Petting Zoo Three is now 2 months into the action. We've had 37 updates so far, and the action continues to intensify. As nations grow, more capital is available for waging war, and technology growth continues to bring new toys into play. All nations with several sectors or more are capable of building a variety of planes, missiles, ships, and land units. Paratroopers are becoming the preferred choice of invasion. Of the original 18 countries that entered Petting Zoo the 3rd, only 7 remain. Since the last game status posting, four countries have been evicted from occupying their home continents and any substantial terrain in the Petting Zoo. Raistmiche, Dorsai!, Nova (changed to PlagueLand), and PCLoadLetter were all haxored. Raistmiche was being overrun in the last posting by FarFarAway, and has since been finished off. Dorsai!, who was among the tech leaders early on, continued to push tech at the expense of building war toys, and Shakespeare and ULKH took advantage of his weakness. Nova, who was the tech leader for the majority of the game so far, also pushed his tech wickedly hard without investing in extensive defenses, which tempted Harlot to visit his palace only to have him reject her advances, and then Nova put up the strongest fight so far in PZ3 trying to keep her off of him, giving Harlot a nasty nightmare of active fighting back and hellish che. And PCLoadLetter, who then became the recent tech leader, was wiped clean from the map in just a matter of days from the Partimers lawnmower machine. (Does anyone notice a trend here?) The world has divided into two major powers. One major power is the FarFarAway and Partimers alliance (with an unoffical beep), these guys have been working together and wiping the world with swift execution and teamwork. The other major power is the Harlot, Shakespeare, ULKH, and PCLoadLetter team, who have banded together and had a very strong position, but are strugging to roll into action to get anything organized and executed. For example, PCLoadLetter was completely wiped in a matter of updates, with little help provided to him, or without a counterattack. Meanwhile, Leutonia is maintaining a neutral position in the world. - = [ Empire Power Report ] = - as of Sun Jan 02 16:16:16 2005 sects eff civ mil shell gun pet iron dust oil pln ship unit money FarFarAway 445 96% 348K 20K 16K 2.5K 22K 44K 1.8K 6.5K 330 290 260 5K Harlot 340 94% 242K 12K 13K 2.3K 27K 58K 2.0K 14K 340 190 130 10K Shakespear 340 97% 273K 20K 19K 1.9K 29K 39K 2.3K 7.9K 230 230 300 10K Partimers 355 89% 258K 12K 14K 1.2K 11K 22K 2.7K 1.5K 240 210 140 30K beep 175 98% 141K 9.7K 8.6K 1.1K 16K 12K 500 3.1K 250 170 120 30K ULKH 110 99% 92K 5.8K 5.5K 425 8.1K 15K 550 1.0K 80 60 40 354 Leutonia 100 100% 88K 4.5K 7.5K 1.2K 3.5K 14K 400 300 70 70 90 10K Raistmiche 0 0% 0 100 17 5 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 40K Tiki 0 0% 0 27 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 30K PCLoadLett 0 0% 0 100 75 10 1.0K 0 0 6 0 5 0 -679 Sunnydale 0 0% 0 100 150 40 0 0 0 0 0 10 0 -5K Anguiron 0 0% 0 33 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 4.1K Johnnyland 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5.0K RapedByFFA 0 0% 0 47 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1.5K PlagueLand 1 14% 11 23 20 4 0 0 19 0 0 2 0 -5K Dorsai! 1 100% 999 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -23K 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 -12K ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- worldwide 1.9K 95% 1.4M 85K 83K 11K 118K 204K 10K 34K 1.5K 1.3K 1.1K 130K === The Bottom Line == Harlot seized several sectors from PlagueLand Partimers seized several sectors from PCLoadLetter Shakespeare seized forty-three sectors from Dorsai! FarFarAway seized thirty-five sectors from Raistmiche FarFarAway seized thirty-one sectors from PCLoadLetter FarFarAway seized twenty-seven sectors from ULKH Partimers seized twenty-four sectors from Harlot ULKH seized seventeen sectors from Dorsai! ULKH seized twelve sectors from PlagueLand Shakespeare seized eleven sectors from PCLoadLetter Harlot seized ten sectors from PCLoadLetter FarFarAway seized eight sectors from PlagueLand Shakespeare captured four sectors from FarFarAway FarFarAway took three sectors from Harlot FarFarAway took two sectors from Dorsai! Partimers took two sectors from Sunnydale beep stole one sector from Shakespeare FarFarAway stole one sector from Sunnydale beep stole one sector from Terminator Deity's Favorite Announcement: (favorite because this anno sparked some interesting suggestions for beep's neicelings...) "> Announcement from beep, (#14) dated Mon Dec 20 23:01:59 2004 *sigh* christmas sux. brother sez to just give the niecelings some money, cuz that's what he and sis-in-law are doing. i figger that's just to impersonal, gotta give the little princesses some bling. figger $100-$150 ought to be able to buy some reasonable nice-sized piece of not-precious-but-not-crap-either bit of sparkle... jeezus h. christ." 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's Yo' Shagdaddy!, Bungholio