First off a big apology to Spam, the original owner of Goodwin's account. However if you want to give your account to a cheat and script user, expect it to get targeted and crashed.
The planning for this hit goes back months. Vulcan and I spotted this continual activity on certain planets/moons at certain times of the day. After a closer look we could clearly see that Goodwin was using some sort of a script to make activity on 3 moons and his HW. After a bit of discussion we decided to rather let him face the ultimate humiliation of losing his fleet rather than reporting him to the SGO.
So the long hours of watching, making notes and a few probes from a few players seeking revenge we found the gap and formulated a plan of action. Tests were done to see if he was using a bot or just an activity script. Fortunately it was the latter. The first attempt we aborted and recalled colony ships as he was on a bit later than expected. Finding the right time that both Vulcan and I were available and when Goodwin was not in vac was the biggest headache. To cut a long story short, the date was set for Friday night . Colony ships were sent to arrive just after his "fleetsave" and we waited and watched. As per routine he logged (although there was constant activity on his preset moons/planet the entire day) and fleet saved all of his res fleets that were on other moons and then did his usual fleet save of main fleet to own DF and went off for the night. We mooned up, jumped fleet in and launched ASAP as securing all of the DF was our biggest worry as we each needed to do 3 trips.
As it turned out the sim lied a little and it was not quite 3 full trips with recs.
The entire time our RIPs and main fleet were on the way to Goodwin's moon there was activity on his preset planets/moons. We had a little DF to watch off his moon and it disappeared on time. His main fleet returned and the rest is history.
Vulcan did the clean up of the rest of the res on his moon, but I rechecked a few hours after our hit and a transport had deposited some more res which I duely scooped up.
Goodwin, I really do not know what to say........... besides using scripts, you were using your old alliance members to push your account. We are not blind. As a fleeter, information is king in this game. I make sure that I know exactly what is going on all the time, especially information on players of interest. When one of you old ally mates pops out of long term vac for 3 hours, loses his fleet and then vacs again.......... Suddenly you have a spare billion res to throw into fleet after being in vac for days with little res on your moons.....Mmmmm
As I said before information is king.
A big dedication to all those who helped with the intel gathering. No names mentioned, but you know who you are.
Deut costs to launch fleets and recs were astronomical for Vulc and myself, so we had to ensure that it was a 100% chance (which it was) hit.
Vulcan Deut cost: 29kk for fleet and 456kk for recs
Eos Deut cost: 32kk for fleet and 126kk for recs
FR Vulc
FR me
No FR to Goodwin. Know if you return, you are in my cross hairs and you WILL lose the fleet that your Space Dock will spit out
On 05-05-2017 --:--:--, the following fleets met in battle:
Attacker eos [Exiles]
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Deathstar 3.298
Destroyer 33.502
Battleship 36.500
Battlecruiser 107.000
Light Fighter 1.177.984
Heavy Fighter 12.008
Cruiser 163.802
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Attacker Vulcan [Exiles]
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Deathstar 5.185
Battleship 21.000
Destroyer 50.000
Battlecruiser 150.000
Heavy Fighter 70.000
Cruiser 305.000
Light Fighter 1.350.225
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Defender GoodWin [U R]
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Small Cargo 140.000
Large Cargo 52.300
Light Fighter 1.747.082
Heavy Fighter 299.027
Cruiser 269.503
Battleship 55.459
Colony Ship 4
Recycler 405.228
Espionage Probe 1.019
Bomber 2.006
Destroyer 35.435
Deathstar 1.240
Battlecruiser 123.261
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After the battle ...
Attacker eos [Exiles]
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Deathstar 3.290 ( -8 )
Destroyer 30.840 ( -2.662 )
Battleship 32.967 ( -3.533 )
Battlecruiser 98.100 ( -8.900 )
Light Fighter 425.064 ( -752.920 )
Heavy Fighter 6.261 ( -5.747 )
Cruiser 130.684 ( -33.118 )
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Attacker Vulcan [Exiles]
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Deathstar 5.169 ( -16 )
Battleship 18.977 ( -2.023 )
Destroyer 46.082 ( -3.918 )
Battlecruiser 137.856 ( -12.144 )
Heavy Fighter 37.313 ( -32.687 )
Cruiser 246.592 ( -58.408 )
Light Fighter 489.337 ( -860.888 )
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Defender GoodWin [U R]
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Destroyed!
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The attacker has won the battle!
The attacker captured:
64.042.595 Metal, 6.764.048 Crystal and 69.972.538 Deuterium
17.666.666 Metal, 5.073.036 Crystal and 30.260.298 Deuterium
4.500.000 Metal, 1.268.259 Crystal and 7.731.741 Deuterium
1.166.666 Metal, 317.065 Crystal and 2.016.269 Deuterium
333.333 Metal, 79.266 Crystal and 587.401 Deuterium
83.333 Metal, 19.817 Crystal and 146.850 Deuterium
30.219.447 Metal, 4.954 Crystal and 21.922.485 Deuterium
7.554.862 Metal, 1.239 Crystal and 5.480.621 Deuterium
1.888.716 Metal, 309 Crystal and 1.370.155 Deuterium
472.179 Metal, 78 Crystal and 342.539 Deuterium
118.044 Metal, 19 Crystal and 85.635 Deuterium
The attacker lost a total of 12.678.426.000 units.
The defender lost a total of 57.091.708.000 units.
At these space coordinates now float 27.993.112.700 metal and 16.910.970.300 crystal.
The attacker captured a total of 281.490.463 units.
The chance for a moon to be created from the debris was 20%.
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Debris harvested by the attacker(s):
5.300.000.000 Metal and 5.300.000.000 Crystal
5.301.000.000 Metal and 5.301.000.000 Crystal
10.602.000.000 Metal and 0 Crystal
3.200.380.000 Metal and 3.200.380.000 Crystal
3.291.159.200 Metal and 3.109.600.800 Crystal
298.573.500 Metal and 0 Crystal
Total debris harvested by the attacker(s):
27.993.112.700 Metal and 16.910.980.800 Crystal
Summary of profit/losses:
Summary attackers(s)
Metal: 19.822.470.541
Crystal: 13.166.182.890
Deuterium: -481.495.468
The attacker(s) made a profit of 32.507.157.963 units.
Summary defender(s)
Metal: -31.819.518.841
Crystal: -20.413.731.090
Deuterium: -5.849.948.532
The defender(s) lost a total of 58.083.198.463 units.