Beta 10

From Astro Wars

Duration: 1 Apr - 16 Jun 2005
Players: 22895
Winner: Mugathdem from BSF alliance

The beta started as usually apart from the fact that a group of very veteran players established an exclusive alliance LA

After a few weeks somebody noticed that Mugathdem from BSF exceeded 30 Player Level while all others were far from even 20. One of the first public guesses was the proper one: Mugathdem wants to win the game thanks to Friendly Fire, which would boost points from Player Level. After long discussion how it is "unfair" nobody did anything.

Meanwhile the attention was brought by "thieves of TAGs" which created fake [ES], [RAGE], [IS]. Most of members of these alliances was chased and killed by the other players who were in the neighbourhood.

Mugathdem was the leader of the ranking for weeks. Suddenly, several days before the countdown he was attacked by [DAT] and his population was reduced by 50. First impression: somebody wanted to stop him. It was wrong impression. DAT cooperated with BSF and they reduced Mugathdem's population on purpose - to avoid situation that he starts the countdown too early (too few points from player level) and as the first player (which always attracts massive fleets from all over galaxy).

As the result diala [HNU] started the countdown and was followed by Lordgoonie [VOX]. Lordgoonie was killed very soon by LOVE but diala was approaching the seventh day. Mugathdem was just behind her. Because most of players were agains Mugathdem's way of playing HNU was able to create vast NAP zone around diala. It seemed to work. But on the last day diala saw 437k CV fleet of lutecefalco from BSF. Lutecefalco had not only 418 transports with him but also many free culture slots, which ended the dream of diala.

Despite fierce attacks against Mugathdem on the last day the big fleet managed to defend him.