o and im just ganna confirm all yalls suspisions of artic and say he pretty much is a moron and screwed our entire fam by running his mouth so much and being so dishonest with people stuff i didnt know until i talked to many and got the same responces from all if i was in 76 90's spot o would pry feel the way they do but do not blame the rest of the fam cause they had nothing to do with his coniving and lies...  still gotta say 71's move clearing me from all over not just within 7 or so tics of them was a bit iaish but whatever i dont really have time for the game atm anyways so just watching works for me right now..

"you guys stalled on nap thas why artic got suspicious and declared on you guys. Now we could of fought it out fair and the best fam comes out on top or just napped but you guys wanted to pull a cowardly move and call 590 in  instead of proving your skills in a 1 on 1 fight"

Good thing you pointed that out, i would like to say we were organising NAP with you as well remember? Then you guys "stalled the NAP" and so we attacked you. We thought you were planning on attacking us first which is why you stalled the NAP! So thanks for backing my point up, love it when people do that

Undeath how would you know what i did? i am the leader, no one else. I havent spoken to you so please shut up until you know what im thinking/doing it and the reasons why!

1    Norwegian Vikings Warmode (571) (x:53,y:16)     1836    33441032

Well this is my family. With Noir the mastermind behind our economy this round, its been as perfect as any IC family could do it. Also with TYMO and Mizzle doing their share of attacks when they are present, we've been slowly progressing all round. Now in a firm lead, and we can pretty much choose where we wanna get involved and just how involved we wanna get there. A comfortable position to be in, and with 2 new camaars in family, we are preparing to snatch the win in the end. Hopefully we will be able to make it happen, since as it is now, we actually do deserve the win in the end, being the most active fam by far.

Contenders ftw

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2    Internet Celebrities (591) (x:75,y:2)     1179    19490226

Seeing as war between 76 and 87 has mostly been standing still lately, there is no other conclusions to make than that our allies might be bypassed before EoR. Since there's nothing worth mentioning for them in terms of war, and they are not really getting attacked by anyone, well I think they might just keep this pcount and rank in nicely in NW in the end.
Should be able to pull off a massive NW jump in the end, with obvious saves, given that they are not already to OB'd all of them to [w00f] up the con science vs empire size %. Wont see much action before EoR, and I think they like it that way.

Will end 2nd-4th

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3    Organs! (576) (x:45,y:56)     2164    17062917

Most aggressive fam of the round in terms of war. They have been giving war all over the place, and allthough its not what I would recommend, its obviously working for them. Allthough far behind in NW when it comes to the top, they have an advantage in being 300planets in front, and with that making 71 have to keep an edge to catch up. Therefore I thank them personally, for making my fam more ative than it needed be, as it is mostly 76's fault we still log on at all.

Will end 2nd-4th

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4    Calamitous Intent (587) (x:14,y:54)     1485    16184282

Seeing that the only reasonable character in this family is Undeath, and he recently got ditched from the vice-leading staff, I can see this family falling. Stryker announcing his unwillingness to keep on battling for them is just the second sign I have of them falling.
How many more will follow into A) Artics disliking or B) Their own disliking, I just cannot tell.
Whats becoming more and more obvious is that the family in itself is dividing itself into these two categories more and more anyways. They will have a hard time patching things up if they are to maintain top 6 position in the end. Personally I have an inch telling me they will just about scramble things together and keep it tight.

Will end 5th-7th

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5    ***SpAce ShiPs*** (599) (x:75,y:73)     1050    13324027

Colorado's fam has grown alot lately, allthough not so much in pcount as in size, and allthough more on colorado than on anyone else, I think we see a very clear tendency here, something that happens when top 10 leaders give up the fight and care more about their own EoR rank. Yes its the personal gain complex, and I think that when EoR comes up, Colorado will have been raped by one or the other, for pulling this dishonourable crap on his own family. Personally it makes me abit sad, cause colorado is a good person once you get to know him.

Will end 6th-8th

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6    Prison Break (590) (x:40,y:48)     1591    13314002

T Rex's family has fallen abit behind lately, but only in NW. Something tells me they recently join in on war against 87, and decided to put infra on a rest for awhile. Bad idea. Still I know that T Rex has it in his hart to really [w00f] up a family when he starts attacking them, so I hope he's chosen the right direction for his family. And hopefully we will see them rise above the families that have infrajumped above them.

Will end 4th-6th

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7    TeH LosT RooM (573) (x:7,y:24)     893    11602020

A NAP in the east and a WAR in the west, this family is alittle tied up by relations, and allthough not facing the worst of opponents, their relations are becoming abit of a problem to them. Top player Bus Ticket has been skirmishing with the SS'ers 71 a couple of weeks, and haven't really come out of it winning. Needs to maintain focus on their wars, to gain the pcount needed. Also needs to sort out some of their relations in order to be free to do what they want.

Will end 6th-8th

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8    ((Ready Set Go!!)) (598) (x:14,y:78)     926    10800283

Bonanza's family is much like Killamahire's Lost Room family when it comes to how they handle things. Alittle tied up by relations they do not need in order to succeed. Chosen some too hard targets for awhile, and getting punished for it. Now trying to get on some weaker targets and might just have chosen well there, could succeed and bring home some new planets, as this is one of the few families left in top 10 that actually cares to do retakes.

Will end 7th-9th

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9    DJ Eagle (596) (x:7,y:25)     754    9971890

Sorry but this family has fallen off my radar, ahvent seen em anywhere, doing anything. My guess is they secured a decent core and is now just jumping it in in terms of infra. how long until a top fam finds them ? I just dont know, but when their found they better be prepared with defenses. It takes just one small eager camaar to take down one badass core.

If left alone will end : 8th-10th
If found : somewhere down in the below 15th's

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10    The Breakfast Bunch (592) (x:33,y:51)     525    7112987

Breakfast bunch has performed some well moves since mid-round until now. Was ranked pretty far down, but with successful use of both Satan and Apocalypse, they grow fast, and grow right. Might be taken down as a sidekill from 71 if making themselves available through attacks. If not there are other families interested in taking down this wellbred breakfast family.

Will end 10th-12th

Well if its by any chance I am mistaken then I am sorry

But keep in mind I write PvC's 75% for entertainment. Only like 25% of what I say is facts

86 gets honourable mention. Aside from that, there's not much to comment.

ROFL@Gondor ^^

> Dаmon wrote:

10    The Breakfast Bunch (592) (x:33,y:51)     525    7112987

Breakfast bunch has performed some well moves since mid-round until now. Was ranked pretty far down, but with successful use of both Satan and Apocalypse, they grow fast, and grow right. Might be taken down as a sidekill from 71 if making themselves available through attacks. If not there are other families interested in taking down this wellbred breakfast family.

Will end 10th-12th

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Yes, you are right with this one! We had bad start of the round and we had bunch of chicken wuss deleting from our family just because we had "crappy" homebase position surrounded by 583, 590, and 572. You can see that by looking at IC Map Gen. 572 declared war on my fam, thinking they can destroy us, but it was early expo war and it was mistake, ofc. We managed to beat them down when they ranked #14 all the way down to #19 and we were #24 and gained up to #20. But we stopped and 572 dropped 587 as ally and allied us instead. It was very interesting family to ally with and I have no regret in allying them, even through we wish we hadn't this expo war. I decided to take leadership because it is critical stage for our growth and spread. We had to share cores and we had to clear every cores. We had fights with several fams in top ten, trying to infiltrate into our cores. It's not EASY! But it was very challenging.

However, I don't know if we will stay in 10th to 12th any longer because 586 and 574 probably catch up in infra and pass us by. I'm not surprised unless they end up in war that will slow them down.

I really don't care if 571 beat us back into bottom 20th, but that will show ourselves that we are better than "whiners" because I believe whining will do nothing, but fight back with all you got. Even 571 has capable to destroy us easily, but that won't stop us from giving up. I'm proud of my family even we had some problems that we need to sort out.

Ahh, so there's some reason left in the fam afterall ^^

Rexxie, I never expected less ^^

I hope you are kidding about 599 Damon...If anything me and Vindi are hogging all fam resources and selling them to your fam...Did you get that 5 mill iron I sold at .01 the other day?  Colorado has done one hell of a job attacking this round, as good a job as one could do in my opinion.