Planetarion

Round 46 Rankings

Fri, 11 May 2012 20:19:18 +0000

Rankings/Stats from Round 46:
Top 100 Planets
Top 50 Galaxies
Top 30 Alliances
Top 100 Launchers
Top 100 Covert Ops
Combat stats
Resource stats

Round 46/ 47 Update

Wed, 09 May 2012 14:45:34 +0000

All,
We have a few updates on the next few rounds:
Round 46
Round 46 - Sleep Deprived Zombies is coming to a close. The final tick, as mentioned on the Overview page, is 1177, and occurs at 20:00 GMT on Friday, 11th May.

The End of Round Ceremony (EoRC) is scheduled for Friday, 11th May at 21:00 GMT for an hour in #planetarion on irc.netgamers.org (accessible via the com unit). It will consist of:
-interviews with the top players
-interviews with the top galaxy
-interviews with representatives of the top alliance
-the alliance competition (allcomp), where users will [tag] in their nickname for their alliance, and the winning alliance will win 3 credits.

After the EoRC has been completed, the game will be setup for the "havoc" period, of fast-ticked madness. This will run from 09:00 GMT on Saturday, 12th May and continue until at least Monday 14th May. The setup will be as follows:
-All researches completed
-500 million resources total (split over metal/crystal/eonium according to race)
-3000 asteroids total (split over metal/crystal/eonium according to race)
-30 of each factory, 30 wave amplifiers, 50 security centres and 30 of each refinery ADDED to each planet
-Fleets recalled
-XP will be kept
-Asteroid mining limits increased to 8 million asteroids total
-Maximum construction limit set at 800 constructions
-Ticks set at every 15 minutes
-Alliance waiting time will be removed for changing alliances

Round 47

Round 47 signups will open by Friday, 25th May at 20:00 GMT.
Submissions for Round 47's name is NOW OPEN - please e-mail suggestions to round47@planetarion.com, with the subject "Round Name Suggestion". Submissions will be open until the end of the round, with the winner (selected on a public poll) getting a free credit.

Round 47 Ticks will start Friday, 1st June at 20:00 GMT and continue for 7 weeks.

Beta stats for next round will be available shortly on the beta server; changes will also be announced before signups.

Best of luck in the last days of the round,

PA Team

Round 46 Signups Now Open!

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 20:22:10 +0000

All, Round 46 - Sleep Deprived Zombies - is now open.

The changes are as follows:
-Attack prelaunch has changed from 2 ticks to 6 ticks
-Zikonian ships can now steal up to 25% of a target's resources with their new "Galleon" ship (which steals up to 200 resources per ship)
-Ship Stats, Government Bonuses and Race Bonuses are all now provisionally final.

Just a reminder that the only way to guarantee to be in the same galaxy as another player is via buddy packs, found on the preferences screen.

Best of luck this round!

PA Team

Round 45 Rankings

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 20:17:26 +0000

Rankings/Stats from Round 45:
Top 100 Planets
Top 50 Galaxies
Top 30 Alliances
Top 100 Launchers
Top 100 Covert Ops
Combat stats
Resource stats

Round 45/ 46 Update

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 09:07:09 +0000

Round 45
We are now nearing the end of Round 45 - Outer Rim. The final tick, as mentioned on the Overview page, is 1177, and occurs at 20:00 GMT on Friday, 2nd March.

The End of Round Ceremony (EoRC) is scheduled for Friday, 2nd March at 21:00 GMT for an hour in #planetarion on irc.netgamers.org (accessible via the com unit). It will consist of interviews with the top players, the top galaxy and representatives of the alliance, and then finish with an alliance competition (allcomp), where users will [tag] in their nickname for their alliance, and the winning alliance will win a few credits.
After the EoRC has been completed, the game will be setup for the "havoc" period, of fast-ticked madness. This will run for at least one week and be setup as follows:
-All researches completed
-500 million resources total (split over metal/crystal/eonium according to race)
-3000 asteroids total (split over metal/crystal/eonium according to race)
-30 of each factory, 30 wave amplifiers, 50 security centres and 30 of each refinery ADDED to each planet
-Fleets recalled
-XP will be kept
-Asteroid mining limits increased to 8 million asteroids total
-Maximum construction limit set at 800 constructions
-Ticks set at every 15 minutes

Havoc will start at 10:00 GMT on Saturday, 3rd March.

Round 46
Round 46 signups will open by Friday, 16th March at 20:00 GMT.
Voting for Round 46's name is NOW OPEN - please e-mail suggestions to round46@planetarion.com, with the subject "Round Name Suggestion". Submissions will be open until the end of the round, with the winner (selected on a public poll) getting a free credit.

Round 46 Ticks will start Friday, 23rd March at 20:00 GMT and continue for 7 weeks.

Buddy packs and alliance limits will continue to be at the following values:
Buddy Packs: 5
Maximum Alliance Size: 80
Alliance Members that count towards total score: 50

Prelaunch for attack fleets adjusted to 6 ticks, to be in line with defence fleet prelaunch values for the current round. Any further changes will be announced closer to tick start.

Multi target stats will also be available shortly on the beta server.

Best of luck in for the last few days of the round!
PA Team

Round 45 Signups Open!

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 20:09:48 +0000

Round 45 signups are now open!

Ship Stats, Government and Race stats will all be confirmed by tomorrow evening (20:00 GMT).

Buddy Packs are at 5 in total, and alliances have 50 members counting and 80 members total as their limits, as for the last few rounds.

The main changes this round are as follows:

Prelaunch for attacking fleets has been cut to 2 ticks.
Prelaunch for defence fleets has been cut to 6 ticks.

The news page also now has a filter to allow you to only view certain types of your news.

Beta testing will open tomorrow morning (Saturday, 7th January)

Planetarion Update: Round 44, Winter Round, Round 45

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 21:00:36 +0000

Round 44

Round 44 has now finished.

Havoc will be running from Saturday morning until Monday evening. To reiterate

The setup will be as follows:
-All researches completed
-500 million resources total (split over metal/crystal/eonium according to race)
-3000 asteroids total (split over metal/crystal/eonium according to race)
-30 of each factory, 30 wave amplifiers, 50 security centres and 30 of each refinery ADDED to each planet
-Fleets recalled
-XP will be kept
-Asteroid mining limits increased to 8 million asteroids total
-Maximum construction limit set at 800 constructions
-Ticks set at every 15 minutes
-Alliance waiting time will be removed for changing alliances

The End of Round Ceremony is about to start in #planetarion on irc.netgamers.org

It will consist of:
-interviews with the top players
-interviews with the top galaxy
-interviews with representatives of the top alliance
-the alliance competition (allcomp), where users will [tag] in their nickname for their alliance, and the winning alliance will win 3 credits.

Festive Winter Round 2011

Winter round signups are now open at http://xmas.planetarion.com

The following things should be noted:
1) you can login via your normal game username and password and create a private galaxy in preferences
2) stats and race bonuses are NOT final. Stats WILL BE multi targetting stats
3) alliances will be set up on a per-galaxy basis after protection ends.

Code is based on Round 45 code, with the previously announced changes:
-Private galaxies of 8 and random galaxies
-No alliances
-No defence limitations
-2 Cluster defence ETA bonus
-Ticks will be 30 minutes long

Round 45

Suggestions for Round 45's name are still open - please e-mail suggestions to round45@planetarion.com, with the subject "Round Name Suggestion". Submissions will be open until the end of the round, with the winner (selected on a public poll) getting a free credit.

Round 44 Rankings

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 20:13:27 +0000

Rankings/Stats from Round 44:
Top 100 Planets
Top 50 Galaxies
Top 30 Alliances
Top 100 Launchers
Top 100 Covert Ops
Combat stats
Resource stats

Planetarion Update - Round 44, Winter and Round 45

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 22:32:16 +0000

All,
We have a few updates on the next few rounds:

Round 44
Round 44 - Space Sheep is coming to a close. The final tick, as mentioned on the Overview page, is 1177, and occurs at 20:00 GMT on Friday, 16th December.
This Friday (9th December), we will be removing vacation mode and monitoring c200 to ensure larger planets don't hide in there. Anyone who needs to be in vacation mode in the last week of the round should contact us by raising a support ticket with the details.

The End of Round Ceremony (EoRC) is scheduled for Friday, 16th December at 21:00 GMT for an hour in #planetarion on irc.netgamers.org (accessible via the com unit). It will consist of:
-interviews with the top players
-interviews with the top galaxy
-interviews with representatives of the top alliance
-the alliance competition (allcomp), where users will [tag] in their nickname for their alliance, and the winning alliance will win 3 credits.

After the EoRC has been completed, the game will be setup for the "havoc" period, of fast-ticked madness. This will run from 09:00 GMT on Saturday, 17th December and continue until at least Monday 19th December. The setup will be as follows:
-All researches completed
-500 million resources total (split over metal/crystal/eonium according to race)
-3000 asteroids total (split over metal/crystal/eonium according to race)
-30 of each factory, 30 wave amplifiers, 50 security centres and 30 of each refinery ADDED to each planet
-Fleets recalled
-XP will be kept
-Asteroid mining limits increased to 8 million asteroids total
-Maximum construction limit set at 800 constructions
-Ticks set at every 15 minutes
-Alliance waiting time will be removed for changing alliances

Winter Round

As with last year, we will have a free, christmas-themed winter round for players. Setup as follows:
-Private galaxies of 8 and random galaxies
-No alliances
-Cluster ETA advantages
-Multitargetting ship stats
-Ticks will be 30 minutes long

Signups open around Friday, 16th December, with ticks starting on Monday, 19th December at 20:00 GMT and continuing until Monday 2nd January at 20:00 GMT, with some further havoc until 9th Monday.

Round 45
Round 45 signups will open by Friday, 6th January, 2012
Suggestions for Round 45's name is NOW OPEN - please e-mail suggestions to round45@planetarion.com, with the subject "Round Name Suggestion". Submissions will be open until the end of the round, with the winner (selected on a public poll) getting a free credit.
Round 45 Ticks will start Friday, 13th January at 20:00 GMT, with the shuffle at 07:00 GMT on Saturday 14th January.

Buddy packs and alliance limits will continue to be at the following values:
Buddy Packs: 5
Maximum Alliance Size: 80
Alliance Members that count towards total score: 50
Further announcements will come closer to the time.

Round 44 Signups now open!

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 21:52:03 +0000

Signups for the FREE Planetarion Round 44: Space Sheep have now opened.
You can signup here or, if you've played since Round 42, you can just login here.

Here is a summary of this round's setup:

Buddy packs: 5 members total
Alliances: 80 members total, 50 count towards alliance score
Stats: available here. Final, like races and governments.

Changes:

Salvage has been slightly rebalanced so that score is less of a factor. However, the bonuses for race and score (small planets get up to 50% more salvage) are still in place.

Minor quest changes (scans are now given as rewards for completing 2 quests)

Core resources have been rescaled and now give up to 25,000 of each resource each tick.

As previously announced, ticks start at 20:00 GMT on Friday, 28th October and continue for 7 weeks.

Best of luck to all players!

PA Team

Round 43 Havoc & Round 44

Fri, 14 Oct 2011 22:40:54 +0000

Round 43 Havoc

Last night, 1,500,000,000 resources and 4,000 asteroids were donated to every player in the Round 43 havoc. Havoc will continue to run until approximately Thursday 20th October 18:00 GMT.

Round 44
Round 44 information has still not yet been confirmed, apart from the following:

Round 44 is FREE. Round 44 will require no user payment and every user will have the "upgrade bonus" usually received when paying.

Round 43 Rankings

Fri, 07 Oct 2011 21:37:45 +0000

Rankings/Stats from Round 43:
Top 100 Planets
Top 50 Galaxies
Top 30 Alliances
Top 100 Launchers
Top 100 Covert Ops
Combat stats
Resource stats

Round 43 / 44Update

Thu, 06 Oct 2011 21:28:20 +0000

All,
just a reminder that tomorrow night is the end of Round 43. It finishes with the the End of Round Ceremony (EoRC), which will occur at 21:00 GMT for an hour in #planetarion on irc.netgamers.org (accessible via the com unit). It will consist of interviews with the top players, the top galaxy and representatives of the alliance, and then finish with an alliance competition (allcomp), where users will [tag] in their nickname for their alliance, and the winning alliance will win a few credits.

After that has completed, Round 43 Havoc will occur.

In Round 43 Havoc, ALLIANCES WILL BE DISABLED. Instead, a -2 ETA Cluster defence bonus will be introduced.

This will mean that anyone in the same cluster as you (having the same "x" as your x:y:z planet co-ordinates) can defend you 2 ticks quicker than anyone else can get to you.

As a reminder, Round 44 round names can still be submitted via round44@planetarion.com - the winning entry gets a credit, and there's no limit on the number of entries.

Best of luck in the last 24 ticks!

Round 43/ Round 44

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 20:40:57 +0000

Round 43
We are now nearing the end of Round 43 - Shadows of History. The final tick, as mentioned on the Overview page, is 1177, and occurs at 20:00 GMT on Friday, 7th October.
As usual, we have are removing the vacation mode option tomorrow for the last week of the round and are monitoring c200 to ensure larger planets don't hide in there.

The End of Round Ceremony (EoRC) is provisionally scheduled for Friday, 7th October at 21:00 GMT for an hour in #planetarion on irc.netgamers.org (accessible via the com unit). It will consist of interviews with the top players, the top galaxy and representatives of the alliance, and then finish with an alliance competition (allcomp), where users will [tag] in their nickname for their alliance, and the winning alliance will win a few credits.
After the EoRC has been completed, the game will be setup for the "havoc" period, of fast-ticked madness. This will run for approximately 2 weeks and be setup as follows:
-All researches completed
-500 million resources total (split over metal/crystal/eonium according to race)
-3000 asteroids total (split over metal/crystal/eonium according to race)
-30 of each factory, 30 wave amplifiers, 50 security centres and 30 of each refinery ADDED to each planet
-Fleets recalled
-XP will be kept
-Asteroid mining limits increased to 8 million asteroids total
-Maximum construction limit set at 800 constructions
-Ticks set at every 15 minutes

Round 44

Round 44 signups will open by Friday, 21st October.
Voting for Round 44's name is NOW OPEN - please e-mail suggestions to round44@planetarion.com, with the subject "Round Name Suggestion". Submissions will be open until the end of the round, with the winner (selected on a public poll) getting a free credit.

Round 44 Ticks will start Friday, 28th October at 20:00 GMT.

Buddy packs and alliance limits will continue to be at the following values:
Buddy Packs: 5
Maximum Alliance Size: 80
Alliance Members that count towards total score: 50

Further announcements will come closer to the time.

Best of wishes in the last week of the round

PA Team

Round 43 Signups Open!

Fri, 12 Aug 2011 20:55:21 +0000

Signups for Round 43 - Shadows of History are now open here.

Ticks start at 20:00 GMT on Friday, 19th August.

The following is a summary of all the changes for this round:

-Salvage has been changed to take stolen ships into consideration when capping received salvage, and to allow for salvage to make up to 1% beyond the original fleet value to be gained even at the top ranks.
-Ships can now be salvaged with immediate effect for 50% of their construction costs. This includes both constructed ships and stolen ships. This action is irreversable.
-Wave Amplifiers now give a 0.3% discount on scan cost for every amplifier constructed after your first amplifier (was 0.1%).
-The alliance log page now shows who started, accepted and cancelled both merges and NAPs. It also logs who deleted any alliance defence calls.
-Scanners with member access can see who has requested a scan and link to their member info page.
-The alliance members page now has a numbering system down the left hand side
-The Galaxy Status page now includes a status field, bcalc field, notes field, class tickboxes and a link to any recent scans done on the attacker by yourself / your alliance. This information is shown and is modifiable by all trusted members of your galaxy. This does mean a change to the galaxy status page layout.
-When forming or breaking a NAP, a counter shows how many ticks left of the 48 tick wait period before you can break the NAP / create a new NAP.
-Galaxy banners can now be set as blank and will be automatically set as the default galaxy picture.

Beta testing is still occurring on our beta server.

Ship Stats are provisionally final; any changes will be communicated immediately.

Round 42 Havoc & Round 43

Sat, 06 Aug 2011 10:13:02 +0000

Round 42 Havoc

Last night, 1,500,000,000 resources and 4,000 asteroids were donated to every player in the Round 42 havoc. 264 new "Special 'Roids" were also created, 3 per galaxy, with each one giving a 10% bonus to metal, crystal or eonium respectively. These do not count towards the flag score, but are hefty bonuses in their own right.

Round 42 Havoc will remain in the "CTF" style, and will continue until Thursday evening at approximately 20:00 GMT.

Round 43

This is an update on the Round 43. I can confirm the following setup / changes for Round 43:

Setup

Round Length: 7 weeks (as before)
Buddy Pack Size: 5 (as before)
Alliance Limit: 80 (as before)
Alliance Members (Counting): 50 (as before)

Main Changes:
-Salvage has been changed to take stolen ships into consideration when capping received salvage, and to allow for salvage to replace lost ships to be gained even at the top ranks.

-The Galaxy Status page now includes a status field, bcalc field, notes field, class tickboxes and a link to any recent scans done on the attacker by yourself / your alliance. This information is shown and is modifiable by all trusted members of your galaxy. This does mean a change to the galaxy status page layout.

-Ships can now be salvaged with immediate effect for 50% of their construction costs. This includes both constructed ships and stolen ships. This action is irreversable.

-Wave Amplifiers now give a 0.3% discount on scan cost for every amplifier constructed after your first amplifier (was 0.1%).

Stats
Beta stats are now available on our beta server stats page. They are unfinished, with the names in particular likely to change dramatically. A discussion on the stats is underway on this forum thread if you wish to contribute.

Beta
The beta server is open and ticks are underway. However, please be warned that the ticks may stop and restart, and the server may be reset, with little or no warning. Code changes may also occur whilst it is running.

Round Name
The round name voting for Round 43 has now commenced on this forum thread.

Round 42 Rankings

Fri, 05 Aug 2011 09:43:58 +0000

Rankings/Stats from Round 42:
Top 100 Planets
Top 50 Galaxies
Top 30 Alliances
Top 100 Launchers
Top 100 Covert Ops
Combat stats
Resource stats

Round 42 and Round 43

Thu, 21 Jul 2011 21:01:39 +0000

Round 42

Round 42 - The Meaning of Everything enters its last week this Friday. As usual, vacation mode will be removed as of 20:00 GMT on Friday 22nd July.

Round 42 ends on Friday 29th July, with the final tick being at 20:00 GMT.

The End of Round Ceremony (EoRC) will be held at 21:00 GMT for an hour in #planetarion on irc.netgamers.org.uk (accessible via the com unit link ingame). It will consist of interviews with the top players, the top galaxy and representatives of the alliance. The EoRC will then finish with an alliance competition (allcomp), where users are encouraged to place a [tag] in their nickname for their alliance. The alliance with the most tagged users in the channel will be the winner of 3 credits.
After the EoRC has been completed the game will be setup for the "havoc" period of fast-ticked madness. This will run for approximately 1 week and be setup as follows:
-All researches completed
-500 million resources total (split over metal/crystal/eonium according to race)
-3000 asteroids total (split over metal/crystal/eonium according to race)
-30 of each factory, 30 wave amplifiers, 50 security centres and 30 of each refinery ADDED to each planet
-Fleets recalled
-XP will be kept
-Asteroid mining limits increased to 8 million asteroids total
-Maximum construction limit increased to 800 constructions
-Ticks set at every 15 minutes
-Alliances deleted
-Capture The Flag (CTF) mode enabled:
--CTF asteroids distributed
--CTF rankings enabled.

"Capture the Flag" is a Planetarion mode where every galaxy is on its own fighting to gain special "flag" asteroids from other galaxies. The galaxies get more points if the special asteroids are held by planets with higher scores.

Round 43

Round 43 round name submissions are now open as usual. The entries will be shortlisted, with the winning entry selected by forum poll getting a credit to be used in Round 43 or another future round. To submit your suggestion e-mail round43 [at] planetarion.com with the subject "Roundname Suggestion".

Round 43 is provisionally scheduled to have signups open on Friday 12th August at 20:00 GMT, with ticks starting on Friday 19th August at 20:00 GMT and continuing for 7 weeks.

Changes for this round will be announced shortly, but the buddy pack size will remain at 5.

Round 42 changes

Mon, 06 Jun 2011 01:01:10 +0000

Round 42 update

All,
just to confirm that the ship statistics, government bonuses and race bonuses are all now final. As has been previously confirmed, ticks start this Friday.

There are four key changes this round. They are as follows:

1) As has already been announced, you no longer have to sign up each round. We also started storing scores as of last round, and we will be looking to implement some sort of display based on your Planetarion account history in the future.

2) Scans are now cheaper the more wave amplifiers you have. Every amp you build after the first amplifier gives you a 0.1% cost reduction of scans, meaning a maximum reduction of 24.9%

3) Attacker salvage is now allocated differently and capped. Salvage from lost ships is still allocated to the fleet that lost it; however, salvage from attacking fleets is now allocated according to a weighted combination of score and dead ships, i.e. those with the most dead ships / lowest score get the most salvage from attacking fleets. Attacker salvage is capped to be approximately that of lost ships minus salvage from defending fleets, but is based on your score, with a lower cap for higher-scoring planets and a higher cap for lower-scoring planets (i.e. planets outside the top 100 can still make some value bonus on attacker salvage). The precise formula will be explained shortly.

4) Some of the code "behind the scenes" has been updated to improve the security of the game. This should not have any impact on game play.

Also, as a reminder, those who are worried that their alliance names may be stolen in-game can contact PA Staff to arrange for their name to be reserved. Please raise a support ticket in-game as the HC of your alliance, or contact pateam [at] planetarion.com with your user id and your alliance name. This can save a lot of stress and hassle for all concerned during signups.

Best wishes in armouring yourselves with alliances and buddy packs before ticks start .

Regards,

PA Team

Signing Up for round 42 and beyond

Fri, 03 Jun 2011 14:47:16 +0000

Round 41 was the first round we started using a permanent user system. This means that anyone that signed up for round 41 already has a user for any future round and should not use the signup page as previously has been the case.

So for round 42 all that is needed is to log in with the email and password from last round. When you do that you'll get the option to pick a ruler/planet name and race. If you don't remember the password, you can use the "forgotten your password" link on the login page to have a new one sent.

Anyone that didn't play round 41 needs to use the signup page as normal and for any future round they get to use the "simplified" signup method mentioned above.