Mar 26th 2012, 14:20:02
NukEvil [WebGoat]
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History--Feb 1-Apr 2, 2010 reset...FINISHED
Apr/05/10 13:15:27
Evolution set out to once again net to the top of the ANW list, while keeping a wary eye on SOL and SoF. Last set, SOL had once again FSed a netting alliance out of the blue, an ominous reminder to Evo members of their past encounters with SOL.
SoF signed a uNAP with Evolution this set, so Evolution would keep their focus on SOL, who didn't pact, in the first weeks of the set. Collab wanted to FS SOL for SOL's actions last set, and everyone in the server knew it. So Collab and SOL both got ready for their war.
Evolution was busy netting when, on February 23, at 2:53, a suicider struck Evolution, taking a total of 15,832 acres. It was a country that had detagged from SoF less than 3 days before. It wasn't the best suiciding that Evolution had seen, but it still had to be dealt with. However, most of the members were too focused on netting for Evolution to dispatch the suicider quickly. Only the core membership would put any attacks onto the suicider, which meant it took over 2 days before Evolution was close to killing it. Just before it would have been killed, the country went into vacation mode for just over 3 days, but it was killed soon after coming out of vacation. A couple days later, the suicider's restart tagged up in SoF again.
On March 2, Collab FSed SOL. Both SOL and Collab had been prepping for this war since the beginning of the set. However, after less than a week of fighting, it was clear that SOL was losing the war. Then, it was made abundantly clear to the server that SOL had lost when SOL called in their allies SoF, and TIE. But that was just the beginning.
SoF had also signed a uNAP with Collab, so they weren't supposed to be hitting them. However, under claims of a leadership breakdown inside SoF, Ivan, the new president of SoF, broke most of SoF's countries away from SoF, and formed a new alliance, called NaturalSelection (or, NaturaLS), and immediately began hitting Collab. They justified their breaking of a uNAP with Collaboration under the false claims that NaturaLS was a different alliance from SoF.
However, Ivan soon found out that justifying a broken uNAP by moving to a different tag works both ways. Since nobody had signed a uNAP with the new NaturaLS tag, then anybody could attack them. And Evolution, DKnights, and NA did that at midnight on March 9, in defense of Collab. They also FSed SOL at the same time. Both NA and Evolution had signed a uNAP with TIE earlier, so they couldn't hit TIE, but TIE cease-fired with Collab immediately after NA and Evolution's first attacks. TIE was then FSed by Imagnum a couple days later, who were then FSed by Elysium and Rage later on in the set.
With the combined might of NA, DKnights, Evolution, and what was left of Collaboration, the forces of SOL and the NaturaLS tag fell relatively quickly. After a couple weeks of fighting, most of the netting tags were unable to hit the tiny enemy countries, due to humanitarians. Some of the remaining larger enemy countries went into vacation mode in order to stall their impending deaths, but once they were booted out of vacation mode 2 weeks before the end of the set, they were quickly killed as well.
However, this had effectively knocked Evolution out of the netting race, so, with so many other netting alliances actually netting, Evolution had very little chance to catch up. So, they used what little stocks were available to send foreign aid to Collab's countries, while netting to the end of the set. Evolution came in 9th place in ANW, with $36,037,715.
Courtesy of NukEvil.
