- Petting Zoo Four - Update #43 Report - Written for the July 2005 Empire News -


Petting Zoo Four is well underway.  The game started in early April 2005, we are now 43 updates into the action.  Of the 20 countries who started, only 6 players have any significant size left.

The interesting features of PZ4 are:
- Semi-Hidden power, where all digit characters are replaced with a '?' character.
- Start continents were in the shape of a playing card suit, ie: Heart, Spade, Diamond, Club.
- All expansion territory was protected by deity mils, units, and planes.
- Introduction of the Shepherd unit, a very low tech land unit which is relatively worthless.  They were used primarily for the expansion territory protection.
- Low Tech nuke (at tech 155).  We've had one dropped so far, by Plundaria on EK.


     - = [   Empire Power Report   ] = -
      as of Thu Jul 07 08:37:03 2005
 
         sects eff civ mil  shell gun pet  iron dust oil  pln ship unit money
Lunachick ???  ?? ???K  ??K ?.?K ???  ?.?K  ??K ?.?K ?.?K ???  ???  ???  ???K
 Bordello ???  ?? ???K  ??K  ??K ???   ??K  ??K ?.?K ?.?K ???   ??   ??  ???K
   Resvon ???  ?? ???K  ??K ?.?K ?.?K ?.?K  ??K ?.?K ?.?K ???  ???  ???   ??K
Plundaria ??? ??? ???K  ??K ?.?K ???  ?.?K  ??K ?.?K  ??K ???  ???  ???   ??K
 BlackBox ???  ?? ???K  ??K ?.?K ?.?K ?.?K  ??K ?.?K ?.?K ???  ???  ???   ??K
Partimers ???  ?? ???K  ??K  ??K ?.?K ?.?K  ??K ?.?K ?.?K ???  ???  ???  ?.?K
LightCahi  ??  ??  ??K ?.?K ?.?K ???  ?.?K ?.?K ???  ???   ??   ??   ??   ??K
unemploye   ? ??? ?.?K ???  ???   ??    ?    ?   ??    ?    ?   ??    ?   ??K
     beep   ?  ?? ???  ???  ???  ???   ??    ?   ??    ?    ?   ??    ?  ?.?K
  nuke_em   ? ??? ???   ??   ??   ??    ?    ?    ?    ?    ?    ?    ? -?.?K
    J.S.R   ?   ?   ?    ?    ?    ?    ?    ?    ?    ?    ?    ?    ?  ?.?K
    Snark   ?   ?   ?   ??   ??    ?    ?    ?    ?    ?    ?    ?    ?  ???
Raistmich   ?   ?   ?   ??    ?    ?    ?    ?    ?    ?    ?    ?    ?  ???
WildFores   ?   ?   ?    ?    ?    ?    ?    ?    ?    ?    ?    ?    ?  ?.?K
  Lazarus   ?   ?   ?    ?    ?    ?    ?    ?    ?    ?    ?    ?    ?   ??
       EK   ?   ?   ?    ?    ?    ?    ?    ?    ?    ?    ?    ?    ? -?.?K
     Nova   ?   ?   ?    ?    ?    ?    ?    ?    ?    ?    ?    ?    ? -?.?K
  Outland   ?   ?   ?    ?    ?    ?    ?    ?    ?    ?    ?    ?    ? -?.?K
 Portugal   ?   ?   ?    ?    ?    ?    ?    ?    ?    ?    ?    ?    ?  -??K
Chitzerla   ?   ?   ?    ?    ?    ?    ?    ?    ?    ?    ?    ?    ? -?.?K
          ---- --- --- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----
worldwide ?.?K ?? ?.?M ???K  ??K ?.?K  ??K ???K  ??K  ??K ?.?K ?.?K ?.?K ???K


Game deities are Bungholio and Ski, at sheepfarm.game-host.org:6666