By Appocomaster.

Round 74 - The Dance of Stars

Round 74 - The Dance of Stars just finished at 20:00 GMT.

The End of Round Ceremony (EoRC) follows swiftly afterwards at 21:00 GMT for an hour in #planetarion on irc.netgamers.org (accessible via the com unit). It will consist of:

- interviews with the top players

- interviews with the top galaxy

- interviews with representatives of the top alliance

- the alliance competition (allcomp), where users will [tag] in their nickname for their alliance, and the winning alliance will win 3 credits.

- Havoc will start at 09:00 GMT on Saturday, 2nd December and continue until Thursday, 14th December at 20:00 GMT.

Havoc setup as follows:

- All researches completed

- 500 million resources total (split over metal/crystal/eonium according to race)

- 3000 asteroids total (split over metal/crystal/eonium according to race)

- 30 of each factory, 30 wave amplifiers, 50 security centres and 30 of each refinery ADDED to each planet

- Fleets recalled

- XP kept

- Asteroid mining limits increased to 8 million asteroids total

- Maximum construction limit set at 800 constructions

- Ticks set at every 15 minutes.

- Galaxy alliances will be used

Winter Round

We will be having our normal festive round. Signups will open later tonight on Sunday, 3rd of December at 20:00 GMT and ticks will start on Friday, 8th December for 2 weeks. Some details:

-Ticks will be every 15 minutes

-In-galaxy defence will be 3 ticks not 5

-Galaxies will be buddy packs of 5 plus randoms. We strongly encourage you to use buddy packs, though!

-The shuffle will take place at tick 24 (23:15 GMT on Friday, 8th December).

-Cluster alliances will exist.

-Clusters will be limited to 4 galaxies not 10. There will be no admin disbanding of galaxies, but inactive planets will be auto-exiled. Only galaxy ministers will be cluster officers.

-We will see the return of "Presents" during the shuffle, with each galaxy being ranked by their "Present Power" as before.

-Ship stats are final and available on our xmas server.

-Havoc for the Winter round consist of shuffling all galaxies before starting. It will also use faster-than-normal havoc ticks of 5 minutes per tick. It will start at 10:00 GMT on Saturday, 22th December and continue until Friday, 29th December.

Round 75

Round 75 signups will open on Friday, 29th December at 20:00 GMT.

Submissions for Round 75's name are NOW OPEN - please e-mail suggestions to round75@planetarion.com, with the subject "Round Name Suggestion". Submissions will be open until Friday, 15th December and then there will be a public poll, with the winner getting a free credit.

Round 75 Ticks will start Friday, 5th January at 20:00 GMT and continue for 7 weeks until Friday 23th February.

Changes for this round will be announced at a later date.