yay we are breaking a record!

that is a good thing right?

you guys should stop posting here so much... it takes just to much time reading all this crap to get to the post that actually is worth reading. so stop trying to justify yourself in the forums and go back to playing the game instead

that being said I feel it is worth making a post about all this hostility going on right now. a lot of it comes down to the fact that when ppl do something good, like winning a war or giving out a honorable nap or whatever, they like to get recognition for this. this goes just as much in real life as in IC. and when ppl for some reason don't give you the recognition you feel you deserve, could be you get overshadowed or maybe ppl just didn't care, then you generally get angry.

last round my fam was the fam to beat, and we won against any fam that stood against us, yet we didn't win in size. this round again we have not lost to anybody, and we have beaten almost all that we have encountred. yet fams we feel we have beaten fairly end up over us on the rankings. so for all our achivments this last two rounds, never losing to anybody, we still end up with a testament (rankings) that says we lost. not suprisingly this is a bit hard to face for my fam.

then on the other hand 03 is trying to get recognition for wining this round. and of course since they will probably end up wining the round (by size and that is what matters) they have earned that "bragging right". but this again conflict with my fams wish to be recognized for wining the war against 03.

same thing ,more or less, all over. "yeah we won this war", "yeah but we did really well considering we where much smaler" ect... can't we admit that the other side did well even if we win? can't we do the same when we lose?

so well done 03, you played well
cya next round for a new match
and in a few rounds all this will all be forgoten...

PLAYER: Bender

1.Best Leader: Load

2.Best Diplomat

3.Best Attacker : Load

4.Best Banker : Bender

5.Best Resourcer : FA

6.Best SS Player

7.Best First Rounder

8.Best Random : so best player basicly then? guess I will have to say Load

10.Most Honorable Player

11.Least Honorable Player

12.Most Planet Fat Player Bender

13.Least Planet Fat Player : Slacky (1513)

14.Favorite fam of the round 1518

15.Favorite Theme of the Round : beers alliance

16.Favorite Forum Poster : flashy

17.Most Aggressive Fam :1511

18.Least Aggressive Fam :1509

19.Most Honorable Fam

20.Least Honorable Fam

21.Most Planet Fat Fam : 1514

22.Least Planet Fat Fam 1509

23. Biggest Noob of the round : Flashy for not taking TOs

24.Biggest Drop 1511

25.Biggest Surprise of Round 1514 gaining first position in size after a crapy start.

26.Best Strategy of Round : 14/18 working together to take down 1511

27.Worst Mistake of Round 1517 not building defences early

28.Favorite Quote of Round

29.Most debated topic : 1511 vs 1518/1514.

30.Rating (average of nominations)  8.25

cloud voted:

4.Best Banker: Communist (1511) Was the #1 banker for a good bit of the round, after war after war he regained his income which was #2 in the uni to bender until the last war. Great player'

not to take anything away from communitst who seam to be a great banker I was still in front of him early. why? cause he funded reseach at thispoint while I had RCs. I cacled it and I was still in front when you counted everything. (yes we did visions of him.)

I still respect any vote given to the communist, who was extreamly valuble for this fam, but giving him the vote cause he was in front of me early is not correct

anyway I will cast my own vote tomorrow when I'm not drunk

the link for the tool looks dead...

this is the last ranking I got... on the very last tick:

1    GG Pinwheel (1121)     1946    42532268    177304
2    Idiots on Ice (1107)     1899    26805060    175695
3    RICKING END OF DAYS (1114)     1570    43161916    147764
4    Lords Of War (1113)     1431    17727470    132799
5    Citizens of the Castle (1122)     910    10257448    107014
6    Not Forgotten (1105)     1503    13868639    106395
7    Samurai Warriors (1111)     1078    16541104    105481
8    Darkness (1103)     1045    9944413    96304
9    Cereal Killers (1117)     661    3949821    52666
10    Attack of the Deleters!!! (1119)     708    6522005    47828
11    Fatality Rise (1104)     292    3727214    46631
12    We arent sure yet... (1118)     505    5770510    44325
13    This Makes No Sense (1120)     388    3068247    34383
14    the inactives (1116)     415    3521142    30807
15    Sextans A is the SEXYEST!!! (1115)     305    3314163    25805
16    Dark Carnival (1109)     358    2602039    25125
17    fam so noobie it has no name (1108)     225    1909182    22617
18    Silverbeards Warriors (1112)     111    411622    15383
19    The brotherhood of spirit (1110)     134    847061    10622
20    THE CYBERLAND GANG (1106)     53    381997    4268

as you can see 1121 jump came in just at the end... well we spent our leftover at least

48hours nap is a good idea if you have any hopes of doing something the rest of the round.

even if you are in mid ranked fam you can save and cancel on the bigger fam. or the forunes may turn and the larger fam might all the sudden find itself mid ranked and you can have a mid ranked vs mid ranked war... or if the mid ranked fam is actually a good fam it may grow to be a top fam...

so if you still have hopes for the round, go for a none pnap... and leave the option for conflict later open.

so if we score points through the entire round that will mean that instead of big fams farming smal fams at the end of the round they will do it all round instead?

seriusly. rankings can be a bit of fun, but don't get to hung up on it, try to have some fun instead.

PW isn't only there for the noobs. it is there for the ppl who are sick of drafting and way to long rounds.

if everyone is forced to play in a drafting galaxy (and whit longer rounds) then I think many of the PW regulars will leave.

you are all talking about bringing back the old type of galaxy, from "the golden age of IC". well the golden age of IC was before they put drafting into the game. so I would actually suport a merger if it was without drafting, I would even put up with long rounds then. but if I had put my name up on this petition I would allready preatty much agreed to the drafting part, even if you say that what is important about this petition is the merger. well for me I would rather play in a smal galaxy without drafting than in a large one with drafting.

hmm... is this idea really about saving the game, or it is about one last fun round? cause if noobs joining the game only have the option of joining a galaxy where there are 12 draft spots in each fam they will not stay. well one in every hundred might of course but most will just leave when they realise that it is imposible to win, or even to grow. sure it is a blast for those on top, but drafting does kill the game.