*** Week 3 Report - 18 Updates into it - Nov 26 2004 *** We've now completed the third week of PZ3. It was the busiest week yet, as players reached max pop on their start islands, had their minima in their budgets, continued the Terminator smackdown, and began working on each other. Harlot held the #1 position on the power chart all week, as she continued her dominance. The tech leaders are able to build a variety of propeller fighter aircraft and bombers, and a transport/cargo plane. We've had 4 cap sacks this past week. Right after update #15, Harlot scored the first one, sacking Anguiron. Sixteen minutes later, FarFarAway (name changed from WasWas) sacked Hegemon (who then changed name to RapedByFFA). Then after update #18, Partimers sacked RapedByFFA, and FarFarAway sacked wales to score his second sack. Battles are breaking out. The largest so far being between Harlot and beep, when beep tried to jump Harlot's claim on Anguiron. The next largest is FarFarAway and Partimers working together on taking the RapedByFFA continent. Meanwhile, FarFarAway has troops working on wales. The EmpireKing has had his satellite islands picked off by PCLoadLetter and Shakespeare, while EK continues to dig in, we can almost hear the wolves salivating. Shakespeare has made a beach head on Jonnyland, I don't think he's planning on making a luxury resort there. The small skirmish between RimFire and ULKH over an outpost has cooled off a bit. (News from the past 3 weeks) === The Bottom Line == beep seized eighty sectors from Terminator Harlot seized seventy-nine sectors from Terminator FarFarAway seized sixty-three sectors from Terminator Partimers seized sixty sectors from Terminator Harlot seized fifty-three sectors from Anguiron Shakespeare seized fifty-three sectors from Terminator FarFarAway seized forty-nine sectors from RapedByFFA RimFire seized forty sectors from Terminator PCLoadLetter seized twenty-seven sectors from Terminator Dorsai! seized twenty-five sectors from Terminator ULKH seized twenty-five sectors from Terminator Partimers seized twenty-four sectors from RapedByFFA Sunnydale seized twenty-four sectors from Terminator FarFarAway seized twenty-two sectors from wales beep seized twenty-one sectors from Anguiron Tiki seized sixteen sectors from Terminator Nova seized fourteen sectors from Terminator EmpireKing seized fourteen sectors from Terminator Leutonia seized twelve sectors from Terminator Shakespeare seized ten sectors from Johnnyland PCLoadLetter seized eight sectors from EmpireKing Shakespeare captured seven sectors from EmpireKing wales captured seven sectors from Terminator FarFarAway captured six sectors from RimFire Harlot captured six sectors from beep Shakespeare captured five sectors from Tiki Leutonia took three sectors from Tiki RapedByFFA took three sectors from Terminator wales took two sectors from Sunnydale Shakespeare took two sectors from Partimers RimFire stole one sector from ULKH Harlot stole one sector from EmpireKing The Terminator is a NPC, setup as the protector of the expansion territory. His intended function was simple, to make players have to earn their expansion territory. But he proved to add more to the game than initially planned, as he served as a buffer between countries (or was it a distraction?) and as a trainer for players to figure out how to take down a lightly defended island (and maybe as a lesson for how even putting up a small defense would slow the progress of an aggressor). His defenses were fairly minimal, typically a half dozen mils on the coast (more inland), and a small reacting unit or a lightly loaded ART. Terminator had some interdicting airplanes, just enough to be an annoyance, not too many to kill everything on sight. In the beginning, Termy was getting over 200 telegrams a day, now it's slowed to a trickle of barely a dozen a day. - = [ Empire Power Report ] = - as of Fri Nov 26 09:02:10 2004 sects eff civ mil shell gun pet iron dust oil pln ship unt money Harlot 190 90% 99K 4.3K 1.6K 250 5.3K 9.3K 850 4.5K 0 60 30 10K FarFarAwa 195 82% 106K 4.8K 575 170 2.6K 6.3K 1.1K 2.6K 20 50 50 5.0K Partimers 155 82% 97K 2.6K 1.4K 185 2.0K 8.3K 450 250 20 70 40 10K beep 135 84% 73K 3.3K 1.4K 175 1.7K 9.1K 400 1.7K 10 80 40 5.0K Shakespea 140 83% 78K 3.6K 1.3K 180 2.9K 6.0K 450 300 8 80 50 1.3K PCLoadLet 100 93% 70K 2.6K 800 180 5.0K 6.1K 500 250 10 40 20 10K Sunnydale 85 95% 63K 3.0K 1.9K 280 850 7.0K 500 900 4 50 20 3.9K RimFire 100 98% 68K 2.1K 1.0K 210 1.3K 6.0K 700 900 6 30 20 5.0K Nova 90 94% 70K 1.8K 1.2K 180 4.5K 4.9K 350 1.1K 20 20 20 5.0K Dorsai! 90 89% 61K 1.9K 2.2K 195 4.3K 8.4K 900 1.8K 20 30 10 5 ULKH 85 84% 55K 2.5K 1.3K 130 950 4.8K 400 500 30 50 20 25K Tiki 70 98% 57K 1.5K 375 50 1.6K 3.5K 200 4.8K 1 10 7 20K EmpireKin 55 100% 45K 3.0K 1.1K 155 100 10K 250 1.9K 0 3 60 15K Leutonia 75 80% 37K 750 625 75 1.8K 4.8K 350 500 7 20 20 2.7K wales 45 86% 30K 900 500 55 9 5.2K 300 2.5K 1 20 0 15K Johnnylan 45 86% 23K 350 325 90 1.1K 1.6K 250 950 3 4 0 15K RapedByFF 2 100% 1.6K 250 0 5 0 700 0 0 0 6 0 10K Anguiron 0 0% 0 33 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 10K ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- worldwide 1.7K 88% 1.0M 39K 18K 2.6K 36K 102K 8.0K 25K 150 640 390 160K The game is now having a small breather/break, to allow players to spend time with families over the Thanksgiving (USA) holiday. We are also changing from updates every 28 hours to updates every 42 hours. Deity's favorite announcement (there's something about good old- school metal coupled with this guy's ability to troll) : 'Announcement from EmpireKing, (#13) dated Wed Nov 24 01:28:25 2004 ATTETION ALL COUTRYS:: IT HAS COME TO MY ATTETION THAT MY NATION IS NOW REGARD AS SO-CALL "IRON KING" DUE TO FACT THAT I REACH 10K IRON FIRST! THIS SHALL BE A WRANING TO ALL COUNTRY SUPPOSED TO ATTACK. HEAVY IRONS ONLY RESUL IN YOU SHIP SINKS< AND MANY CRIES FOR YOU SO_CALL "ELITE PREMIUM" LANDING UNITS!! AS OZZY OZ BURN SAID: "I - AM - IRON KING SHOOT ALL INTERUDERS - WITH MY SHELLS RUNNING - AS FAST AS THEY CAN ALL OTHER COUNTRY ARE SO SCARED." YOU HAVE BEEN WRANED!!!!' Petting Zoo Three is hosted at: sheepfarm.game-host.org:6666, with Deities Bungholio and Ski. The visitor account is available. The official PZ3 game webpage is: http://www.angelfire.com/empire2/bugholio/PettingZooThree.html If you would like to be added to the "replacement players" list or the "temporary sub" list (in the event an opening comes up), send an email to empire_bungholio @ verizon.net saying such. The ShaggMeister, Bungholio