You know how it is. Sometimes you're preparing a wave (be it OOW or during war), and you need some background music to get you pumped up. Or perhaps this is the song that reflects your Utopian experience. uTimes went around the last couple of days and received a variety of responses from your fellow Utopians. Some found solace in popular and classic hits, and some decided that personally modified versions were the way to go.

AquaSeaFoam, Rage of Absalom: Nirvana - All Apologies

Deana, Sanctuary of Absalom: U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday

TheRock, Mercy of Absalom: Metallica - Enter Sandman

Syntico, Retired: Van Halen - Right Now

Realest, Retired: Jay-Z - Run This Town

Octobrev, Retired: Eminem - 3 AM

trekdrop, Retired: Paul Stanley - Live to Win; Dope - Die MF Die (When facing Absalom)

Trooneh, Pulse: Men Without Hats - Safety Dance

fimbul, Retired: 50 Cent - Many Men (Utopia Version) - Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTUA3RlsGiQ

clarey, Retired: All-American Rejects - Dirty Little Secret

Peppie, FREE Lotus: Goldfrapp - Utopia

_greenie, Secrets: The Badger Song

[Fri 19:54:10] replace "badger" with "grow"
[Fri 19:54:23] and "mushroom" with "pump"
[Fri 19:54:40] and "snake" with "wave"
[Fri 19:54:53] and you got a whoring kd's theme song :P
[Fri 19:55:17] or at least what the monarch says

Crad, Retired: Stevie Wonder - Superstition

Contender, BIO: Eminem - I'm a Soldier

Proteus, Playboys: Kevin Rudolf - I Made It

Shamus, Secrets: Jay-Z - Run This Town

KemoZabee, Remains: David Hasselhoff - Looking for Freedom

JohnSnowstorm, Pulse: Couldn't decide on just one!

[17:15] for waving: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3rwG0wA0vU
[17:15] for declaring: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbRom1Rz8OA
[17:16] for training up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8xHjC27YvM&feature=PlayList&p=A567E45ACDDC65B2&playnext_from=PL&index=15
[17:17] for winning: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcOZ6xFxJqg

Anri, Simians KLA: Tupac - Hail Mary; Eminem - Monkey See, Monkey Do

Coss, Sleepy: Fort Minor - Remember the Name

CGG, Zenobias Zealots: 50 Cent - Many Men (Utopia Version) - Link: http://www.tecwaves.com/utopia/utopia.mp3

Rixx, Majesty KLA: Fresh Prince of Bel Air Theme (Personally modified)

[Tue 21:16:06] i actually have a personal one :-D
[Tue 21:16:18] in mintrubbing nh born n raised
[Tue 21:16:26] on a computer is where i spent most of my days
[Tue 21:16:45] chillin n attackins, making hits right after school
[Tue 21:16:50] when a couple of kds
[Tue 21:16:54] who were up to no good
[Tue 21:17:02] started making trouble in my neighborhood
[Tue 21:17:15] got in one little awar and my monarch scared
[Tue 21:17:25] and sent me to become the fresh kingy of majesty kaer

Tonya, Grace of Absalom: Kim Portnoy - Sasha Takes A Train

Hugu, Fratzia: Samwell - What What (In the Butt) - Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbGkxcY7YFU

tzar, Sanitarium: Had a lot of trouble deciding, but ended up with 4!

[Wed 11:22:46] Since I've Been Loving You - Led Zeppelin
[Wed 11:22:50] Alexander's Ragtime Band - Ray Charles
[Wed 11:22:59] Prisoner of Society - The Living End
[Wed 11:23:06] Higher Ground - Red Hot Chili Peppers

Bishop, Rapture: Anchorman - Afternoon Delight

Malm, Dopefiends: Steve Miller Band - The Joker

Sam, Synergy: Basshunter - Now You're Gone

kN, Balance: The Postal Service - Sleeping In

uTools is the next generation of the once widely-popular Metatron add-on that is fully compatible with the current residing code. Created and developed by 'Angelus', uTools provides additional functionality to the current browser interface that allows ease of use and a more efficient experience.

The first of hopefully many more versions to come, uTools presents an arsenal of functions:

• Kingdom Sorter


• Gains estimator


• Training cost calculator


• Troop cost calculator


• Ambush calculator


• Multi-spell caster (extremely beta)


• Alters the menu to provide faster access to some pages that required 2 clicks


• Added a link to the guide


• Replace the game version with the current game date


• Modify the main game CSS to create more room


• Modify the throne page


• Forum Agent available


• Limited self intel generation (for those without windows etc)


• Modified Offense calculator on the war-room page


• Kingdom monitor


• and much more...

The user interface is self-explanatory and allows the user to tinker with the details to their own personal preference. Installation of the add-on is just a simple click away and disabling, likewise.

Without further ado, the add-on can be downloaded at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/109243/ and more information can be found from the developer’s website at http://www.k3ltic.com/utools/.

**Edited February 15th, 2010 to include comments and Charts. Some sections and comments are still missing.

Fiat Lux: The Age of Light

In the beginning, OMAC coded the new Utopia. And the WoL was full of bugs and errors; and a dark future was upon us to face. And OMAC said, Let there be light. And there was light: the Age of Light. And OMAC saw the light, that it was good—at least, good enough for them.

Welcome to the end of the Age of Light, where a simple word such as ‘light’ can define many things. A vast amount of uncertainty loomed over the Utopian community as the age began. Three weeks of frustration, due to game instability and broken communication, resulted in a significant drop in the player base. As the game finally began, there were a couple more breakdowns during protection and once during OOP. Coding bugs and errors ran rampant, and the performance speed of the game also deterred many players from continuing. Eventually however, game stability improved and the age took off – with minor adjustments being made every now and then to fix the major errors that still clouded the WoL (Note: This will be discussed later on). Like all ages, the Age of Light had its own defining moments: continuous frustrations of hour-change ticks that have proved to be advantageous but also detrimental for kingdoms; the characteristic rise and fall of kingdoms old and new; and the mass deletions towards the end of the age that left many Utopians questioning the validity of OMAC’s actions. It was an action-packed age for the most part, and there was plenty of controversy to go around. In turn, this is what defined the Age of Light: a glow that illuminates, and a glare that obscures.

The Second Crowning

An intense race for the top of the charts was already established since the beginning of the Age of Light. It was a special age for the kingdom of Sonata – a kingdom that was formed one age before and claimed the prestigious NW/Land crown for the Age of Change. They now have two back-to-back crowns to celebrate for. Sonata remained in #1 throughout the age starting from YR1, having some major tussles with Trinity of Absalom and Equilibrium of Absalom along the way. Sanctuary of Absalom, Mercy of Absalom, Rage of Absalom, and Secrets rounded up the T5. uTimes had a chance to interview Realest, monarch of Sonata.

uTimes: Tell us about how your age went! Did you intend to go for #1 this age from the start?

Realest: From the very start, crowning was our intention, which is why we chose the setup we did. We went with 23 DE randoming/dicing core, and we would have fed up 2 avian banks to hopefully eat up DE banks that we felt were gonna be prevalent up top. However, server failure pretty much made it impossible to do that so we scrapped that plan and played them as normal provinces. In retrospect, we should have killed them and use move codes to make them DE, but that didn't really cross my mind until it was too late. Anyway, overall, the first few weeks of OOP went as expected, and then we got waved by Trinity. I personally love getting waved by kingdoms I feel are inferior to mine, because it guarantees that I will have button on them, so I do not have to deal with retal wars which is a prevalent gayness amongst weaker kingdoms. In my opinion, the war went extremely well. It allowed us to create a big avian that was instrumental in hitting subsequent banks down the line, which were Rage and Equilibrium of Absalom, two of our biggest competitors, for duration CFs. From there, we continued to dice and prepared for those two CFs to expire. Our age end saw us fight with EQ for a little over a week out of war, which escalated into a three day war after. We won that conflict, and Rage noticed us shortly after, so we ducked into FW to end the age. In the end, EoA went by pretty normally and peacefully.

uTimes: Do you think your choice of set-up was the right choice for this age compared to your competition? ie. How would you view your KD set-up vs. the other KDs that went Orc set-up?

Realest: In general, a DE vs Orc matchup favours the Orc imo, so I would play our kd setup defensively, like we did against EQ. This means high forts, high pop sci, and high epa, and control the button. In an ideal world, Orcs using anon and me being able to declare means I can fit in close to 2 war waves before they can do their first, so that would be instrumental in chaining them down with "suicide" double taps. Of course, with server lag and spotty activity it may be an issue, but in theory, that is what we'd do. Heavy emphasis would be put on the cow war as well, since our cow is a Merchant, while EQ had Mystic and Rage had Shepherd, so I feel our cow personality is the strongest. It also helps we have an extremely active and skilled player on our cow, in Syntico, whom I felt did a great job during the age, so that adds to our tactical advantage.

uTimes: What were some of the major challenges Sonata had to face this age?

Realest: We really only had one problematic obstacle that I can recall. This was when 15:7 as we called them at the start (Sanctuary of Absalom), had a formidable setup with their gnomes who got big and created a barrier that made it difficult for us to start a cow. Luckily, things worked out there after talking to dorje and we arranged a nap, so we were able to start our cow after. Another problem we had, which was a big morale downer in the kd, was when our usual nubs and nubesses (no names) went bouncing their hits. Lastly, an annoying problem was when waves became outta sync during wars because of server lag delaying hits, and it would prolong army returns to weird hours. Hell, one time, my army would not send out for about 80 minutes! :]

uTimes: Achieving back-to-back crowns must be very exciting, especially since Pansies and Playboys have been the only two other kingdoms that have been able to achieve this feat. Was there anything special about this crown compared to last age's? Was it easier the second time around?

Realest: Well, I guess the main thing different about last age and this age was our mentality. Last age we took the age in stride and then gunned for crown when it seemed right. This age, we aimed for the crown from the get go, and our setup was pretty much do or die, so there was a bit more risk involved. We also had the luxury of having more friendlies this age, starting with Dirty- who gave us valuable input on our decisions, and then our alliance group members, namely CGG with his knowledge and connections, mod with his organization in keeping track of the scene as we were setting up, Spheric with his cuddles, and Cheese overlooking things in general. Also, it was nice of coss to give me his time to entertain me with interesting convos. So a big thank you to all of them here. Ultimately, I would say this age felt tougher because we had expectations so there was added pressure, but I wouldn't say one crown was easier than the other as both were unique in its own way.

uTimes: Any particular moments this age you thought were definitive or memorable for your kingdom?

Realest: I think the ‘funnest’ moment this age was when EQ finally exited their FW after a boring week and a half and we got down and incredibly dirty into war. The war was really fun for us, as wave two saw 24 of us logged in and we did some fun soldier and monarchy bounces, taking advantage of OMAC's poor coding of kd pages not updating instantly. Quite frankly, I didn't expect my kd to be that active after a boring hostile and playing on a laggy server, so it was memorable for me. I guess my kd would also think it was funny I didn't want to hit EQ's cow until Syntico and fimbul finally coaxed me into it, so that is probably memorable for them as I was "shaking". Overall, just being able to play utopia with 24 other amazing individuals is memorable and definitive enough for me. Oh, let’s not forget that Sonata is now home to a 10 time crown winner. I try so hard every day, but in the presence of that man, I feel so inadequate. fml.

uTimes: What do you think was the key to your kingdom's success this age?

Realest: Well first and foremost, winning is always a team effort, so obviously this one goes out to my kd. A big shout out to phiwha, Chronic, charmey, arafel, cefria, octobrev, seijim2, Simon, Greaser, redtalun, Dazza, fimbul, gergoth, Rapala, Ryo, Phlayre, zmasternr1, r4d, clarey, anglcbtryl, nemo, silent_killer, Versace, and Syntico here for their efforts. To be more specific, our displaced azns leadership is very solid, starting from Phlayre who whispers sweet nothings into my ear, to fimbul who quotes weirdos to me, and lastly phiwha, who acts like a woman at times. Like I said earlier, we had a strong cow where the kd derived most of its strength from, in Syntico, who gays me way too much but whom I still like... as a friend. Lastly, we have our lovely ladies in amazing support roles, clarey doing paperwork, charmey as rally person, and Versace meanfacing people... that is, when the three of them are not causing me trouble, namely the mean one!

Overall Kingdom Land Rankings (Age 45)
1 Sonata(17:16) 271869
2 Sanctuary of Absalom(15:7) 217500
3 Mercy of Absalom(15:29) 186546
4 Rage of Absalom(18:14) 177536
5 Secrets(13:25) 158704
6 Ogres(16:34) 152642
7 Stoopid N Uuglies(20:18) 142543
8 Have a can of PULSEaid(13:28) 132281
9 Calle strikes back(17:18) 130338
10 UP YOURS SANC(12:30) 126827
Overall Kingdom Networth Rankings (Age 45)
1 Sonata(17:16) 49660096
2 Sanctuary of Absalom(15:7) 39149034
3 Mercy of Absalom(15:29) 31832792
4 Rage of Absalom(18:14) 28389139
5 Secrets(13:25) 27385593
6 Ogres(16:34) 24996161
7 The Triumvirate(7:5) 24417644
8 Old School(11:23) 23188297
9 Stoopid N Uuglies(20:18) 22598484
10 Calle strikes back(17:18) 22134983
 
A Crowning Glory

Once again, the battle of the banks for the Age of Light continued to dazzle the WoL with interesting twists and turns. Sam, player of Sylar, from the kingdom ‘The Triumvirate (7:5)’, ended the age at approximately 43k acres, well ahead of any of the other cows this age. Evolution complete from Sanctuary of Absalom, nefarious from Sonata (played by Syntico), Mr Moo from Rage of Absalom (played by Khain), and The Reborn Awakener from Mercy of Absalom (played by flogger) rounded up the T5 provinces in NW/Land. uTimes had a chance to interview Sam. His interview is attached below.

uTimes: Tell us about the course of your age. How was it like playing ‘solo’?

Sam: Well, the age really started out with Big PM’ing me a couple times looking to do some killing and maybe a bank in a ghetto. I told him to go find dubai, and eventually the three of us joined together under dubai's leadership to find some other players, and run a small setup in a kingdom which we had monarchy in. As you know, the age was riddled with downtime, and as it turns out, I was one of the few provinces who managed to log in and explore before the downtime, which put me at #1 when they came back up. Our original intent was to run three killers, and possibly send one up as a bank once we had secured enough CFs through hitting kingdoms, but with the downtime giving me a bit of a lead, we decided it would be best if I just kept going OOP. And from there, it was basically all dubai and Big being two of the best killers on the server securing CFs.

uTimes: Was this your first time cow’ing ‘solo’? If not, tell us about your other times as well, and what did you do differently this time?

Sam: This was not actually my first time cowing solo, I had attempted this operation with dubai once before, during an age off from 7th. That age (Age 41), I played a Human named Gabriel Gray, and was on route to possibly win the age, when a shell played by Fixxxer broke a NAP they had made with dubai, and hit me several times, which caused me to either enter VM or FW or something like that. This time, we had another killer, and were a bit lucky with the downtime.

uTimes: Who were the key players in your kingdom that made your #1 province happen?

Sam: Dubai leading, Big playing a killer, Froggy, paddy, beavis, pot, Jane, sqwishy, and all the noobs who wouldn't IRC that we decided were obedient enough not to die.

uTimes: What do you think were some of the key events this age that allowed you to achieve #1?

Sam: I'd say the age was actually pretty boring after the start. We managed a war win against 10:13, which ended with a war win for us.

uTimes: Was there a time (or more than one time) during the age you felt your reign could be challenged?

Sam: Yes, Mercy's cow had enough acres in their pool to overtake me, until they decided they would have to farm out their kingdom to explore them all, so let the rest of their chained provinces take what they needed. I was also told that Sleepy had agreed to war Sanctuary starting like a week [before EoA], but I guess that wasn't true, or they cancelled it. Jdorje would have passed me in acres, or close to it if that had come to pass.

uTimes: Did you have any plans if either of those scenarios didn’t play out the way they did? (Say if Mercy decided to explore their cow)

Sam: Well, actually, yes. We had a CF ending with Secrets May of YR10, and I would have had to convert and fight him (and probably take acres due to my size advantage) if we hadn't realized that neither of those things were going to happen.

uTimes: Overall, were you satisfied with your results this age? Would there be anything you would have liked to change if you had the chance to?

Sam: Very satisfied, #1 province was something I had tried for (well at least cowing) several times, I actually forget how many, probably six or so. And I was very happy to finally get it. I don't think I would change anything, since nothing really went too badly for us. Some more wars would have been nice, but almost everyone in range knew not to give us the button.

uTimes: Would you say you had a flawless age? Or were any mistakes you may have made so minor they didn’t matter?

Sam: I guess you could say that, I never got hit, or was in much danger of getting hit for any amount that would have mattered. I did manage to PK one of our players by sending him too many soldiers to the wrong province to hold them, and that player didn’t log in soon enough after so they died. But at least they got to pick a new race and personality.

Overall Province Land Rankings (Age 45)
1 Sylar(7:5) The Triumvirate(7:5) Dark Elf 43768
2 Evolution complete(15:7) Sanctuary of Absalom(15:7) Gnome 38049
3 nefarious(17:16) Sonata(17:16) Dark Elf 37370
4 Mr Moo(18:14) Rage of Absalom(18:14) Dark Elf 33457
5 The Reborn Awakener(15:29) Mercy of Absalom(15:29) Dark Elf 32724
6 Soooooooo emo(13:25) Secrets(13:25) Dark Elf 31478
7 emansdrawkcab(20:18) Stoopid N Uuglies(20:18) Dark Elf 29613
8 Big Bong Theory(16:34) Ogres(16:34) Dark Elf 25416
9 cutex(17:16) Sonata(17:16) Dark Elf 15983
10 reinheitsgebot(17:16) Sonata(17:16) Dark Elf 15210

Overall Province Networth Rankings (Age 45)
1 Sylar(7:5) The Triumvirate(7:5) Dark Elf 11333333
2 Evolution complete(15:7) Sanctuary of Absalom(15:7) Gnome 6745660
3 Mr Moo(18:14) Rage of Absalom(18:14) Dark Elf 6160534
4 The Reborn Awakener(15:29) Mercy of Absalom(15:29) Dark Elf 5898215
5 nefarious(17:16) Sonata(17:16) Dark Elf 5353353
6 Soooooooo emo(13:25) Secrets(13:25) Dark Elf 5017776
7 Fruity(7:5) The Triumvirate(7:5) Dark Elf 5006979
8 MoneyLovesMe(7:5) The Triumvirate(7:5) Dark Elf 4277234
9 emansdrawkcab(20:18) Stoopid N Uuglies(20:18) Dark Elf 4080782
10 Big Bong Theory(16:34) Ogres(16:34) Dark Elf 3587039

Lights, Drama, Action

Fresh out of the gate, the Age of Light began with a number of intriguing episodes. Trinity of Absalom, the then #1 kingdom at the time, received some intra-kingdom action as well as a defection only a couple of days after OOP.

April 23 of YR0 In local kingdom strife Erecto(11:3) invaded Peskipiksi Pesternomi(11:3) and razed 277 acres of land.
April 23 of YR0 In local kingdom strife, Erecto(11:3) invaded Peskipiksi Pesternomi(11:3) and captured 199 acres of land.
May 15 of YR0 As the ultimate betrayal, Dobby destroys all in the land of Finite Incantatem before leaving for a new kingdom.

Later into YR1, as the dust began to settle and chart positions were better defined, Trinity, ranked #2 kingdom on the NW/Land charts at the time, waved Sonata, the #1 kingdom. Sonata declared immediately after and Trinity withdrew in February of YR2. Details of the war can be found here. The beginning of YR2 marked the instigation of the bank wars. Conflicts were aplenty between kingdoms. One major event that sparked some controversy included the kingdoms Rage of Absalom and Boondock Saints (a merger between Freedom and Schadenfreude). On May 18th YR2, the #2 ranked kingdom of Saints sent a wave of hits into Rage, netting a total of 7k~ acres, which was unretaliated and CF’ed. YR3 rolled along and on July 18th YR3, Sanctuary of Absalom broke CF with Saints, but at the same time, Saints also broke CF with Rage. Thus began the three-way hostile: Saints waved Rage, and then Sanctuary waved Saints. Rage retaliated twice on Saints’ provinces before Saints declared war on Sanctuary on July 20th YR3. On March 12th YR4, Saints withdrew from war with Sanctuary.

YR4 and YR5 were an interesting two weeks for the kingdoms in the T20. Mercy of Absalom and Rapture hit it off with a retal-war, which started in March and lasted until July. Pulse waved Trinity on April 15th, YR4, sending Trinity into FW, and a CF sealed a couple of days later. Saints had some unfinished business to attend to with Rage after their war with Sanctuary, and ended up in a retal-war with Rage, which started on May 8th YR4, and lasted all the way to June of YR5. Equilibrium of Absalom and HaLL of Heroes had their share of retal-wars as well from May to June, which ended in a CF. Even the kingdom that housed the #1 province (who called themselves Dubai Pwns) was busy, having their killers hit Secrets' bank as well as Old School's bank all in the same day. But this was just the beginning. Secrets’ and Heroes’ initial retal-war turned into a war when Heroes declared on February 3rd YR4, with Heroes withdrawing on April 8th YR5. Equilibrium then hit into Zenobias Zealots' FW in July YR4, with a CF deal that was reached in February YR5. The galore of hostiles and wars ended with Mercy of Absalom, Sleepy, Pulse, and ZZ in February of YR5. Initially, it was just Mercy and Sleepy engaged in a retal-war, with Sleepy going into FW in March YR5; then Pulse was added in on April 15th YR5, sending a wave of hits into Mercy. ZZ turned the trio into a quartet by waving Pulse on April 16th YR5. From there, Mercy declared war on Pulse on June 3rd YR5, and withdrew on January 6th YR6.

As the holiday season neared, Sanctuary, Sonata, and Equilibrium received early/late presents from a player named louisruffin, in the form of bounce waves. Starting March 1st YR6, Evolution complete from Sanctuary received a bounce wave of 80+ hits from a multitude of provinces in different kingdoms. Sanctuary informed us that the aggregation of provinces was controlled by the player louisruffin. Reasons for the attacks were stated that they were "just for fun". For femalevolence of Sonata, the bounce waves began on March 24th YR6, and lasted into YR7. Reasons for the attacks were revealed below by louisruffin himself:

Quote:
there really isn't a big reason. a couple people suggested him. he's the #1 avian - a noticable target, and avians suffer greater losses than other races
couple top kd members offered to recruit me to their kds if I bring him down, so thats kinda a secondary motive

Equilibrium's Big Bang Theory received a similar fate, being bounce waved from YR7 to YR8.

The later parts of the age into YR8 saw Sonata and Equilibrium duke it out in an approximately two-week conflict, which started from a retal-war, gone FW, to finally a real war. There were two levels of combat that went on during the two weeks: the cow battle, and the rest of the kingdom as a whole. Sonata's and Equilibrium’s banks traded hits that produced a line of the biggest hits in the WoL for the Age of Light, which ranged from approximately 2.5k acres to 4k acres per hit. Smack in the middle of their retal-war during YR9, a number of kingdoms throughout the WoL received mass deletions at the hands of OMAC. Unfortunately, the details of the mass deletions remain unknown to us at this time. Sonata declared on Equilibrium on April 1st YR10, and Equilibrium withdrew from the war on June 12th YR10, putting Sonata at approximately 270k acres, having gained a total of nearly 24k acres in the war.

This age, like many others, attracted an abundance of EoA action. It started when Sleepy launched a wave of hits into Secrets on July 12th YR10, which ended in a CF on July 18th YR10. Then on January 4th YR11, Sanctuary sent a wave of hits into BIO after BIO had previously sent Dragons of Absalom into a FW. BIO proceeded to retal-war with Sanctuary until EoA. On January 16th YR11, Pulse waved Equilibrium, to which Equilibrium responded to by declaring on Pulse two hours later. Lastly, on February 3rd YR11, Rage waved into Sleepy, and Sleepy declared on February 5th YR11. Both the wars lasted until EoA.

In the Spotlight

Evil Intentions took the #1 honor crown for this age, with Whispers taking the runner-up spot behind EI by approximately 13k honor points. Seduction TF, Balance, and BIO took the remaining three spots to round up the T5. This age was also peculiar in the sense that there was no prince to be crowned during the Age of Light. The highest honor achieved this age was at 6k points by Cannabis ala Pronce from Smoking Kills.

Overall Kingdom Honor Rankings (Age 45)
1 Evil Intentions(9:6) 80529
2 W h i s p e r s(14:36) 67195
3 Seduction TF War(7:31) 65968
4 Balance Rebuilding(11:33) 60911
5 UP YOURS SANC(12:30) 58244
6 PUFFY GIRLS(18:29) 58088
7 The Flying Kingdom TF(15:36) 57036
8 Bunnies TF RAWR(15:12) 55312
9 Stronghold of HaJ(12:12) 54138
10 Have a can of PULSEaid(13:28) 53719

Overall Province Honor Rankings (Age 45)
1 Cannabis ala Pronce(18:16) Smoking Kills(18:16) Dark Elf 6084
2 14 xxxxxxxx0xxxxxxxx(14:36) W h i s p e r s(14:36) Gnome 5285
3 QiY(19:14) EoA Hostiling xxxxx xxx - STFO(19:14) Dark Elf 5138
4 Styles(5:11) Savman Is Le Noob(5:11) Dark Elf 5107
5 Licor de Portugal(7:5) The Triumvirate(7:5) Elf 4812
6 Baby Poison Dart Frog(14:14) War Babies(14:14) Dark Elf 4748
7 YOU-Troels(9:6) Evil Intentions(9:6) Elf 4720
8 Hoegaarden(9:17) Alcoholics WAR STFO(9:17) Dark Elf 4571
9 Deadly Panda(7:22) Deadly Realm WAR(7:22) Dark Elf 4413
10 Fruit Loops(9:6) Evil Intentions(9:6) Elf 4278

A New Divide

It’s been about 13 weeks since Sean and Brian launched the new Utopia. There have been mixed remarks in regards to the overall quality and presentation of the game, but that you can find in the Jolt Utopia forums. Some highlights of this age include some of the following prominent bugs. The full list can again, be found in the Jolt Utopia forums. Notably here.

Game Break OOP: Attacking disabled.
First War of the Age: Odyssey vs. Dragons of Absalom. The kingdom that was declared on could not perform ops/spells/attacks until after hour change.
Overpopulation Bug: Desertions happened, but could still attack over 15%.
Dragon Bugs: Emerald Dragon produced the same -8% ME loss (which is supposedly the effect of a Ruby); unsure if dragon effects stacked, however. Most are saying that all Dragon effects were the same as Ruby. It is unconfirmed whether this bug has been fixed to date.
Amnesia Bug: Very little/Virtually no science was retrained; books that were amnesia'ed were mostly lost forever.
Declare Range Bug: Kingdoms could declare below and above 50% of other kingdom's range.
Nightstrike Bug: Sending 10 thieves for NS yielded a far bigger capacity of kills than it should have.
Landlust Bug: LL gains produced a fixed percentage of land instead of a random range.
+ Gains Bug: Doing +hours on hits into/out of a war gave unusually large gains. The extra gains do not take into account the -75% war gains factor.
Vacation Mode Bug: It is possible to aid provinces in VM.

Undoubtedly there were/are a lot more bugs worth mentioning. However, as mentioned above, these are just some of the highlights. The rest of the bugs can be found either in the Jolt forums or by common knowledge circling around.

As for the new age, a couple of things to keep in mind:

The updated changes for the Age of Light have been posted in detail here.

A couple of tools and accessories launched for the new age are listed below:

Dragon Portal: DP offers a variety of tools ranging from a fully compatible IRC KD bot to their online formatters (Ultima).

Utopia Temple: BG will continue to update Utopia Angel for the new age, however he did mention in a recent inquiry that he will no longer be updating the All-in-One formatter.

GuanYuCwK’s Simulator: A detailed simulator for helping players with province management. User-friendly and vigorously updated upon bug/error detection.

Utopia Pimp: Known to have updated to be compatible with the new age. Details can be read on the site.

The Afterglow

At last, we come to the end of yet another age. It's been a peculiar 12 weeks, and while we're unsure of what the future holds, we can always relish the present and hold on to what we have, or reminisce about the good (or bad?) times. For some, it’s been an age of discovery; fine-tuning the kinks and preparing for an even better age from here on out. For others, it’s just another age of distinction to add to the records; waltzing through the motions like clockwork, and nothing can break the rhythm. In light of it all, there is hope. The Age of Light marked the beginning of a new era for Utopia, as well as a future to tread into—a future where differences define the aspect of individuality, and excellence, as always, is recognized.

uTimes would like to apologize for the delay of the article as well as the missing pieces of information currently. Unfortunately, due to the lack of updates regarding the EoA Charts for Age 45, we can only go by what we know at hand. Should the Charts be updated in the near future, additional information will be added. Meanwhile, we would like to wish everyone a happy new age! Many thanks to all participating kingdoms and individuals so far for their time and contributions towards the EoA article, and any mistakes of facts, comments, or additional information you think you may want us to be aware about, please contact a staff member in #uTimes on IRC. Best of luck in the new age!

Comments

fimbul, from Sonata, #1 NW/Land KD, commented,
"We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?"

flogger, from Mercy of Absalom, #3 NW/Land KD, commented,
"So that means we're 3rd best, right?"

AquaSeaFoam, from Rage of Absalom, #4 NW/Land KD, commented,
"Boooorrrrrrrrriiing."

Fate1316, from Whispers, #2 Honor KD, commented,
"Rock Paper Scissors is not for the faint of heart. If you want to be the best, learn to use the bowl."

Fallstaff, from Seduction TF, #3 Honor KD, commented,
"Nice to get #3 in honor. Kingdom did great."

CallipygianOne, from Balance, #4 Honor KD, commented,
"We feel that we had our strongest age yet. If given the opportunity to war anyone we believe that we would hold our own. Look for a strong showing from us next age. Oh and I

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What is Excel Stratsheet?

Excel Stratsheet is a Utopia calculator that allow users to do statistics on their strategy almost similar to the actual game. It is based on Microsoft Excel 2003 and above. The Excel Stratsheet is written and maintained by GuanYuCwK.

The stratsheet is 100% open source (meaning you can see and edit the formulas of every single cell) and free to use. A forum is available for users to report bugs, suggest improvements and also seek for help. A optimiser is included which is still quite buggy. However, macro is required for the optimiser.

Bugs reporting and feedback are strongly encouraged so that the Excel Stratsheet will develop into a more powerful tool. You can either visit the forum or send an email directly to GuanYuCwK (khankuan@gmail.com). The Excel Stratsheet may be freely used, distributed and even modified in a non-profitable way. Note that it might not be safe to download the stratsheet from any third party sites. I do not claim any responsibility for damage caused by use or misuse of this program.

For the beta version, the stratsheet is released the first time to the public and thus probably with some hidden bugs.

You can download the beta version here

The Excel Stratsheet is copyrighted by GuanYuCwK and released under GPL.

April 7th of YR0 ~ Six brave provinces from the kingdom of Neverland(9:38) set out in Aggressive Stance to assault the lands of LOLLERCOASTER(5:40). One didn't quite make it. However, the other five were successful and thus the decision to react was left to LOLLERCOASTER(5:40). With most of their armies away LOLLERCOASTER(5:40) retaliated from Aggressive Stance and declared. And a darkness fell over the kingdom of Neverland(9:38)...

June 8 of YR0 ~ LOLLERCOASTER(5:40) withdraws from Neverland(9:38) with many acres, even more LAWLZ and ... no war win.

** Summary **
Total Attacks Made: 224 (7,962 acres)
-- Traditional March: 211 (7,962 acres)
-- Plunder Attacks: 1
-- Failed Attacks: 12 (5.4% failure)
Total Attacks Suffered: 2 (61 acres)
-- Traditional March: 1 (61 acres)
-- Plunder Attacks: 1
Aid packets sent: 43

** LOLLERCOASTER (5:40) Gains/Losses **
Overall Gains: 7,901 acres.
1. +653 acres: HeLoL(5:40) (16,)
2. +617 acres: 25UniquesForYouLOL(5:40) (16,)
3. +531 acres: lollygagger(5:40) (12,)
4. +530 acres: EpicLulz(5:40) (14,)
5. +486 acres: rock-n-lol(5:40) (14,)
6. +430 acres: IJstLoledOnUrFace(5:40) (13,)
7. +393 acres: ROTFLMAOatyou(5:40) (10,)
8. +389 acres: LOLost in the Fog(5:40) (10,)
9. +371 acres: LoLFizZleMoreMV(5:40) (12,)
10. +352 acres: ROFLomgPWNZ(5:40) (8,)
11. +320 acres: OMGhettonooBRBROFLMAO(5:40) (7,)
12. +317 acres: LMAOhittingU(5:40) (8,)
13. +272 acres: ROFLniceoversend(5:40) (8,)
14. +268 acres: ROTFLMAO as A Little Ant(5:40) (9,)
15. +245 acres: L0Lz0rZzPWNT(5:40) (10,)
16. +243 acres: ROFL on your land(5:40) (10,)
17. +232 acres: NubwaveRoFLmaO(5:40) (7,)
18. +209 acres: ROFLnoob(5:40) (5,)
19. +196 acres: Roflmfaolol(5:40) (7,)
20. +190 acres: ROFLofU(5:40) (6,)
21. +172 acres: lalalawl(5:40) (5,)
22. +161 acres: LoLLoLLoLLoL(5:40) (6,)
23. +143 acres: An unknown province from Dragonite(5:40) (2,)
24. +131 acres: roflcopterz(5:40) (2,)
25. +111 acres: rofl(5:40) (6,)
26. no change: Smurf_stonehenge(2:40) (1,)
26. no change: Obsessive Bear(9:38) (,1)
28. -61 acres: lolcat-dwarves(5:40) (,1)

** Neverland (9:38) Gains/Losses **
Overall Losses: -6,752 acres.
Attacks: 0 made / 203 suffered
1. -28 acres: MATCHBOX 20(9:38) (,1)
2. -37 acres: Allturance(9:38) (,2)
3. -46 acres: adoxographia(9:38) (,3)
4. -103 acres: Stapler(9:38) (,2)
5. -111 acres: Binghamton(9:38) (,6)
6. -120 acres: art33611(9:38) (,2)
7. -121 acres: Strikecountry(9:38) (,5)
8. -156 acres: Glacier in time(9:38) (,4)
9. -165 acres: Mandandoo(9:38) (,4)
10. -167 acres: Back NazerentH(9:38) (,12)
11. -168 acres: The Answer to Life(9:38) (,8)
12. -186 acres: Benebivere(9:38) (,10)
13. -191 acres: Obsessive Bear(9:38) (,7)
14. -259 acres: yourDEAD(9:38) (,11)
15. -293 acres: Karnak(9:38) (,11)
16. -345 acres: Lions Den(9:38) (,11)
16. -345 acres: MASTERS II(9:38) (,11)
18. -380 acres: Holy Bragi(9:38) (,12)
19. -419 acres: DragonXIII(9:38) (,15)
20. -513 acres: HeroNevelance(9:38) (,9)
21. -551 acres: Hohenstaufen(9:38) (,17)
22. -589 acres: The Fly(9:38) (,12)
23. -719 acres: ShoeinaBox(9:38) (,14)
24. -740 acres: shiphollax(9:38) (,14)

Comments

KuhaN, Monarch of LOLLERCOASTER(5:40)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea7UxqRkK5M

shiphollax, Monarch of Neverland(9:38)
Defected with no comment.

**Edited February 15th, 2010 to include comments and Charts. Some sections and comments are still missing.

Fiat Lux: The Age of Light

In the beginning, OMAC coded the new Utopia. And the WoL was full of bugs and errors; and a dark future was upon us to face. And OMAC said, Let there be light. And there was light: the Age of Light. And OMAC saw the light, that it was good—at least, good enough for them.

Welcome to the end of the Age of Light, where a simple word such as ‘light’ can define many things. A vast amount of uncertainty loomed over the Utopian community as the age began. Three weeks of frustration, due to game instability and broken communication, resulted in a significant drop in the player base. As the game finally began, there were a couple more breakdowns during protection and once during OOP. Coding bugs and errors ran rampant, and the performance speed of the game also deterred many players from continuing. Eventually however, game stability improved and the age took off – with minor adjustments being made every now and then to fix the major errors that still clouded the WoL (Note: This will be discussed later on). Like all ages, the Age of Light had its own defining moments: continuous frustrations of hour-change ticks that have proved to be advantageous but also detrimental for kingdoms; the characteristic rise and fall of kingdoms old and new; and the mass deletions towards the end of the age that left many Utopians questioning the validity of OMAC’s actions. It was an action-packed age for the most part, and there was plenty of controversy to go around. In turn, this is what defined the Age of Light: a glow that illuminates, and a glare that obscures.

The Second Crowning

An intense race for the top of the charts was already established since the beginning of the Age of Light. It was a special age for the kingdom of Sonata – a kingdom that was formed one age before and claimed the prestigious NW/Land crown for the Age of Change. They now have two back-to-back crowns to celebrate for. Sonata remained in #1 throughout the age starting from YR1, having some major tussles with Trinity of Absalom and Equilibrium of Absalom along the way. Sanctuary of Absalom, Mercy of Absalom, Rage of Absalom, and Secrets rounded up the T5. uTimes had a chance to interview Realest, monarch of Sonata.

uTimes: Tell us about how your age went! Did you intend to go for #1 this age from the start?

Realest: From the very start, crowning was our intention, which is why we chose the setup we did. We went with 23 DE randoming/dicing core, and we would have fed up 2 avian banks to hopefully eat up DE banks that we felt were gonna be prevalent up top. However, server failure pretty much made it impossible to do that so we scrapped that plan and played them as normal provinces. In retrospect, we should have killed them and use move codes to make them DE, but that didn't really cross my mind until it was too late. Anyway, overall, the first few weeks of OOP went as expected, and then we got waved by Trinity. I personally love getting waved by kingdoms I feel are inferior to mine, because it guarantees that I will have button on them, so I do not have to deal with retal wars which is a prevalent gayness amongst weaker kingdoms. In my opinion, the war went extremely well. It allowed us to create a big avian that was instrumental in hitting subsequent banks down the line, which were Rage and Equilibrium of Absalom, two of our biggest competitors, for duration CFs. From there, we continued to dice and prepared for those two CFs to expire. Our age end saw us fight with EQ for a little over a week out of war, which escalated into a three day war after. We won that conflict, and Rage noticed us shortly after, so we ducked into FW to end the age. In the end, EoA went by pretty normally and peacefully.

uTimes: Do you think your choice of set-up was the right choice for this age compared to your competition? ie. How would you view your KD set-up vs. the other KDs that went Orc set-up?

Realest: In general, a DE vs Orc matchup favours the Orc imo, so I would play our kd setup defensively, like we did against EQ. This means high forts, high pop sci, and high epa, and control the button. In an ideal world, Orcs using anon and me being able to declare means I can fit in close to 2 war waves before they can do their first, so that would be instrumental in chaining them down with "suicide" double taps. Of course, with server lag and spotty activity it may be an issue, but in theory, that is what we'd do. Heavy emphasis would be put on the cow war as well, since our cow is a Merchant, while EQ had Mystic and Rage had Shepherd, so I feel our cow personality is the strongest. It also helps we have an extremely active and skilled player on our cow, in Syntico, whom I felt did a great job during the age, so that adds to our tactical advantage.

uTimes: What were some of the major challenges Sonata had to face this age?

Realest: We really only had one problematic obstacle that I can recall. This was when 15:7 as we called them at the start (Sanctuary of Absalom), had a formidable setup with their gnomes who got big and created a barrier that made it difficult for us to start a cow. Luckily, things worked out there after talking to dorje and we arranged a nap, so we were able to start our cow after. Another problem we had, which was a big morale downer in the kd, was when our usual nubs and nubesses (no names) went bouncing their hits. Lastly, an annoying problem was when waves became outta sync during wars because of server lag delaying hits, and it would prolong army returns to weird hours. Hell, one time, my army would not send out for about 80 minutes! :]

uTimes: Achieving back-to-back crowns must be very exciting, especially since Pansies and Playboys have been the only two other kingdoms that have been able to achieve this feat. Was there anything special about this crown compared to last age's? Was it easier the second time around?

Realest: Well, I guess the main thing different about last age and this age was our mentality. Last age we took the age in stride and then gunned for crown when it seemed right. This age, we aimed for the crown from the get go, and our setup was pretty much do or die, so there was a bit more risk involved. We also had the luxury of having more friendlies this age, starting with Dirty- who gave us valuable input on our decisions, and then our alliance group members, namely CGG with his knowledge and connections, mod with his organization in keeping track of the scene as we were setting up, Spheric with his cuddles, and Cheese overlooking things in general. Also, it was nice of coss to give me his time to entertain me with interesting convos. So a big thank you to all of them here. Ultimately, I would say this age felt tougher because we had expectations so there was added pressure, but I wouldn't say one crown was easier than the other as both were unique in its own way.

uTimes: Any particular moments this age you thought were definitive or memorable for your kingdom?

Realest: I think the ‘funnest’ moment this age was when EQ finally exited their FW after a boring week and a half and we got down and incredibly dirty into war. The war was really fun for us, as wave two saw 24 of us logged in and we did some fun soldier and monarchy bounces, taking advantage of OMAC's poor coding of kd pages not updating instantly. Quite frankly, I didn't expect my kd to be that active after a boring hostile and playing on a laggy server, so it was memorable for me. I guess my kd would also think it was funny I didn't want to hit EQ's cow until Syntico and fimbul finally coaxed me into it, so that is probably memorable for them as I was "shaking". Overall, just being able to play utopia with 24 other amazing individuals is memorable and definitive enough for me. Oh, let’s not forget that Sonata is now home to a 10 time crown winner. I try so hard every day, but in the presence of that man, I feel so inadequate. fml.

uTimes: What do you think was the key to your kingdom's success this age?

Realest: Well first and foremost, winning is always a team effort, so obviously this one goes out to my kd. A big shout out to phiwha, Chronic, charmey, arafel, cefria, octobrev, seijim2, Simon, Greaser, redtalun, Dazza, fimbul, gergoth, Rapala, Ryo, Phlayre, zmasternr1, r4d, clarey, anglcbtryl, nemo, silent_killer, Versace, and Syntico here for their efforts. To be more specific, our displaced azns leadership is very solid, starting from Phlayre who whispers sweet nothings into my ear, to fimbul who quotes weirdos to me, and lastly phiwha, who acts like a woman at times. Like I said earlier, we had a strong cow where the kd derived most of its strength from, in Syntico, who gays me way too much but whom I still like... as a friend. Lastly, we have our lovely ladies in amazing support roles, clarey doing paperwork, charmey as rally person, and Versace meanfacing people... that is, when the three of them are not causing me trouble, namely the mean one!

Overall Kingdom Land Rankings (Age 45)
1 Sonata(17:16) 271869
2 Sanctuary of Absalom(15:7) 217500
3 Mercy of Absalom(15:29) 186546
4 Rage of Absalom(18:14) 177536
5 Secrets(13:25) 158704
6 Ogres(16:34) 152642
7 Stoopid N Uuglies(20:18) 142543
8 Have a can of PULSEaid(13:28) 132281
9 Calle strikes back(17:18) 130338
10 UP YOURS SANC(12:30) 126827
Overall Kingdom Networth Rankings (Age 45)
1 Sonata(17:16) 49660096
2 Sanctuary of Absalom(15:7) 39149034
3 Mercy of Absalom(15:29) 31832792
4 Rage of Absalom(18:14) 28389139
5 Secrets(13:25) 27385593
6 Ogres(16:34) 24996161
7 The Triumvirate(7:5) 24417644
8 Old School(11:23) 23188297
9 Stoopid N Uuglies(20:18) 22598484
10 Calle strikes back(17:18) 22134983
 
A Crowning Glory

Once again, the battle of the banks for the Age of Light continued to dazzle the WoL with interesting twists and turns. Sam, player of Sylar, from the kingdom ‘The Triumvirate (7:5)’, ended the age at approximately 43k acres, well ahead of any of the other cows this age. Evolution complete from Sanctuary of Absalom, nefarious from Sonata (played by Syntico), Mr Moo from Rage of Absalom (played by Khain), and The Reborn Awakener from Mercy of Absalom (played by flogger) rounded up the T5 provinces in NW/Land. uTimes had a chance to interview Sam. His interview is attached below.

uTimes: Tell us about the course of your age. How was it like playing ‘solo’?

Sam: Well, the age really started out with Big PM’ing me a couple times looking to do some killing and maybe a bank in a ghetto. I told him to go find dubai, and eventually the three of us joined together under dubai's leadership to find some other players, and run a small setup in a kingdom which we had monarchy in. As you know, the age was riddled with downtime, and as it turns out, I was one of the few provinces who managed to log in and explore before the downtime, which put me at #1 when they came back up. Our original intent was to run three killers, and possibly send one up as a bank once we had secured enough CFs through hitting kingdoms, but with the downtime giving me a bit of a lead, we decided it would be best if I just kept going OOP. And from there, it was basically all dubai and Big being two of the best killers on the server securing CFs.

uTimes: Was this your first time cow’ing ‘solo’? If not, tell us about your other times as well, and what did you do differently this time?

Sam: This was not actually my first time cowing solo, I had attempted this operation with dubai once before, during an age off from 7th. That age (Age 41), I played a Human named Gabriel Gray, and was on route to possibly win the age, when a shell played by Fixxxer broke a NAP they had made with dubai, and hit me several times, which caused me to either enter VM or FW or something like that. This time, we had another killer, and were a bit lucky with the downtime.

uTimes: Who were the key players in your kingdom that made your #1 province happen?

Sam: Dubai leading, Big playing a killer, Froggy, paddy, beavis, pot, Jane, sqwishy, and all the noobs who wouldn't IRC that we decided were obedient enough not to die.

uTimes: What do you think were some of the key events this age that allowed you to achieve #1?

Sam: I'd say the age was actually pretty boring after the start. We managed a war win against 10:13, which ended with a war win for us.

uTimes: Was there a time (or more than one time) during the age you felt your reign could be challenged?

Sam: Yes, Mercy's cow had enough acres in their pool to overtake me, until they decided they would have to farm out their kingdom to explore them all, so let the rest of their chained provinces take what they needed. I was also told that Sleepy had agreed to war Sanctuary starting like a week [before EoA], but I guess that wasn't true, or they cancelled it. Jdorje would have passed me in acres, or close to it if that had come to pass.

uTimes: Did you have any plans if either of those scenarios didn’t play out the way they did? (Say if Mercy decided to explore their cow)

Sam: Well, actually, yes. We had a CF ending with Secrets May of YR10, and I would have had to convert and fight him (and probably take acres due to my size advantage) if we hadn't realized that neither of those things were going to happen.

uTimes: Overall, were you satisfied with your results this age? Would there be anything you would have liked to change if you had the chance to?

Sam: Very satisfied, #1 province was something I had tried for (well at least cowing) several times, I actually forget how many, probably six or so. And I was very happy to finally get it. I don't think I would change anything, since nothing really went too badly for us. Some more wars would have been nice, but almost everyone in range knew not to give us the button.

uTimes: Would you say you had a flawless age? Or were any mistakes you may have made so minor they didn’t matter?

Sam: I guess you could say that, I never got hit, or was in much danger of getting hit for any amount that would have mattered. I did manage to PK one of our players by sending him too many soldiers to the wrong province to hold them, and that player didn’t log in soon enough after so they died. But at least they got to pick a new race and personality.

Overall Province Land Rankings (Age 45)
1 Sylar(7:5) The Triumvirate(7:5) Dark Elf 43768
2 Evolution complete(15:7) Sanctuary of Absalom(15:7) Gnome 38049
3 nefarious(17:16) Sonata(17:16) Dark Elf 37370
4 Mr Moo(18:14) Rage of Absalom(18:14) Dark Elf 33457
5 The Reborn Awakener(15:29) Mercy of Absalom(15:29) Dark Elf 32724
6 Soooooooo emo(13:25) Secrets(13:25) Dark Elf 31478
7 emansdrawkcab(20:18) Stoopid N Uuglies(20:18) Dark Elf 29613
8 Big Bong Theory(16:34) Ogres(16:34) Dark Elf 25416
9 cutex(17:16) Sonata(17:16) Dark Elf 15983
10 reinheitsgebot(17:16) Sonata(17:16) Dark Elf 15210
Overall Province Networth Rankings (Age 45)
1 Sylar(7:5) The Triumvirate(7:5) Dark Elf 11333333
2 Evolution complete(15:7) Sanctuary of Absalom(15:7) Gnome 6745660
3 Mr Moo(18:14) Rage of Absalom(18:14) Dark Elf 6160534
4 The Reborn Awakener(15:29) Mercy of Absalom(15:29) Dark Elf 5898215
5 nefarious(17:16) Sonata(17:16) Dark Elf 5353353
6 Soooooooo emo(13:25) Secrets(13:25) Dark Elf 5017776
7 Fruity(7:5) The Triumvirate(7:5) Dark Elf 5006979
8 MoneyLovesMe(7:5) The Triumvirate(7:5) Dark Elf 4277234
9 emansdrawkcab(20:18) Stoopid N Uuglies(20:18) Dark Elf 4080782
10 Big Bong Theory(16:34) Ogres(16:34) Dark Elf 3587039
 
Lights, Drama, Action

Fresh out of the gate, the Age of Light began with a number of intriguing episodes. Trinity of Absalom, the then #1 kingdom at the time, received some intra-kingdom action as well as a defection only a couple of days after OOP.

April 23 of YR0 In local kingdom strife Erecto(11:3) invaded Peskipiksi Pesternomi(11:3) and razed 277 acres of land.
April 23 of YR0 In local kingdom strife, Erecto(11:3) invaded Peskipiksi Pesternomi(11:3) and captured 199 acres of land.
May 15 of YR0 As the ultimate betrayal, Dobby destroys all in the land of Finite Incantatem before leaving for a new kingdom.

Later into YR1, as the dust began to settle and chart positions were better defined, Trinity, ranked #2 kingdom on the NW/Land charts at the time, waved Sonata, the #1 kingdom. Sonata declared immediately after and Trinity withdrew in February of YR2. Details of the war can be found here. The beginning of YR2 marked the instigation of the bank wars. Conflicts were aplenty between kingdoms. One major event that sparked some controversy included the kingdoms Rage of Absalom and Boondock Saints (a merger between Freedom and Schadenfreude). On May 18th YR2, the #2 ranked kingdom of Saints sent a wave of hits into Rage, netting a total of 7k~ acres, which was unretaliated and CF’ed. YR3 rolled along and on July 18th YR3, Sanctuary of Absalom broke CF with Saints, but at the same time, Saints also broke CF with Rage. Thus began the three-way hostile: Saints waved Rage, and then Sanctuary waved Saints. Rage retaliated twice on Saints’ provinces before Saints declared war on Sanctuary on July 20th YR3. On March 12th YR4, Saints withdrew from war with Sanctuary.

YR4 and YR5 were an interesting two weeks for the kingdoms in the T20. Mercy of Absalom and Rapture hit it off with a retal-war, which started in March and lasted until July. Pulse waved Trinity on April 15th, YR4, sending Trinity into FW, and a CF sealed a couple of days later. Saints had some unfinished business to attend to with Rage after their war with Sanctuary, and ended up in a retal-war with Rage, which started on May 8th YR4, and lasted all the way to June of YR5. Equilibrium of Absalom and HaLL of Heroes had their share of retal-wars as well from May to June, which ended in a CF. Even the kingdom that housed the #1 province (who called themselves Dubai Pwns) was busy, having their killers hit Secrets' bank as well as Old School's bank all in the same day. But this was just the beginning. Secrets’ and Heroes’ initial retal-war turned into a war when Heroes declared on February 3rd YR4, with Heroes withdrawing on April 8th YR5. Equilibrium then hit into Zenobias Zealots' FW in July YR4, with a CF deal that was reached in February YR5. The galore of hostiles and wars ended with Mercy of Absalom, Sleepy, Pulse, and ZZ in February of YR5. Initially, it was just Mercy and Sleepy engaged in a retal-war, with Sleepy going into FW in March YR5; then Pulse was added in on April 15th YR5, sending a wave of hits into Mercy. ZZ turned the trio into a quartet by waving Pulse on April 16th YR5. From there, Mercy declared war on Pulse on June 3rd YR5, and withdrew on January 6th YR6.

As the holiday season neared, Sanctuary, Sonata, and Equilibrium received early/late presents from a player named louisruffin, in the form of bounce waves. Starting March 1st YR6, Evolution complete from Sanctuary received a bounce wave of 80+ hits from a multitude of provinces in different kingdoms. Sanctuary informed us that the aggregation of provinces was controlled by the player louisruffin. Reasons for the attacks were stated that they were "just for fun". For femalevolence of Sonata, the bounce waves began on March 24th YR6, and lasted into YR7. Reasons for the attacks were revealed below by louisruffin himself:

Quote:
there really isn't a big reason. a couple people suggested him. he's the #1 avian - a noticable target, and avians suffer greater losses than other races
couple top kd members offered to recruit me to their kds if I bring him down, so thats kinda a secondary motive

Equilibrium's Big Bang Theory received a similar fate, being bounce waved from YR7 to YR8.

The later parts of the age into YR8 saw Sonata and Equilibrium duke it out in an approximately two-week conflict, which started from a retal-war, gone FW, to finally a real war. There were two levels of combat that went on during the two weeks: the cow battle, and the rest of the kingdom as a whole. Sonata's and Equilibrium’s banks traded hits that produced a line of the biggest hits in the WoL for the Age of Light, which ranged from approximately 2.5k acres to 4k acres per hit. Smack in the middle of their retal-war during YR9, a number of kingdoms throughout the WoL received mass deletions at the hands of OMAC. Unfortunately, the details of the mass deletions remain unknown to us at this time. Sonata declared on Equilibrium on April 1st YR10, and Equilibrium withdrew from the war on June 12th YR10, putting Sonata at approximately 270k acres, having gained a total of nearly 24k acres in the war.

This age, like many others, attracted an abundance of EoA action. It started when Sleepy launched a wave of hits into Secrets on July 12th YR10, which ended in a CF on July 18th YR10. Then on January 4th YR11, Sanctuary sent a wave of hits into BIO after BIO had previously sent Dragons of Absalom into a FW. BIO proceeded to retal-war with Sanctuary until EoA. On January 16th YR11, Pulse waved Equilibrium, to which Equilibrium responded to by declaring on Pulse two hours later. Lastly, on February 3rd YR11, Rage waved into Sleepy, and Sleepy declared on February 5th YR11. Both the wars lasted until EoA.

In the Spotlight

Evil Intentions took the #1 honor crown for this age, with Whispers taking the runner-up spot behind EI by approximately 13k honor points. Seduction TF, Balance, and BIO took the remaining three spots to round up the T5. This age was also peculiar in the sense that there was no prince to be crowned during the Age of Light. The highest honor achieved this age was at 6k points by Cannabis ala Pronce from Smoking Kills.

Overall Kingdom Honor Rankings (Age 45)
1 Evil Intentions(9:6) 80529
2 W h i s p e r s(14:36) 67195
3 Seduction TF War(7:31) 65968
4 Balance Rebuilding(11:33) 60911
5 UP YOURS SANC(12:30) 58244
6 PUFFY GIRLS(18:29) 58088
7 The Flying Kingdom TF(15:36) 57036
8 Bunnies TF RAWR(15:12) 55312
9 Stronghold of HaJ(12:12) 54138
10 Have a can of PULSEaid(13:28) 53719
Overall Province Honor Rankings (Age 45)
1 Cannabis ala Pronce(18:16) Smoking Kills(18:16) Dark Elf 6084
2 14 xxxxxxxx0xxxxxxxx(14:36) W h i s p e r s(14:36) Gnome 5285
3 QiY(19:14) EoA Hostiling xxxxx xxx - STFO(19:14) Dark Elf 5138
4 Styles(5:11) Savman Is Le Noob(5:11) Dark Elf 5107
5 Licor de Portugal(7:5) The Triumvirate(7:5) Elf 4812
6 Baby Poison Dart Frog(14:14) War Babies(14:14) Dark Elf 4748
7 YOU-Troels(9:6) Evil Intentions(9:6) Elf 4720
8 Hoegaarden(9:17) Alcoholics WAR STFO(9:17) Dark Elf 4571
9 Deadly Panda(7:22) Deadly Realm WAR(7:22) Dark Elf 4413
10 Fruit Loops(9:6) Evil Intentions(9:6) Elf 4278
 
A New Divide

It’s been about 13 weeks since Sean and Brian launched the new Utopia. There have been mixed remarks in regards to the overall quality and presentation of the game, but that you can find in the Jolt Utopia forums. Some highlights of this age include some of the following prominent bugs. The full list can again, be found in the Jolt Utopia forums. Notably here.

Game Break OOP: Attacking disabled.
First War of the Age: Odyssey vs. Dragons of Absalom. The kingdom that was declared on could not perform ops/spells/attacks until after hour change.
Overpopulation Bug: Desertions happened, but could still attack over 15%.
Dragon Bugs: Emerald Dragon produced the same -8% ME loss (which is supposedly the effect of a Ruby); unsure if dragon effects stacked, however. Most are saying that all Dragon effects were the same as Ruby. It is unconfirmed whether this bug has been fixed to date.
Amnesia Bug: Very little/Virtually no science was retrained; books that were amnesia'ed were mostly lost forever.
Declare Range Bug: Kingdoms could declare below and above 50% of other kingdom's range.
Nightstrike Bug: Sending 10 thieves for NS yielded a far bigger capacity of kills than it should have.
Landlust Bug: LL gains produced a fixed percentage of land instead of a random range.
+ Gains Bug: Doing +hours on hits into/out of a war gave unusually large gains. The extra gains do not take into account the -75% war gains factor.
Vacation Mode Bug: It is possible to aid provinces in VM.

Undoubtedly there were/are a lot more bugs worth mentioning. However, as mentioned above, these are just some of the highlights. The rest of the bugs can be found either in the Jolt forums or by common knowledge circling around.

As for the new age, a couple of things to keep in mind:

The updated changes for the Age of Light have been posted in detail here.

A couple of tools and accessories launched for the new age are listed below:

Dragon Portal: DP offers a variety of tools ranging from a fully compatible IRC KD bot to their online formatters (Ultima).

Utopia Temple: BG will continue to update Utopia Angel for the new age, however he did mention in a recent inquiry that he will no longer be updating the All-in-One formatter.

GuanYuCwK’s Simulator: A detailed simulator for helping players with province management. User-friendly and vigorously updated upon bug/error detection.

Utopia Pimp: Known to have updated to be compatible with the new age. Details can be read on the site.

The Afterglow

At last, we come to the end of yet another age. It's been a peculiar 12 weeks, and while we're unsure of what the future holds, we can always relish the present and hold on to what we have, or reminisce about the good (or bad?) times. For some, it’s been an age of discovery; fine-tuning the kinks and preparing for an even better age from here on out. For others, it’s just another age of distinction to add to the records; waltzing through the motions like clockwork, and nothing can break the rhythm. In light of it all, there is hope. The Age of Light marked the beginning of a new era for Utopia, as well as a future to tread into—a future where differences define the aspect of individuality, and excellence, as always, is recognized.

uTimes would like to apologize for the delay of the article as well as the missing pieces of information currently. Unfortunately, due to the lack of updates regarding the EoA Charts for Age 45, we can only go by what we know at hand. Should the Charts be updated in the near future, additional information will be added. Meanwhile, we would like to wish everyone a happy new age! Many thanks to all participating kingdoms and individuals so far for their time and contributions towards the EoA article, and any mistakes of facts, comments, or additional information you think you may want us to be aware about, please contact a staff member in #uTimes on IRC. Best of luck in the new age!

Comments

fimbul, from Sonata, #1 NW/Land KD, commented,
"We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?"

flogger, from Mercy of Absalom, #3 NW/Land KD, commented,
"So that means we're 3rd best, right?"

AquaSeaFoam, from Rage of Absalom, #4 NW/Land KD, commented,
"Boooorrrrrrrrriiing."

Fate1316, from Whispers, #2 Honor KD, commented,
"Rock Paper Scissors is not for the faint of heart. If you want to be the best, learn to use the bowl."

Fallstaff, from Seduction TF, #3 Honor KD, commented,
"Nice to get #3 in honor. Kingdom did great."

CallipygianOne, from Balance, #4 Honor KD, commented,
"We feel that we had our strongest age yet. If given the opportunity to war anyone we believe that we would hold our own. Look for a strong showing from us next age. Oh and I

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On July 16 of YR9 Jerks (10:39) launched a small wave on to Crisis HaJ(16:38) trying to bate them for war. Three hours later Crisis started a ruby, made two hits back and pushed the button.

July 19 of YR9 CRISIS HaJ(16:38) has declared WAR with our kingdom!

Jerks used a combination of Nightmares and deep chains to take down Crisis biggest provinces during their first wave. Late during the first day of war Jerks noticed Crisis keeping more def at home and switched over to max gains.
Crisis focusing their chains on Jerks attackers was not able to stand ground and withdrew at minimum time.

February 19 of YR10 CRISIS HaJ WARRRR(16:38) has withdrawn from war. Our people rejoice at our victory!

Comments

ravenx, Monarch of Jerks
"Thanks for the WW HaJ,
Jerks ftw see ya next age"

uTimes were unable to reach Crisis for a comment.

** Hostile Summary for Jerks**

Total Attacks Made: 15 (2583 acres)
-- Traditional March: 12 (2583 acres)
-- Failed Attacks: 3 (20% failure)
Total Attacks Suffered: 2 (550 acres)
-- Traditional March: 2 (550 acres)

The Kingdom of (10:39)

Total acres exchanged: +2033 acres (15/2)
+361 acres: 15 like the guy who cries (1/0)
+274 acres: 09 I wanna be evil (1/0)
+233 acres: 06 I wanna tell lies (1/0)
+209 acres: 20 And whatever I have got (1/0)
+201 acres: 08 and throw mud pies (1/0)
+194 acres: 16 I wanna be horrid (1/0)
+165 acres: 02 I wanna spit tacks (1/0)
+164 acres: 11 I wanna be bad (1/0)
+140 acres: 05 I wanna be wicked (1/0)
+132 acres: 24 Just as mean and (1/0)
+92 acres: 14 I wanna sing songs (1/0)
+0 acres: 01 I wanna be evil (1/0)
+0 acres: 10 But more that that (1/0)
+0 acres: 03 I wanna be evil (1/0)
-132 acres: 21 I am eager to lose (1/2)

The Kingdom of (16:38)

Total acres exchanged: -1591 acres (2 /12 )
+368 acres: in the night (1/0)
+182 acres: Pour some SUGAR on (1/0)
-132 acres: in th3 night (0/1)
-194 acres: keep the ground running (0/2)
-201 acres: to sing the blues (0/1)
-257 acres: will win Some will (0/2)
-361 acres: Streetlight people (0/1)
-438 acres: I guess I should have forgot (0/3)
-558 acres: IWannaBeDrunk (0/2)

The Kingdom of (11:27)

Total acres exchanged: -442 acres (0/3)
-209 acres: Unnamed Province 8 (0/2)
-233 acres: PLAYERS (0/1)

** War Summary Jerks**

Total Attacks Made: 106 (16330 acres)
-- Traditional March: 94 (16029 acres)
-- Ambush: 4 (301 acres)
-- Failed Attacks: 8 (7.5% failure)
Total Attacks Suffered: 58 (10430 acres)
-- Traditional March: 54 (10430 acres)
-- Failed Attacks: 4 (6.9% failure)

The Kingdom of (10:39)

Total acres exchanged: +5900 acres (106 /58 )
+611 acres: 10 But more that that (4/0)
+581 acres: 03 I wanna be evil (4/1)
+520 acres: 02 I wanna spit tacks (4/0)
+465 acres: 18 I want to be horrid (5/3)
+453 acres: 07 I wanna be mean (5/0)
+399 acres: 20 And whatever I have got (4/3)
+388 acres: 08 and throw mud pies (5/2)
+388 acres: 19 I want to make news (3/0)
+384 acres: 01 I wanna be evil (4/2)
+363 acres: 09 I wanna be evil (3/0)
+358 acres: 04 and cheat at jacks (3/1)
+346 acres: 06 I wanna tell lies (4/1)
+337 acres: 14 I wanna sing songs (5/1)
+280 acres: 17 I wanna drink booze (4/1)
+185 acres: 05 I wanna be wicked (4/2)
+176 acres: 24 Just as mean and (3/1)
+165 acres: 22 I wanna be evil (5/4)
+121 acres: 12 I wanna be evil (5/4)
+88 acres: 23 little evil me (8/4)
+32 acres: 15 like the guy who cries (3/2)
+13 acres: 21 I am eager to lose (8/9)
-43 acres: 16 I wanna be horrid (2/2)
-263 acres: 13 I wanna hurt flies (6/9)
-447 acres: 11 I wanna be bad (5/6)

The Kingdom of (16:38)

Total acres exchanged: -6045 acres (57 /106 )
+640 acres: to sing the blues (3/0)
+516 acres: TheIdiotsAreTakingOver (3/0)
+502 acres: in th3 night (4/2)
+262 acres: Streetlight people (1/0)
+222 acres: like pigs from a gun (2/1)
+193 acres: Find emotion (4/2)
+174 acres: Livin in sin (2/1)
-97 acres: lose Some were born (4/4)
-103 acres: will win Some will (1/1)
-114 acres: Pour some SUGAR on (3/4)
-312 acres: on the floor surrounded (5/5)
-365 acres: paranoia strikes deep (2/5)
-439 acres: keep the ground running (1/3)
-448 acres: Strangers waiting (3/5)
-754 acres: The power of the steel (4/13)
-1061 acres: my fill Everybody (4/12)
-1067 acres: enjoy your stay (2/7)
-1196 acres: I guess I should have forgot (2/8)
-1284 acres: IWannaBeDrunk (4/23)
-1314 acres: in the night (3/10)

The Kingdom of (11:27)

Total acres exchanged: +145 acres (1/0)
+145 acres: Anonymous province from (11:27) (1/0)

With a war win at their back, HaLL of Heroes (12:26) took a minimum time CF and then entered a fake war with HaLL of Force (12:15) to pump back into shape. Just 9 hours after Heroes entered fakewar, 5 hits from Pulse (13:28) came, targeting Heroes' biggest provinces. According to Pulse leader JohnSnowstorm, they had a bone to pick with Heroes after last age when Heroes hit into one of Pulse's active hostiles. Two hours after Pulse's original attack, Heroes returned fire.

HaLL of Heroes who originally planned a three day fake war had to change plans during the third day, as Pulse plundered ~15 million gc and stole more than 40 million gc, forcing Heroes to extend their pump. Up on exiting the fake war on the fifth day, Heroes was fully pumped, and according to JohnSnowStorm, had almost two dragons worth of gold stocked, and a heavy draft strategy including 25% homes, 16% GS's and 80% draft. The pillage of HaLL of Heroes had the effects Pulse hoped for, and up on exiting the fake war Heroes declared.

April 13 of YR9 HaLL of Heroes WAR(12:26) has declared WAR with our kingdom!

Upon declaring, Heroes sent a Ruby Dragon and within minutes Pulse returned the favor and sent their own Ruby Dragon. Heroes started the war doing Nightstrikes and then heavy chaining two of Pulse's Orcs. Though Pulse had no unbreakable's their biggest Orcs posed a threat should Heroes' top elves send out on Pulse's DE's and Elves . This scenario forced HaLL of Heroes to turtle their biggest Elves, according to their leader Jong. During Pulse's second wave also they started to chain, putting some of Heroes' provinces in range of Pulse's own heavily chained orcs.

The new code proved to be problematic for Heroes, as Pulse changed over monarchy faster than the kingdom page updated, causing Heroes to bounce a total of 9 times throughout the war. According to Jong, the monarchy changes was so often that in the end Heroes were forced to take a new CB before every attack to make sure the monarchy bonus wasn't in effect. In addition, Pulse utilised soldier aid to force bounces from Heroes' attackers.

Throughout the war HaLL of Heroes covered all of Pulse, with exception of the mages, in 24/7 MS and kept up the chaining, while Pulse varied their methods. Despite Heroes chaining several of Pulse's Orcs, they were not completely disabled and managed to grow back in size during the war. In the end HaLL of Heroes admitted defeat and surrendered.

June 15 of YR9 Unable to achieve victory, our Kingdom has withdrawn from war with Happy Birthday To trooneh(13:28). Our failed war has finally ended!

Comments

Jong, Leader of HaLL of Heroes
"Honor isn't about making the right choices. It's about dealing with the consequences', good job Pulse we'll see you next age."

baka, Leader of Pulse
"sun tzu: 'The clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy's will to be imposed on him.'"

**Hostile Summary Pulse **
Total Attacks Made: 45 (11238 acres)
-- Traditional March: 33 (11238 acres)
-- Plunders: 10
-- Failed Attacks: 2 (4.4% failure)
Total Attacks Suffered: 16 (4241 acres)
-- Traditional March: 16 (4241 acres)

 
**War Summary Pulse**
Total Attacks Made: 243 (68378 acres)
-- Traditional March: 225 (68229 acres )
-- Ambush: 2 (149 acres)
-- Plunders: 10
-- Failed Attacks: 6 (2.5% failure )
Total Attacks Suffered: 226 (40420 acres)
-- Traditional March: 217 (40420 acres)
-- Failed Attacks: 9 (4% failure )

** War Summary HaLL of Heroes **
Total Attacks Made: 209 (39454 acres)
-- Traditional March: 200 (39454 acres)
-- Failed Attacks: 9 (4.3% failure)
Total Attacks Suffered: 197 (51492 acres)
-- Traditional March: 191 (51343 acres)
-- Ambush: 2 (149 acres)
-- Failed Attacks: 4 (2% failure)
 

A week out of their last war, Dopefiends (14:7) searched the server for potential future war candidates. After getting the cold shoulder from Bodega, Dopefiends found themselves turning their interest to HaLL of Force (12:15), who during the past week sent a few randoms Dopefiends' way.
Dopefiends waved the 1 million NW bigger Force for max gains, focusing mainly on Force's Dark Elves to minimize their ToG potential, and close the gap between their own, weaker economy, due to a dragon project funded the previous day, and the superior economy of Force. After a 25 hour long hostile, a war declaration was finally made.

July 17 of YR9 HaLL of FORCE(12:15) has declared WAR with our kingdom!

Force started the war with a combination of Nightmares and then chaining. The first province to suffer Force's coordinated efforts was Steve Miller, who first got AW'ed and then taken down to 18k defense on 3200 acres, before being chained down to 900 acres. Force kept up this strat throught out the war, whereas Dopefiends focused their chains on Force's Dark Elves, hoping to put them out of range, as Malm, leader of Dopefiends considered them the biggest threat, however time would prove that strategy to be unsuccessful. Instead, Dopefiends noticed that Force conducted their NM ops around the same times every day, and began using Sabotage Wizards before each Nightmare wave, effectively nullifying Force's main strategy.

During the course of the war Dopefiends sent two dragons, the second of which flying on February 7th of YR 10, just before Dopefiends were out of dragon range. Despite the escalating networth losses, Force stuck it out for another few days but eventually withdrew three days later.

May 12 of YR10 HaLL of FORCE(12:15) has withdrawn from war. Our people rejoice at our victory!

Comments

Malm, Monarch of Dopefiends
"Foook jooo dolphine"

Force declined to comment

For the period of June 16 of YR9 to July 16 of YR9 (25 hours)
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** Hostile Summary for Dopefiends **

Total Attacks Made: 56 (16064 acres )
-- Traditional March: 50 (15884 acres )
-- Ambush: 1 (180 acres )
-- Failed Attacks: 5 (8.9% failure)
Total Attacks Suffered: 25 (7372 acres )
-- Traditional March: 24 (7333 acres )
-- Ambush: 1 (39 acres )

** Dopefiends (14:7) gains/losses **

Total acres exchanged: +8692 acres (56/25)
+905 acres: the Picker (2/0)
+877 acres: Getting our lovin (4/1)
+866 acres: even about Maurice (3/1)
+793 acres: Anonymous province from (14:7) (2/0)
+657 acres: and the real (3/0)
+656 acres: Because we are (3/2)
+650 acres: Steve Miller (3/2)
+624 acres: our real names (2/0)
+587 acres: the Smokers (3/1)
+546 acres: all fine it (2/0)
+540 acres: Midnight Tokers (2/0)
+502 acres: While theyre (4/3)
+384 acres: sang about the (2/0)
+369 acres: He sang for (2/0)
+367 acres: the Lover (2/0)
+324 acres: just isnt us (3/1)
+312 acres: on the run (2/1)
+301 acres: playing music in the sun (3/2)
+170 acres: and the (3/2)
+53 acres: Space Cowboy (1/1)
-70 acres: You should (2/2)
-247 acres: call us by (1/1)
-337 acres: Gangster of Love (1/1)
-526 acres: the Jokers (0/2)
-611 acres: He talked about (1/2)

**HaLL of Force (12:15) gains/losses**

Total acres exchanged: -9298 acres (23/56)
+1286 acres: Anonymous province from (12:15) (5/0)
+370 acres: Torpedospora radiata (1/0)
+246 acres: Septoria glycines (2/2)
-33 acres: Septoria abelicae (1/1)
-110 acres: Septonema chaeteopira (2/2)
-114 acres: Tilletia ayresii (1/1)
-149 acres: Ceriosporopis (1/2)
-323 acres: Septonema chaetopira (1/2)
-350 acres: Septonema chaetospira (0/1)
-397 acres: Geastrum striatum (0/1)
-447 acres: Torula herbarum (1/4)
-449 acres: Torulomyces lagena (1/2)
-468 acres: Septoria abeliceae (0/1)
-504 acres: Thanatephorus (1/2)
-564 acres: Ceriosporopsis (1/3)
-571 acres: Septogloum sojae (0/3)
-584 acres: Fusarium culmorum (1/5)
-610 acres: Tilletia barclayana (0/2)
-791 acres: Sirosporium gliricidiae (1/3)
-842 acres: Tetracladium setigerum (1/6)
-848 acres: Fusarium culmoru (1/5)
-963 acres: Torulu herbarum (0/2)
-968 acres: Thanateporus (1/3)
-1115 acres: Torulu herbaarum (0/3)

**The Kingdom of (6:35) gains/losses **

Total acres exchanged: +323 acres (1/0)
+323 acres: Anger (1/0)

** The Kingdom of (12:22) gains/losses**

Total acres exchanged: +283 acres (1/0)
+283 acres: Feroc10u5 (1/0)

For the period of July 17 of YR9 to May 11 of YR10 (163 hours)
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** War Summary for Dopefiends**

Total Attacks Made: 403 (59926 acres )
-- Traditional March: 333 (59365 acres )
-- Ambush: 8 (561 acres )
-- Raze: 5 (360 acres)
-- Massacres: 38 (63503 people )
-- Failed Attacks: 19 (4.7% failure)
Total Attacks Suffered: 387 (42517 acres )
-- Traditional March: 363 (42089 acres )
-- Ambush: 4 (428 acres )
-- Failed Attacks: 20 (5.2% failure)

**Dopefiends (14:7) gains/losses**

Total acres exchanged: +17409 acres (403/387)
+2306 acres: and the real (14/0)
+2226 acres: You should (16/0)
+2024 acres: our real names (11/0)
+1954 acres: Gangster of Love (15/1)
+1857 acres: playing music in the sun (17/4)
+1566 acres: the Picker (11/0)
+1533 acres: and the (16/8)
+1354 acres: Space Cowboy (14/0)
+1335 acres: Midnight Tokers (13/0)
+1252 acres: the Lover (18/3)
+1131 acres: Because we are Dopefiends (6/1)
+1099 acres: sang about the (13/4)
+1042 acres: call us by (11/0)
+805 acres: He sang for (6/0)
+572 acres: just isnt us (13/12)
+453 acres: He talked about (18/16)
+54 acres: the Jokers (4/4)
+48 acres: even about Maurice (30/13)
-174 acres: Steve Miller (26/32)
-175 acres: Getting our lovin (21/25)
-433 acres: all fine it (20/28)
-832 acres: the Smokers (19/40)
-1037 acres: Because we are (21/24)
-1038 acres: on the run (11/48)
-1513 acres: While theyre (39/124)

**Force (12:15) gains/losses**

Total acres exchanged: -17769 acres (386/403)
+1213 acres: Septoria abelicae (21/8)
+745 acres: Torulomyces lagena (16/6)
+304 acres: Anonymous province from (12:15) (1/0)
+238 acres: Ceriosporopis (22/14)
+237 acres: Septonema chaetospira (25/12)
+220 acres: Septoria glycines (9/3)
+197 acres: Geastrum striatum (8/5)
+57 acres: Tilletia barclayana (2/1)
-32 acres: Torulu herbarum (9/6)
-43 acres: Torpedospora radiata (25/8)
-322 acres: Thanatephoru (9/4)
-324 acres: Ceriosporopsis (6/3)
-371 acres: Septonema chaeteopira (20/11)
-377 acres: Torula herbarum (18/13)
-725 acres: Tetracladium setigerum (17/36)
-1086 acres: Fusarium culmoru (19/22)
-1241 acres: Septonema chaetopira (2/9)
-1327 acres: Tilletia ayresii (29/23)
-1362 acres: Septogloeum sojae (9/11)
-1497 acres: Sirosporium gliricidiae (16/36)
-1675 acres: Septogloum sojae (9/31)
-1675 acres: Fusarium culmorum (11/29)
-2115 acres: Septoria abeliceae (23/24)
-2149 acres: Torulu herbaarum (20/21)
-2325 acres: Thanatephorus (24/34)
-2334 acres: Thanateporus (16/33)

The Kingdom of (11:40)

Total acres exchanged: 0 acres (1/0)
+0 acres: Anonymous province from (11:40) (1/0)

Note: The following are taken from some of the prominent events / bugs that occurred during the age.

1. Thou shall not stress and rage over hour change ticking.
2. Thou shall not FW or war kingdoms less than 50% of thy size.
3. Thou shall not perform forbidden operations and cast forbidden spells from thy FW.
4. Remember the Utopia Parodies, to keep thy sanity (or lack thereof...)
5. Honor thy alliance members, so you do not hit them by accident.
6. Thou shall not bounce wave top kingdoms' provinces in order to get recruited.
7. Thou shall not commit crimes violating Utopia's 'Code of Conduct' to receive kingdom-wide deletions.
8. Thou shall not bounce attacks due to lack of province/kingdom updating via monarchy swap, and soldier bouncing.
9. Thou shall not attempt to ninja wave anymore. It just don't work.
10. Thou shall not x-log, proxy, multi, farm, farm out, etc. Any of the following causes an imbalance to the game. Shame on you.

Bringing you the best of the Age of Light!

On February 9th YR7, BOB(10:13) went looking for war when their eyes landed on Mercy Of Absalom(15:29).
BOB performed a wave of 24 hits on Mercy which was answered by Mercy after only 2 hours with 2 retaliations and a declaration of war.

February 11 of YR7 We have declared WAR on Happy Hannukah Mercy(10:13)!

The strategies from both sides were mainly characterized by heavy chaining. With Mercy targeting the high offense provinces within BOB to produce more unbreakable provinces with help from their bank. Mercy reports that they utilised Assassinate Wizards, then Nightmares and finally Night Strikes to help in bringing these provinces down as efficient as possible.

BOB on their part also focused their efforts on heavy chaining, targeting those provinces in Mercy they felt could grow out of range for them.

BOB cites a bad second day in war, low activity due to RL engagements, as one of the main deciders of the wars outcome and feel it put them on the back foot for the rest of the war. This was in turn confirmed by Mercy who felt their ability to quickly build unbreakable provinces through the aid of their bank truly sealed the result of the war.

After 123 Hours of actively warring BOB decided to cut their losses and Withdrew from war, granting Mercy their first Win of the age.

July 14 of YR7 Happy New Year Mercy(10:13) has withdrawn from war. Our people rejoice at our victory!

Comments

Nyce, Monarch of BOB
I wish Mercy the best of luck this age. And hope we'll meet again next age :D

Authors note: Mercy declined to comment, but the reporter would like to thank both BOB and MERCY for contributing information for the article. Unfortunately the papers from BOB weren't available at this date

** Mercy Hostile Summary **

Total Attacks Made: 2 (642 acres)
-- Traditional March: 2 (642 acres)
Total Attacks Suffered: 24 (7481 acres)
-- Traditional March: 21 (7481 acres)
-- Failed Attacks: 3 (12.5% failure)

The Kingdom of (15:29)

Total acres exchanged: -6839 acres (2/24)
+642 acres: Anonymous province from (15:29) (2/0)
+0 acres: Rabid Squirrel (0/1)
-232 acres: I want to be on top (0/1)
-269 acres: Cosmic Monster (0/1)
-297 acres: Shen an Calhar (0/1)
-309 acres: I Trust You To Kill Me (0/1)
-333 acres: I am on top (0/1)
-382 acres: Tasted Like Chicken (0/1)
-397 acres: Peach Bellini (0/2)
-422 acres: The top is overrated (0/1)
-591 acres: Clowns to the Left (0/2)
-691 acres: HorrorLooksYouRight (0/2)
-769 acres: Bunny1 Bunny2 (0/2)
-826 acres: JoMama (0/2)
-846 acres: Jangolode (0/3)
-1117 acres: Steam You Alive (0/3)

The Kingdom of (10:13)

Total acres exchanged: +6570 acres (23/2)
+6558 acres: Anonymous province from (10:13) (21/0)
+232 acres: spinethemadsoundssohaibutdomad (1/0)
-220 acres: WhatMakesYouANoblePrizeWinner (1/2)

For the period of February 11 of YR7 to July 13 of YR7 (123 hours)
-- By UPCF [0.99b] http://unwantedcreations.com/utopia/ceformatter.php

** Mercy War Summary **

Total Attacks Made: 614 (97965 acres)
-- Traditional March: 549 (93839 acres)
-- Ambush: 26 (4126 acres)
-- Raze: 8 (338 acres)
-- Failed Attacks: 31 (5% failure)
Total Attacks Suffered: 418 (69334 acres)
-- Traditional March: 387 (67931 acres)
-- Ambush: 8 (1066 acres)
-- Raze: 5 (337 acres)
-- Learns: 3
-- Failed Attacks: 15 (3.6% failure)

The Kingdom of (15:29)

Total acres exchanged: +28631 acres (614/418)
+41447 acres: Anonymous province from (15:29) (142/0)
+5403 acres: The Blind Watchmaker (40/0)
+4057 acres: The Reborn Awakener (34/0)
+3493 acres: Frank N Furter (30/0)
+2921 acres: Kriekje (31/0)
+2895 acres: Siberian (10/0)
+2331 acres: Em Welb Enitram (21/0)
+1252 acres: Alaska (21/0)
+1120 acres: Clowns to the Left (7/1)
+242 acres: Tasted Like Chicken (13/7)
-643 acres: I want to be on top (10/4)
-664 acres: I Trust You To Kill Me (25/16)
-801 acres: The Flying Dutchman (27/31)
-917 acres: I am on top (33/19)
-950 acres: Cosmic Monster (29/11)
-956 acres: Rabid Squirrel (12/4)
-1097 acres: Cu Chulainn (1/2)
-1266 acres: Shen an Calhar (10/4)
-2110 acres: Jangolode (19/11)
-3079 acres: The top is overrated (12/10)
-3081 acres: Bunny1 Bunny2 (30/117)
-3548 acres: JoMama (12/12)
-3621 acres: Bring Back The Jets (12/19)
-4203 acres: HorrorLooksYouRight (11/36)
-4652 acres: Steam You Alive (9/15)
-4942 acres: Peach Bellini (13/99)

The Kingdom of (10:13)

Total acres exchanged: -29306 acres (418/614)
+33188 acres: Anonymous province from (10:13) (113/0)
+1224 acres: 9fingawilltingshuoduxiesomeday (10/10)
+517 acres: spinethemadsoundssohaibutdomad (18/11)
+196 acres: LoVEYoUForeVerTiLlSOhAi (15/15)
+38 acres: TheNewInterfaceIsReallySoSohai (3/0)
-204 acres: visit FOODMICE dot com la (9/5)
-233 acres: ExactlyHowLongYouWantItToBe (5/5)
-418 acres: TheOneBelowMeIsReallySuperNoob (12/5)
-898 acres: MightyStoneMountainIsSoHighhhh (12/10)
-1540 acres: dontmakeSOHAIhurtyou (9/15)
-1744 acres: MyKingdomWantToHaveItAllFromU (6/9)
-1796 acres: WhyMyKingdomHas22SohaiOrcs (16/19)
-1949 acres: AlwaysBetOnBlack (13/20)
-2252 acres: fTheTableOnTheChairByTheWallyo (9/12)
-2718 acres: zomfgwtfbbqknnccbmchtnsimshyx1 (16/68)
-3111 acres: AlwaysLook4TheSameOldItchyHere (25/35)
-3136 acres: WhyWhyWhyThisKingdomSoSohai (22/27)
-3291 acres: SadisticFornicationIsForMe (8/23)
-3369 acres: AhMaWontHurtMeBcosImSohai (10/15)
-4040 acres: FuriousWombatsAreNibblingMeeee (11/33)
-4280 acres: EvenSohaiSojuIsSmarterThanOMAC (24/54)
-4436 acres: WhatMakesYouANoblePrizeWinner (13/22)
-5217 acres: WhyDoWeChooseThisSohaiTheme (22/92)
-5455 acres: NoSohaiIsWorthYourTears (2/34)
-6538 acres: IIntend2LiveForeverSoFarSoGood (12/37)
-7844 acres: UJustWasted3SecondsReadingThis (3/38)

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Bodega (11:36), with their 5/5 war wins streak were eager to find some action. And like many others they turned to the charts and found Jerks (10:39), also they with a perfect war win streak at 4/4 and just 100k NW smaller. Bodega also noticed Jerks were in pump mode, and thus took advantage of the situation by launching a mixed wave of traditional marches, learns and plunders at Jerks expecting for a CF offer and a free wave.

As it turned out, Jerks already had Sinners wave them that same day and had already lost 6k acres due to the previous conflict. So, not willing to just give away more free waves without a fight, Jerks launched attacks back at Bodega, making their intentions clear while trying to convert from science pump to war build and gather their activity from the holiday sluggishness.

Bodega responded to Jerks with massacre waves on their Dark Elves after Jerks' initial retaliations and then continued on to the Gnomes. In return, Jerks massacred Bodega's Dark Elves. The hostile prolonged for a total of three days before Jerks finally declared.

January 16 of YR8 Jerks HAPPY NEW YEAR -Hostilin(10:39) has declared WAR with our kingdom!

Once in war, both kingdoms fell in to the classical chaining methods, with each side taking down selected targets per wave. Bodega focused their attention on Jerks' Elves, not wanting them to grow out of range. Jerks had similar concerns, and tried to sustain Bodega's provinces from becoming unbreakable as well, but were short-circuited and could not succeed, thus withdrawing from the war on April 23rd, YR8, granting Bodega their 6th war win of the age.

April 23 of YR8 Jerks at WAR(10:39) has withdrawn from war. Our people rejoice at our victory!

Comments

Ravenx, Monarch of Official Jerks (10:39)
Thanks for the great war bodega hope we meet up again ;)
jerks ftfw^

Arthur, Monarch of Bodega (11:36)
Thanks for a tough war, Jerks, and for warring us despite starting in a difficult position. It was good training for all our new players!

** Hostile Summary for Jerks (10:39) **
Total Attacks Made: 24 (2090 acres)
-- Traditional March: 10 (1887 acres)
-- Ambush: 3 (203 acres)
-- Massacres: 5 (4753 people)
-- Plunders: 5
-- Failed Attacks: 1 (4.2% failure)
Total Attacks Suffered: 53 (4237 acres)
-- Traditional March: 20 (4119 acres)
-- Ambush: 1 (118 acres)
-- Massacres: 25 (36766 people)
-- Learns: 3
-- Plunders: 3
-- Failed Attacks: 1 (1.9% failure)

** Hostile Summary for Bodega (11:36) **
Total Attacks Made: 53 (3599 acres)
-- Traditional March: 17 (3481 acres)
-- Ambush: 1 (118 acres)
-- Massacres: 25 (18383 people)
-- Learns: 3
-- Plunders: 5
-- Failed Attacks: 2 (3.8% failure)
Total Attacks Suffered: 29 (3122 acres)
-- Traditional March: 15 (2919 acres)
-- Ambush: 3 (203 acres)
-- Massacres: 5 (9506 people)
-- Plunders: 5
-- Failed Attacks: 1 (3.4% failure)
 
** War Summary for Jerks (10:39) **
Total Attacks Made: 337 (41075 acres)
-- Traditional March: 305 (40253 acres)
-- Conquest: 1 (17 acres)
-- Ambush: 18 (805 acres)
-- Plunders: 1
-- Failed Attacks: 12 (3.6% failure)
Total Attacks Suffered: 342 (40525 acres)
-- Traditional March: 322 (39759 acres)
-- Ambush: 6 (766 acres)
-- Failed Attacks: 14 (4.1% failure)
** The Kingdom of (10:39)**
Total acres exchanged: +550 acres (337/342)
+1762 acres: 25 evil as I can be (14/1)
+1140 acres: 01 I wanna be evil (7/1)
+948 acres: 13 I wanna hurt flies (15/10)
+798 acres: 08 and throw mud pies (9/0)
+797 acres: 24 Just as mean and (10/4)
+769 acres: 17 I wanna drink booze (6/3)
+701 acres: 15 like the guy who cries (14/6)
+489 acres: 05 I wanna be wicked (12/9)
+408 acres: 16 I wanna be horrid (1/0)
+237 acres: 03 I wanna be evil (16/10)
+153 acres: 21 I am eager to lose (12/11)
+66 acres: 23 little evil me (12/6)
+54 acres: 11 I wanna be bad (12/10)
-8 acres: 06 I wanna tell lies (8/7)
-198 acres: 09 I wanna be evil (8/8)
-350 acres: 18 I want to be horrid (19/31)
-425 acres: 20 And whatever I have got (11/12)
-435 acres: 12 I wanna be evil (10/12)
-455 acres: 04 and cheat at jacks (19/17)
-519 acres: 19 I want to make news (20/20)
-652 acres: 22 I wanna be evil (16/15)
-780 acres: 07 I wanna be mean (28/30)
-879 acres: 10 But more that that (13/18)
-1241 acres: 02 I wanna spit tacks (29/51)
-1830 acres: 14 I wanna sing songs (16/50)
The Kingdom of (11:36)
Total acres exchanged: -550 acres (342/337)
+1521 acres: A Room with a Moose (14/0)
+1479 acres: SomeRandomPlace (7/0)
+1306 acres: Pneuma (14/2)
+1171 acres: hinewcode (12/0)
+1135 acres: NewB Knight (12/4)
+780 acres: I am not Aishwarya Rai (19/9)
+620 acres: Marriott (12/7)
+613 acres: Spear Mint (12/7)
+611 acres: Haeryongdo (13/3)
+194 acres: Taas (8/2)
+173 acres: DEFILER OF KITCHENS (12/4)
+130 acres: Anonymous province from (11:36) (1/0)
-71 acres: I am Aishwarya Rai (11/4)
-80 acres: BLACK SHEEP (11/10)
-95 acres: JiggaWah (7/4)
-197 acres: DONT MIND ME (12/7)
-230 acres: Dukes Place (10/6)
-251 acres: Stoke up the Fire (14/14)
-875 acres: Unnamed Province 11 (12/12)
-953 acres: Wave Me (22/43)
-995 acres: Tempest Lorelei (10/16)
-1287 acres: Unnamed Province 13 (22/29)
-1634 acres: Maruhech (25/57)
-1676 acres: Terrorism Incorporated (21/34)
-1939 acres: Green Tree Land (29/63)

** War Summary for Bodega (11:36) **
Total Attacks Made: 342 (44350 acres)
-- Traditional March: 321 (43564 acres)
-- Conquest: 1 (20 acres)
-- Ambush: 6 (766 acres)
-- Failed Attacks: 14 (4.1% failure)
Total Attacks Suffered: 337 (37535 acres)
-- Traditional March: 306 (36730 acres)
-- Ambush: 18 (805 acres)
-- Plunders: 1
-- Failed Attacks: 12 (3.6% failure)
The Kingdom of (11:36)
Total acres exchanged: +6815 acres (342/337)
+1666 acres: A Room with a Moose (14/0)
+1624 acres: SomeRandomPlace (7/0)
+1503 acres: Pneuma (14/2)
+1352 acres: NewB Knight (12/4)
+1284 acres: hinewcode (12/0)
+1048 acres: I am not Aishwarya Rai (19/9)
+974 acres: Spear Mint (12/7)
+912 acres: Marriott (12/7)
+871 acres: Haeryongdo (13/3)
+376 acres: DEFILER OF KITCHENS (12/4)
+332 acres: Taas (8/2)
+243 acres: BLACK SHEEP (11/10)
+143 acres: Anonymous province from (11:36) (1/0)
+125 acres: I am Aishwarya Rai (11/4)
+11 acres: Stoke up the Fire (14/14)
+10 acres: JiggaWah (7/4)
+5 acres: DONT MIND ME (12/7)
-47 acres: Dukes Place (10/6)
-421 acres: Wave Me (22/43)
-611 acres: Unnamed Province 11 (12/12)
-647 acres: Tempest Lorelei (10/16)
-736 acres: Unnamed Province 13 (22/29)
-880 acres: Maruhech (25/57)
-1034 acres: Green Tree Land (29/63)
-1288 acres: Terrorism Incorporated (21/34)
The Kingdom of (10:39)
Total acres exchanged: -6815 acres (337/342)
+1608 acres: 25 evil as I can be (14/1)
+984 acres: 01 I wanna be evil (7/1)
+728 acres: 08 and throw mud pies (9/0)
+575 acres: 17 I wanna drink booze (6/3)
+572 acres: 24 Just as mean and (10/4)
+524 acres: 13 I wanna hurt flies (15/10)
+371 acres: 16 I wanna be horrid (1/0)
+348 acres: 15 like the guy who cries (14/6)
+198 acres: 05 I wanna be wicked (12/9)
-79 acres: 03 I wanna be evil (16/10)
-88 acres: 23 little evil me (12/6)
-179 acres: 21 I am eager to lose (12/11)
-208 acres: 11 I wanna be bad (12/10)
-224 acres: 06 I wanna tell lies (8/7)
-426 acres: 09 I wanna be evil (8/8)
-666 acres: 12 I wanna be evil (10/12)
-806 acres: 04 and cheat at jacks (19/17)
-849 acres: 20 And whatever I have got (11/12)
-858 acres: 18 I want to be horrid (19/31)
-901 acres: 19 I want to make news (20/20)
-1127 acres: 22 I wanna be evil (16/15)
-1158 acres: 10 But more that that (13/18)
-1245 acres: 07 I wanna be mean (28/30)
-1754 acres: 02 I wanna spit tacks (29/51)
-2155 acres: 14 I wanna sing songs (16/50)

On March 14th YR8, Old School (11:23) launched a wave of hits into Dragons of Absalom (14:25). DoA immediately retaliated with four hits, and declared war on March 16th, YR8.

March 16 of YR8 Dragons Vs OldFools(14:25) has declared WAR with our kingdom!

A total of three dragons were exchanged between the two kingdoms during the entire course of the conflict, with OS completing two dragon projects, and DoA completing one.

After 71 hours of war, DoA withdrew on June 15th, YR8, granting OS the win.

June 15 of YR8 Dragons WAAR(14:25) has withdrawn from war. Our people rejoice at our victory!

Hostile and War summaries from DoA and OS are available below.

Reporter's Note: There seemed to be a large discrepancy between DoA and OS summaries; unfortunately we were unable to track down the problem within the formatter/papers given.

** Hostile + War Summary from Dragons **
Total Attacks Made: 240 (50,286 acres)
-- Traditional March: 200 (49,883 acres)
-- Conquest: 4 (403 acres)
-- Ambush: 21 (4,730 acres)
-- Failed Attacks: 15 (6.3% failure)
Total Attacks Suffered: 276 (56,331 acres)
-- Traditional March: 262 (56,331 acres)
-- Ambush: 14 (2,137 acres)
Aid packets sent: 104

** Highlights **
Mar 15 YR8: Dragon cancelled, Target: (10:32)
Mar 17 YR8: Dragon completed. Target: (11:23)

** This Kingdom (14:25) Gains/Losses **
Overall Losses: -6,045 acres.

1. +14,679 acres: An unknown province from Dragons Vs OldFools(14:25) (66,)
2. +1,999 acres: that he should deceive(14:25) (7,)
3. +1,428 acres: and set(14:25) (8,4)
4. +1,397 acres: An unknown province from Dragons WAAR(14:25) (4,)
5. +963 acres: and Satan(14:25) (4,1)
6. +957 acres: of the bottomless pit(14:25) (8,6)
7. +842 acres: An unknown province from Dragons of Absalom(14:25) (2,)
8. +641 acres: And cast him into the(14:25) (11,6)
9. +535 acres: a little season(14:25) (12,6)
10. +262 acres: I saw an angel(14:25) (3,1)
11. -16 acres: the dragon(14:25) (4,3)
12. -416 acres: that old serpent(14:25) (10,7)
13. -685 acres: And he laid hold on(14:25) (11,7)
14. -773 acres: A thousand years(14:25) (,3)
15. -976 acres: be loosed(14:25) (3,5)
16. -1,017 acres: and bound him(14:25) (6,9)
17. -1,027 acres: which is the Devil(14:25) (7,7)
18. -1,050 acres: And shut him up(14:25) (9,11)
19. -1,154 acres: and after that he must(14:25) (1,5)
20. -1,281 acres: and a great chain(14:25) (7,11)
21. -1,764 acres: till the thousand years(14:25) (3,9)
22. -1,831 acres: the nations no more(14:25) (4,9)
23. -1,864 acres: having the key(14:25) (8,11)
24. -2,031 acres: come down from heaven(14:25) (3,11)
25. -2,121 acres: in his hand(14:25) (8,10)
26. -3,720 acres: bottomless pit(14:25) (13,32)
27. -3,929 acres: should be fulfilled(14:25) (11,47)
28. -4,093 acres: a seal upon him(14:25) (7,55)

** Enemy Kingdom (11:23) Gains/Losses **
Overall Gains: 5,926 acres.
Attacks: 275 made / 240 suffered

1. +5,671 acres: An unknown province from Frank Hostile(11:23) (14,)
2. +2,254 acres: who welcomed us(11:23) (13,1)
3. +2,168 acres: the departure of the(11:23) (11,2)
4. +2,143 acres: here to greet(11:23) (14,2)
5. +1,968 acres: even to remember(11:23) (14,1)
6. +1,815 acres: friendly CGI error(11:23) (7,1)
7. +1,812 acres: old code running(11:23) (6,1)
8. +1,759 acres: on our dearest wol(11:23) (10,2)
9. +1,653 acres: We make our peace(11:23) (8,)
10. +1,134 acres: every now and then(11:23) (7,2)
11. +826 acres: the ages of bugs(11:23) (11,3)
12. +364 acres: and leave behind(11:23) (7,2)
13. +359 acres: for the new code(11:23) (5,1)
14. +306 acres: Today we mourn(11:23) (10,7)
15. +73 acres: the loss of the(11:23) (6,4)
16. -789 acres: to victory again(11:23) (9,14)
17. -890 acres: server for too long(11:23) (17,23)
18. -1,247 acres: on the casket(11:23) (1,4)
19. -1,397 acres: pour the dirt(11:23) (18,22)
20. -1,403 acres: when we tried to log(11:23) (15,19)
21. -1,597 acres: throw down a rose(11:23) (8,10)
22. -1,892 acres: say our speech(11:23) (15,27)
23. -1,935 acres: we are gathered(11:23) (13,26)
24. -2,091 acres: is now written and(11:23) (13,17)
25. -2,349 acres: guides our kingdom(11:23) (16,33)
26. -2,789 acres: Dearly beloved(11:23) (7,16)

** Hostile + War Summary from Old School **
Total Attacks Made: 282 (60,710 acres)
-- Traditional March: 261 (60,710 acres)
-- Ambush: 14 (2,137 acres)
-- Failed Attacks: 7 (2.5% failure)
Total Attacks Suffered: 225 (46,343 acres)
-- Traditional March: 204 (46,343 acres)
-- Ambush: 21 (4,730 acres)
Aid packets sent: 140

** Highlights **
Apr 12 YR8: Dragon completed. Target: (14:25)
May 21 YR8: Dragon completed. Target: (14:25)

** This Kingdom (11:23) Gains/Losses **
Overall Gains: 14,367 acres.

1. +6,231 acres: An unknown province from Frank Hostile(11:23) (14,)
2. +2,442 acres: who welcomed us(11:23) (13,1)
3. +2,373 acres: the departure of the(11:23) (11,2)
4. +2,352 acres: here to greet(11:23) (14,2)
5. +2,132 acres: even to remember(11:23) (14,1)
6. +1,977 acres: friendly CGI error(11:23) (7,1)
7. +1,966 acres: old code running(11:23) (7,1)
8. +1,960 acres: on our dearest wol(11:23) (10,2)
9. +1,789 acres: We make our peace(11:23) (8,)
10. +1,332 acres: every now and then(11:23) (8,2)
11. +1,081 acres: the ages of bugs(11:23) (11,3)
12. +588 acres: Today we mourn(11:23) (11,7)
13. +510 acres: and leave behind(11:23) (7,2)
14. +465 acres: for the new code(11:23) (5,1)
15. +398 acres: the loss of the(11:23) (6,4)
16. -247 acres: server for too long(11:23) (17,22)
17. -337 acres: to victory again(11:23) (10,13)
18. -874 acres: pour the dirt(11:23) (18,20)
19. -931 acres: when we tried to log(11:23) (15,18)
20. -1,065 acres: on the casket(11:23) (1,4)
21. -1,224 acres: throw down a rose(11:23) (9,10)
22. -1,510 acres: we are gathered(11:23) (13,25)
23. -1,517 acres: is now written and(11:23) (14,15)
24. -1,544 acres: say our speech(11:23) (15,25)
25. -1,797 acres: guides our kingdom(11:23) (17,31)
26. -2,183 acres: Dearly beloved(11:23) (7,13)

** Enemy Kingdom (14:25) Gains/Losses **
Overall Losses: -14,367 acres.
Attacks: 225 made / 282 suffered

1. +13,372 acres: An unknown province from Dragons Vs OldFools(14:25) (65,)
2. +1,842 acres: that he should deceive(14:25) (7,)
3. +1,271 acres: An unknown province from Dragons WAAR(14:25) (4,)
4. +1,096 acres: and set(14:25) (8,4)
5. +847 acres: and Satan(14:25) (4,1)
6. +842 acres: An unknown province from Dragons of Absalom(14:25) (2,)
7. +727 acres: of the bottomless pit(14:25) (8,8)
8. +338 acres: And cast him into the(14:25) (10,6)
9. +214 acres: I saw an angel(14:25) (3,1)
10. +170 acres: a little season(14:25) (12,6)
11. -208 acres: the dragon(14:25) (4,3)
12. -737 acres: that old serpent(14:25) (9,7)
13. -823 acres: A thousand years(14:25) (,4)
14. -1,046 acres: And he laid hold on(14:25) (10,7)
15. -1,155 acres: be loosed(14:25) (3,5)
16. -1,237 acres: And shut him up(14:25) (5,11)
17. -1,268 acres: and bound him(14:25) (6,9)
18. -1,280 acres: and after that he must(14:25) (1,5)
19. -1,321 acres: which is the Devil(14:25) (6,7)
20. -1,458 acres: and a great chain(14:25) (7,10)
21. -1,932 acres: till the thousand years(14:25) (3,9)
22. -2,037 acres: the nations no more(14:25) (4,10)
23. -2,199 acres: having the key(14:25) (6,11)
24. -2,235 acres: come down from heaven(14:25) (3,11)
25. -2,747 acres: in his hand(14:25) (8,10)
26. -4,229 acres: bottomless pit(14:25) (10,33)
27. -4,572 acres: should be fulfilled(14:25) (10,48)
28. -4,602 acres: a seal upon him(14:25) (7,56)

 
Comments

mod, from Old School commented,
"Some of us might be fools, others might be old. but we are ftw :) if u wanna call us names, better win the war. Special thanks to a very special swede for helping with the war."

Shai, from Dragons of Absalom commented,
"GG oldies but goldies."

On January 14th YR8, Heroes (12:26) sent a wave of 10 hits into Synergy (13:17), to which Synergy responded the next hour, and declared on January 18th, YR8.

January 18 of YR8 We have declared WAR on Call to arms Hostile(12:26)!

Two dragon projects were launched from Heroes to Synergy during the whole course of the conflict, with the first one getting out right after the war declaration, and a second one arriving 20 hours later. Synergy sent back one dragon at Heroes on February 5th, YR8. War last until minimum time, with Synergy withdrawing on March 19th, YR8.

March 19 of YR8 Unable to achieve victory, our Kingdom has withdrawn from war with HaLL of Heroes WAR(12:26). Our failed war has finally ended!

Starting NWs for Hereos was approximately 15mill NW, whereas Synergy was 13mill NW. After the war Heroes ended at 13mill NW and Synergy at 10mill NW.

Hostile and War summaries from both kingdoms are below:

** Hostile + War Summary from Heroes **
Total Attacks Made: 155 (34,175 acres)
-- Traditional March: 145 (34,175 acres)
-- Ambush: 4 (313 acres)
-- Failed Attacks: 6 (3.9% failure)
Total Attacks Suffered: 129 (27,726 acres)
-- Traditional March: 125 (27,726 acres)
-- Ambush: 3 (411 acres)
-- Learn Attacks: 1

** Highlights **
Jan 19 YR8: Dragon completed. Target: (13:17)
Feb 15 YR8: Dragon completed. Target: (13:17)

** This Kingdom (12:26) Gains/Losses **
Overall Gains: 6,449 acres.

1. +2,090 acres: Dead Girls Dont Say No (8,)
2. +1,781 acres: Teclis (7,)
3. +1,569 acres: Limping Starfish (6,1)
4. +1,410 acres: Return of the Giant Hogweed (6,)
5. +1,339 acres: Dagorath Hakelfly (6,)
6. +1,198 acres: Cameth Brin (6,1)
7. +1,131 acres: SDFLJSDLFKJSDLFJLDKFJLDSKFJLDK (5,)
8. +963 acres: Resident Evil Degenerate (7,1)
9. +907 acres: Noob that doesnt fail (4,)
10. +809 acres: Wolfshead Clan (4,2)
11. +742 acres: New Code Fails (5,)
12. +465 acres: Qing Shi Huang (6,)
13. +454 acres: [anonymous province] (1,)
14. +445 acres: Set Sail For Fail (5,)
15. +351 acres: Gitchi Gitchi Yaya Dada (5,)
16. -135 acres: Zhuge Liang (7,8)
17. -213 acres: Fail Lei Ge Hai Fail (7,8)
18. -420 acres: Epic Fail Over Here (5,7)
19. -507 acres: One Man Army (6,9)
20. -559 acres: You will bounce (7,8)
21. -771 acres: Tyrion (5,10)
22. -900 acres: Inactive (5,10)
23. -1,292 acres: ANTIDISESTABLISHMENTARIANISMx2 (10,14)
24. -1,329 acres: Criminal mind (6,13)
25. -1,338 acres: Visionary (9,15)
26. -1,741 acres: Ive Set My Path (7,22)

** Enemy Kingdom (13:17) Gains/Losses **
Overall Losses: -6,449 acres.
Attacks: 129 made / 155 suffered

1. +1,431 acres: Koalasus (5,)
2. +1,042 acres: Orcaptor (8,2)
3. +721 acres: Alligapus (5,)
4. +501 acres: Oranguroo (5,1)
5. +340 acres: Snonkey (6,4)
6. +312 acres: Pigguin (5,6)
7. +263 acres: ViperCat (4,3)
8. +223 acres: Sheepig (7,8)
9. +167 acres: Sharktah (6,4)
10. +11 acres: Tricerapecker (5,3)
11. -45 acres: Foxawk (4,4)
12. -142 acres: aye-aye-dik-dik (4,3)
12. -142 acres: Cheater (5,8)
14. -301 acres: Hummingfowl (1,1)
15. -341 acres: Crocadillo (5,6)
16. -423 acres: Rhinopotamus (9,11)
17. -517 acres: Wolfspider (5,7)
18. -764 acres: Zebuck (4,6)
19. -1,000 acres: Hippophant (3,6)
20. -1,073 acres: Whalockatoo (7,9)
21. -1,183 acres: Crowven (7,11)
22. -1,500 acres: Eleraff (5,10)
23. -1,621 acres: Tigon (10,29)
24. -2,408 acres: Batchimp (4,13)

** Hostile + War Summary from Synergy **
Total Attacks Made: 131 (30,274 acres)
-- Traditional March: 125 (30,274 acres)
-- Ambush: 3 (411 acres)
-- Failed Attacks: 3 (2.3% failure)
Total Attacks Suffered: 152 (32,042 acres)
-- Traditional March: 147 (32,042 acres)
-- Ambush: 4 (313 acres)
-- Learn Attacks: 1
Aid packets sent: 122

** Highlights **
Jan 16 YR8: Dragon cancelled, Target: (13:21)
Feb 5 YR8: Dragon completed. Target: (12:26)
Mar 18 YR8: Accepted Ceasefire with (9:17)

** This Kingdom (13:17) Gains/Losses **
Overall Losses: -1,768 acres.

1. +1,571 acres: Koalasus(13:17) (5,)
2. +1,191 acres: Orcaptor(13:17) (8,2)
3. +791 acres: Alligapus(13:17) (5,)
4. +593 acres: Oranguroo(13:17) (5,1)
5. +484 acres: Snonkey(13:17) (6,4)
6. +475 acres: Pigguin(13:17) (5,6)
7. +459 acres: ViperCat(13:17) (4,3)
8. +325 acres: Sharktah(13:17) (6,4)
9. +227 acres: Sheepig(13:17) (7,10)
10. +181 acres: Foxawk(13:17) (4,4)
11. +146 acres: Cheater(13:17) (5,8)
12. +145 acres: Tricerapecker(13:17) (5,3)
13. no change: Ive Set My Path(12:26) (,1)
14. -6 acres: aye-aye-dik-dik(13:17) (5,3)
15. -102 acres: Rhinopotamus(13:17) (9,11)
16. -140 acres: Crocadillo(13:17) (5,6)
17. -284 acres: Wolfspider(13:17) (5,6)
18. -286 acres: Hummingfowl(13:17) (1,1)
19. -628 acres: Zebuck(13:17) (4,6)
20. -713 acres: Hippophant(13:17) (4,5)
21. -820 acres: Whalockatoo(13:17) (7,9)
22. -972 acres: Crowven(13:17) (6,11)
23. -1,094 acres: Eleraff(13:17) (5,9)
24. -1,208 acres: Tigon(13:17) (11,27)
25. -2,103 acres: Batchimp(13:17) (4,12)

** Enemy Kingdom (12:26) Gains/Losses **
Overall Gains: 1,768 acres.
Attacks: 151 made / 131 suffered

1. +1,942 acres: Dead Girls Dont Say No(12:26) (8,)
2. +1,666 acres: Teclis(12:26) (7,)
3. +1,451 acres: Return of the Giant Hogweed(12:26) (7,)
4. +1,388 acres: Limping Starfish(12:26) (6,1)
5. +1,239 acres: Dagorath Hakelfly(12:26) (5,1)
6. +1,194 acres: SDFLJSDLFKJSDLFJLDKFJLDSKFJLDK(12:26) (6,)
7. +1,009 acres: Cameth Brin(12:26) (6,1)
8. +867 acres: Resident Evil Degenerate(12:26) (5,1)
9. +851 acres: Noob that doesnt fail(12:26) (4,)
10. +695 acres: New Code Fails(12:26) (5,)
11. +618 acres: Wolfshead Clan(12:26) (4,2)
12. +454 acres: An unknown province from Call to arms Hostile(12:26) (1,)
13. +425 acres: Qing Shi Huang(12:26) (6,)
14. +406 acres: Set Sail For Fail(12:26) (3,)
15. +321 acres: Gitchi Gitchi Yaya Dada(12:26) (5,)
16. -440 acres: Zhuge Liang(12:26) (7,8)
17. -510 acres: Fail Lei Ge Hai Fail(12:26) (7,8)
18. -716 acres: Epic Fail Over Here(12:26) (5,7)
19. -847 acres: You will bounce(12:26) (6,8)
20. -863 acres: One Man Army(12:26) (6,10)
21. -1,098 acres: Tyrion(12:26) (5,10)
22. -1,127 acres: Inactive(12:26) (5,10)
23. -1,589 acres: ANTIDISESTABLISHMENTARIANISMx2(12:26) (10,14)
24. -1,608 acres: Criminal mind(12:26) (6,13)
25. -1,806 acres: Visionary(12:26) (9,16)
26. -2,154 acres: Ive Set My Path(12:26) (7,21)

 
Comments

jong, from Heroes commented,
"We thank Synergy for the war, and hope them better luck next time, and would like to confirm that darkmoore has a small penis."

cya, "Daddy" of Synergy commented,
"1st loss for us and I am looking forward to war HoH again same sized and better prepared. =) and personal my 1st loss to a HaLL KD ever."

Hostilities between Zenobias Zealots (17:34) and Sleepy (17:18) flared up during the holiday season, when ZZ sent a wave of hits into Sleepy on May 18th YR6, to which Sleepy responded to by jumping to FW. Hits were exchanged between the kingdoms until war effects settled in. On March 12th YR8, Sleepy exited FW and hostilities between the kingdoms resumed, with Sleepy striking first. ZZ responded not long after and promptly pressed the declare button on March 15th, YR8.

March 15 of YR8 We have declared WAR on S 1 3 3 7 y is coming to town(17:18)!

Dragons were exchanged from both sides, and ZZ withdrew on May 19th, YR8, shortly after minimum time.

May 19 of YR8 Unable to achieve victory, our Kingdom has withdrawn from war with S 1 3 3 7 y vs ZZ(17:18). Our failed war has finally ended!

Hostile and War summaries are listed below.

** Hostile Summary from ZZ **

Total Attacks Made: 3 (350 acres)
-- Ambush: 2 (350 acres)
-- Failed Attacks: 1 (33.3% failure)
Total Attacks Suffered: 11 (6464 acres)
-- Traditional March: 11 (6464 acres)

The Kingdom of (17:34)
Total acres exchanged: -6114 acres (3/11)

-444 acres: Make It Better (1/1)
-520 acres: Makes Us Stronger (1/1)
-538 acres: Our Work Is (0/1)
-547 acres: Harder Better Faster Stronger (0/1)
-609 acres: Make It (1/1)
-657 acres: Do It Faster (0/1)
-659 acres: After (0/2)
-685 acres: Work Is (0/1)
-720 acres: Ever (0/1)
-735 acres: Our (0/1)

The Kingdom of (17:18)
Total acres exchanged: +6114 acres (11/3)

+735 acres: a laksa from Singapore (1/0)
+720 acres: a drunkard from Greece (1/0)
+685 acres: a pro from Estonia (1/0)
+659 acres: a pornstar from Zimbabwe (2/0)
+657 acres: a kazak from Russia (1/0)
+609 acres: a deer from Transilvania (1/1)
+547 acres: a father from Sweden (1/0)
+538 acres: a twit from USA (1/0)
+520 acres: a ripper from England (1/1)
+444 acres: a stoner from Sweden (1/1)

** Hostile Summary from Sleepy **

Total Attacks Made: 11 (6464 acres)
-- Traditional March: 11 (6464 acres)
Total Attacks Suffered: 3 (350 acres)
-- Ambush: 2 (350 acres)
-- Failed Attacks: 1 (33.3% failure)

The Kingdom of (17:18)
Total acres exchanged: +6114 acres (11/3)

+735 acres: a laksa from Singapore (1/0)
+720 acres: a drunkard from Greece (1/0)
+685 acres: a pro from Estonia (1/0)
+659 acres: a pornstar from Zimbabwe (2/0)
+657 acres: a kazak from Russia (1/0)
+609 acres: a deer from Transilvania (1/1)
+547 acres: a father from Sweden (1/0)
+538 acres: a twit from USA (1/0)
+520 acres: a ripper from England (1/1)
+444 acres: a stoner from Sweden (1/1)

The Kingdom of (17:34)
Total acres exchanged: -6114 acres (3/11)

-444 acres: Make It Better (1/1)
-520 acres: Makes Us Stronger (1/1)
-538 acres: Our Work Is (0/1)
-547 acres: Harder Better Faster Stronger (0/1)
-609 acres: Make It (1/1)
-657 acres: Do It Faster (0/1)
-659 acres: After (0/2)
-685 acres: Work Is (0/1)
-720 acres: Ever (0/1)
-735 acres: Our (0/1)

 
** War Summary from ZZ **

Total Attacks Made: 142 (32673 acres)
-- Traditional March: 138 (32621 acres)
-- Ambush: 1 (52 acres)
-- Failed Attacks: 3 (2.1% failure)
Total Attacks Suffered: 146 (51468 acres)
-- Traditional March: 140 (50875 acres)
-- Ambush: 5 (593 acres)
-- Failed Attacks: 1 (0.7% failure)

The Kingdom of (17:34)
Total acres exchanged: -18795 acres (142/146)

+1933 acres: Work Is (10/0)
+1339 acres: Make It (6/0)
+1294 acres: Never Over (8/0)
+1088 acres: Hour After (5/0)
+640 acres: After (7/3)
+401 acres: Our Work Is (4/1)
+218 acres: Work It (1/0)
+206 acres: Anonymous province from (17:34) (1/0)
+120 acres: Faster (6/3)
+117 acres: Over (6/2)
+86 acres: Do It (4/1)
-39 acres: Ever (8/6)
-235 acres: Makes Us Stronger (3/2)
-308 acres: Makes Us (9/3)
-1058 acres: More Than (7/7)
-1103 acres: Harder Better Faster Stronger (3/6)
-1218 acres: Better (5/6)
-1300 acres: Make It Better (5/9)
-1341 acres: Work It Harder (7/10)
-1957 acres: Do It Faster (6/12)
-2102 acres: Harder (8/6)
-2132 acres: More Than Ever (6/9)
-2168 acres: Never (0/4)
-2733 acres: Our (6/10)
-3438 acres: Hour (7/17)
-5105 acres: Stronger (4/29)

The Kingdom of (17:18)
Total acres exchanged: +18795 acres (146/142)

+2598 acres: a stoner from Sweden (6/1)
+2479 acres: a rastaman from Jamaica (6/0)
+2092 acres: a pedobear from Taiwan (7/0)
+2051 acres: a polarbear from Antartica (8/2)
+1850 acres: a maniac from Philippines (7/0)
+1696 acres: a rich man from United States (7/2)
+1577 acres: a samurai from Japan (8/4)
+1326 acres: a father from Sweden (4/0)
+1163 acres: a sicilian from Romania (5/4)
+1060 acres: a red army from China (6/1)
+920 acres: a drunkard from Greece (5/8)
+905 acres: a pro from Estonia (6/7)
+842 acres: a musician from China (6/1)
+806 acres: a God from Romania (6/2)
+745 acres: a deer from Transilvania (6/10)
+723 acres: a twit from USA (4/2)
+573 acres: a don juan from Singapore (8/3)
+312 acres: a ripper from England (5/3)
+262 acres: Anonymous province from (17:18) (1/0)
+171 acres: a kazak from Russia (4/3)
-940 acres: a suicider from Saudi Arabia (8/23)
-1294 acres: a pornstar from Zimbabwe (8/18)
-1467 acres: a bomber from Iraq (9/29)
-1655 acres: a laksa from Singapore (6/19)

** War Summary from Sleepy **

Total Attacks Made: 146 (56490 acres)
-- Traditional March: 140 (55897 acres)
-- Ambush: 5 (593 acres)
-- Failed Attacks: 1 (0.7% failure)
Total Attacks Suffered: 142 (29760 acres)
-- Traditional March: 138 (29708 acres)
-- Ambush: 1 (52 acres)
-- Failed Attacks: 3 (2.1% failure)

The Kingdom of (17:18)
Total acres exchanged: +26730 acres (146/142)

+2925 acres: a stoner from Sweden (6/1)
+2724 acres: a rastaman from Jamaica (6/0)
+2400 acres: a polarbear from Antartica (8/2)
+2298 acres: a pedobear from Taiwan (7/0)
+2128 acres: a samurai from Japan (8/4)
+2031 acres: a maniac from Philippines (7/0)
+1987 acres: a rich man from United States (7/2)
+1567 acres: a sicilian from Romania (5/4)
+1456 acres: a father from Sweden (4/0)
+1410 acres: a drunkard from Greece (5/8)
+1318 acres: a pro from Estonia (6/7)
+1268 acres: a red army from China (6/1)
+1231 acres: a deer from Transilvania (6/10)
+1011 acres: a God from Romania (6/2)
+999 acres: a musician from China (6/1)
+914 acres: a twit from USA (4/2)
+829 acres: a don juan from Singapore (8/3)
+556 acres: a ripper from England (5/3)
+452 acres: a kazak from Russia (4/3)
+288 acres: Anonymous province from (17:18) (1/0)
-382 acres: a suicider from Saudi Arabia (8/23)
-762 acres: a pornstar from Zimbabwe (8/18)
-858 acres: a bomber from Iraq (9/29)
-1060 acres: a laksa from Singapore (6/19)

The Kingdom of (17:34)
Total acres exchanged: -26730 acres (142/146)

+1759 acres: Work Is (10/0)
+1220 acres: Make It (6/0)
+1180 acres: Never Over (8/0)
+990 acres: Hour After (5/0)
+440 acres: After (7/3)
+262 acres: Our Work Is (4/1)
+199 acres: Work It (1/0)
+188 acres: Anonymous province from (17:34) (1/0)
+2 acres: Do It (4/1)
-123 acres: Over (6/2)
-138 acres: Faster (6/3)
-380 acres: Makes Us Stronger (3/2)
-592 acres: Ever (8/6)
-658 acres: Makes Us (9/3)
-1359 acres: Harder Better Faster Stronger (3/6)
-1609 acres: Better (5/6)
-1638 acres: More Than (7/7)
-1710 acres: Make It Better (5/9)
-1850 acres: Work It Harder (7/10)
-2382 acres: Never (0/4)
-2412 acres: Do It Faster (6/12)
-2583 acres: More Than Ever (6/9)
-2659 acres: Harder (8/6)
-3180 acres: Our (6/10)
-4005 acres: Hour (7/17)
-5692 acres: Stronger (4/29)

 
Comments

Webmaster, from Sleepy
"Nice war and well played. Hope we meet again in future. GL. PS. maugrim: sry but we dont sit on 1wpa as you believed!"

maugrim, from Zenobias Zealots
"Good job Sleepy. Your 2 weeks prep and opping us from your fw (fix please) paid off. I can only hope for a rematch next age to redeem our poor performance, k thx. p.s. NM is way strong."

With a classic mini wave, WeHurt (14:1) showed their interest for war by sending a few attacks on HarshCheeses (12:4). The Cheeses, being in pump mode, originally had no interest in war and sent a private message to the leadership of WeHurt asking for CF. However, two hours later they changed their mind and sent a few hits to WeHurt. Another two hours after HarshCheeses started their hits We Hurt pushed the button.

March 16 of YR3 We have declared WAR on Ninjas are Cuddlier than Thou(12:4)!

Both kingdoms started off the war with chaining and dragons, in what would turn out to be a 4 day long war with 3 dragons sent from each side. WeHurt used a combination of Meteor Shower coverage and Night Strike runs before a chain as well as focusing their attention on the wpa heavy mages of HarshCheeses.

In the middle of the war HarshCheeses saw that WeHurt's strategy to create unbreakable's was dangerously near succeeding and switched to max gains. Despite HarshCheese's efforts to stop it, We Hurt ended up having 7 unbreakable's at the end of the war. With We Hurts unbreakable's training defense faster than HarshCheese's attackers could train offense, HarshCheese decided to withdraw before having too heavy of loses in the war.

January 17 of YR4 HarsH CheeseS AT WAR(12:4) has withdrawn from war. Our people rejoice at our victory!

Comments:

Pendel - Council Member of We Hurt
We Hurt FTW, Ebane FTW, Tks to our crew for the pwning age,PWN ftw and tks to cheeses for the good war!

Sean1 - Monarch of Harsh Cheeses
Although we fought with slightly better activity and had net gains of thousands of acres, we got beat by strategy- simples as that.

** Hostile Summary WeHurt (14:1) **

Total Attacks Made: 9 (482 acres)
-- Traditional March: 4 (482 acres)
-- Learns: 4
-- Failed Attacks: 1 (11.1% failure)
Total Attacks Suffered: 12 (1330 acres)
-- Traditional March: 12 (1330 acres)

** No hostile summery avalable for HarshCheeses **
 
** War Summary WeHurt (14:1) **
Total Attacks Made: 259 (22218 acres)
-- Traditional March: 223 (22059 acres)
-- Conquest: 1 (37 acres)
-- Ambush: 2 (122 acres)
-- Raze: 17 (1768 acres)
-- Massacres: 2 (654 people)
-- Failed Attacks: 14 (5.4% failure)
Total Attacks Suffered: 299 (21843 acres)
-- Traditional March: 243 (19574 acres)
-- Ambush: 23 (1267 acres)
-- Raze: 22 (1002 acres)
-- Failed Attacks: 11 (3.7% failure)

** WeHurt (14:1) Gains/Losses **
Total acres exchanged: +375 acres (259/299)
+764 acres: Palpares libelluloides (11/6)
+723 acres: Coccinellidae (9/4)
+508 acres: Mantis religiosa (11/1)
+508 acres: Pandinus imperator (11/0)
+465 acres: Somatochlora Borisii (11/0)
+287 acres: Rosalia alpina (3/3)
+109 acres: Phasmatodea (16/22)
+105 acres: Isophya Tenuicerca (9/7)
+78 acres: Latrodectus mactans (23/17)
+60 acres: Anopheles (13/16)
+45 acres: Drosophila Melanogaster (15/15)
-17 acres: Pediculus pubis (11/12)
-20 acres: Hymenopus Coronatus (10/11)
-47 acres: Nomada variabilis (11/15)
-60 acres: Uroplectes lineatus (10/12)
-136 acres: Blattella germanica (10/16)
-164 acres: Tarentula Hispanica (8/11)
-198 acres: Lucanus cervus (9/15)
-242 acres: Pheidole magapcephala (5/12)
-261 acres: Tarantulas comprise (10/18)
-420 acres: Vespa crabro (11/16)
-455 acres: Paraponera clavata (6/14)
-1257 acres: Gryllotalpa gryllotalpa (26/56)

** HarshCheeses (12:4) Gains/Losses **
Total acres exchanged: -3145 acres (299/259)
+551 acres: Just Plane Beep (9/0)
+523 acres: Tired and Feathered (12/3)
+485 acres: Wild About Hurry (11/3)
+416 acres: Sugar and Spies (17/2)
+409 acres: Run Run Sweet Road Runner (12/0)
+265 acres: Beep Prepared (10/2)
+128 acres: Hop Along Casualty (11/6)
+121 acres: Fast And Furryous (7/4)
+86 acres: Ready Set Zoom (10/7)
+26 acres: Clippety Clobbered (11/7)
+18 acres: Fastest with the Mostest (14/11)
-14 acres: To Beep or Not to Beep (8/6)
-38 acres: Beep Beep (12/8)
-136 acres: Zip Zip Hooray (14/8)
-152 acres: Soup or Sonic (10/9)
-227 acres: War and Pieces (6/10)
-274 acres: Little Go Beep (9/7)
-288 acres: Rushing Roulette (13/11)
-292 acres: Chariots of Fur (12/13)
-440 acres: Guided Muscle (10/9)
-469 acres: Hairied or Hurried (15/15)
-532 acres: Boulder WHAM (12/16)
-931 acres: Chaser on the Rocks (11/24)
-1179 acres: Wild King Dumb (34/59)
-1201 acres: Zoom at the Top (9/19)

** War Summary for HarshCheeses (12:4)**
Total Attacks Made: 301 (22878 acres)
-- Traditional March: 245 (21611 acres)
-- Ambush: 23 (1267 acres)
-- Raze: 22 (1002 acres)
-- Failed Attacks: 11 (3.7% failure)
Total Attacks Suffered: 259 (22074 acres)
-- Traditional March: 224 (20184 acres)
-- Ambush: 2 (122 acres)
-- Raze: 17 (1768 acres)
-- Massacres: 2 (1308 people)
-- Failed Attacks: 14 (5.4% failure)

** HarshCheeses (12:4) Gains/Losses **
Total acres exchanged: +804 acres (301/259)
+716 acres: Wild About Hurry (12/3)
+667 acres: Tired and Feathered (12/3)
+603 acres: Just Plane Beep (9/0)
+516 acres: Sugar and Spies (17/2)
+448 acres: Run Run Sweet Road Runner (12/0)
+342 acres: Beep Prepared (10/2)
+264 acres: Hop Along Casualty (11/6)
+223 acres: Ready Set Zoom (10/7)
+206 acres: Fastest with the Mostest (14/11)
+205 acres: Fast And Furryous (7/4)
+203 acres: Clippety Clobbered (11/7)
+125 acres: To Beep or Not to Beep (8/6)
+95 acres: Beep Beep (12/8)
+9 acres: Zip Zip Hooray (14/8)
-26 acres: Soup or Sonic (10/9)
-52 acres: War and Pieces (7/10)
-82 acres: Chariots of Fur (12/13)
-123 acres: Rushing Roulette (13/11)
-173 acres: Little Go Beep (9/7)
-256 acres: Guided Muscle (10/9)
-259 acres: Hairied or Hurried (15/15)
-357 acres: Boulder WHAM (12/16)
-706 acres: Chaser on the Rocks (11/24)
-776 acres: Wild King Dumb (34/59)
-1008 acres: Zoom at the Top (9/19)

** WeHurt (14:1) Gains/Losses **
Total acres exchanged: -3574 acres (259/301)
+600 acres: Palpares libelluloides (11/6)
+577 acres: Coccinellidae (9/4)
+464 acres: Pandinus imperator (11/0)
+444 acres: Mantis religiosa (11/1)
+424 acres: Somatochlora Borisii (11/0)
+203 acres: Rosalia alpina (3/3)
-4 acres: Isophya Tenuicerca (9/7)
-65 acres: Latrodectus mactans (23/17)
-95 acres: Drosophilia Melanogaster (0/1)
-140 acres: Drosophila Melanogaster (15/15)
-180 acres: Phasmatodea (16/22)
-185 acres: Anopheles (13/16)
-187 acres: Hymenopus Coronatus (10/11)
-200 acres: Pediculus pubis (11/12)
-238 acres: Nomada variabilis (11/15)
-289 acres: Tarentula Hispanica (8/11)
-312 acres: Blattella germanica (10/16)
-359 acres: Pheidole magapcephala (5/12)
-364 acres: Uroplectes lineatus (10/13)
-389 acres: Lucanus cervus (9/15)
-482 acres: Tarantulas comprise (10/18)
-596 acres: Paraponera clavata (6/14)
-614 acres: Vespa crabro (11/16)
-1587 acres: Gryllotalpa gryllotalpa (26/56)

 

uTimes' latest interviewee is Spheric. Spheric is currently leading the kingdom of Secrets, having previously played in Xiphos. This age, he has stepped up to fill in the leadership void after his co-leaders departed. Fortunately for uTimes' readers (and this reporter), he is in possession of an excellent grasp of grammar as well as some interesting insights about Utopia.

Q: First of all, please introduce yourself. Who is Spheric?
A: I'm a 25 year old, half-Azn, British guy from the South of England, currently studying for a Masters in Economics in Glasgow.

Q: I hear you've been playing Utopia for a while; how long has it been?
A: I first started playing around Age 15, playing sporadically up until about Age 25. Started again around Age 32, but have otherwise only been playing semi-competitively for the last 3 ages or so.

Q: Was that when you started playing in Secrets?
A: Yep, when Secrets was formed I began playing a little more competitively.

Q: How did you land in Secrets?
A: I traded into the Kingdom at the start of Age 42. I left Xiphos to form part of Secrets' leadership; my initial role was geared mainly towards strategizing for the Kingdom both in-war and out.

Q: You took over the leadership position this age; how has that been working out?
A: For a Kingdom to be subjected to the loss of two-thirds of its leadership is a pretty serious event to experience and anyone with an ounce of competitiveness in them will understand that hardship. Personally, I was content providing the strategic advice while others played a more prominent role in noticeably guiding the Kingdom towards its goals. I took over during the period when the game was down, so I'm not too sure whether that could be considered a problem or a blessing. Despite a handful of errors this age (hindsight is a great thing), I was never initially concerned that the strategic ability of the Kingdom would be affected; fortunately the organised nature of the Kingdom has remained intact so I'd say things have worked out pretty well so far. Of course, I owe a lot to the entire player base, particularly Tempest and yna for keeping on top of things. It's the players I'm here for.

Q: Losing two of Secrets' co-leaders must have made things difficult.
A: The situation is complex so I can only say that on a personal level I wish they had stayed, but without going into much detail, that things should also have been a bit different.

Q: What are some highlights and downsides of being monarch for a competitive kingdom?
A: I think that varies depending upon the individual style of the Kingdom. Highlights would include seeing the effort that you put into organising things and planning things bear fruit; alongside that, I would say that offloading your experience onto others and seeing people learn new things is definitely something that's rewarding. A downside, in terms of being competitive, is the extent to which you're relied upon to coordinate, particularly from a macro-perspective. Even if you're fortunate enough to have a handful of individuals with the necessary experience to maneuver the Kingdom around OOW, or otherwise lead a competitive hostile/war, you're still subjected to a high degree of dependency.

Q: Any notable happenings this age you would like to mention?
A: Don't think anything has happened yet. :P [Since then, Secrets has had their first war and subsequent war win.]

Q: Could you expand upon your time playing in Xiphos?
A: When I returned around Age 32, I randomed into Xiphos in the middle of a raze-fest against eX Excellence Xe. I played there up until I left to be part of establishing Secrets. Xiphos is interesting; players at the very top tend to smirk at the concept of "warring" Kingdoms on the premise that they believe the talent is concentrated towards the top of the networth charts which is only a half-truth. It's also true that some Kingdoms are just hyperactive and have no idea on strategy; from this perspective Xiphos is one of the best Kingdoms out there dedicated to warring - particularly over the last 5 or so ages - if the Kingdom is tagged, you'd better wave in a position of advantage, and even then you shouldn't be complacent.

Q: Hmm... that's certainly an interesting opinion.
A: Well, at the top, people only wave when they're in a position of advantage.

Q: Could you elaborate on that?
A: I think there's very few warring Kingdoms left, so there's some degree of activity and a reasonable level of talent. Rather, the degree of activity is sufficient for its purpose. A SKD will have better activity (or should have). But there are also Kingdoms who have solid activity and don't have a clue what they're doing.

Q: Did you have have a strategic role in Xiphos?
A:Not specifically. Occasionally I would give input, but when Sharu / Farwen were already taking the best course of action, there was no reason to interfere. I held a more significant place in the Kingdom in my last couple of ages before I left.

Q: Do you have any memorable experiences involving Utopia?
A: One memorable experience involved warring Trinity of Absalom (better known as Redemptheon) for three weeks solid. The pinnacle moment saw me sitting in my car, in my college's car park, calculating a hit manually on the back of an envelope, and hitting from my phone. It took about half an hour, and wasn't anything like how you'd hit on a phone today. This was about 4 years ago when phones were horrendous for browsing and it would take around 5 minutes to establish a connection, let alone load a page in Utopia ... Age 43, having more pop sci books than 21 provinces in Secrets had total was very memorable for me. Also very memorable for _greenie. I was about two-thirds up in the Kingdom's distribution, so despite a diminished size for the majority of the age, I still ended with insane science.

Q: How was it memorable for _greenie?
A: He got to take the time understand things.

Q: Could you clarify that?
A: An in-joke. :P

Q: Any other memorable events?
A: Forcing Sleepy to withdraw [from Xiphos] after warring on purely even terms (which is insanely rare in this game) was pretty memorable.

Q: Please describe Secrets in three words.
A: Friend, Foe, Feral.

Q: Are there any Utopians you've respected and/or admired throughout your time in Utopia?
A: Yes, I respect a lot of Utopians as Kingdom-mates, friends outside of the Kingdom and also some enemies. They know who they are. Two unknowns I would mention are Farwen in Xiphos and also someone whom I believe is now deceased - Ladybug - from our time in Fate In Haze. They are (or were) very awesome people who I admire greatly.

Q: Are there any Utopians you would like to meet in real life?
A: I'd welcome meeting some of the people I've come across and played with, but I don't have a specific emphasis upon meeting anyone in particular.

Q: Have you met any of them so far?
A: Nope. Apparently a girl named Katt goes to my Uni though. And Mad_Scottish may be here next year, so perhaps then!

Q: Are you part-Scottish?
A: My grandmother was Scottish, but that doesn't count, I just identify as British.

Q: What are your hobbies?
A: Utopia!

Q: Any other hobbies?
A: I smoke too much, but that's not a hobby :P

Q: Age? Relationship status?
A: 25 and single!

Q: Is it true that "halfies" are hotter? :P
A: Yep.

Q: Looking for your Utopian soulmate?
A: No :P But it's interesting that some people have met through Utopia.

Q: Moving on to Utopia as a whole, how do you feel about the direction Utopia is heading in? What changes in the game would you like to see?
A: I'd like to see (some of) the mechanics of the game overhauled, perhaps with entirely reworked races, ideally with something new to factor in. The game has functioned mostly the same for many ages now, such that exogenous factors like relations with other Kingdoms are too much of a strategic factor; you won't ever change that but with a refreshed perspective of races and general gameplay you'll at least try bringing that back the other way to something a little more competitive.

As a priority, however, the game needs to be fixed as it's currently in an unacceptable state. The game was being replicated, mechanics were not being designed from the ground up in the same way the code was, therefore it shouldn't be taking this long to address all the issues that currently remain. Someone interested in creating a similar game in their spare time - as a hobby - would emerge with a superior product. Unfortunately, we to accept that Utopia is probably only being worked on in their spare-time, it's clearly not their main business interest.

Q: Do you see yourself playing Utopia 10 ages from now?
A: I don't see myself playing Utopia 'for the next 10 ages', if we want to put it that way. If Utopia is in a good state, I think I would play an age or two over that period, then that could lead to more. Who knows?

Q: Did you ever have a list of dream kingdoms that you've wanted to play in?
A: I've never particularly been drawn to any other Kingdom, other than the one I'm playing in at the time. A lot of that is loyalty to the players in the Kingdom. I can respect well-known Kingdoms from the past, but I wasn't there so I don't know what they were like, and so can't say I'd want to play in them.

Q: If you were given a chance to design an entire age for Utopia, what would you make it like? What would you change, and what would you focus more on?
A: If I could design an age of Utopia 'now' in the short-term, I would rework the races entirely, adjust some ops to be more useful and fix the hostile system because it's terrible. If there was more time, I'd fix honour. What is most important is to introduce significant changes to keep players interested and give them something new to think about.

Q: Last but not least, there is an Utopia-themed costume party. Who or what would you go as?
A: I'd get a crew cut and go as Robert Miles.

In June 15th, YR3 the kingdom of Simians (9:32) stumbled across the then untagged kingdom of Synergy (13:17). Simians performing their first wave of the age were on the hunt for some acres rather then a war, but were quickly forced to reevaluate their initial plan when Synergy started a Ruby Dragon aimed towards them the same hour to be followed up by a declaration of war the very next hour.

June 16 of YR3 Nuclear ZOO HOSTILE(13:17) has declared WAR with our kingdom!

Synergy being a newly established kingdom, after the merger of 7th Horde and Copy Cats, thrived at being given the chance to show the server their worth. The war was started off with Synergy performing heavy chains aimed towards those of Simians Elves with the most offence. Simians taken a bit by surprise over the rapid escalation of hostilities responded in kind, starting a Ruby Dragon which was sent within minutes of war being declared, and was to be spotted roaming around the lands of Synergy for the duration of the war. Synergy states that it would have been foolish to slay the first dragon given the resources available to Simians and the ease they could have sent additional dragons. Synergy on their part held their dragon on a leash until the 3rd of July when it was sent in anticipation of their 2nd wave. This dragon wasn't as lucky as its kindred from Simians and was swiftly slain within 2 hours, courtesy of the 2 Gnome banks in Simians.

June 16 of YR3 Our dragon has set flight to ravage Nuclear ZOO HOSTILE(13:17)


July 3 of YR3 Our dragon has set flight to ravage S i m i a n s WAR(9:32)!!
July 5 of YR3 Simian Tech has slain the dragon ravaging our lands!

In their 2nd wave, Simians followed Synergy's lead and started to employ heavy chaining, putting their focus on the Avians of Synergy. Simians leadership however, states that multiple chains were disrupted due to clever monarchy transitions and holding armies on behalf of Synergy, resulting in an outcome more similar to semi-chains then heavy chains.

Besides the constant movement of armies, Simians employed an Kingdom wide economic suppression strategy using their wizards to keep Meteor Showers & Greed active throughout the whole of Synergy while at the same time employing Fireballs to keep the peasantry down among the Orcs and Gnomes. Simians also state that they regained some acres in form of Land Lusts by their chained provinces. In response Synergy tried to suppress the economies of the Gnome banks in Simians using Meteor Showers, Riots, and Fireballs, only achieving good results in one of the two.

In the end, both Kingdoms state that even though Simians were the instigators and better prepared of the two, the higher activity coupled with lower attack speeds and more focused chains were the keys to earning Synergy their 2nd War Win of the age with Simians withdrawing from war after 77 hours of conflict.

February 20 of YR4 GG CopyHorde GL rest of age(9:32) has withdrawn from war. Our people rejoice at our victory!

Comments:
Anri, Monarch of Simians (9:32)
"What can I say, parts of Simians were slacking and in the end it is what made us lose this war. Synergy did well and I thank them for the war, it was much fun! Only way we could have won over them with such poor activity in Simians is probably if C.W would have been there to order massacres. We never lost to any cats before, Synergy must be FTW!"

Chrissi, Co-Monarch of Synergy (13:17)
"1+1+1=4"

** Summaries **

** Synergy Hostile **
For the period of June 15 of YR3 to June 16 of YR3
-- By UPCF [0.9] http://unwantedcreations.com/utopia/ceformatter.php

** Summary **

Total Attacks Made: 3 (541 acres)
-- Traditional March: 3 (541 acres)
Total Attacks Suffered: 14 (1959 acres)
-- Traditional March: 13 (1959 acres)
-- Failed Attacks: 1 (7.1% failure)

** The Kingdom of (13:17) **
Total acres exchanged: -1418 acres (3/14)
+171 acres: Hippophant (1/0)
+150 acres: Sharktah (1/0)
+71 acres: aye-aye-dik-dik (1/1)
+0 acres: Rhinopotamus (0/1)
-384 acres: Sheepig (0/3)
-279 acres: Tigon (0/2)
-242 acres: Zebuck (0/1)
-239 acres: Whalockatoo (0/2)
-198 acres: Cheater (0/1)
-181 acres: Alligapus (0/1)
-158 acres: Wolfspider (0/1)
-129 acres: Pigguin (0/1)

** The Kingdom of (9:32) **
Total acres exchanged: +1418 acres (14/3)
+478 acres: Anonymous province from (9:32) (4/0)
+204 acres: Simian Mastah (1/0)
+198 acres: Simian Col (1/0)
+181 acres: Simian Conclave (1/0)
+175 acres: Simian Dass (1/0)
+170 acres: Simian Pornstar (1/0)
+158 acres: Simian Fenix (1/0)
+149 acres: Simian Addict (1/0)
+129 acres: Simian El Pibe (1/0)
+117 acres: Simian Banan (1/0)
-220 acres: Simian Zombie (0/1)
-171 acres: Simian Plague (1/1)
-150 acres: Simian Ashen (0/1)

** Synergy war **
For the period of June 16 of YR3 to February 19 of YR4
-- By UPCF [0.9] http://unwantedcreations.com/utopia/ceformatter.php

** Summary **

Total Attacks Made: 258 (23738 acres)
-- Traditional March: 223 (22617 acres)
-- Ambush: 22 (1121 acres)
-- Raze: 1 (26 acres)
-- Failed Attacks: 12 (4.7% failure)
Total Attacks Suffered: 185 (14950 acres)
-- Traditional March: 169 (14642 acres)
-- Ambush: 2 (86 acres)
-- Raze: 4 (222 acres)
-- Failed Attacks: 10 (5.4% failure)

** The Kingdom of (13:17) **
Total acres exchanged: +8788 acres (258/185)
+1154 acres: Koalasus (9/1)
+1010 acres: Batchimp (9/3)
+863 acres: Whalockatoo (13/0)
+812 acres: Hippophant (8/4)
+734 acres: Sheepig (9/3)
+709 acres: Eleraff (10/3)
+686 acres: Snonkey (9/1)
+666 acres: Wolfspider (10/1)
+627 acres: Pigguin (9/0)
+588 acres: Cheater (10/4)
+577 acres: Tigon (18/8)
+535 acres: Sharktah (5/0)
+520 acres: Plotter (9/2)
+491 acres: Crowven (8/1)
+490 acres: Crocadillo (11/6)
+477 acres: Alligapus (10/1)
+383 acres: Foxawk (8/2)
+212 acres: Tricerapecker (6/1)
+206 acres: Rhinopotamus (19/14)
-1314 acres: Hummingfowl (19/56)
-688 acres: Zebuck (15/24)
-457 acres: Oranguroo (12/28)
-337 acres: aye-aye-dik-dik (11/17)
-156 acres: ViperCat (11/5)

** The Kingdom of (9:32) **
Total acres exchanged: -9036 acres (185/258)
+822 acres: Simian B Virus (11/0)
+503 acres: Anonymous province from (9:32) (5/0)
+476 acres: Simian Tech (12/3)
+419 acres: Simian Storm (4/1)
+220 acres: Simian Mastah (9/5)
+165 acres: Simian Banan (8/4)
+132 acres: Simian Warfare (2/0)
+58 acres: Simian El Pibe (5/3)
+24 acres: Simian Ashen (2/1)
+15 acres: Simian Skeptic (8/6)
+10 acres: Simian Baboon (8/6)
+0 acres: Simian Addict (1/0)
-2000 acres: Simian Yeti (14/66)
-1221 acres: Simian Fenix (7/20)
-1148 acres: Simian Troll (2/11)
-1120 acres: Simian Col (9/18)
-998 acres: Simian Macaco (9/19)
-979 acres: Simian Conclave (9/12)
-923 acres: Simian Feury (9/17)
-810 acres: Simian Prophecy (4/13)
-787 acres: Simian Dass (8/13)
-708 acres: Simian Zombie (10/12)
-590 acres: Simian Plague (8/16)
-280 acres: Simian Pornstar (12/7)
-183 acres: Simian Monkey (4/3)
-133 acres: Simian BureauCrazy (5/2)

** Simians hostile **
For the period of June 15 of YR3 to June 16 of YR3
-- By UPCF [0.9] http://unwantedcreations.com/utopia/ceformatter.php

** Summary **

Total Attacks Made: 14 (1959 acres)
-- Traditional March: 13 (1959 acres)
-- Failed Attacks: 1 (7.1% failure)
Total Attacks Suffered:[b] 3 (541 acres)
-- Traditional March: 3 (541 acres)

** The Kingdom of (9:32) **
[b]Total acres exchanged: +1418 acres (14/3)
+478 acres: Anonymous province from (9:32) (4/0)
+204 acres: Simian Mastah (1/0)
+198 acres: Simian Col (1/0)
+181 acres: Simian Conclave (1/0)
+175 acres: Simian Dass (1/0)
+170 acres: Simian Pornstar (1/0)
+158 acres: Simian Fenix (1/0)
+149 acres: Simian Addict (1/0)
+129 acres: Simian El Pibe (1/0)
+117 acres: Simian Banan (1/0)
-220 acres: Simian Zombie (0/1)
-171 acres: Simian Plague (1/1)
-150 acres: Simian Ashen (0/1)

** The Kingdom of (13:17) **
Total acres exchanged: -1418 acres (3/14)
+171 acres: Hippophant (1/0)
+150 acres: Sharktah (1/0)
+71 acres: aye-aye-dik-dik (1/1)
+0 acres: Rhinopotamus (0/1)
-384 acres: Sheepig (0/3)
-279 acres: Tigon (0/2)
-242 acres: Zebuck (0/1)
-239 acres: Whalockatoo (0/2)
-198 acres: Cheater (0/1)
-181 acres: Alligapus (0/1)
-158 acres: Wolfspider (0/1)
-129 acres: Pigguin (0/1)

** Simians War **
For the period of June 16 of YR3 to February 19 of YR4
-- By UPCF [0.9] http://unwantedcreations.com/utopia/ceformatter.php

** Summary **

Total Attacks Made: 185 (16115 acres)
-- Traditional March: 169 (16029 acres)
-- Ambush: 2 (86 acres)
-- Raze: 4 (222 acres)
-- Failed Attacks: 10 (5.4% failure)
Total Attacks Suffered: 258 (21805 acres)
-- Traditional March: 223 (20658 acres)
-- Ambush: 22 (1121 acres)
-- Raze: 1 (26 acres)
-- Failed Attacks: 12 (4.7% failure)

** The Kingdom of (9:32) **
Total acres exchanged: -5690 acres (185/258)
+900 acres: Simian B Virus (11/0)
+619 acres: Simian Tech (12/3)
+552 acres: Anonymous province from (9:32) (5/0)
+465 acres: Simian Storm (4/1)
+302 acres: Simian Banan (8/4)
+289 acres: Simian Mastah (9/5)
+200 acres: Simian Skeptic (8/6)
+167 acres: Simian Baboon (8/6)
+164 acres: Simian El Pibe (5/3)
+144 acres: Simian Warfare (2/0)
+51 acres: Simian Ashen (2/1)
+0 acres: Simian Addict (1/0)
-1774 acres: Simian Yeti (14/66)
-1019 acres: Simian Troll (2/11)
-964 acres: Simian Fenix (7/20)
-889 acres: Simian Col (9/18)
-836 acres: Simian Conclave (9/12)
-830 acres: Simian Macaco (9/19)
-764 acres: Simian Feury (9/17)
-665 acres: Simian Prophecy (4/13)
-610 acres: Simian Dass (8/13)
-550 acres: Simian Zombie (10/12)
-422 acres: Simian Plague (8/16)
-113 acres: Simian Pornstar (12/7)
-96 acres: Simian Monkey (4/3)
-11 acres: Simian BureauCrazy (5/2)

** The Kingdom of (13:17) **
Total acres exchanged: +5442 acres (258/185)
+1009 acres: Koalasus (9/1)
+851 acres: Batchimp (9/3)
+791 acres: Whalockatoo (13/0)
+612 acres: Snonkey (9/1)
+611 acres: Hippophant (8/4)
+595 acres: Sheepig (9/3)
+574 acres: Wolfspider (10/1)
+573 acres: Pigguin (9/0)
+569 acres: Eleraff (10/3)
+488 acres: Sharktah (5/0)
+414 acres: Cheater (10/4)
+410 acres: Plotter (9/2)
+409 acres: Crowven (8/1)
+403 acres: Alligapus (10/1)
+398 acres: Tigon (18/8)
+270 acres: Crocadillo (11/6)
+264 acres: Foxawk (8/2)
+160 acres: Tricerapecker (6/1)
-1534 acres: Hummingfowl (19/56)
-919 acres: Zebuck (15/24)
-708 acres: Oranguroo (12/28)
-524 acres: aye-aye-dik-dik (11/17)
-222 acres: ViperCat (11/5)
-52 acres: Rhinopotamus (19/14)

Reporters note: I would like to apologize for the delay in publishing this article, there were some technical issues due to the format of the new code