Spinner and Fifth Season declared that Planetarion is closing and that Round 8 will be the last round. I don't know how many of you have played Planetarion, but it is an Online-Text Based game. You play as one of four races (Terran, Cathaar, Xandathaii, Zikonian) and start with a planet. You climb the 5 tech trees (one of them being race specific) in order to gain more asteroids and spread your power.

This is one of the last decent Online Browser games around, it has 22000 players and each round you play lasts 3-4 months. There are no advertisements and there is an intricate alliance/political structure that make it one of the best Online Browser games to date. It has a clean-cut interface and unlike other browser games this one revolves around teamwork and strategy instead of just building up.

Spinner annouced a few days ago this would be the last round, due to lack of funds and an over taxing free account system. In this next round there will be no more free accounts. It costs $10 to play Planetarion per round, and each round lasts several months. This round (7) is just ending, and Round 8 sign ups will be occuring in the days to come. I would like to encourage you all to goto www.planetarion.com and check out the manual forums. If we get 15,000 people to sign up and pay for Planetarion than we may have a round 9. Thanks for your help.

-Chimera

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Wizard's First Rule: People are Stupid - Zeddicus Zu'l Zorander

Good riddance. Now you people can get back to actually doing productive things, like curing cancer or picking your nose.

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Sonderlich Die, welche sich "die Guten" heissen, fand ich als die giftigsten Fliegen: sie stechen in aller Unschuld, sie lügen in aller Unschuld; wie vermöchten sie, gegen mich--gerecht zu sein! ... Die Dummheit der Guten nämlich ist unergründlich. -- Friedrich Nietzsche, Also Sprach Zarathustra (7.19)
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Spamguy I will hunt you down and viciously murder your entire family if you say that again. Mark my words.

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Wizard's First Rule: People are Stupid - Zeddicus Zu'l Zorander

How will having 15k people play round 8 save the game? I checked out the portal; its sounds like Spinner is set on closing it no matter what.

Unless you know something I don't, I don't plan on spending money on a game so I can watch it die. If the round is bad I'll have a bad memory of it; if its great I'll be bummed the game doesn't exist anymore.

Plus, I do not and never have had several hours each day to waste hanging out on IRC in lieu of every other productive aspect of my life. Especially now. Plus, I'm rather annoyed by this news, given that pay2play was touted as the saving grace that would keep the game going for another year or two. 2 or 3 rounds later, the game shuts down. Look, I'm sorry but....what the hell did everyone give Fifth Season their money for? Ultimately, p2p didn't change anything. No.....I won't finance their shutdown and drain valuable time out of my life.

Sorry, but you'll have to count me out. All good things have to end sooner or later.

UEC

P.S. Its a different story entirely if Spinner's said somewhere that PA will live for R9 if there are enough signups. If he said that then show me where, because I couldn't find it. If there is no conformation of this, then I have nothing more to say.

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[This message has been edited by UE Crusader (edited 09-04-2002).]

I am printing out your post and marking it with my favourite bright yellow highlighter right now.



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Sonderlich Die, welche sich "die Guten" heissen, fand ich als die giftigsten Fliegen: sie stechen in aller Unschuld, sie lügen in aller Unschuld; wie vermöchten sie, gegen mich--gerecht zu sein! ... Die Dummheit der Guten nämlich ist unergründlich. -- Friedrich Nietzsche, Also Sprach Zarathustra (7.19)
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sheesh, if you want to waste your life on a browser game, play www.hyperiums.com This is probably the best game of that type ever developed. I had to stop it because it was literally taking what little time I had away from me.

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just games or death, and were all out of death!

The first four rounds of the game were great. Rounds 5-7 really sucked.

Round five was too slow (no action because ships were expensive and died too quickly, thus people didn't want to risk them in battle).

Round six was also slow after the first few months. They made PDS WAY too powerfull, and noone could possibly attack a PDS-whore.

Round Seven's not too bad, but there's hardly anyone left to play against. Plus there are far too many ships to chose from. I liked it when it was more simple.

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See I'm the king of the swingers, the Jungle V.I.P.,
But I've reached the top and had to stop,
And that's what's
botherin' me.

I cant get into Hyperiums, and Spinner did say 15k sign ups = saved game. You have to join the alliance Pa-Stay to get these updates, or check the forums.

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Wizard's First Rule: People are Stupid - Zeddicus Zu'l Zorander

PDS whores have always been hard to attack untill this round really and even in round 7 they have been generally avoided. Round 5 was good fun, although it stagnated at the endlike every round.

Oh, and like the last 5 rounds I'll be playing next round as well.



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I have great memories of Round 3 and Round 4. Yeah, I sucked, but I was under the delusion that I didn't. I liked that delusion.

Round 6, I have a bad memory of. Our galaxy was in a cluster with a lot of Furygion galaxies. Every night, we were roided. Our GC was overthrown and a new one installed; he promised to end the raids. That night, we got raided again.

I thought our galaxy was dead. I left the game.

Two weeks later, what do I discover? The galaxy made a miracle comeback. They were now on top of the cluster. If only I had stayed, I would have immense bragging rights.

That turned me off to PA, I vowed never to play again.

However, now that I hear the game is going at it one last time, I just might play. I just need some information on the alliance situation. If the powerblocks are still as powerful, I will certainly not play. If they have fallen, count me in.

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Two powerblocks were formed in Round 7, they were FLTV (Fury, Legion, Titans, ViruS, +smaller alliances like ToT) and NewX (NoS, Elysium, WolfPack, and Xanadu). A third powerblock Auld (Hirr, Rock, and some other Mid-sized Alliances) never really got off the ground.

Anyways someone in NoS screwed up leading 18 million ships to their death in a span of 72 hours. Apparently someone messed up what type of ships to send to which galaxies and wallah the end. NewX was completely defeated by tick 1000 and Stagnation set in. WolfPack and NoS were completely obliterated and are considered low level alliances now, Xanadu and Elysium survived to some degree and are expected to make a come back next round. FLTV block is on the verge of a major civil war with Fury and Legion about to go at each other's throats. Round 8 will have Random Galaxies, and with the immient civil war (stalled by end of round Havoc) and the destruction of two major alliances powerblocks of any power seem very unlikely. Its looking like Fury and ViruS will ally and Legion and Titans (a legion spawned alliance) will also ally. But a Fury VS Legion war is worth the $10 in my opinion seeing as Furgion (Fury + Legion) relations have been unbreakable for 3 rounds now. If they get 15k paying players there will be a round 9, but seeing as there are only 8k paying in round 7 that doesnt seem likely, so I encourage you all to come and play this last round, lest you miss possibly the most interesting round in since Round 3.

-Chimera

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Wizard's First Rule: People are Stupid - Zeddicus Zu'l Zorander

FINALLY!

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DearGod,that'snotvery up to date

1. It's gonna be 10 random accounts per gal with 10 gals per cluster.

2. Legion have disbanded.

3. Syn_Sid is Back

4. Zhil is still an arrogant bastard.

5. Xanadu have moved to a different game, they have subsequently split into the alliances Core, LDK, Section and KoN for PA purposes.

6. Relatively new alliances such as TiTans and FAnG pose a threat to Fury.

7. Fury are isolated having no friends other than RaH really.

8. There are allegedly no powerblocks as they would be almost unworkable in a random uni.

9. Spinner still hasn't a clue.


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I haven't logged on since the ticks stopped. Legion disbanded? Really?

And I thought it was 16 paid accounts in a galaxy with 16 galaxies in a cluster. (Changed from 8 paid 8 free). Oh well, I have been in an uproar with this whole Greek thing.


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Wizard's First Rule: People are Stupid - Zeddicus Zu'l Zorander

Didn't FoS kick Fury's arse in round 6?

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Kinescope: heh heh... that just inpired me to a potential new quit message
Kinescope: Read error: Connection reset by illiteracy
Kinescope: no offense to those who cannot read, of course....

Update - of the top alliances (Fury, NoS, Legion, Titans, Wolfpack, Xanadu, Elysium, and Virus) they stand so.

Disbanded: NoS, Legion, Wolfpack, Xanadu

Going into Round 8: Fury, Titans, Virus, Elysium

Round 7 had Fury-Legion-Titans-Virus allied to form the alliance powerblock FLTV
and had NoS, Elysium, Wolfpack, and Xanadu allied to form NewX.

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Yep, Octoberfost saw what we all saw in round 6, after a full week of being raped by Furgion, GlueBubble pleaded to the galaxy to oust UECrusader from the GC spot so he could have a shot. I believe he actually said 'What have we got to lose?' At first I was reluctant, I mean, UEC wasnt a terrible GC, and he did get us into the game in the first place, but he was never on IRC. After we got Gluey in the top spot, he set to making connections to alliances, something UEC refused to do. UEC had his reasons, stating that large alliances really care little about who is in them and will attack their own members if they are being insubordinate. He hated Furgion with a passion and from that powerblock he hated all powerblocks. Gluey saw his chance and got our galaxy under the wing of FoS, which was a godsend. The day after Gluey was in, we were home free. I was set back, having spent my res trying to defend my ass instead of sitting back and letting the enemy rip me a new one. But after a week, we were back on our feet, ready to strike. October came back a week later to a revitalized galaxy. We had alliances, we had NAPs, we had a new galaxy banner. We were great. UEC said nothing, but he followed like the rest of us, seeing that Gluey was in fact, a true leader. For the rest of the round, we rose in our cluster, and ended up in 6th place in the cluster. Not bad for us since we did get raped hardcore early on. We became close friends with 24:7, our neighbors, and we even shared a IRC spot with them. We invited them to #axis as equals, and they became our most intimate friends. In this round we saw the impossible happen, FoS and another alliance allied into a powerblock and kicked the crap out of Furgion so bad that it couldnt compete with them. After that, the alliance split and Furgion teamed up (somewhat) with FoS to knock out that alliance as it became rowdy. Furgion wouldnt dare attack FoS though, for it was too big and powerful to fight against, and that was the main reason FoS even lasted that long, since the member alliances started having doubts about the other alliances. Their lead on their enemies kept them together for the rest of the round.
We hopped up to #260 I believe in that round. In havoc we jumped into top 250 cause we had a full gal but that was somewhat short lived. Me and karrde went on a few raids before he catastrophicly lost most of his fleet. oh well, good fun. From that, we went on to round 7.

The first few weeks went by perfectly, we built up, and built up, and built up. Then we looked and said 'hey!! we are #74!!!'. It was about this time that everyone else realized this and then we got slammed hard. After this slamming, most of us became disillusioned, and AXIS was falling apart. A couple weeks later, in a shocking chain of events, Gluey resigned, saying he couldnt keep up with the game anymore, Payback resigned saying he needed a life, and I resigned cause I had one and PA was interferring. Through the rest of the round, the gal tried but couldnt get over the losses. We could have been great, but we didnt do anything, so therefore we didnt become great. In the end, I jumped back into it and started taking pleasure in killing off fawning morons with elite forces of unipods and pegs. But that wasnt enough for me to want to stay.

In the end, the thing that kept us all togther in round 6 was the constant conflict with one another and everyone pulling together on IRC. Payback and Gluey became some of the cooler people I know that way, and I got to know a lot more of the galmembers since I was on a lot. Nickle would come by and annoy the hell out of us, so we locked his op ability and kicked him a lot, but he was a constant friend. If round 6 could be repeated, I may play again, for that was fun. I wouldnt embrace PA as intimately for as all the other galmembers said, my grades dropped. Ask gluey or payback sometime what PA did to their grades and they will grumble. But also ask if they had fun and they will give the two thumbs up.

So, no, I will not play this round due to time constraints. Have a fun round. Kill some Fury bastards and take out what replaces Legion.

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[This message has been edited by Desert Fox (edited 09-13-2002).]

Nos and Wolfpack are still about but will probably get cnutted this round, you should probably include FaNG, LDK and RaH as top alliances, ooh, look at all that competition. The state of MDK, Adelante, Flash etc. I don't know, Adelante should be interesting though.


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