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Ice World III

Deity: John Yockey
Start Date: September 7, 2001
End Date: January 9, 2002 (124 days)
Code used: Wolfpack Empire 4.2.10
Winner(s): Bananaland
beep
Parphos
Wicked

Original Game Announcement

(source)

August 20, 2001

A formidable warrior strolled down the great hall, stopping for a moment
to adjust the air conditioning of the palace. The summer heatwave had
ended months ago; however the temperature still wasn't comfortable for
the Ice King. Fortunately in a couple weeks the northern marshes would
freeze, allowing horses and tanks to once again move in Ice World.

The Ice Barbarian Warlord announces the start of Ice World III.
Players of all skill levels are invited to join.
To sign up send the following information to johny@empire.wolfpaw.net.

Country Name:
Password:
Preferred Email Address:

Ice World III will be hosted at empire.wolfpaw.net on port 6665. The
game will be openned to players Friday September 7th, with the first
update on Monday September 10th. There will be one update every 48
hours at 6:00 MDT (that's 12:00 GMT). Once all countries break, there
will be updates every day for the first week or two (or at least until
countries are attacking each other).

The following modifications have been made for this game:

Each country will start with multiple start islands.

There will be factories that convert excess cms into cash.

Spies can terrorize your neighbors.

There will be no uws.

Deity,
John Yockey,
aka The Ice Barbarian Warlord!

Empire 4.2.10
(KSU distribution 1.04, Chainsaw version 4.00, Wolfpack version 2.10)


The following parameters have been set for this game:
World size is TBD.
There can be up to 99 countries.
By default, countries use their own coordinate system.


An Empire time unit is 4320 seconds long.
Use the 'update' command to find out the time of the next update.
The current time is Fri Aug 17 19:39:39.
An update consists of 40 empire time units.
Each country is allowed to be logged in 1440 minutes a day.
It takes 8.33 civilians to produce a BTU in one time unit.


A non-aggi, 100 fertility sector can grow 0.12 food per etu.
1000 civilians will harvest 1.3 food per etu.
1000 civilians will give birth to 3.0 babies per etu.
1000 uncompensated workers will give birth to 2.5 babies.
In one time unit, 1000 people eat 0.5 units of food.
1000 babies eat 6.0 units of food becoming adults.


Banks pay $125.00 in interest per 1000 gold bars per etu.
1000 civilians generate $4.00, uncompensated workers $1.78 each time unit.
1000 active military cost $83.33, reserves cost $8.33.
Happiness p.e. requires 1 happy stroller per 7500 civ.
Education p.e. requires 1 class of graduates per 7500 civ.
Happiness is averaged over 48 time units.
Education is averaged over 192 time units.
The technology/research boost you get from the world is inf%.
Nation levels (tech etc.) decline 1% every 96 time units.
Tech Buildup is limited to logarithmic growth (base 2.00) after 1.00.


    Sectors Ships Planes Units
Maximum mobility  127 127 127 127
Max mob gain per update  40 60 40 40
Max eff gain per update  -- 100 100 100


Ships on autonavigation may use 6 cargo holds per ship.
The tax you pay on selling things on the trading block is 5.0%
The tax you pay on buying commodities on the market is 5.0%


In order to build a nuke, you need 0.33 times the tech level in research
 Example: In order to build a 300 tech nuke, you need 99 research


Fire ranges are scaled by 1.00


Options enabled in this game:
        ALL_BLEED, BRIDGETOWERS, DEMANDUPDATE, DRNUKE, EASY_BRIDGES, FALLOUT, 
        GODNEWS, HIDDEN, INTERDICT_ATT, LANDSPIES, LOANS, LOSE_CONTACT, 
        MARKET, NEUTRON, NEW_STARVE, NEW_WORK, NEWPOWER, NO_PLAGUE, 
        NOMOBCOST, NUKEFAILDETONATE, ORBIT, PINPOINTMISSILE, PLANENAMES, 
        SAIL, SHIPNAMES, SHOWPLANE, TECH_POP, TREATIES, UPDATESCHED

Options disabled in this game:
        BIG_CITY, BLITZ, DEFENSE_INFRA, FUEL, GO_RENEW, GRAB_THINGS, 
        MOB_ACCESS, NO_FORT_FIRE, NO_HCMS, NO_LCMS, NO_OIL, NOFOOD, NONUKES, 
        RES_POP, SHIP_DECAY, SLOW_WAR, SNEAK_ATTACK, SUPER_BARS, TRADESHIPS, 

"info Options" for a detailed list of options and descriptions

The person to annoy if something goes wrong is:
 John Yockey
 (johny@empire.wolfpaw.net).
You can get your own copy of the source using:
    ftp://ftp.empire.cx/pub/empire/server or 
    http://www.empire.cx/

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Mid-game Updates

Blue coloring on countries in the power charts indicates the eventual winners of the game.

Two weeks after start, September 21, 2001

     - = [   Empire Power Report   ] = -
      as of Fri Sep 21 21:33:10 2001


         sects  eff civ  mil  shell gun pet  iron dust oil  pln ship unit money
  Unknown 111   42%  17K 626    0    0    0  3.1K 721  327    0   15    0   17K
  Draenor  84   43%  16K 373    0    0    0  2.4K 586  275    0    8    0   16K
     beep 164   39%  24K 1.3K   0    0    0  4.3K 2.4K 489    0   11    0  4.0K
  Parphos  75   40%  15K 414    0    0    0  2.0K 361  126    0    3    0   14K
Pax_Bellu  75   34%  15K 407    0    0    0  3.8K 668   97    0    2    0   11K
Ragnarook 100   44%  19K 934    0    0    0  2.9K 106  201    0   18    0   14K
   Undead  75   49%  15K 351    0    0    0  3.6K 257  186    0   11    0   14K
Bananalan  79   41%  16K 212    0    0    0  5.8K 147  160    0    8    0   20K
      SOG  75   30%  15K 500    0    0    0  6.1K 4.6K 332    0    7    0   18K
     Fish  75   37%  14K 388    0    0    0  4.6K 332  257    0    3    0   29K
Second_Fo  74   49%  14K 602    0    0    0  2.1K 160  499    0   13    0   12K
   Wicked  76   30%  15K 368    0    0    0  3.8K 1.5K 175    0    7    0  5.7K
     Pern  75   48%  15K 412    0    0    0  2.2K 1.2K 620    0    7    0  5.7K
fluffy_bu  81   42%  13K 931    0    0    0  2.4K 400  277    0   10    0  6.4K
    Blimp  75   51%  15K 359    0    0    0  2.9K 220  183    0    4    0   34K
     Malx  47   38% 9.7K 355    0    0    0  2.0K 228  165    0    2    0   32K
    Groth  75   34%  15K  65    0    0    0  3.7K 1.9K 211    0    2    0   16K
  Kialune  75   49%  15K 271    0    0    0  2.1K 614  494    0    8    0   12K
  Thistle  53   68%  10K 208    0    0    0  1.7K 102  155    0    4    0   14K
  Blyfria  50   48% 9.5K 682    0    0    0  1.0K 315  227    0    5    0   26K
   Wahbit  69   44%  12K 739    0    0    0  3.0K 1.3K  41    0    5    0   17K
 Moretime  75   35%  10K 339    0    0    0  1.3K 230    0    0    4    0   24K
   skaros  75   63%  12K 733    0    0    0  523   95  536    0    1    0   12K
   Veruna  28   25% 5.2K   0    0    0    0    0  997    0    0    0    0   15K
 Espadero  75   35% 3.6K 330    0    0    0  1.1K 1.4K  75    0    7    0   15K
Land_Of_F  34   33% 2.6K 220    0    0    0  1.2K   0  468    0    0    0   19K
          ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----
worldwide 1.9K  42% 345K  12K   0    0    0   70K  21K 6.6K   0  170    0  425K

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Three weeks after start, September 29, 2001

     - = [   Empire Power Report   ] = -
      as of Sat Sep 29 13:58:02 2001


         sects  eff civ  mil  shell gun pet  iron dust oil  pln ship unit money
     beep 177   40%  33K 1.3K   0    0    0  9.9K 2.9K 531    0   11    0   11K
  Parphos  96   53%  24K 561    0    0    0  2.6K 271  319    0    3    3   12K
  Unknown 115   51%  23K 1.2K   3    1    0  3.6K 757  1.0K   0   16   12   11K
Ragnarook 130   48%  32K 1.7K   0    0    0  6.9K 336  491    0   28    7   21K
  Draenor  83   51%  22K 742    0    0    0  2.7K 445  502    0    8   13   12K
Bananalan 116   49%  25K 579    0    0    0  7.4K 773  237    0    8    0  7.0K
   Undead  76   55%  21K 997    0    0    0  3.9K 1.4K 683    0   17    0   11K
Pax_Bellu  75   48%  21K 664    0    0    0  3.1K 251  1.1K   0    3    0   16K
Second_Fo  97   54%  21K 515    0    0    0  3.0K 114  1.7K   0   15    0   17K
     Fish  75   50%  19K 1.1K   0    0    0  5.7K 375  746    0    7    0   27K
   Wicked  75   42%  20K 405    0    0    0  5.1K 1.1K 197    0    7    0   25K
    Blimp  75   58%  20K 1.1K   0    0    0  4.0K 156  337    0    6    0   45K
     Pern  75   56%  20K 962    0    0    0  3.3K 853  1.1K   0    8    0   15K
      SOG  75   42%  21K 710    0    0    0  8.3K 3.5K 919    0   11    0   22K
  Kialune  77   56%  20K 705    0    0    0  2.9K 930  571    0    9    0   13K
    Groth  74   44%  22K  65    0    0    0  3.5K 1.5K 414    0    2    0   15K
fluffy_bu  83   54%  17K 1.2K   0    0    0  3.2K 393  331    0   13    0   10K
  Thistle  50   74%  14K 585    0    0    0  2.1K 426  135    0    3    0   18K
  Blyfria  50   64%  13K 845    0    0    0  1.9K 427  512    0    5    0   29K
 Moretime  75   48%  14K 872    0    0    0  3.1K 228  149    0    6    0   34K
     Malx  10   40% 890  376    0    0    0  352    1    0    0    2    0   18K
   Wahbit  63   56%  16K 1.0K   0    0    0  3.9K 1.3K  42    0    4    0  7.0K
 Espadero  52   36% 1.6K 276    0    0    0  516  920   80    0    7    0   12K
   skaros  55   64%  13K 777    0    0    0  1.8K  16  662    0    1    0  7.0K
   Veruna  25   29% 5.6K   0    0    0    0    0  997    0    0    0    0   17K
Land_Of_F   3   64% 187   20    0    0    0  1.3K   0    1    0    0    0  9.2K
          ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----
worldwide 2.0K  50% 458K  19K   3    1    0   94K  20K  13K   0  200   40  440K

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Four weeks after start, October 6, 2001

     - = [   Empire Power Report   ] = -
      as of Sat Oct  6 02:26:06 2001


         sects  eff civ  mil  shell gun pet  iron dust oil  pln ship unit money
Ragnarook 164   51%  49K 2.1K  72   12    0  7.4K 1.9K 687    0   33   14   20K
  Parphos 101   73%  35K 1.0K  17    2    0  3.7K 444  391    0    6   10   25K
  Draenor 103   61%  34K 1.3K  64   23    0  5.9K 180  358    0   10   37  6.5K
  Unknown 149   53%  35K 1.7K  25   17    0  7.0K 368  1.6K   0   23   23  570 
Bananalan 118   62%  31K 1.5K 113   10    0  8.2K 861  284    0    7   31  8.5K
     beep 127   46%  29K 1.3K   0    0    0   10K 2.2K 1.3K   0   11    3   13K
   Undead  95   58%  29K 2.2K   0    0    0  4.2K 527  450    0   19    5  7.2K
Pax_Bellu  75   62%  29K 882   94   20    0  5.1K 182  1.8K   0    7    7   17K
Second_Fo  99   64%  28K 781   40    9    0  4.9K 708  3.6K   0   17    0   16K
   Wicked  75   56%  28K 465    0    0    0  5.5K 777  940    0    7    0   53K
     Fish  79   56%  26K 1.4K  64    8    0  5.4K 574  1.0K   0   16    4   25K
    Blimp  75   65%  27K 2.2K  23    8    0  4.2K 215  726    0    6    5   76K
    Groth  75   55%  30K 374    0    0    0  8.0K 2.8K 697    0    2    0   18K
      SOG  75   52%  28K 1.4K  12    0    0  8.3K 3.1K 1.2K   0   14   13   56K
     Pern  75   77%  27K 2.0K  10    6    0  5.5K 883  1.5K   0    5    0   15K
  Kialune  76   75%  28K 1.2K  27    8    0  4.6K 893  752    0    6    2  4.1K
fluffy_bu  93   65%  25K 1.8K  13    1    0  5.4K 362  378    0   19   12  3.0K
  Thistle  50   80%  18K 765    0    0    0  2.5K 269  459    0    9    0   17K
  Blyfria  50   67%  16K 1.0K   0    0    0  4.9K 668  558    0    5    0   40K
 Moretime  56   57%  16K 1.5K   0    0    0  1.9K 210  350    0    7    0   46K
   skaros  50   72%  17K 750    0    0    0  2.4K  16  756    0    0    0  690 
   Wahbit  45   72%  16K 1.4K   0    0    0  3.2K 694  319    0    9    0  6.6K
 Espadero  50   38% 2.1K 246    0    0    0  498  931  101    0    6    0  9.9K
     Malx   5   20%   6  111    0    0    0    0    1    0    0    2    0   15K
Land_Of_F   1  100% 980   41    0    0    0    0    0    1    0    0    0  8.8K
   Veruna   0    0%   0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0   18K
          ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----
worldwide 2.0K  60% 603K  29K 575  125    0  119K  20K  20K   0  250  170  525K

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Five weeks after start, October 13, 2001

     - = [   Empire Power Report   ] = -
      as of Sat Oct 13 10:47:04 2001


         sects  eff civ  mil  shell gun pet  iron dust oil  pln ship unit money
Ragnarook 196   60%  68K 3.0K 257   56  117   13K 2.5K 2.3K   3   47   25   14K
  Draenor 154   73%  57K 2.8K 218   98  1.2K 8.3K 392  1.7K  24   23   45  5.8K
Bananalan 179   74%  64K 3.4K 263   77   50   13K 1.0K 813   36   13   50  3.2K
  Unknown 187   61%  55K 3.0K  85   59  1.4K 6.5K 1.1K 1.2K  16   32   57   22K
  Parphos 116   79%  49K 2.0K 285   72   40  4.9K 1.4K 359   14   10   17  9.9K
   Wicked  75   81%  44K 977  293   13    0  6.3K 495  2.2K   3   18    3   86K
     beep 128   60%  41K 1.9K 255   21    0   16K 1.4K 1.5K   0   10   14  2.8K
Pax_Bellu  75   85%  42K 1.2K 412  115    0  7.8K 349  1.9K   0   12   11   14K
    Groth  75   76%  47K 902  186   14    0   16K 2.7K 759    0    9    0  906 
Second_Fo  99   80%  42K 1.5K 286   59    0 10.0K 767  4.6K   0   19    5  5.4K
      SOG  92   69%  44K 1.9K 123   30    0  6.5K 2.6K 2.2K   0   15   20   56K
fluffy_bu 116   81%  50K 2.5K 166   33  692   11K 516  1.1K   0   23   44   12K
    Blimp  79   76%  39K 2.9K   1    8    0  6.9K 229  1.1K   0    7    4   80K
   Undead  74   66%  28K 1.7K   9   11    0  4.0K 371  669    0   17   15  8.9K
     Fish  50   89%  29K 1.4K 317   47    0  4.8K 540  1.6K   0   20   20   18K
  Kialune  66   93%  37K 1.2K 146   29    3  6.4K 488  939    0    7   12  1.5K
  Thistle  50   93%  28K 1.0K 131    3    0  4.0K 351  541    0   12    3   10K
     Pern  53   99%  29K 1.6K 161   25    0  4.5K 1.4K 2.4K   0    7    0  8.9K
  Blyfria  25   68%  11K 442    0    0    0  5.6K 189  549    0    3    0   50K
   Wahbit  34   58%  10K 1.0K   0    0    0  3.9K 843    0    0   11    0  4.4K
 Moretime  24   66% 9.2K 1.5K   0    0    0  814    2    0    0    4    0   22K
   skaros  25   78%  11K 552    0    0    0  1.6K   8  451    0    0    0 -521 
Land_Of_F   1  100% 999   47    0    0    0    0  461    1    0    0    0  8.7K
     Malx   0    0%   0   60    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    2    0   13K
   Veruna   0    0%   0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0   18K
 Espadero   0    0%   0   77    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    3    0  3.3K
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worldwide 2.0K  74% 838K  38K 3.6K 770  3.5K 160K  20K  29K 100  320  350  480K

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Six weeks after start, October 20, 2001

(source) Note: power report is from October 19 from end game report.

Ice World III has now been running for six weeks. It started with 26 countries, and 18 countries are still alive and active. Ice World III features terrorists and venture capital sectors -- something that became terribly real after the first update.

One of the top countires which wants to stay anonymous is looking for an experienced player to help co-rule. If you willing to assist, e-mail the deity at johny@frii.com and I'll forward your mail to the player.

Early on several countries were starving or abandoned. The citizen leader, who considers such acts as hostile, quickly liberated a number of these islands and had an early size advantage. However in the forth week of the game, the peaceful citizens of beep were beset by a joint attack from Unknown and Draenor. beep lost one of his start areas in this attack, but is still a strong force left in the game. Since then Draenor and Unknown done joint attacks against Undead and Parphos.

Bananaland, beep, Blimp, Draenor, Parphos, Ragnarook, Second_Foundation, SOG, and Unknown have expanded the size of their empires since the beginning of the game and should be considered the major players. Draenor has been the tech leader from the beginning, however several other players have been closing the in the past week.

Notable mention should be given to Wahbit. Early in the game his three start area's were attacked by fluffy_bunnies, Ragnarook, and SOG. Each of these three countries were being run by champion caliber players, but Wahbit held out and continued to fight back for over a month before finally succumbing to overwhelming odds.

Ice World III is running on port 6665 on empire.wolfpaw.net. Updates are every other day at 6:00 MST. The visitor account is enabled, but being a hidden game the visitor account can't see very much.

     - = [   Empire Power Report   ] = -
      as of Fri Oct 19 18:00:54 2001


         sects  eff civ  mil  shell gun pet  iron dust oil  pln ship unit money
Ragnarook 214   70%  90K 4.5K 685  131  1.0K  14K 2.5K 2.6K  21   59   39  5.7K
Bananalan 236   78%  98K 5.4K 432  136  1.2K  23K 1.4K 1.2K  55   17   89  3.4K
  Draenor 170   83%  78K 3.7K 552  161  2.5K  11K 312  2.5K  40   29   52   12K
  Unknown 192   67%  71K 3.8K 229   88  1.3K 7.4K 776  1.1K  36   32   92  2.4K
  Parphos 126   88%  61K 2.6K 305  100  1.3K 6.1K 2.0K 782   43   10   23  3.6K
     beep 128   69%  56K 2.7K 524   64    0   15K 1.1K 1.4K   0   13   34   24K
   Wicked  76   96%  60K 2.9K 935  109  797  6.8K 1.2K 3.0K  15   15   18   91K
    Groth  75   95%  63K 1.8K 624   49    0   16K 2.6K 1.1K   0    8    0  2.8K
Second_Fo 101   83%  58K 2.0K 510  103   30   15K 1.3K 6.0K   5   24   10  4.6K
    Blimp  87   81%  59K 3.6K 386   39    0  8.9K 155  2.0K   0   16   11   93K
      SOG 100   83%  61K 2.2K 581   58  863  7.8K 2.2K 3.4K   8   15   30   45K
        x  75   96%  58K 2.4K 761  221  248  9.1K 377  1.9K   7   12   26  7.3K
Arcadia-2  75   76%  34K 2.4K  12   11    0  5.6K 296  1.4K   0   15   23   19K
     Fish  63   89%  41K 1.8K 462   76  400  6.8K 679  2.1K   1   26   33   13K
  Thistle  50  100%  38K 1.9K 360   44   63  3.7K 249  1.1K   2   14    8  5.3K
fluffy_bu  77   85%  40K 1.8K 195   51  2.3K 7.8K 627  643   12   22   34   16K
     Pern  50  100%  38K 1.5K 316   46  833  6.0K 1.4K 3.6K   3    5    8  7.2K
  Kialune  73   82%  41K 2.0K 223   56  403  5.3K 563  1.3K   2    5   11  393 
  Blyfria  13   82% 7.3K 265    0    0    0  7.1K 188  551    0    3    0   60K
   Wahbit   2  100% 2.3K 378    0    0    0  1.3K   0    1    0   11    0 -965 
     Malx   0    0%   0   60    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    2    0   12K
 Moretime   1  100%   0  301    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    3    0  7.2K
Land_Of_F   0    0%   0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0  8.7K
   Veruna   0    0%   0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0   18K
 Espadero   0    0%   0   77    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    3    0  2.3K
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worldwide 2.0K  81% 1.1M  50K 8.1K 1.5K  13K 185K  20K  38K 250  360  540  460K

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Seven weeks after start, October 26, 2001

     - = [   Empire Power Report   ] = -
      as of Fri Oct 26 17:26:29 2001


         sects  eff civ  mil  shell gun pet  iron dust oil  pln ship unit money
Ragnarook 220   86% 137K 5.9K 1.9K 283  3.4K  17K 1.7K 5.1K  50   65   40  3.7K
  Draenor 196   84%  98K 4.6K 490  156  4.0K  21K 480  3.5K  89   33   61  4.6K
  Unknown 215   79% 104K 5.2K 435  114  1.0K  15K 122  1.8K  97   36   96  7.7K
Bananalan 211   81% 107K 6.0K 657  168  2.3K  23K 1.0K 1.4K 103   16  103   14K
  Parphos 153   93%  84K 2.3K 782  159  2.1K  13K 3.3K 1.9K  49    6   20  6.6K
     beep 128   84%  77K 4.1K 840  106  2.6K  14K 1.4K 1.1K  30   19   63  7.2K
    Blimp 100   94%  78K 6.6K 1.6K 244  1.5K  17K 243  3.5K   5   20   13   85K
      SOG 101   98%  82K 3.4K 1.3K 141  3.7K 8.1K 1.1K 5.2K  40   13   36   14K
Second_Fo  94   83%  67K 2.9K 637  139  1.9K  17K 1.5K 2.2K   1   30   14  2.0K
     Fish  80   95%  68K 2.2K 901  120  1.1K 9.8K 845  3.1K   6   29   42   10K
        x  75   97%  74K 2.6K 1.4K 359  824   11K 358  2.0K   1   12   19  9.2K
   Wicked  72   92%  65K 3.6K 1.3K 183  2.4K 6.0K 280  4.1K  44   13   26   33K
Arcadia-2  76   86%  50K 4.4K 386   15    0  8.9K 579  3.0K   0   14   41   23K
  Thistle  62   97%  54K 2.7K 430   67  636  6.9K 386  1.1K   5   15   17  7.2K
  Kialune  62  100%  56K 2.4K 563   95  1.1K 6.3K 506  1.1K  10    7   17  3.7K
     Pern  58   89%  49K 3.0K 532  111  3.3K 5.8K 1.4K 3.3K   9    5   14  6.2K
fluffy_bu  74   86%  45K 2.6K 291   71  1.4K 6.0K 1.2K 688   28   31   38  653 
    Groth  11   98% 7.1K 808   51   15    0  1.9K  75   76    0    5    0 -3.5K
  Blyfria   0    0%   0   35    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    3    0   32K
     Malx   0    0%   0   60    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    2    0   11K
 Moretime   0    0%   0  163    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    3    0  4.0K
   Wahbit   4   80% 408  319    0    0    0  2.0K   0    0    0    3    0 -4.6K
Land_Of_F   0    0%   0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0  8.7K
   Veruna   0    0%   0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0   17K
 Espadero   0    0%   0   77    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    3    0  983 
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worldwide 2.0K  88% 1.3M  66K  15K 2.5K  33K 211K  16K  44K 570  380  660  300K

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Eight weeks after start, November 2, 2001

     - = [   Empire Power Report   ] = -
      as of Sat Nov 10 06:11:54 2001


         sects  eff civ  mil  shell gun pet  iron dust oil  pln ship unit money
Ragnarook 295   81% 174K 4.8K 2.6K 398  2.9K  20K 3.4K 2.5K  41   60   50  1.8K
  Unknown 237   84% 168K 4.6K 769  234  2.1K  13K 1.7K 5.3K  86   39   86  4.2K
  Parphos 228   94% 128K 1.9K 539  254  6.3K  24K 4.0K 3.1K 116    6   36  2.9K
  Draenor 175   92% 129K 4.1K 956  196  3.5K  17K 460  2.2K  82   23   55  6.7K
Bananalan 262   87% 152K 3.9K 609  206  2.0K  33K 1.3K 808  171   25  108  6.5K
     beep 128   99% 107K 5.4K 768  211  6.6K  14K 1.3K 1.4K  68   21   63  8.0K
Arcadia-2  76  100%  75K 5.3K 846   89  911   12K 843  4.7K   0   19   53   30K
     Fish  95   98%  79K 2.9K 1.4K 241  2.6K  13K 1.4K 3.2K  17   36   50  8.6K
      SOG 101   98%  92K 4.5K 2.2K 260  7.6K  10K   6  6.4K  80   13   38  7.4K
  Kialune 115   88%  77K 4.6K 1.3K 259  1.1K  15K 966  2.5K  23   18   29  3.3K
  Thistle  70   97%  64K 3.4K 862   98  1.6K 8.4K 1.1K 1.5K  15   19   25  6.8K
     Pern  89   98%  67K 4.4K 1.1K 203  5.1K 8.6K 1.0K 2.7K  29    9   40  5.6K
fluffy_bu  51   71%  31K 1.5K 150   56  417  2.6K 122  284   33   22   33  4.9K
        x  25  100%  25K 1.3K 1.2K 251    0  5.3K 129  1.3K   0    8    7   18K
   Wicked  51   30%  15K 1.3K 196   68  1.7K 519   50  321   12    7   19  3.2K
    Blimp   8   88% 7.6K 481  363   79    0    0    1  291    0   12    0  -20K
Second_Fo   0    0% 937  142  127   19    0    0    0    0    0   14    0 -1.9K
  Blyfria   0    0%   0   35    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    1    0   30K
     Malx   0    0%   0   60    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    2    0  9.4K
   Veruna   0    0%   0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0   17K
Land_Of_F   0    0%   0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0  8.7K
 Moretime   0    0%   0  163    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    3    0 -212 
 Espadero   0    0%   0   77    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    3    0 -1.0K
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worldwide 2.0K  88% 1.4M  55K  16K 3.1K  44K 196K  18K  38K 770  360  690  135K

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Nine weeks after start, November 10, 2001

     - = [   Empire Power Report   ] = -
      as of Sat Nov 10 06:11:54 2001


         sects  eff civ  mil  shell gun pet  iron dust oil  pln ship unit money
Ragnarook 295   81% 174K 4.8K 2.6K 398  2.9K  20K 3.4K 2.5K  41   60   50  1.8K
  Unknown 237   84% 168K 4.6K 769  234  2.1K  13K 1.7K 5.3K  86   39   86  4.2K
  Parphos 228   94% 128K 1.9K 539  254  6.3K  24K 4.0K 3.1K 116    6   36  2.9K
  Draenor 175   92% 129K 4.1K 956  196  3.5K  17K 460  2.2K  82   23   55  6.7K
Bananalan 262   87% 152K 3.9K 609  206  2.0K  33K 1.3K 808  171   25  108  6.5K
     beep 128   99% 107K 5.4K 768  211  6.6K  14K 1.3K 1.4K  68   21   63  8.0K
Arcadia-2  76  100%  75K 5.3K 846   89  911   12K 843  4.7K   0   19   53   30K
     Fish  95   98%  79K 2.9K 1.4K 241  2.6K  13K 1.4K 3.2K  17   36   50  8.6K
      SOG 101   98%  92K 4.5K 2.2K 260  7.6K  10K   6  6.4K  80   13   38  7.4K
  Kialune 115   88%  77K 4.6K 1.3K 259  1.1K  15K 966  2.5K  23   18   29  3.3K
  Thistle  70   97%  64K 3.4K 862   98  1.6K 8.4K 1.1K 1.5K  15   19   25  6.8K
     Pern  89   98%  67K 4.4K 1.1K 203  5.1K 8.6K 1.0K 2.7K  29    9   40  5.6K
fluffy_bu  51   71%  31K 1.5K 150   56  417  2.6K 122  284   33   22   33  4.9K
        x  25  100%  25K 1.3K 1.2K 251    0  5.3K 129  1.3K   0    8    7   18K
   Wicked  51   30%  15K 1.3K 196   68  1.7K 519   50  321   12    7   19  3.2K
    Blimp   8   88% 7.6K 481  363   79    0    0    1  291    0   12    0  -20K
Second_Fo   0    0% 937  142  127   19    0    0    0    0    0   14    0 -1.9K
  Blyfria   0    0%   0   35    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    1    0   30K
     Malx   0    0%   0   60    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    2    0  9.4K
   Veruna   0    0%   0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0   17K
Land_Of_F   0    0%   0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0  8.7K
 Moretime   0    0%   0  163    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    3    0 -212 
 Espadero   0    0%   0   77    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    3    0 -1.0K
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worldwide 2.0K  88% 1.4M  55K  16K 3.1K  44K 196K  18K  38K 770  360  690  135K

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Ten weeks after start, November 16, 2001

     - = [   Empire Power Report   ] = -
      as of Fri Nov 16 15:11:20 2001


         sects  eff civ  mil  shell gun pet  iron dust oil  pln ship unit money
  Unknown 234   90% 185K 4.6K 982  258  3.1K  14K 808  5.1K  73   34   90   12K
Ragnarook 268   84% 161K 4.2K 2.7K 337  3.5K  16K 2.2K 2.7K  42   62   53  9.2K
  Parphos 240   92% 140K 2.2K 416  282  6.3K  25K 3.6K 3.0K 128    6   54   18K
  Draenor 187   92% 147K 3.7K 820  243  3.1K  19K 891  2.8K  67   25   71   14K
     beep 153   93% 125K 5.4K 830  259  7.2K  18K 1.3K 1.5K  80   18   63   12K
Bananalan 271   86% 172K 3.1K 812  194  1.6K  36K 2.4K 786  204   48  105   53K
Arcadia-2  77   99%  77K 5.4K 775  158  911   14K 1.4K 5.7K   5   19   60   22K
     Fish  93   99%  81K 3.2K 1.5K 265  3.2K  12K 1.7K 3.2K  18   38   55   13K
  Kialune 126   94%  87K 4.7K 1.5K 321  1.1K  18K 922  2.7K  24   17   29  7.1K
  Thistle  70   99%  66K 3.6K 1.0K 113  1.6K 7.4K 1.5K 1.8K  18   19   30  8.1K
      SOG  99   99%  94K 5.0K 2.7K 294  7.6K  11K   6  6.5K  80   13   37   16K
     Pern 117   93%  78K 5.1K 1.1K 220  6.0K  11K 827  2.7K  29    9   51  3.5K
fluffy_bu  51   59%  19K 1.2K 157   40  229  2.3K 122  208   16   21   32  7.4K
   Wicked  15   87%  11K 755   38    8    2  213    1    1    0    7    1  2.5K
        x   7   86% 6.1K 407   41   50    7   44    6    0    0    7    1  9.1K
Second_Fo   0    0% 909  140  127   19    0    0    0    0    0   13    0 -2.8K
  Blyfria   0    0%   0   35    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    1    0   30K
     Malx   0    0%   0   60    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    2    0  8.8K
   Veruna   0    0%   0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0   17K
Land_Of_F   0    0%   0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0  8.7K
 Moretime   0    0%   0  163    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    3    0 -1.3K
 Espadero   0    0%   0   60    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    2    0 -1.5K
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worldwide 2.0K  90% 1.4M  53K  16K 3.1K  45K 204K  18K  39K 780  370  730  220K

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Eleven weeks after start, November 24, 2001

     - = [   Empire Power Report   ] = -
      as of Sat Nov 24 00:58:34 2001


         sects  eff civ  mil  shell gun pet  iron dust oil  pln ship unit money
  Unknown 255   93% 227K 4.9K 1.7K 264  2.7K  22K 2.7K 6.0K 102   37   90   52K
Ragnarook 264   88% 194K 4.9K 3.2K 443  4.1K  17K 2.1K 2.4K  38   61   54   18K
  Parphos 259   84% 148K 3.4K 1.0K 231  6.6K  29K 2.5K 2.1K 155    6   51   15K
Bananalan 315   87% 222K 4.3K 1.6K 273  3.4K  34K 3.7K 1.7K 205   60  104   90K
     beep 153   99% 137K 5.2K 1.0K 286  7.9K  21K 1.2K 1.8K  92   23   63   17K
  Draenor 160   96% 127K 3.7K 1.1K 308  3.5K  15K 609  3.4K  62   27   73  3.1K
Arcadia-2  81  100%  82K 5.5K 966  217  2.7K  15K 783  5.7K   5   22   66   18K
  Kialune 126  100%  96K 5.8K 1.9K 345  1.7K  21K 1.6K 3.0K  28   13   33  9.3K
     Fish  93  100%  79K 3.6K 1.9K 327  3.8K  13K 1.3K 3.0K  24   42   58   13K
     Pern 119  100%  93K 6.3K 1.2K 227  7.7K  12K 1.3K 2.2K  36    9   55   11K
      SOG  95  100%  90K 5.7K 3.4K 347  7.6K  12K   6  6.5K  80   13   35   19K
  Thistle  69   93%  60K 3.5K 816   90  1.8K 8.8K 1.5K 2.0K  11   17   28  9.2K
   Wicked  17   83%  14K 967   38    7    2  205    1    0    0   12    1   12K
fluffy_bu  10   36% 2.1K 222   44   19   11    0    0    0    4   14    7  1.3K
        x   1  100% 999  104   23    9    0    1    0    0    0    2    0  8.2K
Second_Fo   0    0% 814  139  127   19    0    0    0    0    0   11    0 -4.2K
  Blyfria   0    0%   0   35    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    1    0   30K
   Veruna   0    0%   0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0   16K
     Malx   0    0%   0   60    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    2    0  8.0K
Land_Of_F   0    0%   0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0  8.7K
 Moretime   0    0%   0  163    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    3    0 -2.9K
          ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----
worldwide 2.0K  92% 1.6M  59K  20K 3.4K  54K 220K  19K  40K 840  380  720  300K

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Twelve weeks after start, December 1, 2001

     - = [   Empire Power Report   ] = -
      as of Sat Dec  1 15:33:24 2001


         sects  eff civ  mil  shell gun pet  iron dust oil  pln ship unit money
  Unknown 260   94% 237K 5.2K 1.4K 259  2.2K  23K 2.7K 6.5K 153   37   96   33K
Ragnarook 253   93% 209K 4.8K 3.2K 524  3.6K  18K 1.8K 2.3K  73   66   60   11K
Bananalan 356   86% 238K 4.2K 2.5K 336  3.8K  38K 5.6K 1.4K 223   76  158   85K
     beep 153   99% 136K 5.3K 1.0K 323  7.6K  22K 1.1K 2.7K  79   25   61  7.6K
  Parphos 241   81% 141K 2.8K 1.2K 155  3.8K  21K 1.5K 1.2K  82    6   42   15K
  Draenor 155   89% 117K 3.3K 1.1K 217  2.2K  14K 753  3.1K  59   27   72   38K
Arcadia-2  87   98%  86K 5.7K 815  241  3.6K  14K 645  5.7K   5   23   72  8.7K
  Kialune 129   98% 103K 5.4K 1.7K 329  1.6K  23K 2.0K 3.4K  38   10   34  5.3K
     Fish  93   99%  81K 3.7K 2.2K 376  4.2K  14K 836  3.1K  26   43   60   14K
     Pern 123   99%  89K 6.5K 1.7K 223  9.4K  12K 1.3K 1.9K  38    8   59  5.1K
  Thistle  70   97%  62K 3.6K 1.0K 109  1.8K 7.6K 1.8K 1.8K  30   17   31  212 
      SOG  88  100%  73K 6.0K 3.8K 381  7.6K  12K   5  6.5K  80   13   33   14K
   Wicked  20   92%  17K 1.3K 166   39    2  211    4    2    0   18    1  1.5K
        x   2  100% 1.8K 135   15   12    0  960    1    0    0    1    2  7.6K
fluffy_bu   3    7% 466   28   38    3    0    0    0    0    0   12    0  -15 
  Blyfria   0    0%   0   35    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    1    0   29K
   Veruna   0    0%   0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0   16K
Land_Of_F   0    0%   0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0  8.7K
     Malx   0    0%   0   30    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    1    0  7.7K
          ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----
worldwide 2.0K  92% 1.6M  58K  22K 3.5K  51K 221K  20K  40K 890  390  780  245K

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Thirteen weeks after start, December 7, 2001

     - = [   Empire Power Report   ] = -
      as of Fri Dec  7 20:17:34 2001


         sects  eff civ  mil  shell gun pet  iron dust oil  pln ship unit money
  Unknown 259   93% 231K 4.8K 1.6K 260  3.2K  19K 1.0K 5.4K 337   45  126   70K
Ragnarook 263   90% 217K 4.5K 3.6K 468  3.6K  24K 1.9K 3.5K 126   62   63   28K
Bananalan 394   88% 261K 4.7K 2.7K 328  3.0K  44K 3.3K 1.1K 366   72  208  100K
     beep 155   99% 140K 5.0K 1.4K 348  8.0K  22K 1.5K 2.5K  96   23   63   26K
  Draenor 155   90% 116K 3.7K 1.2K 173  2.1K  13K 719  2.3K 134   29   57   55K
  Parphos 200   81% 112K 3.2K 901  184  3.6K  16K 269  1.1K 144    7   46   13K
Arcadia-2  96   97%  94K 5.7K 1.2K 241  4.5K  14K 924  5.7K   5   25   72  4.7K
  Kialune 130   97% 109K 5.4K 2.0K 320  1.7K  23K 1.6K 3.4K  50   10   33   19K
     Fish  99  100%  87K 4.7K 2.5K 430  4.6K  16K 452  3.2K  42   47   66   12K
     Pern 123   99%  82K 6.4K 1.7K 215   10K 7.2K 1.3K 1.7K  44    7   59   39K
  Thistle  71   96%  65K 3.9K 1.1K 116  2.4K 7.3K 2.0K 1.6K  35   18   34  3.4K
      SOG  67  100%  51K 4.5K 3.7K 355  7.1K 9.3K   5  6.2K  50   11   29 -554 
   Wicked  25   99%  24K 1.4K 311   43    3  295    5    2    0   29    1  1.8K
  Blyfria   0    0%   0   35    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    1    0   29K
        x   0    0%   0    2   12    2    0    0    0    0    0    1    0  3.6K
   Veruna   0    0%   0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0   16K
Land_Of_F   0    0%   0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0  8.7K
     Malx   0    0%   0   30    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    1    0  7.4K
fluffy_bu   3   18% 135    5    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    2    0 -2.9K
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worldwide 2.0K  92% 1.6M  58K  24K 3.5K  54K 217K  15K  38K 1.4K 390  860  365K

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Fourteen weeks after start, December 15, 2001

     - = [   Empire Power Report   ] = -
      as of Sat Dec 15 06:59:30 2001


         sects  eff civ  mil  shell gun pet  iron dust oil  pln ship unit money
  Unknown 283   88% 244K 5.1K 1.9K 301  6.8K  23K 492  5.6K 443   45  138   68K
Ragnarook 275   88% 235K 4.7K 4.5K 501  6.2K  27K 601  4.5K 226   56   63   17K
Bananalan 455   91% 316K 4.4K 2.7K 332  6.1K  47K 2.6K 2.0K 473   61  183   85K
     beep 156  100% 148K 5.2K 1.5K 357  7.9K  24K 1.0K 2.2K  93   20   63   50K
  Draenor 170   87% 118K 3.5K 1.6K 198  4.9K  14K 837  4.7K 134   29   47   22K
  Parphos 134   95%  97K 3.7K 634  184  1.5K 9.1K 274  1.3K 174    7   37   23K
Arcadia-2 100  100% 103K 5.6K 1.3K 241  4.4K  15K 935  4.7K  19   20   66   20K
  Kialune 130   97% 118K 6.1K 2.5K 326  2.4K  25K 1.0K 3.5K  52   10   35   60K
     Fish 118   93%  96K 4.9K 4.2K 724  6.3K  19K 386  6.0K  38   52   65   15K
  Thistle  71   98%  67K 4.0K 1.4K 108  2.3K 7.3K 693  1.6K  83   18   38  2.1K
     Pern 120   96%  78K 5.7K 1.5K 173  8.5K 8.1K 1.3K 1.5K  49   10   58   12K
   Wicked  34  100%  29K 1.3K 116   29    7  302    6    2    0   27    1   93K
        x   1   83% 999    2   13    7    0    1  103    0    0    1    0  3.6K
      SOG   7   98% 850  260   60   17    0  372    0    0   11    4    9  -21K
   Veruna   0    0%   0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0   16K
  Blyfria   0    0%   0   35    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    1    0   29K
Land_Of_F   0    0%   0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0  8.7K
     Malx   0    0%   0   30    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    1    0  7.0K
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worldwide 2.1K  92% 1.7M  54K  24K 3.5K  57K 219K  10K  38K 1.8K 360  800  440K

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Fifteen weeks after start, December 23, 2001

     - = [   Empire Power Report   ] = -
      as of Sun Dec 23 18:11:02 2001


         sects  eff civ  mil  shell gun pet  iron dust oil  pln ship unit money
Bananalan 481   92% 364K 5.2K 2.5K 361  5.0K  52K 672  1.9K 523   74  185  101K
Ragnarook 272   85% 229K 5.3K 5.0K 521  6.9K  31K 646  5.1K 287   53   72   50K
  Unknown 261   92% 227K 4.2K 1.8K 220  4.5K  26K 311  5.7K 477   38  119   58K
     beep 157  100% 141K 6.2K 1.3K 319  7.6K  23K 1.0K 1.1K  75   20   63   17K
  Draenor 167   90% 120K 2.6K 1.9K 210  7.4K  14K 1.0K 4.1K 118   30   53   56K
Arcadia-2 100  100% 103K 5.6K 1.4K 281  4.4K  14K 763  4.7K  64   22   62   43K
  Kialune 138   94% 117K 6.5K 2.7K 347  2.8K  24K 964  3.2K  81   14   40   21K
  Parphos 130   93%  89K 3.9K 426  195  1.4K 7.8K 154  1.0K 160    4   75  2.8K
     Fish 118   95%  83K 5.1K 4.5K 787  6.6K  18K 320  6.6K  46   58   80   17K
  Thistle  71   97%  67K 4.0K 1.4K 104  2.7K 4.5K 450  1.5K 107   19   42   33K
     Pern 117  100%  82K 6.1K 1.5K 170  9.2K 8.2K 1.3K 1.3K  59    9   58   13K
   Wicked  45  100%  34K 1.5K 116   29   23  708   13    5    0   31    1  208K
   Veruna   0    0%   0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0   16K
  Blyfria   0    0%   0   35    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    1    0   28K
        x   0    0%   0    2   12    2    0    0    0    0    0    1    0  3.5K
Land_Of_F   0    0%   0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0  8.7K
     Malx   0    0%   0   30    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    1    0  6.6K
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worldwide 2.1K  93% 1.7M  56K  25K 3.6K  58K 223K 7.6K  36K 2.0K 380  850  590K

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Game Summary

Ice World III is now over with the alliance of Bananaland, Parphos, beep, and Wicked being declared the winners. Bananaland was the leader and muscle of the alliance. He did most of the fighting and was pretty much the only member of the winning
alliance to take and hold territory from the opposing alliance. Parphos also did part of the fighting for the alliance, but stayed competative in tech and provided fort coverage for low tech Bananaland. beep was the tech leader of the game and provided high tech toys to Bananaland and Parphos. Small Wicked converted his country into venture sectors and bankrolled the Bananaland war machine.

Ice World III started September 7th with 26 countries. It featured sabotage missions for spies and venture enterprise sectors. Each country started with three twenty-five sector start islands. There were at least nineteen sectors between islands any country started with. There was no free land. There was one update per day for the first week, one update every other day for the next eight weeks, and finished with
one update every three days. There was a nine day break for Christmas and New Years.

By the end of the first week before countries even had a chance to meet their neighbors; Draenor, Unknown, and fluffy_bunnies had already formed a secret alliance.

Early on several countries were starving or abandoned. The citizen leader, who considers such acts as hostile, quickly liberated a number of these islands and had an early size advantage. However in the forth week of the game, the peaceful citizens of beep were beset by a joint attack from Unknown and Draenor. beep lost one of his start areas in this attack. Draenor had built up an early tech lead.

Fluffy_bunnies were locked up in a deadly bunny battle with Wahbit. While fluffy was winning the bunny battle, the damage doomed both of the rabbit nations. When Ragnarook attacked a second Wahbit island, the bunnies agreed to peace and allowed Wahbit to keep six sectors as a safe haven. Wahbit held off Ragnarook for several weeks until his last island was invaded by SOG and fluffy took away the safe haven.

Draenor and Unknown continued with a joint attack against Undead. Undead lost one of his start islands and changed his country name to Arcadia-234. Draenor and Unknown then did a joint attack against Parphos.

To this point Bananaland had mostly been munching on fodder and killed off one Fish mainland. But everything changed when Bananaland invaded two fluffy_bunnies mainlands. One of those islands and the Fish mainland was near the Draenor/Unknown/Parphos border. Parphos traded territory he couldn't hold with Bananaland for the fluffy mainland.

Even though their alliance with fluffy still wasn't declared, Draenor and Unknown decided to come to their allies aid and simultaneously gave notice to Bananaland that they were ending non-aggression pacts with him. Once the pacts expired, Draenor and Unknown were able to drive Bananaland from the territory Parphos had swapped; however, on two other fronts, Bananaland was able to level a Draenor mainland and an Unknown mainland.

Draenor and Unknown then pleaded with Ragnarook to join them. Ragnarook had risen to the top of the power chart by munching mostly fodder. He was also allied with Parphos. Ragnarook had been supplying Parphos with planes to battle Draenor and Unknown. However Ragnarook had issue with how Parphos finished Ice World II, and didn't trust Bananaland because he hadn't heard of him. Ragnarook suddenly changed sides. He declared an alliance with Draenor and Unknown, and invaded the isolated Bananaland mainland that had already been heavily damaged by Draenor and x.

The situation looked bleak for Bananaland. For two weeks all alone, he faced the top three countries on the power chart (Ragnarook, Draenor, and Unknown), fluffy_bunnies, and SOG who had been purchasing weapons from Draenor. Parphos was able to shell a few Draenor sectors from his holdings on the ex-fluffy island, but he spent most of his resources invading a couple fodder countries. Bananaland cut back on technology production and started ordering weapons from beep. beep had recovered from his earlier setback and with a monumental effort had just claimed the tech lead from Draenor.

After claiming the isolated Bananaland island, Ragnarook did not have much of a border with Bananaland. Thus he concentrated on an invasion of Wicked which wasn't going very well. Draenor and Unknown were friendly with Wicked, but they needed Ragnarook's support in the battle with Bananaland. They tried to negotiate
peace between Ragnarook and Wicked. Wicked would agree if Ragnarook would withdraw from Wicked's start island; however, Ragnarook insisted that Wicked hand over the entire island. Because of this impasse, Draenor and Unknown ended their non- aggression pact with Wicked and invaded Wicked's other two start islands. Within a couple updates, Wicked was reduced to five heavily bombarded 0% forts and a 60% pt boat with one mil. [Pay attention - there is a lesson about never giving up here]

Bananaland was attacking like a madman. With hidden enabled his enemies drastically overestimated his strength. They held units in reserve that might have defeated Bananaland had they been used. Despite the odds, Bananaland had wiped out a Draenor mainland, the remains of a fluffy start area, and an Unknown
mainland without losing any territory near the border near Parphos. Behind the Unknown island was fluffy's last start area and the Wicked island in dispute with Ragnarook. Bananaland caught a break when SOG abandoned the game. So far the losses weren't too great because Draenor and Unknown had gained territory from Wicked and Blimp.

Leading countries on both sides of the war were considering throwing in the towel. Updates were dropped to once every three days. Bananaland encouraged Parphos to do more than just devour fodder. Parphos still allied with Ragnarook attacked
the gods of Asgard and claimed two islands they formerly shared. Parphos was disparaged in the announcements for this action. Being butchered on the battlefield and feeling betrayed by a former ally, the Draenor/Ragnarook/Unknown alliance convinced former neutral countries Kialune, Pern, and Thistle to join their side. Arcadia-234 and Fish were approached by both sides, but remained neutral for the rest of the game.

Wicked's last ship was sitting in Bananaland territory. Bananaland gave Wicked a sanctuary for his capital. Since venture production efficiency was inversely proportionate to country size, Bananaland set Wicked up to finance his war machine. On the extact same update, Draenor and Unknown started shipping 'cms to Pern to finance their economies.

Bananaland, Parphos, and beep then concentrated their effort on eliminating the Ragnarook stronghold south of the disputed Wicked island. Between beep's shelling and Bananaland's bombing, the Ragnarook stronghold was quickly crippled. So
too was the final fluffy islands. Bananaland took a couple weeks to occupy the territory since he was also holding the front against Draenor and Unknown, but by the end of November the Ragnarook stronghold had fell and fluffy_bunnies was eliminated from the game.

Ragnarook was regrouping around one of the islands Parphos had attacked. With the help of Kialune, Thistle, and Unknown; Ragnarook was able to reclaim the island. However Parphos had a string of four islands in a row there, and limited the
loss to only one island. By holding the line, Parphos stopped the opposition from openning another front with Bananaland.

A month after SOG abandoned his country, nations began eating away at SOG's territory to get to each other. With TECH_POP enabled, Draenor and Parphos were too big to effectively make technology. Draenor began giving territory away to Unknown, and Parphos was giving away territory to Bananaland. beep who was no longer fighting had extended the tech lead to almost eight points. Wicked was producing close to $300K per update for Bananaland. Pern and Thistle were producing almost as much for the opposition.

With only one major front left, Bananaland finally concentrated on the front with Draenor and Unknown. Concerned with beep's increasing tech lead, Unknown had planned a major attack on beep before Christmas using Kialune airports. A mere hours before this attack was going to take place, Bananaland missiles rained down on Unknown airports stranding hundreds of planes. beep had already left before the final update before Christmas. An Unknown attack that beep couldn't respond to could have bankrupted citizen leader, stopping his production and distribution. Instead Bananaland put a serious dent in the Unknown air force and finally advanced on the front that had been bloody and stalemated for almost two months.

After the Christmas break, Bananaland continued to attack the on the Unknown front -- taking two more islands and bombing the Unknown production centers. Unknown's production fueled most of the Pern and Thistle financial network. Bananaland declared vistory and the opposition conceded.

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Final Power

Blue coloring on countries in the power chart indicates the winners of the game.

     - = [   Empire Power Report   ] = -
      as of Wed Jan  9 07:04:16 2002


         sects  eff civ  mil  shell gun pet  iron dust oil  pln ship unit money
Bananalan 509   94% 395K 6.7K 3.6K 368  6.4K  53K 467  3.3K 594   67  192  263K
 13104.45
Ragnarook 286   83% 234K 5.9K 5.8K 593  7.6K  31K 756  5.1K 311   69   96   25K
 11904.33
     beep 157  100% 142K 5.2K 1.4K 318  7.6K  21K 858  1.1K  74   19   63   24K
 10106.43
  Draenor 170   87% 121K 3.5K 1.5K 193  6.0K  14K 1.2K 3.2K 122   30   54   43K
  8496.75
  Unknown 203   91% 175K 3.3K 1.3K 216  2.9K  20K 189  2.2K 315   35  103   95K
  8216.55
Arcadia-2 100  100% 102K 5.6K 1.6K 329  4.3K  13K 633  4.6K  64   19   64   59K
  7387.26
  Kialune 139   99% 120K 6.8K 3.1K 384  3.1K  23K 914  3.6K 101   15   40   20K
  6607.41
  Parphos 127   97%  85K 3.6K 919  213  2.1K 9.7K  63  949  184    5   68  9.2K
  6299.94
     Fish 130   95%  89K 4.4K 4.3K 825  6.7K  18K 277  6.5K  48   61   70  9.4K
  6001.28
     Pern 134   99%  98K 6.4K 1.7K 181  9.5K  12K 1.3K 2.4K  70   11   46  3.0K
  4128.75
  Thistle  65   94%  61K 3.8K 1.3K  92  2.4K 4.8K 472  1.4K 124   19   40   34K
  3243.11
   Wicked  45  100%  33K 1.5K  84   23   23  708   13    5    0   32    1  1.7K
  1426.78
   Veruna   0    0%   0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0   16K
     7.74
  Blyfria   0    0%   0   35    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    1    0   28K
     7.48
Land_Of_F   0    0%   0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0  8.7K
     6.48
        x   0    0%   0    2   12    2    0    0    0    0    0    1    0  3.5K
     6.31
     Malx   0    0%   0   30    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    1    0  6.3K
     5.28
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worldwide 2.1K  93% 1.7M  57K  27K 3.7K  59K 220K 7.2K  34K 2.0K 390  840  550K

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Final Report

Blue coloring on countries in the report indicates the winners of the game.

Wed Jan  9 07:04:16 2002
 #    name                tech      research   education   happiness capital
 0     Ice Barbarians     0.00       0.00         0.00        0.00     0,0
 1     fluffy_bunnies    77.20       7.05         0.33        0.00    17,17
 2     SOG               75.83      19.20         0.44        0.27   -12,14
 3     Second_Foundat    93.47       6.76         0.28        0.00   -27,3
 4     skaros            26.66       7.20         0.01        0.00    -1,5
 5     Groth             71.95       7.01         0.13        0.00    46,-26
 6     Arcadia-234      202.19      52.34        15.81        0.00    -7,-25
 7     Draenor          225.62      50.18        17.71        2.53   -52,30
 8     beep             233.20      47.06        21.66        0.00    10,-32
 9     Bananaland       111.56       8.63         0.86        5.08     9,-17
 10    Thistle          159.44       6.19        13.73        4.29   -38,-10
 11    x                 80.38      38.64         1.28        0.00    22,-12
 12    Wahbit            33.68       7.88         0.02        0.00    -4,-16
 13    Espadero          39.26       6.48         0.00        0.00   -17,17
 14    Blyfria           12.72       6.29         0.12        0.00    46,-12
 15    Land_Of_Faa       37.12       5.95         0.00        0.00   -24,-2
 16    Parphos          208.00      45.84        18.78       15.38     9,1
 17    Kialune          174.10       8.06        17.20       11.31   -22,-12
 18    Veruna            24.44       7.48         0.00        0.00     4,24
 19    Moretime          35.00       6.82         0.05        0.00    46,26
 20    Unknown          152.11      12.83         2.77       12.37   -20,18
 21    Pern             126.83       8.04         5.43        0.30   -52,16
 22    Wicked            95.82       7.48         0.63       13.43     6,-24
 23    Blimp             96.65       7.46         0.48        0.00    41,19
 24    Malx              33.77       6.44         0.01        0.00   -31,7
 25    Fish             183.69       6.87        16.71       11.49   -33,-19
 26    Ragnarook        150.95       2.95         8.07        9.06   -45,9

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Awards

And Now The SUBBIES!

While Thistle was a new player and survived till the end, the Calder Memorial Subby for the best new player has to go to Wahbit. Early in the game his three start area's were attacked by fluffy_bunnies (Byzantium and Plundaria), Ragnarook (Mongol_Horde, Rook, and Temekula), and SOG (Amber and Africa Korp). Not many experienced players could have held out against simultaneous attacks by these players. Wahbit fought back for over a month and still went out with an amusing announcement sticking his tail in the face of his attackers.

The Tom Ridge Memorial Subby for the best homeland security goes to Kialune. Kialune was the only nation to keep all three of start islands and owned 100% of all three at the end of the game. Sure he signed a non-aggression pact with Bananaland to get part of one island back, but he still owned it at the end.

The Job Memorial Subby for not giving up goes to Wicked. Wicked stood firm in his beliefs. When the three most powerful countries and several allies requested that he surrender one of his islands, he refused to allow larger countries to bully him. Reduced to five sector and a 60% pt boat, he could have easily given up. Instead he stuck around and got part of the victory.

The Henry Kissinger Subby for the best diplomacy goes to Unknown (Bungholio). Unknown led the effort to convert Ragnarook from the other side. He also was very active in recruiting Pern, Kialune, and Thistle. Unknown coordinated most of the actions taken by the opposition. This award is very surprising because Bungholio has been known for serious diplomatic blunders in the past, but in this game he did a terrific job. Now if he could only learn to fight:)

The Tazmanian Devil Subby for attacking with reckless abandon goes to Bananaland. Strictly by the numbers on the power chart, Bananaland should have lost. However he attacked and defended with great skill. In this hidden game, Draenor and Unknown were estimating that Bananaland had almost twice what he really had. Bananaland's ability to fight carried the day.

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