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User talk:Banned

2005-11-17T12:50:04Z

Cheerios:

sorry, tried to see how it worked and didn't find the way to undo it heh

nice webby btw

No problem, I figured it was something like that. Glad you like it. -[[User:Banned|Banned]] 21:19, 10 Jan 2005 (GMT)

how does this work

Depends on what you mean by 'this' doesn't it. If you want to experiment, you can try the [[Help:Sandbox|sandbox]]. -[[User:Banned|Banned]] 01:35, 23 Mar 2005 (GMT)

== attack/defend ==

Thanks for tidying up the stuff I did yesterday, and adding stuff I can't believe I missed! However, I do think it might be a good idea to show such basic concepts as 'attack' and 'defend' in the index pages, which is why I made them seperate pages...?

In my mind they cover so much common ground that it would be redundant to have seperate pages for them. I agree that it would be nice to have them on the Terminology page, but this case is similar to many others: Races have one common page, Ship Types etc. If people search for attack, they get the Missions page. In most cases the attack and defense pages will be the ones linked, just like Zik/Cat/Ter/Xan are usually linked directly instead of Race. -[[User:Banned|Banned]] 06:14, 30 Mar 2005 (BST)

I obviously missed the reason using generalized pages is a good thing. The Terminology category page is already a tad spammed, we should strive to keep it clean enough to be useful. -[[User:Banned|Banned]] 06:17, 30 Mar 2005 (BST)

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[http://users.evtek.fi/~jussiava/pa/wiki_images.tar.gz pawiki pics] -[[User:Cheerios|Cheerios]] 12:50, 17 November 2005 (GMT)

User talk:Cheerios

2005-10-27T21:00:27Z

Cheerios:

You said on IRC some pages were still vandalized. Got any examples? -[[User:Banned|Banned]] 12:50, 27 October 2005 (BST)

[[Round_1|One of the first links that I tried from the mainpage]] - [[User:Cheerios|Cheerios]] 22:00, 27 October 2005 (BST)

Template:News

2005-09-28T21:00:33Z

Cheerios:

Round 14

2005-09-28T20:59:32Z

Cheerios: /* Events */

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==Round demographics ==

Round XIV - An Empty Throne began Wednesday the 20th July, 2005, at 20:00 GMT, with approximately 1500 accounts. The players are mostly spread amongst twentyish [http://www.clawofdarkness.com/pawiki/index.php/Category:Alliances:Round_14 participating alliances]. The round ended at 20:00GMT on September 28th, 2005.

=== Alliance Graphs ===

<table><tr><td>http://users.evtek.fi/~jussiava/pa/wiki/R14_compare_alliance_size.png</td></tr></table>

=== Events ===

[[Lokken]], comfortably set in an armchair smoking the pipe and adding to his personal [http://pirate.planetarion.com/showthread.php?t=186683 logbook] once again on the [[Forums| pirate forums]].

[[cheerios]] kept a small [http://www.clawofdarkness.com/pawiki/index.php/Round_14:pawiki_news R14 news/soapbox] on the pawiki itself with commentary from start to finish.

== Final Rankings ==

=== As Seen on Sandmans ===

<table><tr><td>http://users.evtek.fi/~jussiava/pa/wiki/R14_final_sandmans.png </td></tr></table>

== Information ==

=== Changes from R13 ===

A list of [[Round_14:Changes|changes to the game]].

=== Shipstats ===

* [http://game.planetarion.com/stats.pl?page=33 Ship statistics]

=== Guides ===

External links to R14 a general startup and race guide(s) by Sovereign:

* [http://pirate.planetarion.com/showthread.php?t=186460 Terran]
* [http://pirate.planetarion.com/showthread.php?t=186457 Cathaar]
* [http://pirate.planetarion.com/showthread.php?t=186458 Xandathrii]
* [http://pirate.planetarion.com/showthread.php?t=186459 Zikonian]
* [http://pirate.planetarion.com/showthread.php?t=186429 Startup guide]

* Effects of [[Race#Round_12_and_13| Engineering priorities]] on construction and production times.

=== Battlecalcs ===

* http://students.bath.ac.uk/ch3atkm/bcalc/bc.php (formerly http://applebane.ineptia.net/bcalc/bc.php )
* http://blern.gotadsl.co.uk/bcalc.html
* http://bcalc.visionhq.org

=== Tools ===

* [http://tim.igoe.me.uk/patools/ Mit's]
* [http://pilkara.com/ Pilkara]
* [http://sandmans.co.uk/ Sandman's]
* [http://parser.visionhq.org/ VsN Parser]

=== Misc ===

Planetarion is running on three Linux/BSD -based servers . The game server is a dual 2.6Ghz Xeon, 2 Gb RAM, 36Gb SCSI HDD beast with an unmetered line. The others servers are 1GHz PIII's with 1Gb RAM.

__FORCETOC__

Round 14:PAWiki News

2005-09-28T20:58:45Z

Cheerios:

* [[User:Cheerios|Cheerios]] 21:16, 28 Sep 2005 (BST)

It's over, folks. Ticks closing to and end. A jolt of pretentious coolness sweeping #planetarion in anticipation of a brief celebration for those whom took part and not least the winner's of R14. The tapping of thousands of fingers on keyboards throughout the world, while it could substitute for a raving enthusiastic applause it doesn't even come close to the real thing. For the #1 planet, alliance and galaxy from the ever kind PAWiki admins I give you [http://www.wavevents.com/MyFilez/wavs/variety/applause.wav the closest thing to the real thing itself]. For all the wanna-be winner's in 1up behind [[elviz]], better luck next time, suckers.

Respect to all the new players battling it out in the cold universe amidst all the merciless roid runs. Of all the alliances I'll have to say well played to [[ToF|Tides of Fire]], [[xVx]], [[F-Crew]], [[Vgn|Vengeance]] and [[TGV|The Galactic Vikings]]. A special mention for the crazy [[G-II]] players; nothing quite like being offered defence channel infoes from a [[G-II]] player (myself being the GC) while noting on Sandmans that he's the only one listed in the whole alliance.

Is there a way to briefly sum up R14? Black comedy comes to mind. All the fluctuation in the alliance front had good comedy value, yet made it easier for the hardened mushroom staff to wrap up the round. Blocking with their flak alliance being #1 from start to finish kind of says it all about the weak opposition they had this round. LCH. Please. Disband. Also, could Sid please step up and give some information to all the "HCs" of other alliances on how to steer real no-nonsense alliances? The kids don't get it.

Until we meet again in another life I bid you all farewell.

-- GC of the [[Elysium]] Devils (7:8)

* [[User:Cheerios|Cheerios]] 16:14, 11 Sep 2005 (BST)

The previous events combined with [[New Dawn]]'s inability to muster more thought into PA than a blind Alzheimer's patient lead to a predictable outcome: another 1up victory. This means the winners of PaX rounds to-date are 1up, Elysium and eXilition. There is also the half-round played in utter bad taste by stagnating the game from tick0. FanG belongs to the list too.

I can only wonder: where have the ruthless alliance leaders with balls of steel disappeared? Seems the braindrain has been so severe that the current batch of alliance leaders are a mockery to the very title they hold. It's a real shame. Here's a few excuses grabbed from AD ''(NOTE! edited for anonymity)''; "it was Sid's propaganda! His jedi mindtricks were too much", "since WP wasn't around... surely someone had to try and fence it out?", "we NAPed the #1 alliance to avoid incomings while recruiting past them, but still unfortunately failed. To show what a disgrace we truly are, we will uphold the NAP to make the remaining month totally uninteresting!", "i am against blocking, static NAPs and the such... however, if its to our advantage, I would definitely say its out of the question to break such agreements. Totally unhonorable." etc..

Fracked up.

* [[User:Cheerios|Cheerios]] 10:06, 30 Aug 2005 (BST)

The Man in Red has been busy as alliances continue to fall. [[Hydra]] took a trip to the otherside with [[Insomnia]] being left crippled due [http://pirate.planetarion.com/showthread.php?t=187020 an internal dispute] between SkyHead's battlegroup called Demolition Squad and the Insomnia staff (more comedy in the [http://pirate.planetarion.com/showthread.php?t=187073 follow-up]). A battlegroup raised to an alliance couldn't contain a battlegroup on a leash *shrug*. Two fine failures to serve as a warning to any future wannabe alliance commanders.

[[Reunion]] boosted itself recruiting the members of these two alliances to claim #1 for a very short period of time. Drama was present due a member of PAteam merging the remains of Hydra into Reunion without following due procedure. An illegal merge so to speak. [http://pirate.planetarion.com/showthread.php?t=187060 An apology] from Kloopy explained the difficulty in undoing the process and the merge stayed in effect. The fanfare from tripping [[1up|mushrooms]] could be heard from miles away, as not only had their opposition ([[LCH]]-[[Insomnia]]) crumbled but also [[Reunion]] had taken the spotlight for being evil, recruiting no-good'ers.

Later on an in-game copy of [[Reunion]] memberlist began circulating the Web. Meanwhile the head multihunter, xontas, was [http://pirate.planetarion.com/showthread.php?t=187110 sacked]. Pieces. Puzzle. Together.

On the forums the round15 galaxy system has been brought up [http://pirate.planetarion.com/showthread.php?t=187150 on discussion] alongside [http://pirate.planetarion.com/showthread.php?t=187151 changes planned into races] for round16.

* [[User:Cheerios|Cheerios]] 16:14, 11 Sep 2005 (BST)

The previous events combined with [[New Dawn]]'s inability to muster more thought into PA than a blind Alzheimer's patient lead to a predictable outcome: another 1up victory. This means the winners of PaX rounds to-date are 1up, Elysium and eXilition. There is also the half-round played in utter bad taste by stagnating the game from tick0. FanG belongs to the list too.

I can only wonder: where have the ruthless alliance leaders with balls of steel disappeared? Seems the braindrain has been so severe that the current batch of alliance leaders are a mockery to the very title they hold. It's a real shame. Here's a few excuses grabbed from AD ''(NOTE! edited for anonymity)''; "it was Sid's propaganda! His jedi mindtricks were too much", "since WP wasn't around... surely someone had to try and fence it out?", "we NAPed the #1 alliance to avoid incomings while recruiting past them, but still unfortunately failed. To show what a disgrace we truly are, we will uphold the NAP to make the remaining month totally uninteresting!", "i am against blocking, static NAPs and the such... however, if its to our advantage, I would definitely say its out of the question to break such agreements. Totally unhonorable." etc..

Fracked up.

* [[User:Cheerios|Cheerios]] 10:06, 30 Aug 2005 (BST)

The Man in Red has been busy as alliances continue to fall. [[Hydra]] took a trip to the otherside with [[Insomnia]] being left crippled due [http://pirate.planetarion.com/showthread.php?t=187020 an internal dispute] between SkyHead's battlegroup called Demolition Squad and the Insomnia staff (more comedy in the [http://pirate.planetarion.com/showthread.php?t=187073 follow-up]). A battlegroup raised to an alliance couldn't contain a battlegroup on a leash *shrug*. Two fine failures to serve as a warning to any future wannabe alliance commanders.

[[Reunion]] boosted itself recruiting the members of these two alliances to claim #1 for a very short period of time. Drama was present due a member of PAteam merging the remains of Hydra into Reunion without following due procedure. An illegal merge so to speak. [http://pirate.planetarion.com/showthread.php?t=187060 An apology] from Kloopy explained the difficulty in undoing the process and the merge stayed in effect. The fanfare from tripping [[1up|mushrooms]] could be heard from miles away, as not only had their opposition ([[LCH]]-[[Insomnia]]) crumbled but also [[Reunion]] had taken the spotlight for being evil, recruiting no-good'ers.

Later on an in-game copy of [[Reunion]] memberlist began circulating the Web. Meanwhile the head multihunter, xontas, was [http://pirate.planetarion.com/showthread.php?t=187110 sacked]. Pieces. Puzzle. Together.

On the forums the round15 galaxy system has been brought up [http://pirate.planetarion.com/showthread.php?t=187150 on discussion] alongside [http://pirate.planetarion.com/showthread.php?t=187151 changes planned into races] for round16.

* [[User:Cheerios|Cheerios]] 07:14, 20 Aug 2005 (BST)

The summer round has seen an unusual amount of activity within the alliance rankings due [http://pirate.planetarion.com/showthread.php?t=186961 mergers] and alliances collapsing. Hardball moves from the HCs and most likely a breath of fresh air for the members concerned. Thumbs up for upping the ante allowing for a few surprises here and there.

In other news the witch-crafted [http://www.celestialwicca.com/mojo_bags.html Mojo Bags] in use by [[1up]] were found extremely powerful in warding off evil and the rise of [[EXilition]] in PT666 did not happen.

* [[User:Cheerios|Cheerios]] 06:43, 14 Aug 2005 (BST)

[[Wolfpack]] is [http://pirate.planetarion.com/showthread.php?t=186912 dying]. [[New Dawn]], [[NoS|Novus ordo Seclorum]] and [[F-Crew]] remain in top10 of today as a reminder of old, established alliances with a long history in Planetarion.

* [[User:Cheerios|Cheerios]] 14:04, 10 Aug 2005 (BST)

In breaking news: [http://pirate.planetarion.com/showpost.php?p=2918668&postcount=171 A lie] might have been committed on Alliance Discussions. [[1up]] are investigating the matter.

* [[User:Cheerios|Cheerios]] 01:14, 7 Aug 2005 (BST)

Do you think the Planetarion manual could be better? So do we.
[[Appocomaster]] has laid the foundation for a true [[New_Player_Manual|new player's manual]]. Edits most welcome.

* [[User:Cheerios|Cheerios]] 17:37, 3 Aug 2005 (BST)

A week and a half into the round [[1up]] is showing signs of total domination. While their members have laughed it off on alliance discussions they have taken a comfortable 25% lead on average to the #2 alliance ([[LCH]]). Their lead on the #3 alliance ([[Wolfpack]]) is even more impressive standing at 40%. The rest are too far behind to be of any consequence at this point.

The competing alliances playing to take on the #1 spot (however, with [[EXilition]] not participating I believe we will have to wait till next round on this one) have been alarmed at 1up's remarkable progress and have [http://pirate.planetarion.com/showthread.php?t=186756 formed a block] according to [[Synthetic Sid|Sid]]. A blurb by [[Mazzelaar]] also states LCH's -- while not verified from LCH -- attempt to merge with 1up prior to round start. While not news, this does strongly imply that LCH is in no fighting shape.

No doubt this all has given 1up justification to parry these attacks of a fearsome block, which so far have caused them to end the day with -329 roids. Likely their sympathy card will work on smaller and less experienced alliances not wanting to be part of the war. Considering these alliances amount to half of the t10 this is good news for 1up. Members of top galaxies will likely NAP themselves ouf of any ruckus, which 1up is gladly offering.

The [[Round_11:Planet_Rankings| previous summer round]] was won by 1up convincingly using these very same tactics. As an old saying goes; ''"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me."''

* [[User:Cheerios|Cheerios]] 21:22, 27 Jul 2005 (BST)

[[G-II]] merges into [[Hydra]]. Remains unclear whether this move includes a player whom earlier leaked [[APA]]/[[NewDawn|ND]] coords to the masses.

* [[User:Cheerios|Cheerios]] 04:52, 25 Jul 2005 (BST)

PT101. Game stopped. Fleet production bug found.

Unit Scan on 6:1:7 in tick 101
Sentinel 16011
Arrowhead 119

''Kal (1:1:2) Ticks and restart Mon, 25 Jul 01:37''<br>
Ticks suspended due to severe fleets page bug<br>
There will be a rollback to a tick before the issues occured (22:30 db backup is likely), and ticks will resume 24 hours after the time of the db backup so that peoples timezone based activity is not affected.<br>
Fleets will NOT be recalled

* [[User:Cheerios|Cheerios]] 22:01, 23 Jul 2005 (BST)

PT73. Game on!
Fleets -- There are curently 139 fleets moving, containing 26,973 ships.

* 11:17, 22 Jul 2005 (BST)

PT37 and the first (?) bug (?) pops up. Exile doesn't work. [ed. fixed a few ticks later]

* [[User:Cheerios|Cheerios]] 23:11, 21 Jul 2005 (BST)

PT26 ticker down.

(noah02) it might just be very slow tick atm

The initial purge missed the active planets... time to wipe the slate clean, eh?
As expected the initial purge was a mishap:

(Kal) the ticker deleter was aciddentally incorreclty configured and fre accoutns that had not been logged in for 24hours before the first tick were deleted<br>
(Kal) it was entirly my fault<br>
(Kal) and i apologise completely<br>
(Kal) the timer is now set correctly [ed. 1 tick lost]<br>
(Kal) but i can;t turn back time

* [[User:Cheerios|Cheerios]] 21:20, 20 Jul 2005 (BST)

before tick...

Race Count (%) Best Planet Score Rank
Terran 538 (25%) OF (::) 0
Cathaar 370 (17%) OF (::) 0
Xandathrii 648 (30%) OF (::) 0
Zikonian 537 (25%) OF (::) 0

after tick...

Race Count (%) Best Planet Score Rank
Terran 293 (20%) A Hazy Shade OF Winter (2:9:7)
Cathaar 294 (20%) Baat Cham Dao OF Wing Chun Kuen (2:10:3)
Xandathrii 476 (33%) Children OF War (2:4:46)
Zikonian 374 (26%) Epson OF Stylus C46 (1:5:73)

''(Guran)'' Hmm, 650 planets disappeared.

A few minutes later Kal updates <nowiki>#</nowiki>support channel topic

<nowiki>#</nowiki>support ''The ticker has purged inactive free accounts - sorry if we deleted you''

* [[User:Cheerios|Cheerios]] 20:20, 20 Jul 2005 (BST)

(noah02) the winner for round 14 with the closest guess to the number of signups (which at the time was 2074 ) is Dotatrix beleive it or not

* ''17:13, 20 Jul 2005 (BST)''
[[Round_14|R14]] to begin in just a couple of hours. The Planetarion IRC channel holds 166 anticipating players and the casual idling oldtimers awaiting tick start @ 20:00GMT.

* ''17:11, 20 Jul 2005 (BST)''
New mainpage layout. Jester will drop dead when he sees this ;-)

The idea behind the news/soapbox is to gather common thoughts, ideas and general chatter that might not warrant their own thread (PD). This space can be used to log the events of R14 -- whatever they may be -- and might shape up to be a chaotic timeline following the thoughts of Planetarians. The "lighter" side of PAWiki.

Round 14

2005-09-28T20:53:25Z

Cheerios: /* Round demographics */

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==Round demographics ==

Round XIV - An Empty Throne began Wednesday the 20th July, 2005, at 20:00 GMT, with approximately 1500 accounts. The players are mostly spread amongst twentyish [http://www.clawofdarkness.com/pawiki/index.php/Category:Alliances:Round_14 participating alliances]. The round ended at 20:00GMT on September 28th, 2005.

=== Alliance Graphs ===

<table><tr><td>http://users.evtek.fi/~jussiava/pa/wiki/R14_compare_alliance_size.png</td></tr></table>

=== Events ===

[[Lokken]], comfortably set in an armchair smoking the pipe and adding to his personal [http://pirate.planetarion.com/showthread.php?t=186683 logbook] once again on the [[Forums| pirate forums]].

== Final Rankings ==

=== As Seen on Sandmans ===

<table><tr><td>http://users.evtek.fi/~jussiava/pa/wiki/R14_final_sandmans.png </td></tr></table>

== Information ==

=== Changes from R13 ===

A list of [[Round_14:Changes|changes to the game]].

=== Shipstats ===

* [http://game.planetarion.com/stats.pl?page=33 Ship statistics]

=== Guides ===

External links to R14 a general startup and race guide(s) by Sovereign:

* [http://pirate.planetarion.com/showthread.php?t=186460 Terran]
* [http://pirate.planetarion.com/showthread.php?t=186457 Cathaar]
* [http://pirate.planetarion.com/showthread.php?t=186458 Xandathrii]
* [http://pirate.planetarion.com/showthread.php?t=186459 Zikonian]
* [http://pirate.planetarion.com/showthread.php?t=186429 Startup guide]

* Effects of [[Race#Round_12_and_13| Engineering priorities]] on construction and production times.

=== Battlecalcs ===

* http://students.bath.ac.uk/ch3atkm/bcalc/bc.php (formerly http://applebane.ineptia.net/bcalc/bc.php )
* http://blern.gotadsl.co.uk/bcalc.html
* http://bcalc.visionhq.org

=== Tools ===

* [http://tim.igoe.me.uk/patools/ Mit's]
* [http://pilkara.com/ Pilkara]
* [http://sandmans.co.uk/ Sandman's]
* [http://parser.visionhq.org/ VsN Parser]

=== Misc ===

Planetarion is running on three Linux/BSD -based servers . The game server is a dual 2.6Ghz Xeon, 2 Gb RAM, 36Gb SCSI HDD beast with an unmetered line. The others servers are 1GHz PIII's with 1Gb RAM.

__FORCETOC__

Round 14

2005-09-28T20:44:03Z

Cheerios:

<table><tr><td>http://users.evtek.fi/~jussiava/pa/wiki/r14_pa.gif</td></tr></table>

==Round demographics ==

Round XIV - An Empty Throne began Wednesday the 20th July, 2005, at 20:00 GMT, with approximately 1500 accounts. The players are mostly spread amongst twentyish [http://www.clawofdarkness.com/pawiki/index.php/Category:Alliances:Round_14 participating alliances]. The round ended at 20:00GMT on September 28th, 2005.

=== Events ===

[[Lokken]], comfortably set in an armchair smoking the pipe and adding to his personal [http://pirate.planetarion.com/showthread.php?t=186683 logbook] once again on the [[Forums| pirate forums]].

== Final Rankings ==

=== As Seen on Sandmans ===

<table><tr><td>http://users.evtek.fi/~jussiava/pa/wiki/R14_final_sandmans.png </td></tr></table>

== Information ==

=== Changes from R13 ===

A list of [[Round_14:Changes|changes to the game]].

=== Shipstats ===

* [http://game.planetarion.com/stats.pl?page=33 Ship statistics]

=== Guides ===

External links to R14 a general startup and race guide(s) by Sovereign:

* [http://pirate.planetarion.com/showthread.php?t=186460 Terran]
* [http://pirate.planetarion.com/showthread.php?t=186457 Cathaar]
* [http://pirate.planetarion.com/showthread.php?t=186458 Xandathrii]
* [http://pirate.planetarion.com/showthread.php?t=186459 Zikonian]
* [http://pirate.planetarion.com/showthread.php?t=186429 Startup guide]

* Effects of [[Race#Round_12_and_13| Engineering priorities]] on construction and production times.

=== Battlecalcs ===

* http://students.bath.ac.uk/ch3atkm/bcalc/bc.php (formerly http://applebane.ineptia.net/bcalc/bc.php )
* http://blern.gotadsl.co.uk/bcalc.html
* http://bcalc.visionhq.org

=== Tools ===

* [http://tim.igoe.me.uk/patools/ Mit's]
* [http://pilkara.com/ Pilkara]
* [http://sandmans.co.uk/ Sandman's]
* [http://parser.visionhq.org/ VsN Parser]

=== Misc ===

Planetarion is running on three Linux/BSD -based servers . The game server is a dual 2.6Ghz Xeon, 2 Gb RAM, 36Gb SCSI HDD beast with an unmetered line. The others servers are 1GHz PIII's with 1Gb RAM.

__FORCETOC__

Template:News

2005-09-28T20:16:10Z

Cheerios:

2005-08-29T06:46:51Z

Cheerios: /* Current Round (Jul, 20th - 70 days later) */

== Current Round (Jul, 20th - Sep, 28th)==

*[[Round 14]] - An Empty Throne

== All Rounds ==

*[[:Category:Alliances|Alliances]], [[:Category:Battle_Groups|Battle Groups]] and [[:Category:Blocks|Blocks]]
*[[:Category:People|People]] and [[:Category:Interviews|Interviews]]
*[[:Category:Terminology|Terminology]]
*[[:Category:Forum Threads|Forum Threads]]
*[[:Category:Strategy|Strategy]] and [[New_Player_Manual| The New Player's Guide]]

== Miscellaneous ==

*[[:Category:Resources|Game Related]]
*[[Internet Relay Chat|IRC]]
*[[Creators Hour|Creators Hour]]
*[[Forums]]

== Past Rounds ==

*[[Round 13]] - The Illusion Of Truth
*[[Round 12]] - The Edge of Darkness
*[[Round 11]] - A Legend Reborn
*[[Round 10.5]] - The Awakening
*[[Round 10]] - Genesis
*[[Round 9.5]] - Resurrection
*[[Round 9]] - Redemption
*[[Round 8]] - The Final Legacy
*[[Round 7]] - Critical Diplomacy
*[[Round 6]] - First Encounters
*[[Round 5]] - The Price of Freedom
*[[Round 4]] - The Tides of War
*[[Round 3]] - The New Dawn
*[[Round 2]] - The Struggle For Power
*[[Round 1]] - The Beginning

Cheerios:

== Introduction ==

Little experience in [[Planetarion]]? You've come to the right place.

Browse around before the beginning of the round to gain an advantage about the inner workings of the game.

=== A Relaxing Browser Game For The Whole Family ===

In [[Planetarion]] you compete with thousands of other players over a 2 month period of non-stop gaming. Activity, skill, endurance and a solid [[alliance]] are the building blocks of a winner in this game.

At the beginning you construct [[structures]] and initiate [[asteroids]] that orbit your planet to gain resources. With these [[resource|resources]] you are able to construct 6 different [[Ship_Class|classes of ship]]. Two classes are capable of [[Pods|stealing asteroids]] from enemy planets while another is capable of bombarding enemy planets ruthlessly destroying their [[structure]]s.
There are 4 [[race]]s to choose from each equipped with 12 unique ships.

Planets are ranked by their [[score]]. The planet with the highest score wins.

== Basic Gameplay ==

Each planet including yours is grouped into [[galaxy|galaxies]]. Planetarion is a turn-based game playable with a web browser. Each turn is called a [[tick]] (a 1 hour period). In speed rounds ticks vary between 1-5 minutes.

Rounds are announced 2-3 weeks before tick start. Around this time signups are opened on the main server allowing everyone creation of their very own planet. In the beginning everyone is placed in [[Protection|protection mode]] and temporarily grouped into galaxies. At tick 36, planets are shuffled and placed into their true initial galaxy using a highly intelligent AI. If your planet is unpaid you are placed randomly otherwise you can form [[buddy pack]]s with friends.

== The First 72 Hours: Under Protection ==

During the first 72 ticks of the game your planet is under protection. During this time, get used to the game, and as often as possible visit the mining page to initiate asteroids, the research page to start new researches and the construction page to start new constructions.

However, it's advisable to have some ships built by [[tick]] 82, as that's when the first attacks will be able to reach your planet. In the beginning of the game it is nearly impossible to stop any attacks, so it is prefereble to build [[Pods#Astropod|pods]] only and send them out to attack others.

== Planet: x,y,z ==

=== Engineering ===

A good starting setup is [[Research]] (1st), [[Mining]] (2nd) and [[Construction]] (3rd). Make sure you set your Engineering Priorities '''before''' starting a Research or Construction.

=== Research ===

The almost undisputed first choice is [[Improved Resource Handling]], so please click the ''initate'' button next to this research.

This technology branch allows you to mine more of the [[asteroids]] than you have collected around your planet. All of the more experienced players spend the first 60 or so [[tick]]s initiating asteroids in the Mining screen, but shortly after protection ends it is far more cost-effective to attack other players to gain roids (this also gets you [[XP]] - see [[combat]] for more information).

'''Starting Research'''
# Improved Resource Handling - 16 Ticks to complete
# Heavy Cargo Transfers II - 24
# Fighter Class Hulls - 24
# Jumpgate - 16
# ''**End of Protection**''
# Infrastructure Upgrade - 16
# Heavy Cargo Transfers III - 24
# Warpgate - 32
# Advanced Core Extraction - 24
# Heavy Cargo Transfers IV - 48
Then, about this time you'll need to try and get as much Scan technology as you can whilst keeping up with your roids (at least untill Unit scans)

The things to research least (?), especially for a free account, are probably the [[Surface Analysis]] (waves that allow you to see information on other planets) and the [[Underground Network Charting]] ([[Covert_Ops]]: causing damage without attacking with ships). There are heavy research limitations on unpaid planets.

=== Construction ===

The most beneficial construction is the [[Research lab]]. This increases your research speed by up to 20% when 1/5 of your constructions are [[research lab]]s. To build ships you need a light factory.

'''Starting Constructions'''
# Research Lab - 12 ticks
# Refinery - 12 (the number of which Refinery depends on your race. If you are Terran, focus on Metal Refineries as your ships cost alot of Metal. Cathaar = Crystal and Zikonian = Eonium. Eonium is no longer fuel, but is as important as Metal and Crystal - so keep it in mind ).
# Refinery - 12
# Refinery - 12
# Light Factory - 12
# Research Lab - 12
# ''**End of Protection**''
# Refinery - 12
# Refinery - 12
# Amplifier - 12
# Refinery - 12
# Research Lab - 12
# Medium Factory - 12

=== Mining ===

Mining is one of the important screens (together with research and construction) at the beginning of the round.

When you first sign up, you have 5000 of each resource. This is enough to buy 3 of each type of asteroid in the "Mining" screen. Paid accounts have 10000 of each resource, and so can afford 6 of each roid type.

To initiate asteroids, put the numbers in the corresponding boxes beside the three different resource types and click ''initiate''.

'''Note:''' You want to be the biggest planet you can be. You initiate asteroids at the beginning of the game as that's the most cost effective way of gaining asteroids, and you need asteroids to give you more resources. However, after 150-200 initiated asteroids the most cost effective way to gain more is by building ships that can steal asteroids and attacking other planets (you also gain [[XP]] for doing this, which adds to your planets [[score]]). Therefore, while you use this page a lot in the first 5-10 days, afterwards you won't need it much unless exchanging resources with others.

=== Troubleshooting ===

==== Can't Login? ====

* Check that computer time is set correctly
* Clear cookies, cache

==== Exceptions ====

If you play from the same place as someone else in your family, it is strongly recommended you apply for an [[exception]].

== Galaxy: x,y ==

A [[galaxy]] allows its own planets to launch ships to defend each other with a low [[ETA]]. In the galaxy status you can see details on friendly and hostile fleet movement (only paid accounts see outgoing fleets).

=== Galaxy Politics ===

Each planet can vote for a player they want to be the overall leader of the galaxy called the [[Galactic Commander]]. When a player has the most votes, he or she is automatically appointed the role of GC. The galaxy screen shows the current galaxy staff setup.

==== Minister Of Development (yellow) ====

The MoD is responsible for the Galaxy Fund. He can donate funds to the smallest planets in the galaxy (the planets with the lowest score). He can also regulate trade within the fund: at any time the MoD can choose to forbid or allow trade of one or more (or even all!) types of resources.

==== Minister of Communication (light blue) ====

The MoC is the spokesperson for a galaxy: he can send message to all other MoCs in a certain Cluster, or to all members within the Galaxy itself. Another task of the MoC is to keep the Galaxy Forums tidy.

==== Minister of War (red) ====

The Minister of war is responsible for arranging attacks and defences in a galaxy. He's generally the one, together with the Minister of Communication, that organises contact information on the forums and overview for defence. He may often also look for galaxies for his own galaxy to attack.

'''Note:'''
Not all galaxies follow these ideas. Some planets play with friends and alliances as much or more than their own galaxy mates (especially for attacking). Therefore it's a good idea to also have an alliance.

The bottom line for defence and organisation is your galaxy, and generally "galaxy mates" know each other quite well by the end of the round. Communication is essential, which is why many galaxies use a form of communication such as IRC where they have their own private channel to discuss and organise galaxy issues. Mobile phones are often also used in emergencies, such as when the galaxy is being heavily attacked (although giving your mobile phone out is always optional).

It's generally up to the galaxy how much they play for fun and how active they are, as in any galaxy there's some people on 18 hours a day and some only 2-4 hours. As there's only a limited amount of people in a galaxy, some of the more serious players are determined to get active players, but even the smaller less active galaxies often have a certain amount of fun.

=== Under Attaaackkrghh! ===

Time to man the battlestations.

When under attack several planets will receive defense from their alliance. However, those without an alliance have to rely on the planets within their galaxy (or a helpful chum within the cluster) to receive defence. In-galaxy defence is usually coordinated within the galaxy's [[IRC]] channel.

If you have just started out, you will likely be uncovered, meaning you do not have enough ships in defensive to stop the attacker from taking a share of your roids.

== Alliance: 1st line of support ==

Beside galaxies, your main line of defence is [[alliance|alliances]]. Alliances are groups of players that agree to defend and perform coordinated attacks together.

=== Are Alliances Made Of Green Men And Cheese? ===

Alliances have several ranks within them.

The [[High Commander]]s are in charge of the alliance. There's no set limit for how many people are in this most powerful position, but generally there's between 3 and 5 who are in ultimate authority.

[[Officer]]s sort out the alliance attacks and defences, and are often responsible (together with some of the HCs) for the technical responsibility of the alliance. Some are in charge of intelligence, internal and external affairs, and even "scanners" - those devoted to scanning for the alliance.

Normal members (aka. pe0ns) help with duties within the alliance, but mostly are required to be as active as possible and participate in alliance attacks and defences. Some alliances give points for attacking and defending, so they can keep track of how helpful alliance members are. Alliances generally are organised on IRC and often have their own forums and/or IRC servers to increase privacy and communication ability. Some alliances have a "minimum IRC activity time" together or instead of a points system - inactive players don't pull their weight in the long term and so often require a lot more defence than they give. At the beginning of the round, many alliances would prefer players with less experience but that are online 8 or more hours a day than experienced players that won't be on more than 2 hours a day.

=== How Do I Get An Alliance? ===

Most alliances require [[IRC|IRC]] activity. The established alliances require vouches (people already in the alliance knowing you and saying you're a good player), but many just interview and require a minimum activity time. A list of all the Round 14 alliances playing can be found on the [[:Category:Alliances:Round_14|Round14 alliances page]]. New players should look in the [http://pirate.planetarion.com/forumdisplay.php?f=37 Alliance Recruitment Forum].

== Combat ==

This is a space war game in which [[combat]] is an important part.

=== Ships, Classes and Targets ===

Ship from different [[Ship_Class|classes]] can be categorized into [[Ship_Type|different primary functionalities]].

=== Inititative ===

[[Initiative]] defines the order that ships fire in battle. The lower the initiative the sooner the ship fires. Generally, Cathaar EMP ships fire first, then Xandarthii ships, then Terran and Zikonian kill ships and Cathaar kill ships, and then the astropods, and then steal ships, and then structure killers.

=== Arm/Cost and Dam/Cost explained ===

In the [http://game.planetarion.com/stats.pl?page=33 ship statistics] these are, in some ways, more important than the armour, damage and cost columns themselves. They summarize these columns by saying, per cost, how much armour or damage the ship does. This means you can quickly compare ships no matter their different costs. looking at Terran, you can see their "Arm/Cost" column is much bigger than the other races. Cathaar and Xandathrii have bigger "Dam/Cost" columns, but keep in mind that 6 of the Cathaar ships only stun their opponents.

=== Which Race Should I Play? ===

Read about the races in the [[Round_14#Guides| Race Guides]].