Round 10
With the introduction of bug-ridden new Planetarion code and bubblegum-statistics PaX became a round long fight between several alliances that didn't see a victor until the very end.
Bugs:
One of the more amusing bugs in PaX was found by Gerbie. During the round, Gerbie had kept to his 3 first roids, and instead researched covert operations and waves, working as a scanner for his alliance, Vengeance.
The most popular covop was resource transfer, which basicly stole resources from target and gave them to the covopper. Now, Gerbie stole from the big and gave to the small (himself) and then donated all the resources to the galaxy fund (which he had control over, as the MoD). But as might be expected, the big didn't like this. As they could not hit him (as he was too small), they decided to hit his galaxy instead. Gerbie, the nice fellow he is, sent all his 3 ships, normally used for JGP scans, to defend a galaxymate. There, they actually shot down a few hostile fighters, giving Gerbie XP. However, the formula dictated that if you killed the ships of a bigger planet, then you would gain more XP than if you killed the ships of a smaller planet. Problem was, there was set no limit to this extra XP, and as the planet whose fighters got killed was 117 times bigger than Gerbie (in score) it resulted in a massive score-gain for Gerbie, effectivly putting him in 1st, where he remained for almost a day. Then the bug was fixed, and he was lowered somewhat, allthough still in the top 100.
But Gerbie didn't lose spirit of this. On several occasions during the round he regained #1 for a tick, by donating all the resources he had saved up in the galaxy fund to himself. The ultimate goal was to win the round, as a covopper. The problem was, this tactic offered little challange for Gerbie, and around mid-round he grew bored of the whole thing and stopped. No one knows what would have happened if he had kept on all round - perhaps he would have emerged the winner?
Another bug which caused a stir during the round was the ability to recall fleets whilst in transit. By leaving the planetarion window open, a player could click back multiple times until they reached the page before ever launching their fleet, doing this would cause the fleet to return home immediately. This bug was not discovered until Walken, a top 10 planet at the time, abused it while being fleetcaught. Instead of losing his fleet, he opted to abuse the bug and thus exposing it to the admins. The result of this was his planet being closed and the faulty code being fixed.
Some bugs that were reported by Caution: The bug of recalling giving fleets orders after they had launched was also discovered and reported on IRC immediatly. He also discovered it was possible to start production orders without the needed research/cons completed by using a command such as http://jpaweb01.planetarion.com/production.pl?ship_12=100, which was also reported. He also suspected that one would be able to use the same flaw to change the Message from the Commander and the Commanders, gal pic etc. He reported that also without checking if that bug actually existed.
A less important glitch that occasionally happened during the round was the ability to buy more ships than you could afford. This bug was seemingly caused by accidentally double clicking the buy button very quickly, resulting in a double order, and negative resources.
Final rankings (# Nick Race Coords Alliance):
1 bleen 18:4:5 Elysium 2 graki Cat 10:1:4 Dragons 3 Nexus01 16:4:8 WolfPack 4 zerocore 19:2:9 Elysium 5 Mangor 3:7:9 FAnG 6 Don_Juan 7:8:4 Elysium 7 Mitre 18:4:3 Elysium 8 Blazde Ter 6:6:9 Elysium 9 Remy Ter 18:4:10 ToT 10 Tuhoaja 2:4:6 Dragons 11 Dunkelgraf 7:6:7 ToT 12 DaKing Zik 2:10:7 Dragons 13 Sliekas 16:4:3 Dragons 14 d3c0y Ter 13:5:7 NewDawn 15 Fork Cat 10:5:8 Eclipse 16 Salminator 18:4:2 Vision 17 Feanor 12:2:7 Dragons 18 Repmats 13:10:5 FAnG 19 Greenhills 9:6:7 WolfPack 20 Kilroy Zik 18:4:1 Eclipse 21 bear 16:4:4 Eclipse 22 Rgat Ter 6:6:2 Elysium 23 Kal 7:7:1 NoS 24 Helix Ter 7:1:5 WolfPack 25 Chand1er 16:9:8 Elysium 26 Lonely Cat 1:8:5 Vision 27 gmufc Xan 10:5:5 ToT 28 mockingbird 8:7:8 WolfPack 29 Isotee 10:9:2 Elysium 30 neone 7:8:1 Dragons 31 Neburu Cat 10:3:9 Elysium 32 Xeno Xan 17:7:8 hirr 33 MavericK 8:2:9 Eclipse 34 Desse 18:4:8 Vision 35 Acers Zik 18:4:6 ToT 36 Zato 10:1:5 ToT 37 valy Ter 2:2:7 FAnG 38 dropt|afk 7:2:3 Elysium 39 d-sun 20:7:5 Elysium 40 Arfa 16:4:9 Eclipse 41 damocles 18:4:4 Elysium 42 Skyff 9:7:2 Eclipse 43 Thora 17:6:9 Elysium 44 Harrow Ter 2:10:9 FAnG 45 puff 7:8:2 Elysium 46 OlaTa 3:7:4 Elysium 47 Bannor Xan 14:2:9 Eclipse 48 Benbig Xan 6:7:7 Vision 49 Eldan 12:3:9 Eclipse 50 Guran 18:4:9 Elysium 51 S3S Ter 4:2:7 Elysium 52 Hoffi 18:4:7 Elysium 53 Tone 17:7:7 WolfPack 54 Shazna 7:3:4 FAnG 55 mastercaster 17:3:2 WolfPack 56 Rimmerz 10:3:4 Eclipse 57 Orange 16:4:1 NewDawn 58 _FrEaK_ 3:7:10 Eclipse 59 CuRa 2:5:2 NewDawn 60 Biggeh 16:8:1 NoS 61 Johnson 8:4:4 Eclipse 62 Peda/Z80 5:10:10 ToT 63 Mindeblow 19:4:5 Elysium 64 Soron 5:6:2 Vengeance 65 COlle 12:4:4 Elysium 66 Longy 12:3:8 Eclipse 67 verno 5:7:7 WolfPack 68 Snowie Cat 15:6:6 Elysium 69 Wez Cat 4:2:4 Elysium 70 Baxter 10:3:8 Elysium 71 Zyrtec Ter 2:10:5 Elysium 72 breeze Zik 11:2:6 Elysium 73 SYMM Xan 4:2:8 Elysium 74 Porno 7:8:6 Vision 75 BOND 7:1:1 Vision 76 Priester 15:2:1 ToT 77 analvessy 7:6:1 Vision 78 er_Fed 18:2:4 ToT 79 15:2:6 WolfPack 80 Malo Ter 4:8:4 ToT 81 Frosty 9:6:3 hirr 82 Outcast Cat 10:5:2 Eclipse 83 11:4:7 Eclipse 84 Kretin 19:2:7 NoS 85 Teezer 5:9:8 Elysium 86 Villeh 11:1:7 NoS 87 Darkness 20:7:4 NoS 88 [Dreamz] 10:9:8 Dragons 89 Aria Cat 14:2:1 NoS 90 TAPOR 7:6:6 Elysium 91 Jobby 4:8:7 ToT 92 The_Seal 5:9:3 hirr 93 Razoor/Ibis 8:2:10 FAnG 94 Troll 7:3:9 Eclipse 95 Kerchie 13:8:3 Eclipse 96 Twist 2:9:7 Eclipse 97 Laserfighter 2:1:7 ToT 98 Morca 5:3:9 Vision 99 Stifler 15:6:1 Elysium 100 Salt 7:6:9 Eclipse
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