Top 100 names and (more importantly) alliances

[jerome]

Top 100 Make-up Alliances-wise
47 1up
14 LCH - 5 P-Napped + 1 Fimu, who dropped his nap midway
12 VisioN - 4 P-Napped + 1 Porno ;p
4 ROCK - 3 P-Napped
4 HR - 3 P-Napped
4 ND - 3 P-Napped
3 MISTU - 2 P-Napped
2 Veneratio - 2 P-Napped
2 WolfPack - 1 P-Napped
2 ex-1up - no alliance
2 FAnG - Tatu dropped NAP midway through round.
1 NoS - 1 P-Napped
3 Unknown - 0 P-Naps

[edit - aye, typo etc, fish]
[edit #2 - updated to include creature]

interesting.

[The_Fish]

there's 4 ND there.

[furssie]

Where's Hicks in the top?

So, as always - he finished last again( like every round) whilst his alliance won?

Sid 0wns j00 all \o/

[jerome]

Hicks ended #111, he wasn`t last, as Pring did even worse :/ (#147). Fking M&S noobs .

[Recluse]

Correction, there are 2 Fang #100 (18:4:8) is Creature.

[Buddah]

3 fangs

|raider| aswell around 60-70 somewhere

[Shaithess]

As for races, a quick count and I got 65% of top 100 being Xan, 26% being Terr, 7% being Zik, and 2% being cat.

Doing % of T100/% (Eg. The closer to '1', the more balanced the race appears to be.) of top players we get:
Xan - 2.5
Ter - 0.62
Zik - 0.39
Cat - 0.15

Surely something needs to be done for next round? I know that there are many factors to consider, but it would be cool to see a better balance. With so few big cats/ziks, teh xans had a far easier time of it which can only be worse for the game :/

[Phant]

Make Vipers/CR combo eta 8 \o/

On a serious note. Is anyone able to tell me which galaxy was highest ranked without any 1up'ers in it?

[Treveler]

Rasestats: http://www.sandmans.co.uk/?p=racestats

[The_Fish]

Originally Posted by The_Fish whilst still in protection

I remember arguing with Sid in pm in private beta about how crap Cath were, he said they were playable. Well, not many think so. shame.

hopefully some better stats next round.

[lokken]

Originally Posted by Phant

Make Vipers/CR combo eta 8 \o/

On a serious note. Is anyone able to tell me which galaxy was highest ranked without any 1up'ers in it?

think it was 5:10 in 15th - hats off to them cos we found it bloody hard, so they must be a pretty solid bunch.

then it's mine (5:1) in 18th

[Phant]

Originally Posted by The_Fish

hopefully some better stats next round.

They are good anough to roid with, although its virtually impossible to roid top players I suppose (eta 10 (well 9) really makes it hard). The problem is how heavy targeted they are by the rest of the uni, gotta somehow make them less tasty targets ::/

[G.K Zhukov]

Originally Posted by The_Fish

hopefully some better stats next round.

Did he recommend cath to his own alliance?

[Desse]

3 pr0nstars in the top50. \o/

[Tis]

Originally Posted by lokken

think it was 5:10 in 15th - hats off to them cos we found it bloody hard, so they must be a pretty solid bunch.

then it's mine (5:1) in 18th

Thats right.

Congrats to the topish non-1up Gals that didnt go mass vac mode at the first sign of Red.

[mazzelaar]

Originally Posted by G.K Zhukov

Did he recommend cath to his own alliance?

Sid and I had a long discussion about being cath and he certainly didn't push me towards being xan as we both agreed there were pros and cons for cath. Either way, I seem to have done half decently as a cath and as you can tell, my gal wasn't exactly top 10 material. My only complaint was the fact it was 100% impossible for caths to roid terrans but as I seem to have picked up the best part of 9000 roids this round it seems there were a few more xan heavy bunches than 1up.

[General1]

Originally Posted by Tis

Thats right.

Congrats to the topish non-1up Gals that didnt go mass vac mode at the first sign of Red.

Leave us alone.!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Dingo]

Originally Posted by Jester

When I was in your alliance, it was written nos. We didn't need caps back then, much less any of those alternating ViruS wannabe caps.

Illuminati today. Fah. Fah I say.

Jester,

Nadar is quite correct and it has always been either NoS or NOS in it's proper form. In lazy conversation it is common to be refered to as simply nos. Personally, I don't give a hoot how virus wrote their name as it has no relevance to us.

Just because you may have written it incorrectly whilst a member, doesn't make it correct.

Should you require it, I still have my round 4 galaxy banner on the server as proof.

So ends today's trivia lesson.

[pig]

Originally Posted by mazzelaar

Sid and I had a long discussion about being cath and he certainly didn't push me towards being xan as we both agreed there were pros and cons for cath. Either way, I seem to have done half decently as a cath and as you can tell, my gal wasn't exactly top 10 material. My only complaint was the fact it was 100% impossible for caths to roid terrans but as I seem to have picked up the best part of 9000 roids this round it seems there were a few more xan heavy bunches than 1up.

going on my own experience as cath, i thought it was a decent race, its roiding potential was great, especially as anti cr was minimal mid way through the rnd, when I put my mind to it, roiding with them was relatively easy, especially hornet/viper combo which worked nicely, Ziks, xans and caths were the preferred choice, with xans being quite vunlerable thank god, the terrans were a tough cookie to crack though, tbh I think it was a good race and was welcome for defence.

[Jester]

Originally Posted by Dingo

Jester,

Nadar is quite correct and it has always been either NoS or NOS in it's proper form. In lazy conversation it is common to be refered to as simply nos. Personally, I don't give a hoot how virus wrote their name as it has no relevance to us.

Just because you may have written it incorrectly whilst a member, doesn't make it correct.

Should you require it, I still have my round 4 galaxy banner on the server as proof.

So ends today's trivia lesson.

http://www.caeneus.org/planetarion/round3galaxies.html

Always, eh?

Anyway, it was meant to be tongue in cheek. I've always felt that the nos I was in was taken over by a bunch of kids* after the whole lux** thing. This probably isn't true, but it's the impression I have, and it's the impression I like to play on.

It was a reference to the discussion we had about just this matter in round 4, and as an alliance we ended up settling on NoS because more people wanted that. I think that's fine, but I still prefer nos and enjoy poking fun at all the new people because of it. It's not meant as an insult, more as a friendly ribbing over something we have in common.

It's also to do with a larger matter, I guess. I generally find the more obnoxious tags (like LCH's) to be signs that an alliance wants people to notice them. The more toned down, classical tags are more subtle badges that dare people to test the might behind them. At least that's how I read it.

As for ViruS, CapS was all the rage in round 4. I think it Legion (VtS) that started it (not Virus as I originally stated). Notice that in VtS it actually makes sense. The preposition is lowercased as in normal titling practice (Purple Worm of Doom, Citadel of Despair etc), but in nos it makes no sense because the o is a proper noun (order). Which is another reason I argued for equal capitalization. NOS would've looked pretty dumb though.

And yes, NoS was probably throughout round 4, by many members (including HC). It is without a doubt the legitimate, official tag of round 4. Hell, even my gal used NoS rather than nos.

* I mean aside from you. I know there are probably a good deal of mature, sensible people in nos. I'm sure they represent the community much better than the people I've been exposed to, but let's face it, you've had a few shitty kid board spammers to ruin your reputation***

** Haha, lux was crap.

*** And hey, let's face it. I was a shitty kid board spammer before they were even in nos!

[Neferti]

hehe 5:1 with 4 ND 2 Fang, and 2 LCH, and 1 NoS and 1 VsN

with that combo it was amazing we didn't get smashed out of the top 15 a lot sooner than we did. We were top 15 right up til about a week or ten days (roughly) before the end of the round. Anyone from my gal reading this - well done especially the Fangers who had to deal with an alliance falling apart around them!

[Dingo]

tbh, NoS was just more pleasing to the eye than nos.

r3, we never even expected to have any gals in top 100 to care what the tag was. The only banner images had the original graphic that we still use and has it as NOS.

I agree with you 200% regarding lux.

[Zo0f]

Every galaxy in cluster 5 had an easy ride, no matter who they were, even the pure newbie galaxies. Im guessing as we were the top cluster from the start people tended to steer clear of us incase of in cluster defence. No idea why lateron, but gals in c5 very rarely had incomming most of the round. Due to the smaller amount of incs, we were all bigger than we might of been otherwise, so i guess that helped lateron aswell.

[Neferti]

so my gal was really crap then?

[jerome]

c2 didn`t have an easy ride :/ although all of our gals sucked. hard.

[Neferti]

sorry zoof. typical overreacting. to be honest i think you might be right

i did often push for a proper c5 alliance for that very reason, but we never got one. seems the rest of the universe never noticed - i do wonder if the fact that i was oftern defending ND members elsewhere in c5 helped with that; and other people doing similar things

you are right i guess. i think we did have it a little bit easier than i expected most of the time. wouldnt call it easy though. with no 1up in our gal it was a constant battle just to keep everyone from quitting!

[rshih]

mmmmm..... 5:1
I remember landing for some semi-heavy losses given that there was so few time left in the round on #7.
jerome bitched at meh and called meh a noob for taking the roids But they paid off by like a day though o_O

[jerome]

no it didnt, nub. Just because the roids paid off the value you lost for em, doesn`t mean they were worth it, in profit, as you wouldve been bigger at the end if you hadnt lost value and just kept growing instead of losing value THEN taking time to regain value THEN needing MORE time for it to be worth it in terms of extrapolatory comparison.

nubshih!

[Zo0f]

Originally Posted by Neferti

sorry zoof. typical overreacting. to be honest i think you might be right

i did often push for a proper c5 alliance for that very reason, but we never got one. seems the rest of the universe never noticed - i do wonder if the fact that i was oftern defending ND members elsewhere in c5 helped with that; and other people doing similar things

you are right i guess. i think we did have it a little bit easier than i expected most of the time. wouldnt call it easy though. with no 1up in our gal it was a constant battle just to keep everyone from quitting!

I had the same advantage Im sure it was a tough fight near the end though, anything that wasnt 1up NAPd got huge amounts of inc. As goes stagnation

[ExiledBlade]

i love how everyone forgets coven. Does anyone know who we are? # 95 20:1:5 was Shakuras - our biggest Coven member! gee thanks guys . Congrats to Shakuras...there im the first to say it. And Shakuras never had a planet nap with 1up. The code was wrong.

[mazzelaar]

Originally Posted by _ryzekiel_

c2 didn`t have an easy ride :/ although all of our gals sucked. hard.

b..b...b..but you had me

[Tis]

Originally Posted by mazzelaar

b..b...b..but you had me

mazz, everyone knows you suck hard

[Boogster]

Bah. I should have played, if only to beat jerome`.

[Shakuras]

Originally Posted by Frisky

Not exactly true, he had his nap for all but the last week or so... he only lost it because his galm8s were being such a pain we finally got fed up with dealing with them and removed all naps in that gal.

Sorry to burst your bubble.

Indeed i had my nape till last of round. We not 1-uppers did defend eachother as much as possible. And it worked. We didn't get roided too bad.

[Chika]

Very good job. 40 something top 100's is pwnunbeleivable. grats to those who finished toppers without protection. Tatu rocks!!! And Creature (maybe) grats to the top 10.

[Nitros]

Originally Posted by Jester

78 - 13:9:5 Vision

im abit late.
but this is Judge, LCH

[RooKie]

omg stals, still playing?

eeeeek!

[Rinoa]

Does anyone know who the highest placed covert opper was and what position they got?
if a few of them in gal all cov opped and then all donated to 1 planet they could have had 1 top 100 planet right?

[Filth]

70 05:10:03 2987 11.713.781 VisioN x NO NAP


^^ me and no nap

[Judge]

Originally Posted by Nitros

im abit late.
but this is Judge, LCH

indeed it is mate

Vision early part of round LCH for the last 1/3rd I recon

and NO NAP