Petting Zoo 7 - Game Over

Petting Zoo 7 is now over. GooseIsland and Guiness are the winners. Here are
the final numbers:


- = [ Empire Power Report ] = -
as of Thu Nov 15 17:00:00 2007

sects eff civ mil shell gun pet iron dust oil pln ship unit money
GooseIsla 464 99% 189K 21K 7.4K 1.0K 23K 25K 2.3K 4.0K 311 173 122 101K
12978.41
Guiness 353 99% 160K 13K 5.8K 848 5.8K 20K 1.3K 5.8K 320 109 122 12K
9894.59
Head 350 100% 126K 20K 6.0K 668 12K 33K 787 4.6K 207 70 133 20K
9226.88
Baaadenbr 313 97% 113K 16K 4.0K 487 7.0K 25K 721 4.4K 103 103 73 6.9K
8524.85
Big Rock 251 99% 110K 12K 3.2K 763 5.7K 18K 755 8.7K 110 90 80 14K
8475.35
KRBC Clas 249 98% 93K 9.2K 2.7K 428 6.1K 29K 1.1K 5.0K 144 69 37 55K
7784.60
children 293 98% 110K 8.6K 3.8K 467 7.9K 44K 1.6K 6.0K 82 38 11 166K
7128.97
jax 223 98% 95K 7.6K 3.3K 506 16K 14K 861 6.7K 171 54 46 25K
6596.66
Prohibiti 125 100% 59K 8.5K 4.8K 428 8.0K 12K 974 3.5K 95 52 34 13K
4191.05
Newcastle 117 88% 51K 5.8K 1.3K 190 3.2K 8.2K 832 2.6K 51 32 24 5.3K
3072.97
Kwak 0 0% 0 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 40K
79.89
IronCity 0 0% 0 112 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 26K
57.66
BlackLabe 0 0% 0 89 58 7 0 0 0 0 0 7 0 3.2K
26.50
Moosehead 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3.7K
6.20
---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----
worldwide 2.7K 98% 1.1M 123K 42K 5.8K 95K 227K 11K 51K 1.6K 803 682 491K



Thu Nov 15 17:00:00 2007
# name tech research education happiness
1 GooseIsland 145.42 67.31 26.37 14.08
2 Kwak 98.17 29.06 0.72 0.14
3 BlackLabel 105.97 52.74 0.87 2.92
4 Head 157.75 76.96 23.62 0.00
5 Newcastle Brow 142.00 47.95 13.24 1.04
6 Moosehead 83.04 29.06 0.42 0.00
7 children 149.28 39.21 26.22 8.55
8 IronCity 80.98 29.06 0.28 0.00
9 Prohibitionist 141.02 60.47 26.41 9.25
10 Baaadenbrau 158.02 73.27 30.37 0.00
11 Guiness 145.47 80.05 23.62 8.94
12 KRBC Class V 158.85 74.60 26.04 0.00
13 jax 157.17 83.25 17.79 0.00
14 Big Rock 163.19 52.31 30.74 6.96


I'll have a full report in several days on the game's official website.
www.angelfire.com/empire2/bungholio/PettingZooSeven.html
Meanwhile, the game will remain up at sheepfarm.game-host.org : 6666 to
read up on old news and anno's.

-BUNGY

PZ7 was a great game. It had some twists that even made
some experienced players stop and think. Now that it is
over, we can ponder what we did right and what we did
wrong. I coruled in the country Big Rock. Our biggest
mistakes were making too much tech and not enough mils
and other war toys.

Back before PZ7 started, I played one of the PZ7 test
blitzes and posted a log of all game activity for over 10
updates. This was to allow a novice player to see all
of the steps needed to set up a productive and efficient
country.

Years ago when I was first learning to balance the economy
for maximum productivity, I used a spreadsheet. I made
one for this game to use as a teaching tool. (I know the
argument that if you need a calculator to play a game,
it is too cumbersome. Empire sometimes needs more
than a calculator!) I dusted off an old copy that had
suffered some bit-rot and made a projection of production
and cash flow based on the game parameters for the
first 20 updates. We then proceeded to play the game
and I modified this original with actuals. Some of the
changes were to correct oversights and calculation errors
and some were from adjustments in strategy as the game
unfolded. The spreadsheet containing the actual values
is out through 14 updates where civ and bar growth
finally were providing a positive cashflow.

I tried to attach these spreadsheets to this post. I can email
them to anyone requesting since I could not get Outlook
to post this with attachments. I am sure they have plenty of
errors so feel free to point them out to me. We can discuss
questions here on RGE or in email messages. I will
also provide them to the deity for his web page if he wants
them.

Tom
(coruler of Big Rock and former ruler of Ski)