r1/2 noob as well, but quit sometime over a big fiasco (can't remember what, something to do with resets i think) in r3ish.
I don't play anything else now
quite a coincidence i dropped in really.
I remember kyrelean from WaC (i was in a WaC galaxy), nodrog from WaC i think, timpayne from the rankings, idler...
I think i was somewhere in 64.7 round 2 and cluster 23 or 24 round 3. we had a cluster alliance where about 3/4 of the galaxies teamed up to rape the other 1/4...
Oh, and I f***ing hat Vts, Legion, Fury, Blue tuba!