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January, 2004
In This Edition
Lord of the Rings Empire II ended. See `Recently Ended Games' below.
Havok II began. See `Current Games' below.
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Rumors, but nothing definite to report.
Havok II `Designing Nations' is running at 66.92.172.65, port 6665.
Deity is Robert Marchese.This game has a unique feature: players were asked to design their
start islands.The game has had about a dozen updates. Most free land has been
claimed, and the first few skirmishes took place.- = [ Empire Power Report ] = - as of Fri Jan 9 08:22:19 2004sects eff civ mil shell gun pet iron dust oil pln ship unit money DrJellyfi 90 61% 32K 700 150 25 0 4.2K 550 500 1 30 10 1.1K unemploye 65 57% 29K 600 325 45 0 3.4K 500 650 0 20 4 5.0K Thistle 105 52% 29K 1.2K 275 40 0 4.4K 550 200 0 30 8 470 ... 80 68% 30K 1.2K 25 0 0 3.0K 600 650 0 40 5 1.3K Ringworld 50 68% 25K 750 275 15 350 3.6K 550 550 0 9 3 129 Shakespea 125 33% 29K 1.4K 200 15 0 4.5K 550 450 0 30 20 1.5K Frank 75 46% 24K 600 225 5 0 3.0K 550 250 0 20 5 2.3K Eden 60 65% 26K 650 125 10 0 6.0K 600 600 0 10 0 5.0K Puddles 65 55% 23K 150 50 15 0 3.0K 300 650 0 5 10 1.6K Aiser 50 71% 22K 900 0 0 0 2.4K 750 350 0 4 0 1.3K Phantom 45 75% 13K 300 25 0 0 1.4K 350 100 0 0 8 20K ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- worldwide 810 56% 281K 8.4K 1.7K 175 350 39K 5.8K 5.0K 1 200 70 40KVisit http://users.erols.com/bmarches/HavokII.html for more.
The Changeling Blitz is running at blitz.wolfpackempire.com, port
6789. This blitz resets at 7:00pm US/Eastern (currently 00:00 UTC)
every day. Updates are enabled at 7:30pm. There is a 60 ETU update
every 10 minutes. Note that world size and some options change daily.
It is up to players to figure that out each day, but typing `version'
helps.
The Zebra Blitz is running at blitz.wolfpackempire.com, port 5678.
This blitz resets at 6:00pm US/Eastern (currently 23:00 UTC) every
Sunday. Updates are enabled at 6:30pm. There is a 48 ETU update
every hour on the hour.
LOTR II was won by Rohan, Rhun, Mirkwood and Iron_Hills, with support
from Balchoth, Dale, Lorien and Rivendell. Deities were Geoff
Cashman, Roman Parparov and Eric James. The game is still running at
empire.tau.ac.il, port 1617.As reported in the previous issue, Harad and Harondor challenged the
initial victory declaration. They were totally wiped out within six
updates.Summary of awards:
Dol Amroth Most Honest Player for reporting an exploitable deity mistake Harondor Best Announcer for obvious reasons Harondor Viet Cong for turning his nation into a nightmare for Gondor and Dol Amroth Mirkwood `I'm not Dead Yet!' for a stunning turn around from what looked like almost certain death to the top of the power chart Rhun Biggest Bully for extracting more than 150 sectors from Balchoth Rohan Best Cartographer for turning the map of Rohan into a picture of a horse Umbar `I'm Allergic to Water' for stubbornly refusing to build a navy, geography be damned Bree Best Beer for the famous brews of Bree Iron Hills `We may not know how to comb our beards, but we know how to breed Elves' for supplying Firstborn Cavalry to Mirkwood in prodigious numbers Lorien Worst Ecological Disaster for washing 2000 year old elf-feet in the upper Anduin Harlindon Worst Lawyers for a disastrously flawed NA with Rohan The Shire Best Drunk for his announcements Dale `Here Birdie, drink this oil and you'll fly better!' for producing petrolDue to a bug in `power', the following power report has rounded
numbers, doing great injustice to Rhun, who actually had 666 sectors
;-)
- = [ Empire Power Report ] = - as of Fri Dec 19 20:14:53 2003sects eff civ mil shell gun pet iron dust oil pln ship unit money Mirkwood 865 86% 645K 26K 36K 1.3K 0 74K 800 2.7K 70 720 650 50K 24790.48 Rohan 740 83% 526K 17K 4.4K 645 0 67K 850 3.0K 50 50 370 190K 18824.52 Rhun 665 83% 496K 19K 17K 855 0 72K 450 2.4K 100 10 350 100K 17332.34 Iron_Hill 475 79% 286K 12K 11K 815 0 42K 2.5K 4.3K 60 10 460 250K 12353.01 Harlindon 220 95% 197K 16K 6.9K 690 0 28K 1.6K 2.0K 100 380 250 50K 8512.65 Dale 220 99% 250K 7.7K 5.9K 280 1.9K 23K 1.4K 1.0K 9 2 210 75K 8199.08 Dol_Amrot 255 89% 203K 8.2K 6.2K 205 0 26K 650 1.8K 50 320 260 45K 8101.21 Rivendell 245 94% 184K 9.3K 7.0K 260 0 28K 2.6K 1.9K 10 10 200 4.3K 6718.93 Balchoth 270 85% 176K 8.4K 7.0K 885 0 17K 1.0K 350 60 0 160 30K 6307.39 Gondor 85 100% 179K 4.2K 2.1K 320 0 8.3K 200 400 60 220 80 160K 5737.39 Lorien 110 98% 109K 1.2K 3.9K 325 0 10K 250 5.0K 2 0 60 225K 4212.39 Bree 70 100% 68K 2.5K 775 260 0 12K 10 1.1K 2 1 30 35K 2291.62 Harad 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 135K 296.80 The_Shire 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 125K 270.67 Angmar 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 25K 52.32 Harondor 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 20K 40.20 Khand 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5.0K 14.47 Gladden_F 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5.0K 13.96 Dorwinion 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5.0K 10.87 Wainrider 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4.0K 8.48 Erebor 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 979 2.09 Cardolan 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 586 1.25 Eregion 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 415 0.88 Umbar 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0.00 Mordor 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
0.00
Dol_Goldu 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
0.00
Forochel 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
0.00
Dunland 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
0.00
Easterlin 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
0.00
Anfalas 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
0.00
Nurn 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
0.00
Arnor 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
0.00
Minhiriat 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
0.00
---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----
worldwide 4.2K 87% 3.3M 133K 108K 6.9K 1.9K 408K 12K 26K 570 1.7K 3.1K 1.4M# name tech research education happiness capital 0 Manwe 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0,0 1 The_Shire 100.00 30.17 0.16 0.02 -56,-30 2 Forochel 100.00 13.68 0.00 0.00 -47,-33 3 Arnor 100.00 11.21 0.00 0.00 -6,-32 4 Bree 100.00 42.60 0.04 56.65 -5,-15 5 Angmar 100.00 7.74 0.00 0.00 -7,-35 6 Rivendell 100.00 69.26 15.76 27.64 -2,-20 7 Harlindon 100.00 68.43 30.40 19.71 -52,-10 8 Cardolan 100.00 8.49 0.00 0.00 -27,-13 9 Eregion 100.00 5.04 0.00 0.00 0,-14 10 Minhiriath 100.00 8.44 0.00 0.00 -35,-1 11 Dunland 100.00 12.39 0.00 0.00 -24,-4 12 Rohan 100.00 68.28 11.13 21.52 -6,4 13 Lorien 100.00 77.67 20.96 33.66 3,-7 14 Gladden_Fields 100.00 10.67 0.00 0.00 19,-17 15 Mirkwood 100.00 73.04 11.71 22.81 20,-24 16 Dale 100.00 105.31 19.43 34.77 37,-27 17 Erebor 100.00 14.63 0.00 0.00 32,-34 18 Iron_Hills 100.00 85.39 13.69 30.32 63,-37 19 Easterlings 100.00 12.03 0.00 0.00 73,-19 20 Rhun 100.00 82.09 15.36 32.51 57,-15 21 Dorwinion 100.00 14.21 0.00 0.00 51,-9 22 Dol_Goldur 100.00 17.24 0.00 0.00 14,-8 23 Balchoth 100.00 80.61 16.37 22.94 26,-8 24 Nurn 100.00 11.34 0.00 0.00 63,11 25 Mordor 100.00 32.48 0.28 0.22 72,38 26 Wainriders 100.00 9.88 0.00 0.00 73,1 27 Anfalas 100.00 11.94 0.00 0.00 -33,15 28 Dol_Amroth 100.00 78.30 18.86 17.43 -1,13 29 Gondor 100.00 79.93 16.64 0.00 15,15
30 Umbar 100.00 48.27 0.65 0.05 11,27
31 Harondor 100.00 18.05 0.45 1.52 23,33
32 Khand 100.00 7.30 0.00 0.00 70,22
33 Harad 100.00 80.96 4.76 13.04 38,38
A very detailed deity's diary can be found at
http://groups.google.de/groups?selm=btf3q9$m6l$1@hood.uits.indiana.edu
Newbie IV is over, but winners and final power report are unavailable
right now, as the machine is no longer accessible. For the same
reason, there won't be a Newbie V in the foreseeable future. That's a
pity. Many thanks to Lanny for his contribution, and let's hope he
can run more games some time.
The basic Empire client can be found at
http://www.wolfpackempire.com/clients.html, source as well as binaries
for many platforms.The latest version of WinACE is 2.3.3. Read the announcement at
http://groups.google.de/groups?selm=ae2bf018.0312041455.1fd91f33@posting.google.com
and download from http://sourceforge.net/projects/winace/
The latest version of PTkEI is 1.18.1. See the PTkEI home page at
http://www.lfmm.org/ptkei/The latest version of eif is 1.3.2. See the eif home page at
http://www.stack.nl/~marcolz/empire/The latest version of LAFE is 1.0. Get it from
http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/e/empire-lafe/
or any other Debian mirror.
The current Empire server is 4.2.12. Download it from
http://www.wolfpackempire.com/server.html
Happy new year!
Markus, a.k.a. Dorwinion
Flak doesn't do much damage. Even with a full complement of flak
guns, sector flak merely does around 10% damage to a light bomber at
tech 100. And you can hardly afford to put that many guns everywhere.
Sounds useless, doesn't it?Well, it isn't. Whenever a plane is hit by flak, it has to make an
abort check. If the plane has at least 80% efficiency left, it
doesn't abort. Else the chance to abort is 100-eff percent,
regardless how many flak damage it sustained. Just a little flak in
several sectors on a flight path can make inefficient planes next to
useless. Mission kill.
From Lord of the Rings II:
This one was announced almost immediately after news that S.H. was dug out of a pit hit the wires:
> Announcement from Rohan, (#12) dated Sun Dec 14 14:24:55 2003 Breaking news from Mordor !!!Rohan troops can confirm that they have captured the Dark Lord Sauron.He was dug out of a deep pit of self loathing.When he was captured he was wearing a false pair of Hobbit feet (with made in the Shire printed on them - However it is assumed that they are a cheap copy produced in Harad)DNA evidence could not be collected due to him being a disembodied spirit, however his identity was confirmed when he shouted "F*CK YOU ASSHOLE" at one of the Rohan guards.We will bring you more news as and when it becomes available.
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