A Wolfpack Empire Publication
"All the news that fits, we print."
September, 2003

In This Edition

• What's New?
• Links/Resources/Getting Started
• Games --
  • Upcoming
  • Current
  • Recently ended
• Clients and Player Tools
• Server and Deity Info
• From the Editor
• Hints of the Month
• Anno of the Month
  

What's New?

Lord of the Rings Empire II announced! See `New Games' below.

Wolfpack released Empire 4.2.12. Find it at the usual place:
http://www.wolfpackempire.com/server.html

The popular update window feature is now included. Otherwise, this is
a bug fix release. Deities are strongly encouraged to use it for new
games, but the new server can't use old data files.

Empire is now in CVS on SourceForge. Building the code checked out
from there is not straightforward, yet.

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Links/Resources/Getting Started

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New Games

Eagerly awaited by players of LOTR I: Geoff Cashman, Roman Parparov
and Eric James announced Lord of the Rings Empire II, scheduled to
begin on September 8th.

Can The Shire rise up and control the world? Can
Khazad-dum be born again and brought back to its pinnacle
of power? Will the Dark Lord spread his power over
all the lands and dominate the Third Age? Come one,
come all and see for yourself!
-- LOTR game announcement

See http://empire.tau.ac.il/~empire/ for more information, or go
straight to the registration form at
http://empire.tau.ac.il/~romm/empireme.html

Please contact us if you want your game listed here!

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Current Games

The Changeling Blitz is running at blitz.wolfpackempire.com, port
6789. This blitz resets at 7:00pm US/Eastern (currently 23:00 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 22:00 UTC) every
Sunday. Updates are enabled at 6:30pm. There is a 48 ETU update
every hour on the hour.

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Recently Ended Games

PANGAEA, deitied by <anonymous>, was won by cochise. cochise won solo by grabbing and populating more sectors faster than anybody else, and by holding them of course.

PANGAEA's distinctive feature was a humongous continent of about 10K
sects, initially garrisoned by one POGO mil per sector.

          - = [   Empire Power Report   ] = -
           as of Fri Aug  1 16:43:04 2003

           sects  eff civ  mil  shell gun pet  iron dust oil  pln ship unit money
   :cochise 4.2K  97% 3.7M  23K  35K 5.2K  80K 523K  21K 167K 2.1K  82  448  2.7M
  237806.56
        Max 2.6K  94% 2.2M  16K  42K 5.6K 123K 247K  13K 256K 1.2K  42  408  417K
  167149.08
          X 1.3K  98% 1.2M  16K  19K 3.2K  78K 220K 6.2K 187K 282   30  254  2.0M
   95689.19
     No-man 1.1K  93% 899K  44K  38K 3.4K 114K 165K 8.7K  94K 199  116  111  1.6M
   62545.30
  Somewhere 1.3K  89% 633K 2.7K 5.3K 1.2K  35K 143K 4.7K  68K  82  114   40  233K
   44590.54
     Sparta 577   91% 495K  26K  41K 5.2K  31K  70K 7.8K  48K 203  151  167  386K
   36061.83
   Oleander 288   99% 240K 5.0K  13K 1.7K 7.1K  70K 1.4K  35K  68   46   55   68K
   22252.77
  Perdition 151  100% 144K 4.4K  13K 1.1K 8.6K  55K 907   20K   2   27    0  155K
   12846.19
      Hades 150   96% 126K 6.9K 248   97  1.4K 4.1K 2.4K  56K  42    7   13  311K
    8978.48
    wesland 196   89% 160K 2.5K 2.7K 581    0   92K 1.5K  99K   0   21    0  649K
    7679.49
    Anorian 150  100% 140K 2.0K 3.0K 476 10.0K  53K  13K  40K  50   11    0  458K
    6844.90
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  worldwide  12K  95% 9.9M 148K 214K  28K 488K 1.6M  81K 1.1M 4.2K 650  1.5K 9.0M

Visit http://www.wolfpackempire.com/pangaea.html for more information.

 

Mid-Shipman's Empire 2 --- The Ugly Mug, deitied by Mark Ballinger,
was jointly won by wahbit and Aberdeen.

The winners waged war first, and kept on the offensive. No country went down easily, though.

The Mid-Shipman's series of games is for non-newbies who are also not vastly experienced. The Ugly Mug was a seriously ugly world. Lots of twisty little islands, bridges not affordable, tech hard; in one word:
a really cozy place ;-)

        - = [   Empire Power Report   ] = -
           as of Mon Aug 25 08:24:45 2003

           sects  eff civ  mil  shell gun pet  iron dust oil  pln ship unit money
     wahbit 262   93% 186K  11K 4.9K 731  7.7K  38K 6.1K  10K 169  164   44  106K
    8752.78
   Aberdeen 226   92% 166K 8.4K 4.4K 727   11K  26K 2.5K 4.5K 166  125   67  109K
    7536.99
   DexterPV 113   92%  81K 4.1K 1.7K 232   13K  11K 5.3K 3.9K 109   63   30   70K
    4484.59
  OrionSynd  76  100%  66K 6.2K 1.9K 276  2.1K  14K 8.0K 1.8K 115   84   13  239K
    4062.66
   Stardust  95   96%  67K 3.4K 1.6K 238  3.3K 7.7K 2.3K 4.6K  61   58   27   24K
    3476.78
        Pax   1  100% 3.7K 289   32   10  290    1    0  990    0   25    0   71K
     333.51
  .dot-dash   0    0%   0   40    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    5    0   44K
      71.39
     Venaus   4   97% 953  260  128   28    0  1.1K   6  364    0   11    0 -6.4K
      44.59
  Aquataine   0    0%   0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0   24K
      34.19
      Bwian   0    0%   0  113   30   16    0    0    0    0    0    8    1 -3.3K
       6.32
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  worldwide 775   94% 571K  34K  15K 2.3K  37K  97K  24K  27K 620  540  180  680K

Newbie III was won by Pern and Savoia. The victory was contested,
which led to a nice nukefest. Newbie World III no longer needs electric light at night.

Lanny's Newbie games are a friendly learning environment. Well, as friendly as Empire can get ;-)

This isn't the `official' final power report, but it should be reasonably close.

        - = [   Empire Power Report   ] = -
           as of Tue Aug 26 03:34:34 2003

           sects  eff civ  mil  shell gun pet  iron dust oil  pln ship unit money
       Pern 1.4K  89% 1.0M  47K  63K 4.3K 141K 350K  28K  30K 2.5K 250  440  3.9M
     Savoia 775   84% 1.1M  17K  30K 4.1K  80K  94K 6.6K  29K 1.6K 190  160  4.0M
       Zern 590   98% 480K  47K  35K 3.5K  70K  68K 7.9K 9.6K  80  180    0  1.1M
   Kurszlic 165   96% 133K  22K 7.3K 805   16K  32K 3.0K 9.3K 110   50   30  515K
   Armengar   0    0%   0    2    0    0    0    0    0    0   20    3    0  1.0M
  Czechoslo  65   96%  39K 6.5K 2.6K 530  9.8K  13K 1.6K 2.7K  30   20   20  130K
      Raist  20  100%  21K 1.2K 575   90  2.0K 2.4K 150  400   90    4    9   30K
    TheMoot   0    0%   0  100    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    3    0  300K
  ZenHamste   3   26% 200  200    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    5    0  155K
   Oblivion   0    0%   0   45   25    5    0    0    0    0    0    2    0   70K
      Hades   0    0%   0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0   50K
      tzang   0    0%   0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0   60K
   Paradise   0    0%   0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0   15K
     Epirus   0    0%   0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    2    0    0  3.5K
      Doc_D   0    0%   0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0   20K
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  worldwide 3.0K  90% 2.8M 142K 139K  13K 319K 560K  48K  81K 4.4K 700  660   11M
   

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Clients and Player Tools

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 2.2.12. Read the announcement at
http://groups.google.de/groups?selm=1e50e999.0305301501.19d4184b%40posting.google.com
and download from http://sourceforge.net/projects/winace/

The latest version of PTkEI is 1.18.0. See the PTkEI home page at
http://www.lfmm.org/ptkei/

The latest version of eif is 1.3.0. See the eif home page at
http://www.stack.nl/~marcolz/empire/

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Server and Deity Information

The current Empire server is 4.2.12. Download it from
http://www.wolfpackempire.com/server.html

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From the Editor

Witness the Nazgul spread terror! Behold the pinnacle of engineering
and magic, raining death and destruction; behold the terrible
trebuchet! Empire returns to Middle Earth!

This is the game that's finally worth the sacrifice of your GPA. This
is the game you saved your marriage points for. This is the game not
to miss. Yes, I'm biased; I played LOTR I. It had all: skirmishes
and epic battles, brilliant plans carried out with skill and success,
equally brilliant plans thwarted by the enemy or chance, heroism in
the face of impossible odds and treason. Set before the backdrop of
Tolkien's masterpiece, yet the game remained entirely Empire.

Greenhorns, sign on and get clobbered (and learn a lot and make some
friends)! Aspiring warlords, gather and prove your worth! Greats of
ancient Empire history, get the batteries on your pacemakers checked,
take your hands off your nurse for a while, and remind us why you kick
ass!

See you in LOTR II!

Markus, a.k.a. Dorwinion

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Hint of the Month

Interdiction damage is spread among all the interdicted units.
Interdiction that is crippling to a lone unit can be shrugged off by a
group.

Say you charge a lone trebuchet with your precious firstborn cavalry.
The trebuchet interdicts you twice, doing 32 damage total. That's
almost a third of your offensive strength! Repairing the damage will
cost $1600.

If you throw in just two lousy elven infantry, the damage gets spread
evenly among the three units. The firstborn cavalry takes only a
third of the damage, and the rest is eaten by the cheap elven
infantry. You loose only some 10% of your offensive strength, and
repairs will cost some $570.

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Anno of the Month

From Mid-Shipman's Empire 2 --- The Ugly Mug:

> Announcement from DexterPV, (#2)  dated Fri Aug 22 10:01:57 2003
Hey wait a minute!

It's "Dog pile on the wahbit, dog pile on the wahbit."

Not "Dog pile on Dexter, dog pile on Dexter"

Doesn't anybody watch Bugs Bunny anymore???!?!?!??!

And here's a bonus bit from LOTR I, just to water your mouth some
more:

> Announcement from Iron_Hills, (#20)  dated Tue Feb  5 16:20:31 2002
WooHoo, de industrious dwarves of Iron_Hills break
first, see no sign of de lazybones pointy ears or
smelly orcs.  Pretty lonely here at de moment -
de sheep hiding nervously around de corners of de
trees.  We thank de even more industrious Winace
wizards, fixing de software of eldritch power.
Dunno why we wanna research anyway, unless
research sharper axe blades or stinky-less orcs...
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Gimlet da dwarf

> Announcement from Mithrilien, (#41)  dated Tue Feb  5 16:21:21 2002
Er, you didn't break first. :)

> Announcement from Mithrilien, (#41)  dated Tue Feb  5 16:21:52 2002
Rememeber everyone...this game has HIDDEN enabled.

> Announcement from Iron_Hills, (#20)  dated Tue Feb  5 16:27:19 2002
We bragged about it first, so we was first.  We smack
da guy who thoght he read da version scroll, put him
to work mining wit a spoon.
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ps send gold
   

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