fellow thubaneers,
this one’s been a long time coming: an ACS top 1, finally confirmed after three weeks of waiting, spreadsheets, and support tickets.
partners in crime: AGoodSydney, Worldeater, King Rabbit and myself.
the hit itself? old news by now, but here’s the story behind it.
biggy and rain kicked things off with a brilliant play. MD’d dominatrix and caught the fleet on a dirty FS. with diesel and ares locked in vmode, the only one able to defend was tizoc. textbook opportunity play by biggy and rain. they reached out and asked me to come out of vmode to help force MD dominatrix’s new moon, which was likely going to be defended. idea was: drop the moon, force the defend to planet, and make the rip stack vulnerable.
Artist, Rain, Biggy, Lee Adama and me launched full fleet to cover the force MD. the moon went down, and just like expected, tizoc showed up on lanx with 4.6m rips.
and then… the game broke.
every single one of our fleets got stuck. had to scramble to reach support to get our fleets unstuck, but by then dominatrix had gotten away. but we kept watching lanx. eventually tizoc recalled. we had our window.
AGoodSydney, King Rabbit and Worldeater came out of vmode, we moved in-system to tizoc, mooned up, and started planning the force MD on his return moon. we had the timing nailed, but the moon had to go. we launched the MD, and threw our speed fleets at it.
meanwhile tizoc was busy packing hard. buying and instaing more rips. by the time we reached the moon, he had insta’d another 3.7m rips, but it still wasn’t enough. the moon went down, and the return time was confirmed.
we launched rips first, joined up with speed fleets closer to impact. tizoc kept packing like crazy, ending up at 101T military, with close to 9.5m rips on the field.
it was still not enough. we went through.
except... we didn’t.
as expected, the combat script refused to process it. seems like when certain numbers get too big, things just grind to a halt. even with only light fighters, a fleet with enough ships to trigger this would be worth trillions. fleets froze and after a long wait, everyone involved (including tizoc) got emergency banned. we knew this would happen, same thing's happened before in monster combats like this. support confirmed they'd manually process the result, as they’ve done in past cases.
and now, three weeks later, it’s finally official. ships removed, loot added.
ACS top 1 is in the books.
massive props to everyone involved: biggy and rain for the opener, the whole team for the execution, and support for pulling it across the finish line.
and to gameforge: thanks for making us wait three weeks for a single combat report—always on the cutting edge of 2005.
tizoc, fr. you threw everything at it, but sometimes everything just isn’t enough.
On 02-05-2025 --:--:--, the following fleets met in battle:
Attacker Zero Two [APE]
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Light Fighter 62.940.427
Heavy Fighter 178.963
Cruiser 54.933.989
Battleship 57.651.747
Destroyer 9.953.760
Deathstar 1.672.676
Battlecruiser 142.198.061
Reaper 1.365.296
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Attacker Worldeater [Spook]
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Light Fighter 441.428.747
Heavy Fighter 25.357.601
Cruiser 86.897.603
Battleship 38.849.626
Deathstar 131.772
Battlecruiser 274.189.070
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Attacker King Rabbit [Fix]
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Light Fighter 14.309.801
Heavy Fighter 944.843
Cruiser 58.880.203
Battleship 1.982.025
Destroyer 328.226
Deathstar 2.090.158
Battlecruiser 51.676.535
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Attacker AGoodSydney [FREE]
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Light Fighter 60.711.690
Heavy Fighter 11.952.233
Cruiser 96.139.139
Battleship 79.525.282
Bomber 3.335.258
Destroyer 110.398
Deathstar 899.293
Battlecruiser 114.502.929
Pathfinder 23.963.397
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Defender Tizoc [TYC]
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Solar Satellite 15.483
Deathstar 4.615.341
Crawler 2.140
Rocket Launcher 2.330.266
Light Laser 397.209
Heavy Laser 2.547.788
Gauss Cannon 1.432.487
Ion Cannon 77.036
Plasma Turret 1.000.000
Small Shield Dome 1
Large Shield Dome 1
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After the battle ...
Attacker Zero Two [APE]
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Light Fighter 56.563.867 ( -6.376.560 )
Heavy Fighter 161.263 ( -17.700 )
Cruiser 49.444.049 ( -5.489.940 )
Battleship 51.895.897 ( -5.755.850 )
Destroyer 8.964.410 ( -989.350 )
Deathstar 1.671.106 ( -1.570 )
Battlecruiser 128.032.221 ( -14.165.840 )
Reaper 1.229.296 ( -136.000 )
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Attacker Worldeater [Spook]
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Light Fighter 396.610.937 ( -44.817.810 )
Heavy Fighter 22.796.351 ( -2.561.250 )
Cruiser 78.196.853 ( -8.700.750 )
Battleship 34.977.136 ( -3.872.490 )
Deathstar 131.622 ( -150 )
Battlecruiser 246.867.150 ( -27.321.920 )
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Attacker King Rabbit [Fix]
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Light Fighter 12.858.411 ( -1.451.390 )
Heavy Fighter 849.833 ( -95.010 )
Cruiser 52.982.163 ( -5.898.040 )
Battleship 1.786.735 ( -195.290 )
Destroyer 295.496 ( -32.730 )
Deathstar 2.085.898 ( -4.260 )
Battlecruiser 46.527.135 ( -5.149.400 )
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Attacker AGoodSydney [FREE]
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Light Fighter 54.544.610 ( -6.167.080 )
Heavy Fighter 10.750.423 ( -1.201.810 )
Cruiser 86.532.149 ( -9.606.990 )
Battleship 71.576.562 ( -7.948.720 )
Bomber 3.002.418 ( -332.840 )
Destroyer 99.078 ( -11.320 )
Battlecruiser 103.100.729 ( -11.402.200 )
Deathstar 898.303 ( -990 )
Pathfinder 21.561.417 ( -2.401.980 )
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Defender Tizoc [TYC]
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Destroyed!
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The attacker has won the battle!
The attacker captured:
0 metal, 0 crystal and 0 deuterium
The attacker lost a total of 7.460.973.676.200 units.
The defender lost a total of 46.362.501.400.000 units.
At these space coordinates now float 13.277.685.865.000 metal, 10.731.484.170.000 crystal and 2.797.345.930.000 deuterium.
Debris harvested by the attackers:
11.286.032.985.250 Metal, 9.121.761.544.500 Crystal and 2.377.744.040.500 Deuterium.
Debris harvested by the defender:
1.991.652.879.750 Metal, 1.609.722.625.500 Crystal and 419.601.889.500 Deuterium.
Wreckfield:
Summary attacker(s) wreckfield:
Metal: 1.180.735.260.007
Crystal: 1.016.473.277.234
Deuterium: 332.431.054.650
The attacker(s) recovered a total of 2.529.639.591.891 units.
Summary defender wreckfield:
Metal: 6.230.650.000.000
Crystal: 4.984.520.000.000
Deuterium: 1.246.130.000.000
The defender recovered a total of 12.461.300.000.000 units.
Summary of profit/losses:
Summary attackers(s)
Metal: 8.987.952.315.257
Crystal: 7.136.508.511.734
Deuterium: 1.729.743.658.950
The attacker(s) made a profit of 17.854.204.485.941 units.
Summary defender(s)
Metal: -14.869.343.260.250
Crystal: -11.878.708.634.500
Deuterium: -2.954.548.630.500
The defender(s) lost a total of 29.702.600.525.250 units.