From: ken@cs.UAlberta.CA (Ken Huisman)
Subject: Ualberta Game update.
Organization: University of Alberta
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 00:42:13 GMT

Well, here is another Ualberta game summary posting on behalf of the diety.
The diety's only comment he wanted me to include is as follows:
"Arf!!! arf!!  The dogs are restless as they dream of large piles.."

The rest comes from  
the Happy_People bureau of lies, half-truths and misinformation..:-)


Not long after the Lochett dogpile had begun ( a few hours after), another
dogpile commenced, with Elaking, Crustyland, Gunjin, Yamagata, Baldric and
darkwing knocking Byzantium out of the game.  It was rumored that this
dogpile was organized by darkwing, who was in a war with Byzantium for a
long time.  It is speculated that without this dogpile darkwing would have
been destroyed eventually.  Crustyland was the big winner, and got 150
sectors "for free" (or so said Ghostlands).  A war of words between Ghostlands
and Crustyland erupted, and everyone wondered how long it would be before
first-time player Crustyland's luck would run out and Ghostie would nuke
him.

Other events of that week included Tofu_Nation backstabbing ally Kalhoun,
taking most of Kalhoun's land easily.  Ghostlands grabbed some towards
the end as well.

After Guppy was locked out of his country.  Strangely enough, nobody
did much to try to take his land.  To this date there are still about
130 sectors of Guppyland available.  Nearby powers ACTIUM and
Happy_People, who have been seen casually (and slowly) munching on
guppyland now and then have not put a major effort into taking
his land.

Last week was rumor week.  The popular rumor spreading was regarding
ACTIUM, ghostlands and Tenochtitlan (the top three at the time) were
considering claiming a win.  The three of them seemed tired of the game.
Everyone else thought there was still a lot to do.  Most players were busy
consolidating the land that they had captured from either Lochett or
Byzantium.  On friday Metzada attacked darkwing, and seems to have hurt
him a bit.  Their war continues to this moment, with Metzada being the
heavy favorite.

Then, it happened.  Ghostlands turned on his ally Elaking and attacked, along
with Tenochtitlan an hour later.  Tenochtitlan lobbed a couple small nukes
at Elaking (the first nuke launces of the game, by the way), but was
too far to do much else.  
Baldric, fearing for his life, organized a coalition against Ghostlands
that included Crustyland and Yamagata, along with the already-at-war
Elaking.  On friday, Crustyland began attacking
Ghostlands.  Baldric and Yamagata soon joined in.  Baldric took the
brunt of Ghostie's counterattack, taking many small nuke hits.  Crustyland
did quite well knocking Ghostland's huge 700 plane airforce down to 500 planes
approximately.  Apparently, Ghostlands had made a tactical error. 

Ghostlands has now pulled out of the game due to personal reasons.  The
remaining players express their condolences to him.

Meanwhile, down near the bottom of the power chart, a war between
HELL and the capable rookie Dagga erupted.  The curse of Dagga continues,
as HELL, with a huge tech lead on Dagga (everyone has a huge tech lead
on Dagga, but they all seem to lose anyways  :-) - it probably helped that
Dagga was getting advice from other players..) failed to make any
headway.  Dagga was even managing to break through HELL's aircover
and doing some damage:
> Telegram from Dagga, (#9)  dated Fri Apr 10 20:40:56 1992
i can't believe how much i like bombing him!

HELL resorted to the 10kt nuclear solution, and probably regretted it, as
Tenochtitlan dropped a bigger nuke on HELL on Dagga's behalf.  The HELL-Dagga
war is far from over, however, as Dagga's low-tech airforce shows signs
of weakening under the strain.

Today's power report:

     - = [   Empire Power Report   ] = -
      as of Wed Apr 15 17:31:08 1992

         sects  eff  civ  mil shell gun  pet iron dust food oil  pln ship money
   ACTIUM 753   93% 560K  23K  12K 746   25K  97K 5.3K 410K  16K 450    7  362K
120920.34
Tenochtit 505   97% 441K  20K  33K 937   29K 105K 4.5K 495K  19K 445   14  365K
114445.79
Crustylan 504   98% 466K  15K 5.8K 1.5K  16K  55K 6.5K 251K  28K 364   20  126K
 93724.38
Tofu_Nati 517   98% 454K  15K 8.5K 1.6K  10K  30K 5.3K 221K  12K 350   17  648K
 91400.70
  Metzada 521   91% 373K  16K  13K 820   16K  43K  10K 326K  18K 495   41  455K
 90134.65
  Elaking 537   95% 369K  12K  27K 1.6K  29K  56K 5.4K 213K  15K 386   17  182K
 89161.27
   Ionica 451   97% 396K  15K  12K 850   26K  69K 3.9K 340K  21K 289   24  305K
 87734.90
 Yamagata 457   92% 354K  10K  16K 2.1K  21K  45K 3.5K 216K  12K 286   67  401K
 77438.05
Happy_Peo 404   90% 296K 9.9K  11K 1.5K  11K  57K 3.2K 168K 3.3K 282   17  293K
 68224.96
Ghostland 346   93% 311K  14K  10K 1.1K  12K  53K 4.1K  92K  12K   0    0  111K
 65668.28
  Baldric 268   94% 198K 7.8K 3.7K 899  9.7K  34K 5.6K 129K  17K 292   38   67K
 49365.36
   Gunjin 255   94% 189K  11K 9.0K 612   13K  24K 2.4K 142K 4.8K 113   18  289K
 46806.86
      CIS 266   95% 209K 8.2K 3.8K 1.7K 4.1K  13K 758   78K 2.1K 226    6  294K
 43743.62
Schmidlap 180   99% 159K 7.5K 6.7K 547   13K  32K 2.5K  70K 5.0K 176   18  210K
 41037.77
  Drakona 127   96% 109K 6.1K 1.4K 443  3.0K  18K 1.7K  85K 3.4K 111    4  366K
 28010.74
 darkwing 138   98% 115K 7.9K 317   44  1.5K 2.6K 1.3K  82K 1.4K 110   16  370K
 25497.08
    Dagga 139   93% 112K 3.7K 2.7K 324  3.1K  25K 903   52K 4.4K  90    0  121K
 25025.00
     HELL 161   95% 115K 6.5K 3.3K 400  5.3K  10K 2.2K  57K 7.2K  73   13   22K
 24699.55
    Guppy 131   83%  77K  12K 527   91  201   17K 2.0K  27K 590   11   17  272K
 20309.19
  Lochett  40   58% 812  511  163   38   11   13    2  850   54   15   10  381K
  5447.27
Hawkmoons  13   98% 1.2K   8  230    0    0    0    1  999   13    0    1  264K
  3440.79
Byzantium  10   89% 2.2K 142   58   12  999  999    1  2.4K 796   16    6  204K
  3272.67
   Asylum  64   68% 1.1K 118  222  191  1.7K 3.4K  96  109  900    1    2  9.0K
  3180.32
  Kalhoun  16   83% 8.1K 468  167   37    0  1.0K 711  1.5K   1    0   19   42K
  2458.40
Avalon_Is   0    0%   0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0  109K
  1091.96
Bongoland   1   91%  15    1    0    0    0    0    0    1    0    0    2   76K
   824.68
PakkaPakk   7   99%  76   29  143   27    0  920  477    0   41    0    0   16K
   745.80
     Zezz   1   91%  15    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0   63K
   678.94
 Starfire   6   69% 160   68    0    0    0    0    0  1.0K   0    0    6   22K
   528.39
     spam   5   35% 203   13   15    2    0    0    0   61    0    0    1   40K
   521.99
 Baldoria   3   97% 129   16    0    0    0    0    0  316    0    0    5   20K
   400.19
Militaria   1   67%  10    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0   23K
   261.26
    Annwn   2   95%  30    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0  8.1K
   176.24
          ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----
worldwide 6.8K  94% 5.3M 222K 181K  18K 250K 793K  73K 3.5M 205K 4.6K 410  6.5M



Ken Huisman
(Happy_People)
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Ken Huisman, Computing Science Student, U of Alberta, Canada.
ken@cs.ualberta.ca 
kenh@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca 
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