From: evil@bbn.com (Dave Nye)
Newsgroups: rec.games.empire
Subject: BBN EMPIRE I, update #4, day *27*
Keywords: Tons O Planes, Mass Destruction, One Winner...
Date: 9 Apr 92 18:33:23 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.ku93fjINN3si
Reply-To: evil@bbn.com (Dave Nye)
Organization: War Lord and Imperial Emperor of THE Evil Empire
NNTP-Posting-Host: archive.bbn.com



Welcome sports fans to another edition of Monday Night Empire Update.
(Okay, Okay, so it's Thursday...You're lucky you know what day it is..I 
woke up and thought it was friday..that sucks.. :) )  With your host and
moderator...-=MARS=-, The Evil Deity of the BBN EMPIRE I contest.

G'day Mortals..
	This past week and a few days has been pretty much hell for me and
the players of this contest.  A nasty bug has reared it's ugly head and
has we think been squashed.  The bug started by the last few countries 
mysteriously not recieving tech according to their nation reports but they
had made tech as proved by their production reports.  Then it got worse, 
updates happend where nobody but one or two players got tech.  Something
drastic was called for and word was sent out to the far reaches, into the
realm of Gunjin.  Gunjin and I tried a few things that didn't seem to work,
then after Gunjin consulted with the Master...Mr. Frog himself, He was able
to cook up a fix that as of now and three good updates later is working.
During the time of no tech updates, the game was rewound to the backup and
the update rerun until for some reason the update went okay.  This happend
for about 5 consecutive updates to the total disgust of myself and the players.

      I would like to extend my deepest thanks to Gunjin and Mr. Frog for their
help in getting this game back to more or less normal.  I would like to further
say thanks to the players for their patience and resolve to continue and for
having faith that we would fix the problem.

	This weeks news brings us word of massive numbers of planes. Plane
tech (140) was reached about friday or saturday of last week.  Since then
the top tech countries are completely slaughtering the weaker countries
that were just too bothersome to take via ships.  There are now about 8 
countries with tech over and well above plane tech with several more
just about to that level.  The rumble of heavy artty is constant.  Following
is just *ONE* day's worth of news with just the artty stuff..

Thu Apr  9 00:59  Dweebland heavy artillery pounds Karabakh sectors three times
Thu Apr  9 00:58  Dweebland heavy artillery pounds MARS sectors three times
Thu Apr  9 00:56  thirty-four times Dave_TV heavy artillery pounds Karabakh
Thu Apr  9 00:12  twenty-one times 7 orkish artillery bombard Moonshae territory
Thu Apr  9 00:00  7 heavy artillery pounds Moonshae sectors nineteen times
Thu Apr  9 01:34  Dweebland heavy artillery pounds Karabakh sectors
Thu Apr  9 01:33  three times Dave_TV orkish artillery bombard Karabakh
Thu Apr  9 01:28  Dweebland heavy artillery pounds Karabakh sectors thirty times
Thu Apr  9 01:26  twelve times Karabakh awake artillery units open up on
Thu Apr  9 01:26  Dave_TV orkish artillery bombard Karabakh territory
Thu Apr  9 01:24  Dave_TV awake artillery units open up on Dave_TV in
Thu Apr  9 01:24  Dave_TV orkish artillery bombard Dave_TV territory
Thu Apr  9 01:22  three times Karabakh awake artillery units open up on
Thu Apr  9 01:22  Dweebland orkish artillery bombard Karabakh territory
Thu Apr  9 01:20  Dave_TV orkish artillery bombard Karabakh territory five times
Thu Apr  9 01:13  Dweebland orkish artillery bombard Karabakh territory two
Thu Apr  9 01:11  Dave_TV orkish artillery bombard Karabakh territory fifteen
Thu Apr  9 01:08  Dweebland heavy artillery pounds Karabakh sectors seventeen
Thu Apr  9 01:08  Dave_TV orkish artillery bombard Karabakh territory twelve
Thu Apr  9 11:40  Dweebland heavy artillery pounds Karabakh sectors twenty-one
Thu Apr  9 11:35  Dweebland orkish artillery bombard Karabakh territory eleven
Thu Apr  9 10:37  ten times Thanatos orkish artillery bombard Nastrond territory
Thu Apr  9 09:52  Thanatos heavy artillery pounds Furrym sectors seven times
Thu Apr  9 09:47  Dweebland heavy artillery pounds DreamLands sectors
Thu Apr  9 09:47  Thanatos orkish artillery bombard Furrym territory sixteen
Thu Apr  9 09:45  Dweebland orkish artillery bombard Karabakh territory two
Thu Apr  9 09:28  Dweebland orkish artillery bombard Karabakh territory eight
Thu Apr  9 09:06  eighteen times Dweebland orkish artillery bombard Karabakh
Thu Apr  9 09:00  three times Karabakh awake artillery units open up on
Thu Apr  9 09:00  Dweebland orkish artillery bombard Karabakh territory two
Thu Apr  9 08:49  Dweebland heavy artillery pounds Karabakh sectors
Thu Apr  9 08:48  Dave_TV heavy artillery pounds Karabakh sectors four times
Thu Apr  9 08:41  Dweebland heavy artillery pounds Karabakh sectors eighteen
Thu Apr  9 08:29  five times Hyperborea heavy artillery pounds beep sectors
Thu Apr  9 08:11  Dave_TV heavy artillery pounds Karabakh sectors two times
Thu Apr  9 08:01  Dave_TV orkish artillery bombard Karabakh territory sixteen
Thu Apr  9 14:05  Furrym awake artillery units open up on Stuart_Hall in
Thu Apr  9 14:05  Stuart_Hall heavy artillery pounds Furrym sectors nine times
Thu Apr  9 13:56  Furrym awake artillery units open up on Stuart_Hall in
Thu Apr  9 13:56  four times Stuart_Hall heavy artillery pounds Furrym sectors
Thu Apr  9 13:08  Park Place heavy artillery pounds Dave_TV sectors thirty-nine
Thu Apr  9 13:06  Stuart_Hall heavy artillery pounds Furrym sectors
Thu Apr  9 12:56  Park Place heavy artillery pounds Dave_TV sectors forty times
Thu Apr  9 12:51  Park Place heavy artillery pounds Dave_TV sectors ten times
Thu Apr  9 12:46  two times Dave_TV awake artillery units open up on Park Place
Thu Apr  9 12:46  Park Place heavy artillery pounds Dave_TV sectors
Thu Apr  9 12:39  Park Place heavy artillery pounds Dave_TV sectors three times
Thu Apr  9 12:34  Park Place heavy artillery pounds Dave_TV sectors eighty times
Thu Apr  9 12:29  seven times Park Place heavy artillery pounds Dave_TV sectors
Thu Apr  9 12:26  Dweebland orkish artillery bombard Rabid territory ten times
Thu Apr  9 12:22  Dave_TV awake artillery units open up on Park Place in
Thu Apr  9 12:22  Park Place heavy artillery pounds Dave_TV sectors eight times
Thu Apr  9 12:17  six times Park Place heavy artillery pounds Dave_TV sectors
Thu Apr  9 12:08  Dweebland heavy artillery pounds Stuart_Hall sectors
Thu Apr  9 12:04  Dave_TV awake artillery units open up on Park Place in
Thu Apr  9 12:04  three times Park Place orkish artillery bombard Dave_TV
Thu Apr  9 12:00  Dweebland heavy artillery pounds Karabakh sectors six times
Thu Apr  9 11:52  Dweebland heavy artillery pounds Karabakh sectors sixteen
Thu Apr  9 11:47  fourteen times Dweebland orkish artillery bombard Karabakh
	
	After last nights above slaughter of Karabakh by Dave_TV and Dweebland
we have a new holder of the Yellow Jersey...Dave_TV has roared back to grab
it, but the Dweebs have sworn to regain the lead shortly and they do have a lead
in sectors so it's possible.  Especially if Park_Place continues to pound on 
one of Dave_TV's colonies.

	[ed note: As I was typing this it happened.  Dweebland regained
his Yellow Jersey, ripping it right off the back of Dr.Bob himself ]

	I'd like to remind you and the players once again that this is a WINNER
takes all game.  Only ONE winner will be recognized by the Deity as THE WINNER.
No Winning alliances will be recognized.  Knowing that a few countries have 
elected to an alliance of convience.  Two power blocks have shown up.  Dave_TV,
Dweebland, and Moonshea in the most powerful block.  7, Dreamlands, The_Scum,
Himmel, and Ratland in the other side.  We'll see how this works and for how
long.

Well, this is getting a tad long so I'll just paste in the power chart and let
you see what's what.  A reminder though, if you wish to take a look into this
game at any time, use the 'visitor' country.  EMPIREHOST empire.bbn.com
EMPIREPORT 6661, country 'visitor' rep 'visitor'.

-=MARS=-

power new 
     - = [   Empire Power Report   ] = -
      as of Thu Apr  9 14:12:53 1992

         sects  eff  civ  mil shell gun  pet iron dust food oil  pln ship money
Dweebland 225   81% 161K 3.2K 757  183  726   13K 2.5K 118K 7.6K  47   15   76K
 30003.46
  Dave_TV 193   88% 160K 4.6K 585  156  2.3K 7.7K 1.0K  48K 3.8K 125    4  150K
 29711.40
Park Plac 147   89% 123K 4.4K 930  251  1.4K  13K 1.3K  39K 4.6K  86   18   35K
 23514.77
 Moonshae 132   93% 112K 4.0K 1.0K 166  408   11K 878   39K 2.8K  45    6   26K
 20547.61
Stuart_Ha 132   86% 102K 4.8K 1.2K 122  815  8.6K 1.9K  51K 8.5K  42   21   45K
 20163.46
   Himmel 126   90% 101K 5.0K 652  195  5.2K  20K 709   70K 5.2K   8   23  5.9K
 19968.48
 The_Scum 105   96%  98K 1.9K 1.8K  87  215   14K 1.1K  30K 3.1K  23   20   90K
 19198.01
        7 114   89%  93K 9.5K 1.7K 565  1.4K 5.8K 721   38K 1.1K  34    9   21K
 17484.45
Stalag-13  87   89%  74K 2.6K 804  217  2.0K 4.5K 1.3K  41K 2.7K  61   20   98K
 15058.44
Negativla  76   92%  65K 1.9K 1.3K 125  337   12K 549   12K 1.4K  22    8   79K
 13417.77
 Thanatos  83   89%  63K 1.9K 492   71  792   11K 1.0K  24K 1.1K  23    5   20K
 12474.32
Hyperbore  86   86%  63K 2.5K 477   86  230  4.5K 825   40K 949   10    6   16K
 11454.19
 Warlords  83   81%  63K 3.3K 518   53  1.0K 2.7K  17   22K 729    1    5   97K
 11444.67
  Ratland  57   95%  52K 3.0K 1.6K 127  1.8K 1.7K 187   15K 524   10   23   22K
  9275.60
DreamLand  73   80%  41K 1.8K 418   60  905  4.7K 262   15K 2.9K   4   11  7.5K
  8791.93
   Furrym  41   96%  39K 1.3K 806  153  455  3.0K 171  3.0K 660   17    6   38K
  7383.16
Militaria  47   81%  30K 962  465   88  1.5K 1.6K 465   15K 995   25    3   63K
  6769.20
      XOX  32  100%  32K 1.2K 789   64  1.2K 1.2K 475  7.3K 351    4    5   21K
  5820.01
 Fredonia  37   95%  30K 1.5K 174   47    0  1.1K 557  7.0K 939    0    9  6.9K
  5390.26
 Karabakh  33   82%  22K 845  225   70  208  963  114   12K 1.3K   0    4  9.3K
  4190.16
 Ministry  16   97%  14K 166  100   23    0  1.0K   1  2.6K  86    0    1   63K
  3035.47
    Rabid   3   33% 516   89    0    0    0    0    0  249    0    0    2   80K
   930.00
 Nastrond  10   54% 2.5K 287   20    0    0    0    1  1.4K   0    0    9 -4.3K
   647.34
DamageInc  10   53% 1.7K 108    0    0   85    0    0  2.1K 235    2    2  6.0K
   629.20
 BenHowth   1   47%  36    0    0    0    0    0    0    1    0    0    0   52K
   546.19
     beep   9   44%  64  169   31    7    0    0    0  1.7K 440    0    8  8.0K
   429.25
DisneyLan   1   21%   9    0    0    0    0    0    0    5    0    1    1   12K
   151.23
 duckland   0    0%   0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0  6.1K
    60.85
Bongoland   0    0%   0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0  3.2K
    32.00
          ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----
worldwide 2.0K  87% 1.5M  61K  17K 2.9K  23K 142K  16K 653K  52K 590  240  1.2M
 
	

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