From: evil@bbn.com (Dave Nye)
Newsgroups: rec.games.empire
Subject: BBN EMPIRE I, Update #5, Day 32
Date: 14 Apr 1992 03:55:10 GMT
Organization: War Lord and Imperial Emperor of THE Evil Empire
Distribution: world
Reply-To: evil@bbn.com (Dave Nye)
NNTP-Posting-Host: archive.bbn.com
Keywords: BBN, Destruction, No Sleeping...

Welcome sports fans to another edition to Monday Night Empire Update..with
your host as always...Our Favorite Evil Deity.... -=MARS=-

	G'day Mortals..

Once again I am called upon to give you the details of the carnage that is
taking place in the contest of endurance known to many as BBN EMPIRE I, 
but to those that are playing in it...fondly call it "That @#$%@% GAME!"

Out of 45 players, only *FIFTEEN* show any signs of life at all.  Of those
only 5 or 6 have been given odds of finishing with the Yellow Jersey.

    Here are the players that have been trashed by the powers that remain:

Norge, Baldric, MuntantLizards, Terminus, Zulu, Greenville, Bierhaus, Malaria
Space, Tethys, Matrix, Rabid, stj, BenHowth, Fredonia, duckland, Hadessa,
DisneyLand, Bongoland, Karabakh, Furrym, DamageInc, Ministry, Militaria,
beep, Nastrond, Moonshea...With several more just waiting to get their
exit papers cleared through customs.. 

Moonshea has been the playground of 3 or 4 countries during the attacks
that brought the once proud country down from it's perch on #3 trying
to draft his way behind Dweebland and Dave_TV.  Dreamlands, 7, The_Scum
and a few other scavengers pigpiled poor Moonshea early this week.  

This week has seen many lead changes, there was even one update that the
lead was changing every few min's.  Since then though, Dweebland has
found his stride and shifted into high gear to bust out to over 5k points
in the lead over Dave_TV.  The Dweebs have found themselves bumping into
country 7's sectors as of late, and are making a solid attempt to dump
him off one of his newly aquired colonies.  Country 7 has been very busy
sqeezing the tons of cash from old dead countries left to rot.  This 
cash should give Country 7 the needed infusion that he's been looking for
to increase his plane count with the new Jet Fighters that several
countries are closing in on making.  Dave_TV has a decent tech lead but
5 countries are now above tech 200 with 3 or so more hot on their heals.
I have predicted 5mt Nuke Tech to hit April 30th for most of the top
tech leaders.  That day should be quite interesting to see who's got the
cash and guts to drop the first big one.  Dave_TV has sworn it will be
him or his alliance of Dweebland/Dave_TV/Warlords to do so.  The other
side of Dreamlands/7/The_Scum and Park Place are doing their best to
prove them wrong.

Once again I must remind you and the players that this is a WINNER TAKE
ALL game.  No winning alliance will be recognized.  Only the Top player
will be declared the WINNER and given the bragging rights.

This next week will be very interesting to see who's left when I next
talk to you.  There isn't much left for countries to take that's not
well defended or an allies.  How much longer will these alliances last?
The tension is very high and I'd be supprised if the top players are
sleeping much at all.. }:)

Now, without any further mucking about....I give you...THE POWER CHART...

-=MARS=-
Evil Deity of BBN EMPIRE I

power new 
     - = [   Empire Power Report   ] = -
      as of Mon Apr 13 23:53:55 1992

         sects  eff  civ  mil shell gun  pet iron dust food oil  pln ship money
Dweebland 290   88% 211K 5.5K 1.4K 325  1.0K  18K 2.4K 164K 6.0K  87   15   76K
 40597.04
  Dave_TV 225   87% 183K 4.6K 609  370  3.9K  15K 1.7K  63K 7.1K 137   10   93K
 34946.36
        7 185   81% 127K  12K 2.6K 833  4.3K  11K 240   71K 2.1K  75   21  158K
 26478.68
Park Plac 145   93% 126K 3.6K 1.1K 439  1.8K  17K 1.1K  50K 7.3K 118   26   20K
 25299.59
Stuart_Ha 151   86% 117K 3.8K 3.0K 200  1.7K  12K 1.1K  51K 8.0K  61   18   48K
 23313.93
 The_Scum 113   89%  96K 2.4K 2.9K 171  1.3K  30K 536   41K 4.2K  61    8  110K
 21849.11
   Himmel 125   94% 110K 6.1K 1.6K 427  9.4K  11K 881   68K 7.2K  47   12  8.8K
 21385.61
Stalag-13 100   89%  79K 2.6K 1.1K 262  2.1K 6.2K 1.5K  50K 3.4K  71   20  120K
 17409.34
Hyperbore 109   93%  90K 5.1K 1.5K 175  1.2K 4.3K 336   38K 1.5K  29    7   11K
 16035.63
 Warlords  85   86%  67K 2.8K 689  100  7.2K 2.4K 523   25K 436   10    7  139K
 12894.29
 Thanatos  82   91%  68K 2.2K 823   92  493  3.2K 867   29K 1.3K  29    6   18K
 12648.49
DreamLand  83   90%  55K 2.5K 327   41  223  3.5K 259   14K 2.9K   0    5   14K
 10682.39
Negativla  61   91%  32K 925  1.7K 244  610  9.6K  95  4.1K  28   23    8  145K
  9668.46
  Ratland  56   96%  52K 2.7K 1.8K 120  4.2K 857  497   14K 828   10    9   53K
  9509.12
 Moonshae  57   85%  43K 4.8K  99   70  154  1.9K   8  6.9K 873   29    0 -7.2K
  7899.12
      XOX  32  100%  32K 425  1.2K  75  1.2K 1.6K 194  6.8K 318    9    4   39K
  6127.99
   Furrym  25   91%  17K 694  534  108  224  1.0K  89  4.3K 542    6    2   48K
  3764.78
DamageInc  12   62% 4.4K 121    0    0   84   57  241  2.9K 235    1    2  2.0K
   952.63
    Rabid   0    0%   0   24    0    0    0    0    0   55    0    0    1   78K
   795.15
 BenHowth   1   82%  37    1    0    0    0    0    0    1    0    0    0   52K
   562.70
Militaria   7   73% 996   23    1    5    0   20    7   82  115    0    0   14K
   504.53
 Ministry   5   96% 1.1K  14    0    0    0    0    0  771    0    0    0 -2.3K
   351.92
 Karabakh   3   97% 300    8    0    4    0    0    0   51    0    0    1   11K
   291.83
 Fredonia   3   91% 688   30    0    0    0    0    0  471    0    0    0  505 
   208.05
DisneyLan   1   29%  14    0    0    0    0    0    0    1    0    2    0  9.6K
   137.22
 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
     beep   0    0%   0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0  2.4K
    24.32
 Nastrond   2   68%  87   90    0    0    0    0    0  137    0    0    1 -8.0K
    20.03
          ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----
worldwide 2.0K  89% 1.5M  63K  23K 4.1K  41K 149K  13K 703K  54K 810  180  1.3M


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