Who We Were R32

[Zaejii]

You are: THE DUBIOUS VIRTUE (8:4:10) Ter (Clear)
Size: 822 411
Value: 2,638,941 324
Score: 3,654,321 349
XP: 16,923 425

Harpy 2 Pegasus 50,000
Chimaera 125,000 Drake 158,000
Demeter 5,000

Ascendancy. Awesome BP with Considence, Londo, Booji, and Light. Randomed MortalP (hihihi) and Zawze (<3). Got a few incomings early as a galaxy, but after that it was pretty much /snore and /goInactive. Had a few fun vacations this round, and got to send defence/attacks when SMS'd.

[[B5]Londo]

You are: Eternal Postponement OF Bedtime (8:4:8) Etd (Clear)
Size: 514 734
Value: 3,323,020 186
Score: 3,932,740 301
XP: 10,162 679

Absolutely Zaejii: an awesome bp in theory if only we were playing properly!! I found it seriously hard to land attacks with etd once alliance defence kicked in and basically went the latter half of the round on 500 roids.
Incidentally I would be interested to hear if ppl crashed for xp more than usual due to the changed cap. I didnt: the result may be my poor roiding. I ended with a Tick-roids rank of 361 or 175 ranks below my value rank, implying quite alot of ppl paid in value for roids - that may be normal tho.

Worst rank ever [post-pax] for me by a long way but on the other hand not an unpleasant round.

[tobbe]

You are: last minute signup (11:1:7) Cat (Clear)
Size: 1,758 36
Value: 4,768,104 42
Score: 6,991,524 18
XP: 37,057 26

Clusters: 12
Galaxies: 127
Planets: 1551
Alliances: 94

Ships (1,481,393 total) (Ship Analysis) [Hide]
Beetle 725,033 Viper 200,000
Locust 362,360 Roach 70,000
Tarantula 100,000 Mosquito 20,000
Hornet 3,000 Termite 1,000

[Tommy]

You are: Harry Tuttle (6:3:5) Zik (Clear)
Size: 329 1048
Value: 1,415,877 715
Score: 1,956,537 746
XP: 9,011 725

Got a job right as the round started that doomed my efforts to care about PA, but ended up in a fun gal with Dragonfly, Hosie, Brain, gzambo et al, which Hosie eventually exiled out of due to an inability to differentiate between "exile" and "vacation". Scanned and DCed for p3ng for much of the round, can't say I was overly impressed with the effort and activity (or lack thereof) displayed by most of the ally. Much love to Nacho, spudy and the others that really did their part though - you guys made the round for me.

Oh, and a random collection of shite to finish off with, none of which I ever really used. Lots and lots of small numbers.

Ships (356,987 total) (Ship Analysis) [Hide]
Wyvern 9,090 Dragon 2,855
Leviathan 411 Beetle 14,802
Viper 2,610 Locust 784
Roach 2,336 Tarantula 2,396
Mantis 971 Mosquito 1,085
Hornet 310 Revenant 9,171
Pulsar 8,845 Corsair 108,000
Cutlass 65,000 Buccaneer 38,627
Thief 52,710 Marauder 917
Pirate 21,390 Privateer 3,500
Ironclad 31 Spider 7,915
Lancer 2,185 Devastator 479
Merchant 163 Vulture 404

[Machado]

You are: Mr Tomasson (11:2:5) Zik (Clear)
Size: 1,277 142
Value: 4,922,523 35
Score: 5,953,743 62
XP: 17,187 409

Harpy 17,279 Beetle 180,203
Viper 204,918 Locust 39,777
Roach 5,544 Tarantula 9,231
Mantis 2,449 Mosquito 17,788
Hornet 499 Banshee 10,348
Phantom 214,953 Revenant 4,975
Pulsar 12,213 Illusion 2,229
Dagger 399 Corsair 2
Cutlass 178,360 Marauder 151,978
Pirate 94,907 Ironclad 3,650

Whole bunch of crap

Had a decent round, first one since the early ones where I was able to play seriously and until the end, so that made a bit of a difference. It became harder and harder to roid with my crbs in teamups towards the very end of the round, and I had a few hiccups and right "oops-moments" (having to work whenever app/asc incs came on saturday (and usually I don't work on sunday) so couldn't dc for gal, left some ships home that shouldn't of been. Was top 3 CT all round, but the last 2 weeks kinda screwed me Was fun, though, I had a good time.

BP was TDK (ct), PhoeniX-FlamE (ct), shambo (rock, later HA), and RuD (rock), and our resident gal scanner was PK (though RuD also went scanner) - especially TDK was a beast at DCing, and he was USA so he definitely spared me some sleepless mornings. I became quite lazy I might say. Other great folks in my galaxy were DonE, pot, keltus, LoF our late starter patho & bagsy, who to this day I still dunno in which ally he was. (I think we had him apply for tov?)

Went zik again for the first time since round 12 (give or take), so that was a blast, after a few rounds of emp races since I came back, where I usually couldn't even finish the damn round :/ Wish I could have been more useful to gal/ally/myself in the last 2-3 weeks, but at least I was able to login a few times a day still.

Had a blast, cheers!

[booji]

You are: Kruppe (8:4:6) Etd
Size: 968 301
Value: 4,216,769 84
Score: 5,061,809 132
XP: 14,084 530

Ships (953,795 total) (Ship Analysis) [Hide]
Pegasus 2,455 Chimaera 179
Drake 4,409 Demeter 352
Beetle 12,028 Viper 4,890
Locust 3,565 Mosquito 275
Bomber 1,847 Buccaneer 28,504
Thief 4,215 Privateer 3,076
Tycoon 280,000 Defender 130,000
Guardian 150,000 Spider 120,000
Lancer 60,000 Devastator 137,000
Merchant 6,000 Vulture 5,000

8:4 has already been covered, once the wars started we got few incs as we were too small to be worth bothering about as an asc gal, so it was a nice second half of the round in which to have a holiday, the last attack I managed to land was around tick 600 (2 small ones afterwards one due to piggies and the other because it was an immense team). Needless to say etd sucked on attack on its own, despite the number of terrans in asc there was never anyone who wanted to be a long term attack partner so essentially every attack was stopped by drakes or tycoons. So switched to defending alot, with probably rather more sucess, tho my lack of landing is reflected in my xp which is pretty poor given I spent the 1st half of the round in the T100 xp

[LukeyLove]

You are: Love Luke (10:7:6) Cat (Clear)
Size: 704 494
Value: 8,124,784 5
Score: 9,417,724 5
XP: 21,549 260

Ships (2,056,876 total) (Ship Analysis) [Hide]
Beetle 1,209,416 Viper 15,750
Locust 32,570 Roach 482,301
Tarantula 236,385 Mantis 55,595
Mosquito 15,397 Hornet 9,462

An enjoyable round until the last week where I got shafted on multiple fronts! Didnt help that I was at a new job over the last week meaning that my activity was somewhat limited. Probably didnt deserve to win due to my idleness, first round i've played where I wasnt contactable 24 hours a day and always got 8hrs+ of constant sleep. So considering that I was quite fortunate todo as well as I did - slightly bitter to lose the way I did but no hard feelings toward the gal/ND in any case.

[Donar]

De of Mort (8:9:6) Zik

Size: 1,192
Value: 3,129,206
Score: 5,312,366
XP: 36,386
Total Round Roids: 2,673
Total Lost Roids: 1,481

Harpy 1,902 Pegasus 1,393
Chimaera 740 Drake 431
Wyvern 5,997 Demeter 121
Leviathan 2,000 Beetle 26,340
Viper 11,711 Locust 4,876
Roach 26,169 Tarantula 41,232
Mantis 3,145 Mosquito 940
Hornet 1,930 Banshee 62,109
Phantom 234,003 Revenant 14,828
Pulsar 26,300 Bomber 20,610
Illusion 15,920 Dagger 2,479
Corsair 132,981 Cutlass 138,613
Buccaneer 15,477 Thief 19,907
Marauder 32,492 Pirate 42,308
Privateer 4,194 Ironclad 1,500
Galleon 500 Tycoon 2,820
Defender 6,803 Guardian 539
Lancer 102 Devastator 49
Merchant 461


Gal was decent, ended up with players i all knew and played with before Amon, religfree, JDD, jdean, mct, oblivion, etc.... we were doing well untill we got hammered for two weeks every two nights. made me lose alot of roids and couldn't get a decent value up. so did what i do every round and xpwhore my way towards top 100. stranded on 108th.

Made some nice steals, had about every ship from every race, to bad the fi pods were only stolen the last week. could have used them earlier, went all round roiding with only 900 mosquito.

ally def was not really that good, but i'm used to it being an HA veteran. allthough r31's def was good, this round it was more difficult to get some in the early hours. Enjoyed playing again in HA, always nice to not care that much about roids and have some fun.

overall not a bad round.

[Zotnam]

You are: ThoseFlashingLights (7:3:10) Cat (Clear)
Size: 1,483 79
Value: 2,984,866 250
Score: 6,796,306 20
XP: 63,524 2

Ships (919,611 total) (Ship Analysis)
Beetle 389,752 Viper 241,925
Locust 168,184 Tarantula 88,000
Mosquito 30,796 Hornet 954

Decided I wanted an easy going round, so went random + cath to make sure I had no chance of getting too active. Never found a decent gal to stay in, but eventually the exile costs were too high and all the top gals had late signs ups meaning no spots possible for the rest of the round so I just stayed put. Spent most of my round escorting others, often first a big alliance fi/co team through alliance def, and later on my own team up with Shadowcat and ElAlan. We mostly attacked top10/20 planets for xp and barely ever had to recall, which resulted in big gains for everyone. I must say there are a lot of selfish players these days though, so often we'd land on 5-10 def fleets, max cap + kill 300k value while losing 100k ourselfs. Desperate idiots trying to keep their roids instead of using other peoples fleet properly disgusts me.

I really had 0 chance of keeping my roids (I was roided by solo incs more often than once and didn't ask for def if the alliance had heavy inc), so I decided others could make better use of them, recalling very often from attacks that were through. Any decent planet will need some roids to be of use though, so I tried to stay on 600 roids the first part of the round, and later on just below 1k to make sure my fleet was usefull. Towards the end it made more sense to escort me for the xp gain so the roles changed, but sadly we failed 3 times on the only target which could get me top10 on the last day

Quite an enjoyable round, lots of hate mail with accusations about being a support planet and being reported/closed soon as well as getting the blame for planetarion dieing which always makes me smile. I know the final ranking was rather poor by my standards, but still pretty good for a support planet no?

It was all about having fun and why that insults so many people I really have no idea. Mostly jealousy of not being able to do stuff like it themselfs I guess.
I helped out in politics as normal being the number two guy behind jbg in asc and most our strategies were successfull to give our members the best round possible since we weren't playing for alliance win.

[lokken]

You are: EGYPTIAN GREETING (6:1:8) Zik (Clear)
Size: 1,755 37
Value: 4,005,396 98
Score: 6,245,736 44
XP: 37,339 23

Ships (1,328,301 total) (Ship Analysis) [Hide]
Harpy 13,567 Beetle 230,133
Viper 135,993 Locust 30,141
Roach 12,937 Tarantula 30,191
Mantis 2,830 Mosquito 9,093
Hornet 603 Phantom 91,679
Revenant 37,087 Pulsar 147,334
Illusion 291 Dagger 10,632
Corsair 69,000 Cutlass 338,394
Pirate 88,396

I was in one of the main Ascendancy BP's with toot, JBG, achi and BENNEH. We also got in MrBachelor and Linkie. Hatlon wasn't ascendancy but was also one of the core members. So we had a solid galaxy.

In terms of where I got my fleet from, obviously I've played with CO and CR this round.

With the CO, Ascendancy Ziks had a policy of waiting around to fleetcatch people who landed on us from the off meaning that we got decent amounts of beetles and vipers. Most of the planets were reasonably low profile (hence our success at catching them) but in Xcel and Religfree we got two substantially big steals that really did add to the strength of my fleet. I also did one bit of idle farming but what you're looking at is a fleet built primarily built on fleetcatches and a suicide on lilboi yesterday. Once your fleet is strong with Zik, you've got a very strong fleet in a teamup and you are very difficult to defend against when you're out roiding.

The CR came later on in the round for in gal defence purposes and i got one decent steal out of that, meaning in quiet periods I was roiding with two fleets later on.

I haven't actually reached top 100 status for 11 rounds incredibly, and I decided that this round I'd give it a proper shot. This is pretty much the culmination from a run I had last round where I raised my small planet from about 700th to the top 300 in two weeks, simply by roiding consistently. I figured that if I kept chipping away day after day, I'd succeed. And so it proved. I suffered a bit mid round because I was very busy at work, but the last two weeks have been very much plain sailing as I've advanced and got a reasonable way up the top 100.

Big thanks to JBG for being a political genius once more, toot and ellonweb for putting in effort and the rest of the galaxy and Ascendancy for defending. It may be a pretty meaningless achievement to finish top 100 but it's been a long time so it's quite satisfying for me!

Absolutely delighted with these stats, as they actually rewarded a conservative disciplined style of play. In a ten week round, Ziks would have gained a bit more dominance which suggests that they were well balanced.

[Mzyxptlk]

You are: mz (9:1:8) Cat
Size:        106 1515
Value:   356,813 1270
Score: 1,211,873  962
XP:       14,251  524

Beetle    70,000

Went fast scans as usual, did a lot of scans early in the round, largely thanks to weird day/night rhythms and good online times. After scans I researched cov ops and did a bunch of those. I killed 500 constructions in total, I love info blackout. Passed 3000 scans around tick 900, mostly planet and development scans for cov ops and jgps and au scans for the alliance. Got SKed twice, lost about 16 amps, had 108 amps at round end. I got the beetles at tick 1172, never used them.

Got shuffled into a top3 galaxy, but they didn't want a scanner around and they paid me to exile around tick 120. Landed in a galaxy outside of the top100 and stayed there. Was amazed at the level of idiocy showcased by planets 5 times my value hitting me for 12 roids. You guys are your own worst enemy.

Fun round. Would play again.

[Makhil]

LukeyLove you should have won. ND attitude of 'no flagshipping' shouldn't apply 2 days before round ends when it comes to defend top1 planet.
I don't think your gal helped you either, as far as I see the main ally there was happy to take your spot.
In my book you proved you're better than your gal mates.

[lilboi]

You are: Obi Wan Kenobi (10:7:5) Ter (Clear)
Size: 3,559 4
Value: 9,019,752 2
Score: 10,078,932 4
XP: 17,653 391

Ships (1,230,000 total) (Ship Analysis) [Hide]
Pegasus 520,000 Chimaera 300,000
Drake 390,000 Demeter 20,000


I had a pretty fun round TBH. Got into a BP with rasputin, signs, reese and eksero which was pretty awesome. We got pretty lucky with some nice exiles including lukey/gladiator/murf as well as the other dudes who were pretty cool. Our activity was like pretty awesome. many many times we had all 13 (then 15 after our late sign ups) online. and pretty much daily we had 13-15 out of 15 planets out with 1-3 fleets attacking/defending.

The round's politics really really helped us alot. even though non of the bp members really influenced politics we just got lucky with decisions made by jbg/golan. Thus we avoided major daily incomings unlike our closest rivals. This is also the reason we manage to dominate the top5 and win by so much. We did get incoming though and when they came, they came in big big amounts =p.

I must say I had a really nice round personally, everyone in the gal was very nice and despite what some may say about reese/eksero, they run an awesome gal and are cool ppl in general. I was in contention to finish first or even top3 but I started a fulltime job 1 week out from finish so my activity got really limited and therefore couldn't launch/recall like the other dudes which ensured i couldn't land any atks! Though everyone deserved their rank and it would have been undeserving of me to finish any higher considering I was hardly on in the last week.

All thanx must go to Asc for defending me even though I slackened in returning the favour (got a lil better mid/late round =p) and also to eksero/reese/rasputin for gal dcing for when we did have incomings!

[gzambo]

You are: THE ASCENSION (6:3:7) Cat (Clear)
Size: 657 546
Value: 3,472,336 161
Score: 4,510,636 212
XP: 17,305 405

pretty boring round not really too bothered with it because i went on holiday for the last 2 weeks of the round , was only landed on 6 times all rd and 3 off them were while i was away sunning myself

[Munkee]

You are: Ari Gold (11:8:12) Zik (Clear)
Size: 1,510 75
Value: 4,086,495 92
Score: 5,883,675 64
XP: 29,953 83


Harpy 45,059 Pegasus 2,260
Chimaera 2,558 Drake 2,701
Demeter 333 Beetle 48,299
Viper 22,552 Roach 3,300
Tarantula 22,828 Mosquito 2,758
Hornet 1,926 Termite 300
Revenant 1 Dagger 4,101
Corsair 983,816 Cutlass 158,623
Buccaneer 258,048 Thief 102,955
Privateer 5,452 Spider 350


I decided to play zik as close as i could to my first attempt with them in r29, so i started off with corsair + zik fr. Pre round i worked out to be truly safe from most inc i would need a 7:1:1 ratio of cors,bucc,thief and then alter this dependent on fleets others picked. To be fair it was not far off this by the end of round however stealing some co pods i ended up building some cutlass instead of thief and added to my bucc when bigger cr fleets appeared.

I have to say it worked well, but corsair being a fi class you really do struggle against most inc. If similar stats next round id say give the corsair some more emp res.

Ally wise very happy with p3nguins just before end of last round when i got a pm from m0 about starting something up it was a relief, i was tired of the way ct was going after spending so much time there. We aimed for a top5 finish and to recruit around 50 ppl. We seemed to get a big influx of people joining in the last few days before tick start which took us to a near full tag. We aimed to recruit people without crap attitudes as it mattered more about getting people working well together than bitches who whine everytime they got roided. A few people were kicked but other than that.. good play and a good round hope for the same next time.

[ellonweb]

You are: ellonweb (10:7:15) Cat (Clear)
Size: 3,302 5
Value: 5,924,846 10
Score: 7,192,826 13
XP: 21,133 279

Started the round random, hoping to exile into one of our core galaxies. Had some bad luck in the first round of exiles but eventually landed in 1:7. Was a very Cat heavy gal and didn't rate its chances of survival (I was surprised how long it did survive in the end), the people were also horrifically boring (though they did give me a credit, thanks!), so decided I'd stock res for the second round of exiles. It later turned out toot/JBG's gal was the only one willing to make space, and when they did, my dire luck with exiles struck again as I spent over 100m res exiling to the middle of nowhere.

Planned to late start for my good friend carDi, although I was a bit worried about how this would play out, considering the war, so in the end carDi got another Lith and I joined 10:7, which turned out to be a good choice for me!

Spent the week and a half after protection with an horrific sleeping pattern, as I kept my eta 9 Co fleets moving 24/7, maximising my roiding (completing TT4 would have helped but I was too busy with HCTs! ). Soon I was #1 on roids, which came as a bit of a surprise, and only about 100 behind MiX on total round roids! So I decided to get my life back and went inactive for about half a week.

Came back and got some more roids in my first attack for a while that day, and then we got incomings that night. My excessive fattyness meant excessive incomings meant excessive weight loss! The following morning I started trying to reassemble the anti-Apprime block, before JBG turned up and I let him take over. Went inactive for another week as I tried to claim my life back a little, launched some half-arsed attacks and got some roids, but not much success. Reese, eksero, lilboi, signs and Sleepless all sorted some attacks for me here and there, which helped me get back over the 1k roid mark, much appreciated!

For the last week and a half of the round I decided to give it a real go, having peaked into the t100 just before our incomings showed, I was now idling just outside the t100. Set up big team-ups every night, at first from the joint targets, and later looking for wherever we could get the most XP from. This was a lot of fun, Sleepless and I quickly climbed into the t50 and beyond, and I dragged a few friends up the ranks with me! It was a weirdly pleasing feeling coming home at 1am to find several PMs asking if I'd organise another team up because the previous ones were so successful!

Ashamed to admit that I did look for some escorts for the last night to try and get me a t10 finish, but unfortunately the whole of HA decided to crash on our gal, so kept my fleets home for defence, and launched my left overs in the morning (no escorts).

Sad the round ended when it did (though glad to get my life back!), another week and Sleepless and I would probably both be top 10!

Thoroughly enjoyed the round after resetting, everyone in the galaxy was great, signs was very funny, Reese a great gal-mum, eksero was a great DC (except when he didn't!), lilboi is a great friend, Sleepless was at first good fun to roid race and later a great team-up partner, everyone else was also great but I'm getting bored of typing!

[JonnyBGood]

You are: I AM ACHI (6:1:7) Cat (Clear)
Size: 1,008 279
Value: 2,871,900 274
Score: 4,730,640 178
XP: 30,979 67

I had a totally awesome round. I had my normal bp, or something close to it. Early on we basically did nothing. I think we were a solid t70-50 gal for the first 4 weeks of the round. We even attacked so rarely that we didn't get many incs. I went for scans and cov-ops first, cov-opping was fun for about 500 ticks and then it was totally boring, scanning was fun for about 5 seconds and then it was totally boring. I built a co fleet to help with teamups on attacks, going viper heavy while we hit apprime and then beetle mainly when we didn't. I went away for the last week and only attacked on one weekend unfortunately so no decent finish. Mostly I'd just organise some big teamups each night on whatever we were hitting. Credit to toot for doing stuff ingal like sorting people on attacks and for actually learning what some ships target this round. Credit to achi who if you mapped his activity on a graph it'd look like he was having a heart attack. We got dick all incs and apparently even though toot and myself were both away the last ferw days somehow managed another t10 gal (woo, what an accomplishment!)

In terms of political direction this round I suppose I'll give my own perspective on what happened. Early on it was obvious to pretty much everyone that apprime had better value players than anyone else. I guess I played a fairly key role in getting the block together at first, which wasn't exactly easy at times but fair dues to people like vladel and venox, munkee/p3nguins too who one night when everyone was leaning away from hitting 2.10/11.1 for the weekend came in and said let's stay on them, who basically came in and said they were cool to go with whatever method of hitting apprime was possible. Politics really is the art of compromise though, the more you're willing to compromise without losing out on your key goals the better.

Basically this is what I tried to make happen. I didn't have high initial hopes for the block, I think a lot of alliances, and players in general, have a really short-sighted view on attacking where they just multi-wave shit targets instead of sorting a good teamup. I don't know what's wrong with people but sorting a big teamup is really not that bad. You can get fairly solid roids out of it and if you're not someone willing to intensively search for a target and launch/relaunch on it then I'd say your overall expectation from it is probably higher than 4th waving a shit slightly fat planet.

The pressure on apprime stayed up and eventually they dropped off a lot, it was harder for some people to see but I've spent a fair amount of time basically "reading" how alliance's top planets look and about 2 days before we dropped out of the block apprime were in bad shape, losing roids in almost all places and losing some fleets as well. From that point I thought we could leave the block and even if we joined apprime they still wouldn't totally dominate and stagnate the round by the end, at least not to the extent whereby they'd turn on us in need of roids from somewhere. To be honest I like working with cardi as well, despite the fact his english is worse than the guys in some indian call centres I've had to ring he knows his shit and we think along the same lines. There was also the 'are you ****ing joking me' moment when agar3s refused to accept the same conditions that were being applied to every single other gal being applied to his. This is, quite literally, what happened and if anyone says otherwise they're absolutely full of shit. At that point my main priority after seeing a relatively fluid round was ensuring that gal didn't win.

When eventually we did join up with apprime, which we did after a series of votes which I thought was a decent enough way of going about things as what we were doing was purely for "personal enjoyment" as opposed to "round win", it wasn't exactly like the round ended. But like, seriously, people do retarded things. I mean no offence to those denial guys but it's no coincidence that I predicted you'd leave tag from getting massive incs and 3 of you did. This is just score-wastage and it's really sick. Instead of trying to improve your alliance you just gave up on it. I think the problem is it's a lot easier to give up and blame other people, maybe quite rightly, than accept their shortcomings and redouble your own efforts. I felt that a lot of those denial people a) would have misgivings about joining CT b) wouldn't want to be involved in a failure they might feel would be almost inevitable and resultingly c) would feel getting completely ass raped amidst bad political movements as an acceptable reason for leaving CT. This sort of shit is just self-perpetuating though.

I don't think CT and p3nguins did enough to finish off apprime really. I think it was eminently doable and, as with so often before, the will to win just wasn't there. Maybe people just don't care that much. I felt it was a good round for ascendancy, lots of top planets, we got to hit pretty much everyone in the entire universe at some point and despite being smaller and having correspondingly worse coverage in attacks and defence I felt that we were able to mitigate the impact of that more so than many other alliances have done in the past. I don't think many people in ascendancy had a shit round, apologies to londo for the flaws in etd, I'll see if I can fix them if they let me tweak these stats for next round!

Congratulations to apprime regardless, they worked for their win and got it. I feel one of the central reasons for this is the level of self-belief in there. I don't think even when their situation was really shit most of those players would have been the type to throw up their hands and despair. Glad to see 7.10 didn't win and the guys who jumped to p3nguins in there ended up behind colt. Good to see eksero get a planet win after the farce that was r30.

If I was to offer one thing up from this round it'd be this. I quite often heard some alliances in the block say that their members were unhappy about hitting big, tough targets all the time. Jesus christ explain planetarion to them.

[MiX]

You are: In Search (6:5:3) Cat (Clear)
Size: 1,061 240
Value: 3,201,700 198
Score: 7,057,060 17
XP: 64,256 1

I decided to play this round pretty late, ticks would start 3 days later, the reason being a rl mate (Ertai) playing. We made a 2 man BP and ended in 4.8 after the shuffle, the gal looked ok, but the only 3 people who came on IRC told us they would go on holliday for several weeks soon after round start. So, we self exiled before protection ended, I landed in 6.5 which looked good enough to stay. Ertai landed in some other gal and he can tell his own story if he wants to.

Just before protection ended I managed to get into p3nguins thanks to SnakeY and butter, who both remembered me from r11(?). I was out of tag but that changed after getting the #1 rank soon. I roided like crazy which wasnt hard with cath Cr, but still nice to see I didnt forget how its done. A few days later I got roided like crazy by Apprime, this serie of events would repeat itself numerous times, finally resulting in:

Total Round Roids: 7,120 1
Total Lost Roids: 6,059 1

and the worlds most exciting rollercoaster for a graph on sandmans.

I enjoyed my round, I finally pulled thru and surprised Lukey by finishing a round in a decent way. Pollitically it was actually much better then the 1up/LCH/eXilition rounds I remember. My round was very eventful with roidgain/loss/xplands/teamups (thanks Sen, Rabba and Dragonfly)/many many succesfull retals/a foiled fleetcatch/IRC whine etc etc.

I enjoyed my return, and I enjoyed p3nguins even though at times defence and activity were poor. Most people were fun.

[Makhil]

You are: A Friend (2:3:6) Cat (Clear)
Size: 1,150 195
Value: 5,029,333 30
Score: 7,357,393 9
XP: 38,801 20

more important stats to explain the round as I experienced it:
Total Round Roids: 6,309 2
Total Lost Roids: 5,159 4

It proved to me it is still possible to have a good round by soloing (attacking a target one on one), not joining massive teamups/bash parties.
I didn't attack more than others, probably less, but I landed alone. The stats played ofc a major role, I hope the next set still allows people to play one on one attacks.
I can't say it was fun to receive unstoppable waves (especially when 1 guy brings SKs), but the fun was to keep going despite the pounding, not giving the enemy the satisfactionof breaking my spirit.
The turning point was probably the day I lost all my Beetles (270k) noobishly recalling the fleet on my incs... close to 600k score loss, mental goes down for a while, but then you build back (thanks to a decent salvage for cath) and with a few happy landings it's all good again.
Politics look the same every round and nobody seems to learn lessons from them... it's the Gulf War I syndrom, when people are happy to win a battle but refuse to go all the way to win the war: Apprime was given a spanking then allowed to run free.
Considering their constant whining (and the scale of it) during the episode and their cross ally team up /escort tactics I can't find the respect a winner usually deserves. But their win suffers no contest.

[stay_posi]

You are: AndroX (2:1:5) Ter (Clear)
Size: 920 333
Value: 444,034 1218
Score: 670,714 1186
XP: 3,778 994


played active the first 100 or so ticks then decided to try and have sex with girls

[Mzyxptlk]

Originally Posted by ellonweb

Spent the week and a half after protection with an horrific sleeping pattern, as I kept my eta 9 Co fleets moving 24/7, maximising my roiding (completing TT4 would have helped but I was too busy with HCTs! :().

And in the process, earned the Ridiculous Amount Of Scan Requests Award for 2009. ;)

[jelle]

You are: Lt Archie Hicox of Inglorius Basterd- (5:10:14) Cat (Clear)
Size: 1,319 125
Value: 2,864,656 275
Score: 5,015,176 142
XP: 35,842 32


Started late 5:10 after being approaced by sorru and neroon the same day. Gal was active and supportive untill 1 week in, here sorta everyone went semi/inactive besides, neroon, sorru and myself. Since i couldnt go ultra fat latey with gal inactive and asc roiding me i decided not to pick targets under 1k xp and go xp whoring. It worked out quite well with sorru, neroon and me saving eachothers asses(also props to everyone who cared to dc in p3nguins <3). The last two weeks i did mostly retals and got some great xp. Fun round all in all.

Peaks of my round:

1) Fcing relig (they made me m8)
2) My 1 mosquito def fleet making 3 man team recall eta 1 from 1200 roider fellow p3nguin
3) My 500k score retal i landed solo in the last week

[Munkee]

Originally Posted by Tommy

Scanned and DCed for p3ng for much of the round, can't say I was overly impressed with the effort and activity (or lack thereof) displayed by most of the ally.

sorry but i really do have to ****ing LOL at that... DC'ed when? scanned? you did scans? LOL! seriously tommy u crack me up

[ElAlan]

You are: Storms (9:3:12) Cat (Clear)
Size: 1,284 139
Value: 3,983,918 103
Score: 6,507,938 34
XP: 42,067 11

Ships (1,500,500 total) (Ship Analysis) [Hide]
Beetle 890,000 Viper 540,000
Tarantula 50,000 Mosquito 20,000
Hornet 500

Well, pretty funny round for me all in all. After the kick from Asc and the fact that i had been completely inactive last 3/4 rounds i had 0 intention of playing this one, and can genuinely say i decided to about 90mins before tickstart as i was simply bored, no-one wanted to go to the pub and there was fk all on tv.

So i signed up and made some pretty funny decisions, firstly i felt i was likely to be unallied and with being out of the house 10-12 hrs per day would need my own scans while playing mainly from my phone. So i went demo, with this i knew i would need to go all out xp and at first planned to research to cr fast but then randomly having glanced at stats decided to go cath co and hit the TT research fast, having eta8 co from second night worked pretty well ad while not launching many attacks i landed pretty much all the ones i did.

Gal wise i started out in 6:4 and left pretty quickly after being solo roided easily at stupid times of the day and with my first exile landed in 9:3. Tbh this was where i got some luck, with politics our gal got very little incs and i held decent roids. Also tbh though it was lucky the gal got very few incs as wehn we did we lost heavily, defence was poor at night but having said that defence against retals in the morning was actually rather good so i got saved many a time.

Alliance wise i actually thought about going the whole round un-allied but there came a point when i actually wanted the easiness of targets to pick and culdnt handle gal mates moaning at me any more (heh j/k lads) when they had to cover my incs so i joined VR. I will never go down in their book as a great member unfortunately, i am too used to attacking what i wanted which got me in trouble a lot and that i slept every night no matter what, my defpoints could well be lowest in ally, no idea frankly as i never took enough notice of what was going on anyways, sorry guys.

Attacking was where it was at, as can probably be seen by my fleet heh. Can honestly say i never went for easy roids once, pulled of some pretty good solo efforts but my main source of roids/xp came from attacking with Golan/Shadz etc, mass co waves on top planets, muchas thanks to Golan as usual as he did all the picking of targs and i would be lucky to have ended t100 without the sms'es of where and when to launch my fleet. Some fun results, Stuhlman sending a fake recall mail to me 5 mins after i had calced we were through was pretty funny, had no idea people still tried that

To sum up i think i have proved for the second time you dont really need to be active to end t100, i played most of this round logging in once a day on my phone and being on maybe 5hrs, 4 nights a week, though saying that i was lucky to have Golan giving me targs and a gal with few incs. Also i could very easily have gone t20/15 had i not broken my phone 10 days from round end severely limiting my ability to attack/recall etc when at work/drunk/gf's etc blah

Thanks to VR for letting me stay, Jonas for generally running my planet at times, ND who must be stalking me to know exactly when i broke my phone to launch 5 waves full of sk's on me and my gal for stopping god knows how many retals on me.

Cheers

[eltsin]

Hm, this time around posting relevant stats might be difficult, but here goes.

I was in 8:4 with some other Ascers, including Consi, Londo, booji and Zaejii.

Used a CR fleet of mainly roaches to escort people that wanted them. My beetle count never exceeded 50k.

Best round so far, got to spend a lot of time doing useful stuff \o/