Wolfpack Common Summer Fever 2013 is over

[Wolfpack]

The Wolfpack Common Summer Fever is over, nevermind won.
Congratulations!

- = [ Empire Power Report ] = -
as of Thu Aug 8 14:42:36 2013

sects eff civ mil shell gun pet iron dust oil pln ship unit money
nevermind 359 90% 318K 6.3K 8.1K 1.5K 26K 56K 3.9K 12K 266 294 53 9.8K
19929.24
DRS 215 99% 211K 6.2K 5.7K 461 9.8K 40K 7.0K 10K 110 224 43 8.9K
14008.80
Rictus 0 0% 4 303 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 16 0 147K
342.56
Bunnyland 1 100% 870 125 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 2 0 9.7K
34.95
---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----
worldwide 575 94% 530K 13K 14K 1.9K 36K 96K 11K 22K 376 536 96 175K


Coming up: Wolfpack Hvy Fall Fever! Watch this space for the
announcement.


> Announcement from POGO, (#0) dated Mon Jul 1 05:53:46 2013
Remember to change your country name *before* breaking sanctuary!

> Announcement from DRS, (#6) dated Mon Jul 1 10:17:57 2013
Who's in a rush to win this game?

nevermind


Who was the first to break sanctuary?

nevermind

Who doesn't believe in caps?

nevermind


What's with all the (stupid) questions?

nevermind

> Announcement from Bunnyland, (#3) dated Tue Jul 2 20:24:25 2013
the hoppers are with you...

> Announcement from visitor, (#9) dated Fri Jul 5 16:04:53 2013
Doesn't look like the hoppers at Bunnyland are doing much hopping??

Need a training video???

> Announcement from Bunnyland, (#3) dated Fri Jul 5 17:48:02 2013
Am a bit late :-/ admitted! Am on my way :-P

> Announcement from visitor, (#9) dated Sat Jul 6 06:30:26 2013
Boy, it sure is quiet!!

Anybody there?

> Announcement from visitor, (#9) dated Sat Jul 6 06:30:33 2013
Ships ahoy!!!

> Announcement from POGO, (#0) dated Tue Jul 9 11:29:54 2013
Attention, please. One of the host's three physical disks has failed.
If another one fails before repairs are complete, we'll be in trouble.

> Announcement from visitor, (#9) dated Tue Jul 9 12:30:27 2013

Uh oh!!


> Announcement from visitor, (#9) dated Wed Jul 10 11:43:12 2013

We have opened a new bank so that all the gold bars would be safe
in the event of another disk failing.

All countries should send their gold bars to the bank, and we will ensure
that even if the disk fails, your bank will not.

The bank is FDIC insured.

Send your gold bars NOW! Before it's too late!!

> Announcement from Bunnyland, (#3) dated Wed Jul 10 17:47:54 2013
How is that to happen?

> Announcement from nevermind, (#1) dated Thu Jul 11 23:55:36 2013
...and in other news this morning, financial markets were shaken over night due
to the poor performance of the Rictus index. Down almost 10,000 points in the
last two days, investors are getting shakey and pulling their money out.
With the Rictus government recently directing treasury funds into socialized
domestic spending, specifially casinos and strip clubs, most fund managers
are shifting their resources. "It's like bread and circuses there," noted one
Wall Street analyst, except the scones are stale and the clowns are just naked fat women with their faces painted."
The Rictus shock wave was felt at the opening beel of the Digital Rectal Stock
exchange. The DRS opened low and continued down. Even with the DRS central
bank buying up deflated DRS pesos with gold reserves, the exchange is still
hovering around the disastorous 5000 level. When asked how far down the market
can go, the President's press secretary said "Low enough for your scrotum to
get carpet burns."

> Announcement from nevermind, (#1) dated Fri Jul 12 00:06:09 2013
Nowhere though, was the financial impact felt more harshly than in nevermind.
Available cash in nevermind has all but dried up. The treasury minister tried
to quell the markets and investors by stating "Hey, we've got 54 more dollars
than Greece and Portugal combined."
Markets were closed for the day in Bunnyland. But they have seemed to be closed
closed for several days lately. The only comment we could get from any person
with any official capacity was the from a worker at the Port Authority. "Yeah,
it's really bad out there," he stated. Last time I saw it this bad was a couple
of days before the start of World War XXVII. Nothing like a good war to fix a
Depression. Of course, I wouldn't want to be the low man on the power chart
when that happens. So sir. Not me."

> Announcement from Rictus, (#4) dated Fri Jul 12 05:43:12 2013
for the regard, those naked fat women with painted faces
you referenced weren't clowns. they were my mother and
sister.

> Announcement from DRS, (#6) dated Fri Jul 12 05:58:48 2013

Forecast for the coming days:

Friday:
DRS Index will continue to dip...get out while you still can!

Saturday:
Breather as we come up for air before taking another plunge!

Sunday:
If you didn't get out by now, you're so SOOL!!
Hope you saved enough beer and chips!!


> Announcement from POGO, (#0) dated Fri Jul 12 06:10:29 2013
Failed hard disk has been replaced, RAID is being rebuilt.

> Announcement from nevermind, (#1) dated Fri Jul 12 11:21:45 2013
Those painted, naked clowns were your mother and sister? Hmmm, looked like a
whole lot more clowns than that. Maybe they are bigger than I thought.
On that note, an old Jay Leno joke (really old)
"They have three sizes at the Lane Bryant store. Husky, Jumbo, and "Oh my God,
it's moving in this direction."

> Announcement from Bunnyland, (#3) dated Fri Jul 12 14:48:17 2013
arghhh, real life sucks... :-( *hop*

> Announcement from POGO, (#0) dated Fri Jul 12 16:52:37 2013
A player inquired whether the update schedule is going to slow down.

No update schedule changes are planned. The current schedule should
ensure the game reaches a natural end before it resets.

However, since there are just four countries playing, I'm willing to
slow down to one update every other day, provided all viable countries
accept.

You can accept or reject by announcement or prayer.

> Announcement from Bunnyland, (#3) dated Sat Jul 13 00:22:53 2013
Slowing down updates would be helpful, accepted!

> Announcement from DRS, (#6) dated Sat Jul 13 02:51:15 2013
Slower updates, rah rah rah!
Accepted.

> Announcement from nevermind, (#1) dated Sat Jul 13 03:52:16 2013
Accepted.

> Announcement from DRS, (#6) dated Sun Jul 14 19:56:17 2013
Yo Bunny!
Take it easy on the research.
You don't have tech yet, that you need to doing R&D already!

> Announcement from nevermind, (#1) dated Sun Jul 14 21:58:43 2013
Maybe Bunny's working on a better way to hop . . . or reproduce . . . or something

> Announcement from DRS, (#6) dated Mon Jul 15 12:11:01 2013
Boy....talk about being down to your last dollar ... almost literally!

> Announcement from nevermind, (#1) dated Tue Jul 16 05:20:41 2013
I've got $3 more than DRS - woo-hoo! :)

> Announcement from DRS, (#6) dated Tue Jul 16 05:37:23 2013
What would've really woo-hoo, was if you had 3 bucks less than me :-)

talk about living on the edge!

> Announcement from nevermind, (#1) dated Tue Jul 16 05:38:46 2013
Now that's tempting . . . .

> Announcement from DRS, (#6) dated Tue Jul 16 05:40:45 2013
Ever had a balance of 0?


> Announcement from nevermind, (#1) dated Tue Jul 16 05:43:03 2013
Umm . . no.

> Announcement from DRS, (#6) dated Tue Jul 16 05:47:51 2013
nevermind



(couldn't resist ;-)

> Announcement from nevermind, (#1) dated Tue Jul 16 06:23:37 2013
bah-dum-dum

> Announcement from POGO, (#0) dated Wed Jul 17 07:02:13 2013
I count three votes for slowing down the update schedule. That's one
vote short. For now, the schedule remains unchanged.

> Announcement from nevermind, (#1) dated Thu Jul 18 21:09:30 2013
so this guy walks into a hopping new club and sits at the bar. Despite all the
music and the lights, the women are all on one side and the men are all on the
other. Naturally, the men all look dejected. then the guy notices that almost
burried among the throng of women is one lone guy. He doesn't look rich, buff,
or handsome, but the women are all over him. Our protagonast turns to the
bartender and says "so what's up with that guy? He doesn't look like anything
special. why are the women all after him?"
"I'm not sure," the bartender bemoans, "but I think it has something to do with
the way he licks his eye brows."

> Announcement from DRS, (#6) dated Mon Jul 22 07:22:55 2013
Well at least there will no longer be any research bleed !

> Announcement from POGO, (#0) dated Tue Jul 23 07:14:07 2013
Regarding slowing down the update schedule to every other day: since
some voters have been / look like they soon will be disenfranchised,
I'm willing to consider this again.

You can accept or reject the schedule change by announcement or
prayer. If you vote multiple times, the last one counts. Yes, that
means you can vote aye in public and nay in private.

If the motion passes, I'll change the schedule after Friday's update.

> Announcement from DRS, (#6) dated Tue Jul 23 07:19:02 2013
Neato!!
My vote remains the same.


Aaaaaaaaaaaaaye that's the way (uh huh, uh huh)
I like it!


(uh huh, uh huh)


(there's an aye in there somewhere...)

> Announcement from DRS, (#6) dated Tue Jul 23 21:41:40 2013
0:Bye-bye 0:so-long...

what's that for?

> Announcement from POGO, (#0) dated Thu Jul 25 18:40:27 2013
*** Attention, please ***

The update schedule has been changed. The next update will fire
at the same time as previously scheduled. From then on, updates
are every 48 hours. Use "show updates" to see the update schedule.

> Announcement from POGO, (#0) dated Sun Jul 28 07:22:14 2013
A player inquired whether submarines require mobility to launch
torpedoes in return to gun fire.

The torpedo command, interdiction and returning a torpedo attack all
require and use up mobility. Returning a gun attack does not.

The torpedo command has always used mobility.

Chainsaw 3 added the other three ways to launch torpedoes, but made
only interdiction and returning a torpedo attack use mobility, not
returning a gun attack. No idea why. It's been that way ever since.

> Announcement from POGO, (#0) dated Thu Aug 1 06:47:23 2013
A player observed that his pilots describe ships as "minimally",
"partially", "moderately" or "completely" constructed, and inquired
what exactly that means.

It means efficiency is below 25%, 25-49%, 50-74%, at least 75%,
respectively.

> Announcement from DRS, (#6) dated Thu Aug 1 06:49:31 2013
"A player observed..." heh...only two of us here and it wasn't me !!!!

> Announcement from nevermind, (#1) dated Thu Aug 1 06:50:54 2013
Maybe Bunny and Rictus are watching from the grave . . . .?

> Announcement from DRS, (#6) dated Thu Aug 1 07:05:30 2013
Observing without having any pilots or captains???

> Announcement from Bunnyland, (#3) dated Thu Aug 1 18:29:19 2013
Who says the Buns still haven't any captains???

> Announcement from DRS, (#6) dated Thu Aug 1 18:38:46 2013
Captain? Who? Where?

> Announcement from Bunnyland, (#3) dated Thu Aug 1 18:58:03 2013
Try searching! :-P

> Announcement from nevermind, (#1) dated Fri Aug 2 03:59:17 2013
I think there should be a limit on the number of cap-sacks by a given player on another given player . . . and besides, doesn't that get old? :P

> Announcement from POGO, (#0) dated Fri Aug 2 17:12:54 2013
A player inquired about the chance of ships interdicting submarines.

Unlike surface ships, which get interdicted reliably, submarines have
a 50% chance to evade the interdicting ship. If multiple ships
interdict, each needs to be evaded separately.

> Announcement from DRS, (#6) dated Mon Aug 5 11:26:52 2013
I concede.
Well played.


> Announcement from nevermind, (#1) dated Tue Aug 6 03:58:14 2013
Thank you and well-played yourself. I thought you might concede after your entire airforce was destroyed but you put up quite the fight!

> Announcement from POGO, (#0) dated Tue Aug 6 18:24:00 2013
A player observed that unloading damaged planes from a fully crewed
carrier into fully populated harbor significantly reduced the plane
repair bill reported by budget. He now wonders how plane repair works
in airfields vs. in other sectors vs. on ships.

Short answer: it's a complicated mess :)

Long answer. There are two independent variables to consider: whether
the plane is on a carrier, and whether the plane is in an airfield.
Yes, the case "plane on a carrier in an airfield" exists. It's not
terribly important in practice, though.

Outside an airfield, 2/3 of the efficiency gain is thrown away. You
get charged materials for the full gain (before anything is thrown
away), but money only for the actual gain.

Effects of being on a carrier include:

* Construction materials and military are optional: if the sector has
them, they're consumed, if not, the plane gets repaired anyway.

* Every two military on the carrier contribute 0.01 work per ETU to
each plane. Yes, that means giving them more planes to repair makes
them work harder.

* Efficiency increase beyond 80% is thrown away, along with any
materials charged for it. Money is charged only for the actual
efficiency gain.

I don't claim this makes much sense, or matches "info build" for any
reasonable interpretation of "match".

Now, how could this explain the player's observations?

The most plausible explanation is work. His harbor could be
relatively low on avail, in particular since ship building happens
before plane building (info Update-sequence). On the carrier, each
plane got some 50 extra work from the crew.

> Announcement from POGO, (#0) dated Tue Aug 6 18:32:11 2013
I interpret recent announcements as "game over". If this is a
misunderstanding, correct me within 48 hours.

Updates are disabled.

> Announcement from POGO, (#0) dated Wed Aug 7 06:22:29 2013
An incredulous player inquired whether carriers repairing planes
really consume materials from a harbor, and you'd be better off
repairing them at sea.

Yes, that's correct.

A quizzical player wonders whether carrier crews really provide so
much work per plane, because he hasn't seen them make that big
repairs.

That's because the player hasn't put his carriers in airfields. Say a
carrier has enough crew to do a whopping 50 work on each plane, a 40%
jf1, and an 80% jf1. jf1 need 0.4 work per point of efficiency, so
work isn't a limit. The first one gains 60%, the second 20%. Except
they're not in an airfield, so 2/3 are thrown away, and they gain only
20% and 6%. Since they are on a carrier, repairs can't go beyond 80%,
so the second one gains nothing. Repairs still try to consume
materials and military for 60% and 20%.

> Announcement from nevermind, (#1) dated Wed Aug 7 22:04:24 2013
So the game is over. Time for the vital stats
tech here is 164 and change.
We have 6981 bars in the bank and income this
update is over $250K. We have 28,720 uws.
So the questions for DRS are
A: Who are you?
B: How many subs do you have?

> Announcement from POGO, (#0) dated Thu Aug 8 17:19:25 2013
*** Common Summer Fever 2013 is over ***

Congratulations to the winner nevermind!

Updates are disabled. A brief game report will be posted to
rec.games.empire.

- = [ Empire Power Report ] = -
as of Thu Aug 8 14:42:36 2013

sects eff civ mil shell gun pet iron dust oil pln ship unit money
nevermind 359 90% 318K 6.3K 8.1K 1.5K 26K 56K 3.9K 12K 266 294 53 9.8K
19929.24
DRS 215 99% 211K 6.2K 5.7K 461 9.8K 40K 7.0K 10K 110 224 43 8.9K
14008.80
Rictus 0 0% 4 303 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 16 0 147K
342.56
Bunnyland 1 100% 870 125 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 2 0 9.7K
34.95
---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----
worldwide 575 94% 530K 13K 14K 1.9K 36K 96K 11K 22K 376 536 96 175K

Thu Aug 8 17:17:44 2013
# name tech research education happiness capital
1 nevermind 164.40 4.44 21.20 0.00 82,-24
3 Bunnyland 75.78 8.89 0.84 0.00 -57,41
4 Rictus 99.39 4.44 1.83 0.00 75,13
6 DRS 170.16 4.44 21.24 0.00 -49,7