PettingZooTwo - Game Summary Report

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PettingZooTwo was won by Ricin (Resvon A.K.A. Mr Ed). The
game was hosted and deitied by Bungholio (with Ski as an
onlooking visiting Deity). The game lasted 43 updates, and
ran from 24 June 2004 through 20 August 2004.

Petting Zoo Two had 20 players. It was played on a medium-
scale-sized map, with each player having about 12 sectors of
expansion radius from the center of their start sanctuaries
(players started with 4 santuaries) before entering that same
radius of their neighbors.

20 COUNTRIES REGISTERED:
Anguiron beep Cincinnati Darkness
Euforia Fodderton Gemini Howard
Aquitaine Limbo Seven nuke_em
Perdition Ricin Rook Savoia>Dorsai
Shakespeare Trantor twistle Wicked

Players started on a 55-sector continent, a choice of their
initial start continent from the choice from 3 flavors,
Vanilla, Chocolate, or Strawberry. The start continents
included a 100% stocked fort. There were small 7-sector
expansion islands (60 total expansion islands) between
the players, with one deity mil defending each expansion
sector. The expansion islands in the East-West direction
were much closer than the north/south onese to the start
islands, making them both vulnerabilites and liabilities.

Beep and Rook allied early and their teamwork led to an
early dominating lead in the power chart. During the beep-
Rook domination, Aquitaine kept poking jabs at their
dominance in an attempt to rally the world against them,
whilst some players were considering tossing their towels.
The beep-Rook alliance domination ended at around the 23rd
update, when Ricin claimed the #1 spot in the power chart
which he held until the endgame.

Dorsai, the replacement player for Savioa at update #9, drove
the tech lead until update #24, until Euforia got his economic
Sim City into full efficiency, and Euforia drove the tech
ladder home.

The beep-Rook alliance ran into difficulty around update #32,
when Rook tried to battle Aquitaine on Aquitaine's annexation
of the Anguiron continent, beep was gearing up for an incredibly
dug-in Cincinnati, while Ricin continued his expansion into
Perdition. Thus, Rook was defeated on the Anguiron continent,
and Cincinnati chewed up enough of beep's focus for Ricin to
gain ground.

Ricin and Shakespeare meanwhile were in talks of forming an
alliance, which must have been tricky grounds for Shakespeare,
as Shakespeare and beep worked together earlier in the game on
the twistle island. Wicked joined their alliance, and Rook
and beep islands started dissappearing.

Aquitaine took on a personal battle with Limbo, but Aqui's
personal life (burp) drowned out his abilities to focus a
decent attack on the Limburger.

The final straw was drawn when Rook missed a few updates, and
Ricin and Shakespeare capitalized on his absense and overran
his Darkness and home continents in a matter of 3 updates.

It was a game for the books for a summer game. 20 players
entered, 8 survived until endgame. One player was the winner,
Ricin. Plenty of sheep jokes were shared. We even had guest
appearances by Metallica and Overlord, and even Finland popped
into the visitor barn portal (peep-hole) for a sniff.

By the end of the game, Ricin had a 2x power score lead over the
#2 country in the power charts.

Power/Tech/Edu/Happy Graphs, animated colorized maps, player
survey responses, and more can be found at the official game
webpage at:
http://www.angelfire.com/empire2/bungholio/PettingZooTwo.html


- = [ Empire PettingZooTwo Final Power Report ] = -
as of Fri Aug 20 18:00:00 2004

sects eff civ mil shell gun pet iron dust oil pln ship unit $$$
Resvon 577 91% 384K 20K 34K 5.1K 55K 156K 3.2K 32K 750 165 135 1.1K
Euforia 164 97% 131K 7.7K 11K 1.7K 32K 67K 886 23K 161 78 27 2.2K
Shakespea 298 95% 230K 16K 21K 2.4K 41K 43K 2.1K 34K 550 209 143 1.7K
Wicked 261 97% 201K 11K 12K 2.6K 30K 63K 1.4K 17K 255 67 81 23K
Aquitaine 160 100% 133K 7.3K 11K 530 35K 22K 1.6K 11K 186 31 19 33K
Limbo 83 91% 61K 3.5K 4.0K 867 8.7K 15K 1.4K 5.0K 54 17 12 6.9K
Dorsai 57 91% 39K 2.2K 5.2K 468 3.8K 7.9K 75 2.0K 97 13 29 7.3K
Cincinnat 13 90% 2.7K 275 831 42 0 258 120 47 0 1 0 3.0K
beep 0 0% 1 58 128 20 0 0 0 0 23 6 0 -2.9K
nuke_em 0 0% 0 85 52 24 0 0 0 0 0 13 0 8.2K
Trantor 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 28K
Anguiron 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 17K
twistle 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 16K
Darkness 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 14K
Eight 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12K
Gemini 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8.0K
Rook 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -9.4K
Perdition 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -3.0K
Howard 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -10K
Fodderton 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -6.3K
---- ---- ---- ---- ---- --- --- ---- ---- ---- --- ---- ----
worldwide 1.6K 94% 1.2M 69K 99K 14K 206K 375K 11K 125K 2.1K 600 450 150K


PettingZooTwo Final "report *"

# name tech research education happiness
1 Euforia 248.38 6.23 34.90 15.98
2 Shakespeare 190.73 6.23 20.78 13.17
3 Limbo 237.67 6.23 21.61 45.15
4 Rook 193.21 6.23 2.29 0.06
5 twistle 74.85 6.23 0.00 0.00
6 nuke_em 158.17 6.23 0.30 0.00
7 Eight 74.85 6.23 0.00 0.00
8 Fodderton 92.42 6.23 0.00 0.00
9 Aquitaine 212.26 6.23 25.39 0.00
10 Darkness 74.85 6.23 0.01 0.00
11 Wicked 223.31 6.23 24.70 13.02
12 Trantor 83.12 6.23 0.02 0.00
13 Resvon 226.73 6.23 22.60 5.94
14 beep 215.72 6.23 8.23 0.00
15 Gemini 87.66 6.23 0.01 0.00
16 Perdition 130.73 6.23 0.11 0.00
17 Anguiron 81.24 6.23 0.00 0.00
18 Howard 101.59 12.46 0.01 0.00
19 Cincinnati 147.24 6.23 0.18 0.00
20 Dorsai 226.85 6.23 16.34 13.49


-Bungholio

 

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The PettingZooTwo player survey results are now up.
http://www.angelfire.com/empire2/bungholio/PZ2-SurveyResults.txt

I added a graph to the game graph section, normalizing the
power scores to the power leader. This gives a nice/different
perspective on the relative powers.

There are quite a bit of interesting tidbits there. Even newbies
who did not play in the game may get some insight as to how
deep and awesome of a game that empire can be.

If I were to draw conclusions from my player surveys, I'd
say (from the sample size of 9 empire players who submitted
surveys) that:
- Players don't like to be overburdened with excessive
micromanagements.
- Players enjoy update times that are convenient for them.
- Getting the game started quickly is preferred.
- Having not too big of a world is preferred.
- Having some expansion islands is preferred, but maybe a tiny bit further
and equidistant for all players would be most fair.
- Tech growth at about 6-7 tech points per update for this sized world
was good.
- Players thought the reduced unit mobility was good.
- Players (other than Ski and Myself) like to abuse^H^H^H^H^H
utilize the market.
- Players enjoy having at least one - two nights off per week once
the game gets going.
- Tech vs Expansion are big tradeoffs.
- Teamwork is fun.
- An attentive deity is respected.

Bungy

 

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"Bungholio" <nospam@sheep.org> wrote in message
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> - An attentive deity is respected.

At last Bungy finds a way to get respect....

Mr. Ed

 

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In article <412ce98e$0$14137$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com>,
<resvon@hotmailoryahoo.com> wrote:
>
>"Bungholio" <nospam@sheep.org> wrote in message
>>
>> - An attentive deity is respected.
>
>At last Bungy finds a way to get respect....
>

Well, he did win a few wool contests at the local 4-H clubs...

-Geoff