A war that lasted 1 hour and 30mins! to be almost exact...
[07/07/03 23:30:53]
[07/08/03 01:02:00]

Was a nice endless war...yes there was some problems that came up in this war that showed a few rules will be needed next time. Otherwise than that...it was all good...Stats will take me a day atleast to figure out...there is a lot of it...I will post here when I get them out.

Till then cya,
-StarFreeze

hmmmm maybe it wasn't lag... I had a avg ping of 57ms... but I'd dodge your swarms... then a second later band theirs an explosion where I was a second ago and I'm in pain.
Swarms aren't that amazing... if there's no more than 3 sets you can dodge them without turbo. If there are more than 3 and you've got the flag you need to get behind a roid.

Booo! Hiss! sector 9 sucks!
:-P

Thanks for organizing it SF. It was fun. Why do homers become so powerful when the shooter's lagging?

homers? only swarms. Swarms are always bad enough without turbo. Really need your fingers working.

Swarms are fine... unless there's lag.

Yeah...swarms used to be a joke until recently. Now you actually have to run. Might be my new favorite weapon.

Good war everyone. The mining was a bit irritating, but thats to be expected. Oh, and n00bs need to steer clear. I killed one or two blues that claimed to be "just watching" or "just passing through". I dunno about that. 9 is far out enough that its not hard to go around. If there is a war going on (you should be able to figure it out when you check the userlist in a given sector....you DO check that when you enter a new system....right?), just stay away. Anyone within the sector is a valid target.

Eldrad, I wasn't lagging to my knowledge. Game was running buttery smooth on my end....can't say I saw anyone lagging actually.

Might have been server side. There was a whole lot going on.

AFAIK you can't just no-turbo dodge swarms anymore. I tried it recently and died quite quickly.

I'm thinking about throwing together a perl script to parse out battle stats for occasions like this. I haven't actually done any real work on it, but the only thing i'm having trouble conceptualizing is keeping the colors straight. Any thoughts?

Actually its easier to dodge swarms than you think, they havent really changed since 3.2.0 its just people have "Discovered" them
its like the guass werent popular until very recently.

Keeping colors straight would be easy if every player who participated were to state their names and colors beforehand, and maybe you could even have them make a statement before the war started and get the colors from their statement?

actually, gauss got popular because of speed & damage boost.

Thats what i was thinking rogue. Just have everyone say "I" before the fight (the log has their html colors i think). I can have the script pick up the colors from that. Any other good ideas before i start coding? Other stats or situations i should keep in mind?

Final Stats are in...

Blue Kills Deaths Suicides Total
Blue Points 570 -285 -42 243
* 43 12 10
[IJL]houseeater 11 12 0
banana nut muffin 4 4 1
Bluetooth 2 1 0
Eldrad 42 26 3
karade 3 5 0
Phoenix 70 47 13
TSMS_Longbaugh 7 68 0
TSMS_Spanker 8 108 1
huh??? 0 1 0
Oddjob 0 1 0

Red Kills Deaths Suicides Total
Red Points 588 -278 -45 265
alienb21 10 20 0
DizBin 14 90 0
Jagdgeschwader 1 6 13 0
LeathaL 21 12 9
Peacemaker 21 16 3
Strong Mad 58 15 9
tcl 24 25 3
visible one 12 61 0
Whistler 27 21 6
Jay 0 1 0
Strong Bad 3 4 0

Gold Kills Deaths Suicides Total
Gold Points 996 -155 -61.5 779.5
Blaster 141 26 23
Asp 5 3 4
Bank(Vault) 82 56 10
G4Bobo 53 37 2
hachikyu 9 4 2
Saemus 5 7 0
Yellow Streak 37 22 0

How is it that gold has more than 2 times the combined total of red and blue? Did you nuke or just mine?

some reds and blues had busses.
oh yeah... I mined right where ppl fight, and that got a lot of ppl.

But wasn't one of the rules no mining? Oh well, I'm sure it was well bent for you.

there was no excessive station mining or something like that... and that's after I've caused enough problem NOT station mining.

About 20 minutes in the blasters mined the place to high heaven. Then *everyone* started nuking for a while

be glad I didn't my the station docks to hell.