Euro 9 Update

We have had our first 5 updates and it's time to give the viewers at
home a brief overview of the goings-on in European Empire 9.

With the help of a coupel of replacements, all 29 countries broke
sanctuary on time. this makes a deity smile. What the players found
when they broke as a bit different than the norm, though to hard to figure
out. After exploring, each player found he was blessed with 19 sectors,
all arranged in a nice little circle. At the center was the capitol with
9990 civ's, 200 mil, and 1000 uw's. The first couple of updates had
power charts dominated by players that were most able to get their workers
out of the comfy city life and into the country side, working the land.

We started at tech 41 and had a decent education level too. thanks
to gifts from the deity, lm's and hcm's were available at the begining.
It was a real slice of player preferences when going into the second update
they distributed these limited cm's amoung units, ships, and tech.

Surrounding the start area were miles and miles of plains sectors
occupied by a few civ's, mil, and uw's. As the updates passed, the civ's
and uw's grew in number.

After a few updates, most players have found and/or catptured a few of
the city-states that were sprinkled in the wilderness. These consist of
a 100% city with 1000's of civ's surrounded by a ring of "regular" sectors.
they are highly coveted since production sectors are limited. And since
production sectors can hold 2000 civ's, every one is even more important.

Most players are now coming into contact with neighbors. There is still
a lot of free land out there.

Drivers in this game are the limited number of production sectors,
the fact the GO-RENEW is not on, BIG-CITIES is on, but you cannot undo or
create "c" sectors, and the fact that bridges are not buildable. (okay,
tech 1000. So technically, they are.)

the first lottery winner in the game is Portugal. He stands 1/2 way
through a pathetic showing by Morocco (a real fodder's fodder.)

The games is now shifting from 24 hour updates to 47 hours. The
games favorite deity is doing 2 things during the game. One, after each
update the tech levels are being saved to an excel file. After the game is
over, the history via each country will be plotted.

Second, about every day, a map of the world is generated. The map
shows sector ownership (by color) and highlights sectors with high population
densities, high military densities, and presence of units. After the game
is over each jpeg will be compiled into an mpeg for Euro 9 - The Movie.

and now for the visitor's view of the power chart.

as of Sat Jul 23 09:43:01 2005

sects eff civ mil shell gun pet iron dust oil pln ship unit money
Latvia 160 28% 50K 1.0K 100 20 200 5.0K 1.0K 1.2K 10 10 30 10K
Syria 90 28% 42K 1.4K 125 10 1.0K 7.5K 550 400 20 8 10 5.0K
Italy 105 36% 36K 800 50 5 750 6.0K 550 1.1K 1 10 30 15K
Ankara 100 35% 40K 1.4K 4 0 700 5.3K 1.4K 2.6K 10 5 20 10K
Greece 115 32% 36K 1.1K 225 30 350 6.8K 800 850 8 10 20 10K
Belgium 90 36% 36K 1.1K 0 0 0 7.5K 650 450 0 8 40 15K
Tunisia 95 35% 42K 900 50 0 0 3.9K 1.0K 1.6K 0 8 20 25K
Ukraine 105 21% 36K 1.1K 0 0 3.0K 7.5K 1.4K 4.3K 3 2 10 30K
France 110 27% 36K 850 75 15 0 6.2K 1.3K 2.1K 0 8 30 10K
Austria 170 22% 41K 1.6K 75 0 350 5.8K 1.4K 200 8 10 20 15K
Astrakhan 145 19% 36K 800 0 0 0 7.3K 1.1K 1.4K 0 3 4 15K
Georgia 140 24% 35K 600 75 10 0 4.8K 250 2.5K 0 7 20 20K
Normandy 90 35% 36K 750 150 10 750 4.8K 850 1.0K 10 4 10 25K
England 95 34% 42K 850 25 15 800 3.6K 300 350 6 1 30 15K
Sweden 140 23% 36K 1.0K 50 10 0 12K 450 650 0 20 20 5.0K
Cyrenecia 135 21% 36K 500 125 0 450 12K 950 650 6 20 30 20K
Portugal 105 25% 35K 1.5K 0 0 0 5.7K 500 950 0 10 10 25K
Algeria 80 26% 35K 300 75 10 2.1K 4.7K 4.3K 4.7K 0 2 20 45K
Turkey 95 22% 36K 800 25 0 0 12K 1.3K 1.8K 0 4 20 45K
Norway 105 26% 33K 400 25 5 450 4.7K 1.0K 1.1K 6 6 20 30K
Russia 170 18% 33K 850 100 10 550 10K 750 250 6 2 30 20K
Spain 120 31% 29K 1.4K 0 0 0 5.2K 2.6K 1.9K 0 2 7 30K
Egypt 40 51% 26K 100 0 0 0 1.6K 2.0K 700 0 2 0 40K
Crimea 80 35% 27K 500 0 0 0 1.8K 4.3K 0 0 4 30 45K
Scotland 55 38% 23K 41 7 0 0 4.0K 1.6K 550 0 3 5 35K
Romania 95 23% 22K 300 0 0 0 1.8K 950 400 0 2 5 40K
Lybia 50 39% 23K 950 17 3 0 2.1K 800 650 0 2 6 40K
Germany 20 95% 19K 200 0 0 0 2.1K 2.1K 850 0 3 0 50K
Morocco 10 34% 11K 200 0 0 0 46 0 0 0 0 0 45K
---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----
worldwide 2.9K 28% 967K 23K 1.4K 155 11K 162K 36K 35K 90 180 470 730K

Players are invited to post their view of the game and all the happenings
right here on RGE. But, if this game is like most other games, they won't.

Oh, and the "Anno of the Week" doesn't exist either. They better start
coming up with something to entertian me or Big Bill will start blathering.

Pat
AKA Overlord

Pat wrote:
> ...
> Players are invited to post their view of the game and all the happenings
> right here on RGE. But, if this game is like most other games, they won't.

Made an image of my last map at http://plh.org/images/ee9.gif

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Fodder is as fodder does.
Phil