was just an average planet picking average targets and not having to deal with all the headaches of trying to hit big targets. Exploitable fleet compositions are hard to find in the upper ranges, and when you do find them, you know they will get loads of defense as well, there's a reason they got to be big and still have a bizarro fleet.

Hmm...nah, was xan last round, same situation, and hated xan

[Lord~Aesop]

My planet was:

Kybernet of Neoileisis
The pilkara graph says quite abit about my luck this round:
http://www.pilkara.com/rank.php?acti...&x=15&y=7&z=20
been away for one sunday

My fleet in the end was approximately:

12K harpies
4K gryphons
2K pegasi
200 demeters
200 wyverns
30 dragons

roids were about 1,4K with 8,3 mil score. Survived quite long until the eventual bashing took place.

[black-eyed boy]

Captain Nemo of Nautilus (46:1:24)

Started in a dead inactive galaxy, had to exile myself which slowed down the growth a bit... and I landed in a not-so-good gal anyway (gal was ranked ~300th for most of the round).

Did ok under such circumstances but 10 days before the end of the round I pissed off a big LDK guy (defended his three attacks during one day alone) so I got attacked by a 50th ranked xan. He got 385 roids for 6.1M score off me (heh pld small me kicking someone out of top 100 for second round in a row ) but I lost a lot too and went kinda inactive until the end.

[Ultimate Newbie]

Originally posted by Parthos
Well, with cath targets it wasn't the kill ships ofc, but as I mentioned the ones I saw tended to have enough roach/tara to stop me cold. Tara seem pretty efficent at freezing other tara. Perhaps I simply didn't build enough tara; you had nearly as many as I did but it looks like you had way more for your score than I did.

How did you got against Terrans?

And yes - Tarants are very efficient against Tarants, as the Tarants have to stun Tarants that have effectively already fired (same init etc), which does make them quite annoying to attack.

And yeah, you were 2.5 times my score, and i only had 350 less tarants . I had so many because i prefered Terran/Cath targets, and whenever i attacked Terran i would loose some Guardians, and whenever i attacked caths i need as many CR as i could have, heh. Mind you, your battleship fleet was impressive, obviously because you needed them against Xans .

[Parthos]

Originally posted by Ultimate Newbie
How did you got against Terrans?

I thought that they were too easy to mention . Just looked for as low dragon/low chim ones as possible ofc . Only other ship I worry about is gryphon and they don't build em in large numbers. However, those that DID build loads of gryphons were kinda trouble, as whether thru stun or kill a cr/bs fleet has loads of trouble even touching terran co...those harpies soak up all your scorpion fire, and the chims soak up all the guardian fire...and I believe the tara are usually firing uselessly on the pegs right?

[mens]

[look at my roid graph =\]
As you can see, I roided once the last 3 weeks or so.
It's a miracle I ended as high as rank 30.
The last 10 days I only logged in twice to spend res as I was on vacation with no internet. I had to knock on my neighbours door

Anyways, my round started crappy. After 3 days iirc I lost about 60 roids (that was when I had 350 or something). I woke up at eta 1, gal didn't know my alliance yet, no def, hangover etc etc you know the drill...
Information Services (36:10:14) is attacking us for 2 ticks with 40 units (07.06.03)
I had my first batch of pegs coming out of production the tick he landed so he recalled after 1st tick

After that I did ok, the roids came in and my gf went to greece for a week.
I thought I had my para stuff sorted out nicely when someone put out a rumour that I was a spy They kicked me out of p-ally and I spent the rest of the round being nervous for eta 5 fleet catches whenever I was out with my ships. Atleast after I joined that Dragonsattack and helped to kill DraKi.

I don't really remember but my stuff was something liek this:

Harpy 91000 Chimera 2000
Pegasus 15000 Demeter 1000
Wyvern 1500 Dragon 200

Mesonic Cutter 12728 Ion Launcher 1500

And 3416 roids

thanks to Ðragons, Protected and WP

[Andy_r]

Originally posted by mens
Information Services (36:10:14) is attacking us for 2 ticks with 40 units (07.06.03)

/me whistles and tries to change the subject

[mens]

Originally posted by Andy_r
/me whistles and tries to change the subject

Grrrr, I hate you

[Sun_Tzu]

I was drunk, atm only hungover, spent 100€ on drinks in bars yesterday while out drinking with Jurgen :S

13:7:2, once again victim of "cba to play serious since this is random and it's the summer and oooh that girl going into that bar has a nice asssss time to follow her in there and get drunk as all hell and dance the night(and morning) away"

[TehVader]

Originally posted by black-eyed boy
Captain Nemo of Nautilus (46:1:24)

Started in a dead inactive galaxy, had to exile myself which slowed down the growth a bit... and I landed in a not-so-good gal anyway (gal was ranked ~300th for most of the round).

Did ok under such circumstances but 10 days before the end of the round I pissed off a big LDK guy (defended his three attacks during one day alone) so I got attacked by a 50th ranked xan. He got 385 roids for 6.1M score off me (heh pld small me kicking someone out of top 100 for second round in a row ) but I lost a lot too and went kinda inactive until the end.

And you'd better get your ass on irc now

[masochist]

ships: 0
pds: 0

score 250k for 245 roids.
that was a good round, thanks

[mens]

Originally posted by masochist
ships: 0
pds: 0

score 250k for 245 roids.
that was a good round, thanks

what was your ampratio again?