From: akuo@mazda.ece.cmu.edu (Augie Kuo)
Subject: Christmas EMPIRE game
Organization: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 02:34:36 GMT

Well the game is off and running after problems from the start.  I
originally wanted to have a short blitz for an hour before we went
to two updates a day.  Bad idea - my machine's a DEC 3100 and with
30 people all on at the same time, it just died - resources were
screwed up, people couldn't log on, etc. etc.  I did this because
I wanted the old style of empire back instead of start islands. 
Oh well - anyway, some people got munched early, but I put people
of the same level (as described by themselves) on the same island.
So it wasn't any big player munching on fodder countries so the
wars were a bit more balanced.  Also in this game, I've added a
technological advantage for military - obviously an army with bows
and arrows isn't going to win a battle against machine guns with
equal number of military.  Thus, the fodder started with a tech of
50, beginners (more than 1 game but less than 3) 40, intermediate
10 and advanced/pro 0.  After a week, the advanced players have
pretty much caught up or passed up the fodder players in tech so
I think basically it let the fodder play a bit longer  :)  One
country, Spitbergen (beginner/fodder) has kept the tech lead so
far but has declared itself the winner of the game so that will
most likely change (starting two wars already!).  Here's the power
chart after a week of play:


     - = [   Empire Power Report   ] = -
      as of Wed Dec 23 21:22:08 1992

         sects  eff  civ  mil shell gun  pet iron dust food oil  pln ship money
Spitzberg 115   84%  66K 850  200   65  450  6.0K 1.8K  17K 5.0K   7   20   45K
 Yamagata 105   87%  41K 250  250   75  450  5.5K 4.6K 8.6K 6.2K   1    6  5.0K
  Inferno 335   55%  84K 1.0K 550   80  950  9.3K 3.5K  40K 2.2K   0    9   25K
      CTE 455   21%  42K 350  100   35    0  4.2K 7.0K  33K 2.4K   5    0   20K
      Ess 160   75%  67K 1.4K 1.4K 100    0   10K 6.1K  35K 350    0   20   20K
 Kondoria  60   93%  55K 700  400   75  850  4.7K 2.3K  12K 2.4K   6    7   20K
      TOG 105   93%  68K 500  100   25  500  7.6K 6.0K  13K 2.6K   0    9   25K
Corto_Mal 300   46%  61K 300  100    4    0  6.5K 3.3K  31K 1.6K   0    0   20K
 anaconda 280   35%  42K 200  150   55    0  5.7K 2.2K  18K 3.0K   0    2   25K
Tom_Servo 110   57%  46K 1.0K  75   25   50  4.5K 650   19K 2.7K   2    6   15K
Solla_Sol  95   86%  39K 850   50   50  950  5.2K 2.9K 8.7K 3.4K   0    2   55K
       Oz 155   54%  46K 450    0    0    0  5.5K 7.6K  25K 250    0    7   10K
Brigadoon  80   96%  50K 2.6K  75  100    0  4.0K 2.0K  16K 750    0    0   10K
    Rakis 115   54%  27K 400  250   25  700  2.5K 600   11K 2.0K   6    6   15K
 Derevnia 100   46%  18K 100   25    4  1.6K 2.2K 1.6K 5.8K 1.6K   3    8   15K
   Canada  45   69%  19K  20  100    0    0  4.1K 1.5K  33K 700    0    1   35K
  dirwood 190   50%  20K 550    0    0    0  2.1K 800   24K 100    0    1   25K
STUART-TO  60   54%  21K 850   50   45  200  9.6K 800   12K 100    0    1  5.0K
   Inuvik  70   40%  11K 200  125   25    0  1.8K 750  1.8K 250    0    2   20K
     xiam  45   48%  10K   2   20    0    0  2.5K 400  1.4K 1.6K   0    0   25K
 LaRouche  20   48% 8.4K 850    7   15    0    2  700  1.4K 100    0    1   15K
     Zirb 165   32%  12K 1.6K 100   30  650  1.4K 350  4.1K 300    0    4  4.6K
Persepoli  45   41%  10K 250    0    0    0  1.1K 1.4K 5.1K 600    0    0   20K
The_Proje  70   38% 3.9K   0    0    0    0  500  550  3.0K   0    0    0   30K
 duckland  85   75%  15K 650   50    3    0  1.9K 250   12K 200    0    0   20K
    Cymru 165   19% 4.2K  14    0    0    0  1.0K 250  1.9K  33    0    0   25K
Newbielan 135   39% 8.3K  50    0    0    0  2.5K 150  2.5K 150    0    0   25K
deadlands  10   80% 4.1K 150    0    0    0    2  800  2.0K  33    0    0   10K
 Garfield 125   18% 3.6K   0    0    0    0    0    0  2.5K   0    0    0   30K
  Arcadia  39   31% 1.5K  17    0    0    0    0    0   50    0    0    0   23K
 starfire  30   45% 1.1K  42    0    0    0   28    6  2.8K   0    0    0   15K
          ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----
worldwide 3.9K  50% 905K  16K 4.2K 835  7.3K 112K  61K 403K  41K  30  110  640K


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Augie
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