**** Report #4 - 29 Updates into it - Dec 15 2004 **** A long overdue post by the Deity, it's been [almost] 3 weeks since my last post on the progress of the Petting Zoo Three game. We're now 29 updates into the fun. Since my last posting, there have been 6 more players completely eliminated from the game: RapedByFFA (formerly Hedgemon), Johnnyland, Tiki, wales, EmpireKing, and Sunnydale. Harlot, who has held the top spot in the power chart for the past 19 updates, has been de-throned by FarFarAway just last night! RapedByFFA was the second player to be eliminated in PZ3, he was double teamed by FarFarAway and Partimers. Johnnyland was the third to go, Shakespeare got all of that. Tiki was gulped down by Harlot, with a little side dressing for Shakespeare. wales, who was the most sacked so far, was haxored by FarFarAway. And EmpireKing was carved up, flame broiled, and served al-dente by Shakespeare, PCLoadLetter, and Harlot. Sunnydale was another victim of the FarFarAway and Partimers lawn grooming machine. Meanwhile, battles are continuing, and mega-alliances are forming. FarFarAway has been busy working on Raistmiche (formerly RimFire), with some assists from ULKH and Dorsai!. Shakespeare has been munching on Dorsai!'s backdoor. The power blocks shaping up appear to be FarFarAway and Partimers (with a possible, yet *unofficial*, beep), versus Harlot, Shakespeare, and PCLoadLetter. There are some wildcard countries out there, who can definitely turn the tide depending on whether they join a particular side, remain neutral (ie: get munched), or play their techtoy card. The wildcards include: Nova (who has a tech lead over all other countries), ULKH (who is the next most powerful on the charts and has impressive tech), Leutonia (who has shown that they are dug-in, and are not to be easily rolled or tampered with), and Dorsai! (who has brought the battle to another continent while his backdoor gets munched on). Tough choices, do the teams want to provide protective support for these potential supportive allies, roll them so the opposition doesn't get them for their potential benefits, or roll them just 'cuz they are in the way? Can these straggler countries sell themselves for why they should be spared or allowed to join the alliances, or will they all band together as a third party? Players are able to build Jet fighter planes. The tech leaders can build Jet- Fighter Bombers, short range missiles, and train Marines. (summary of the news from the past 20 days) === The Bottom Line == FarFarAway seized several sectors from wales Harlot seized seventy-nine sectors from Tiki Shakespeare seized sixty-two sectors from Johnnyland FarFarAway seized fifty-seven sectors from Raistmiche FarFarAway seized fifty-four sectors from Sunnydale Shakespeare seized fifty-three sectors from Dorsai! Partimers seized forty-one sectors from Sunnydale Shakespeare seized thirty sectors from EmpireKing Harlot seized nineteen sectors from EmpireKing PCLoadLetter seized fourteen sectors from EmpireKing Shakespeare seized thirteen sectors from Tiki ULKH seized eleven sectors from Raistmiche Dorsai! seized eight sectors from Raistmiche Shakespeare captured six sectors from Raistmiche FarFarAway captured six sectors from RapedByFFA Dorsai! captured five sectors from ULKH Partimers captured five sectors from RapedByFFA Sunnydale captured five sectors from Terminator Leutonia captured four sectors from Terminator ULKH took three sectors from Terminator Harlot took two sectors from Anguiron FarFarAway took two sectors from Terminator Harlot stole one sector from Shakespeare wales stole one sector from Sunnydale Shakespeare stole one sector from Leutonia beep stole one sector from Terminator Partimers stole one sector from Terminator - = [ Empire Power Report ] = - as of Wed Dec 15 22:12:02 2004 sects eff civ mil shell gun pet iron dust oil pln ship unit money FarFarAwa 350 96% 268K 12K 6.3K 1.4K 9.9K 35K 1.8K 7.3K 190 130 160 45K Harlot 270 100% 215K 12K 7.2K 1.3K 14K 34K 1.4K 12K 180 150 150 5.0K Shakespea 275 99% 218K 9.9K 8.8K 780 16K 30K 3.0K 5.0K 130 160 160 2.3K Partimers 225 96% 176K 7.0K 6.6K 560 6.3K 18K 950 400 110 150 80 15K beep 160 97% 127K 7.8K 4.7K 630 8.8K 19K 1.1K 2.6K 120 150 90 40K PCLoadLet 125 98% 100K 4.7K 2.7K 505 9.9K 12K 450 700 60 60 40 20K Nova 105 100% 99K 4.3K 3.8K 410 9.8K 7.9K 350 2.0K 80 40 40 10K ULKH 105 98% 88K 4.5K 4.9K 395 5.3K 8.6K 500 750 60 60 30 875 Leutonia 95 98% 79K 3.9K 3.0K 450 2.3K 16K 400 350 50 50 50 5.0K Dorsai! 50 97% 37K 2.1K 925 125 6.6K 6.7K 600 550 40 50 10 578 Raistmich 30 100% 23K 850 525 80 45 4.5K 50 2 10 20 20 45K Sunnydale 0 0% 0 150 300 55 0 0 0 0 0 20 0 10K Tiki 0 0% 0 27 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 30K Johnnylan 0 0% 0 10 10 2 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 5.0K Anguiron 0 0% 0 33 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 5.0K RapedByFF 0 0% 0 47 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 3.9K wales 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -800 EmpireKing 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -10K ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- worldwide 1.8K 98% 1.4M 70K 50K 6.7K 89K 191K 10K 32K 1.0K 1.1K 830 235K Deities favorite announcement: " > Announcement from Sunnydale, (#16) dated Sun Dec 12 00:51:49 2004 Looks like I've been invaded. I think I feel a baby coming on... " (in reference to the 'convenient' timing of EK's `wife's` going into labor just as his country was being overrun, so now it seems to be a good excuse for why you were unable to man your post when the onslaught was brungst.) Petting Zoo Three is hosted at: sheepfarm.game-host.org:6666, with Deities Bungholio and Ski. The visitor account is available. The official PZ3 game webpage is: http://www.angelfire.com/empire2/bungholio/PettingZooThree.html If you would like to be added to the "replacement players" list or the "temporary sub" list (in the event an opening comes up), send an email to empire_bungholio @ verizon.net saying such. Who'sYourShagdaddy, Bungholio