by Frans Slothouber
The experimental Galaxy Game Xzone has ended after 42 violent turns.
The wining aliance:
o Olympus Heikki Poso o THE_UNSEEN Jacco van Weert o Children of Icarus Patrick Wildenborg
Second Place:
o Angels Mark Slobodkin
This is a record of the last three turns.... It show the angels being forced into surrender by the combined force of Olympus and the Unseen.
Turn 42
# lt Nation Pop dlt Ind dlt eInd dlt tech # dlt 1 0 Olympus 24819 2032 23406 1638 23760 1736 1.16 95 11 2 0 THE_UNSEEN 19534 2235 16576 1990 17315 2051 2.58 75 10 3 1 Children_Of_Icar 12656 823 11033 700 11439 731 1.67 46 1 4 -1 Angels 1672-11656 1086 -9748 1233-10225 0.04 8 -21 5 0 Crippled 985 -881 985 -881 985 -881 0.00 1 -1
Turn 41
# lt Nation Pop dlt Ind dlt eInd dlt tech # dlt 1 0 Olympus 22787 1535 21769 1172 22023 1263 1.10 84 13 2 0 THE_UNSEEN 17299 1213 14586 940 15264 1008 0.16 65 11 3 0 Angels 13328 -3580 10834 -2281 11458 -2606 0.88 29 -23 4 0 Children_Of_Icar 11833 289 10334 526 10709 466 0.84 45 1 5 0 Crippled 1866 -547 1866 -547 1866 -547 0.00 2 -1 6 0 Terkans 0 -45 0 -45 0 -45 0.00 0 -1 7 0 Sirenes 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0
Turn 40
# lt Nation Pop dlt Ind dlt eInd dlt tech # dlt 1 0 Olympus 21252 809 20597 1647 20761 1437 1.02 71 4 2 0 THE_UNSEEN 16085 196 13646 506 14256 428 0.26 54 0 3 0 Angels 16909 850 13116 543 14064 619 0.73 52 0 4 0 Children_Of_Icar 11544 438 9808 672 10242 613 1.04 44 2 5 0 Crippled 2414 -1196 2414 -886 2414 -963 0.00 3 -2 6 0 Terkans 45 -1847 45 -1847 45 -1847 0.01 1 -4 7 1 Sirenes 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0
Xzone was an experimental game to test a few modifications to the standard rules of galaxy. One of the major changes was that a player bombing a planet of an ememy became the owner of that planet. (Though population and industry were reduced to 25% of their original value). The idea was that this would speed up this game. And it certainly has done so in this game.
The game started with 15 players
o Squats o THE_UNSEEN o Lilliputians o Crippled o Terkans o Kabbalists o Angels o House_Fung o Dragon o Flonkers o Olympus o Sirenes o Mongoose o Children_Of_Icarus o Lab
Crippled took an early lead by taking out the Squats within the first 3 turns. Soon the other players also recognized that the new rule implied that fighting was the only way to growth and that being idle meant doom.
Making the following victims
o Lab (turn 7) o House of Fung (turn 10) o Lilliputians (turn 11) o Mongoose (turn 15) o Flonkers (turn 18) o Kabbalists (turn 20)
By turn 25, 5 major powers had established themselves
1 Olympus 2 Crippled 3 THE_UNSEEN 4 Children_Of_Icarus 5 Sirenes
A major battle between the Sirenes vs Angels, Terkans, and Dragon. tipped the balance for the Sirenes, Terkans, and Dragon, and put the Angels on the top with the big ones.
During the following final turns an economic race developed. Crippled, being in second place for a long time, was taken out by the Unseen, and in the final three turns the Angels were taken out by the Unseen and Olympus (partly as a revenge for taking out the sirenes, an early ally of the Unseen).
