Writing a PvC again gives me such nostalgic feelings. I feel like the blue texts in the forums are slowly turning yellow again. Just clicked the rankings page and its been loading for 5 seconds, thinking that Arby3 sat on the big red button again, but look, it finally loads!
Ever since I_Like_Pie took over ownership of the game there have been many postive changes.
From looks in the forums there’s a lot of input from the IC Community and I even had the pleasure of being whipped by him to help out with some quick tests of moving players empires from fam to fam.
That intro should be long enough to get you in the mood for some slicing and peeling of family stats.
Since a couple of days we have a new family taking the first spot in Networth. Randoms at war #6153 passed WeAreTheOne #6150 by having jumped their 2 partaxian bankers and most likely used a lot of savigns for that.
It seems that the former number one (#6150) has been watching and waiting for the right moment to cancel their NAP:
Posted nearly a day ago or so in #general on discordchat:
Relations
NAP Cancellations
Our relations with Randoms at work (6153) have been broken. Attacks and offensive operations may resume in 46 weeks.
So it will be interesting to have a look at the clash of Milk Ways Titan families. The winner of this war should be able to secure round win with it.
At time of writing this PvC we are at Tick 650, a nice number to edit-in the stats:
T650 Top Families by Networth
1 Randoms at war (6153) [113,56] 1564 25384569 69153
2 We Are TheOne (6150) [102,5] 1999 22578902 82985
3 Cute Things In a Small Tub 
(6147) [49,65] 1483 21663656 60444
4 AOTP: Ritual of Battle (6144) [12,30] 1700 17964606 61772
5 Les Cols du Tour (6146) [67,117] 1270 17880662 58543
6 1St Round Of The Sith (6145) [116,90] 665 8110813 35742
7 Down not out (6152) [47,31] 730 7574483 28835
8 DEATH 
(6151) [84,76] 654 5098156 22948
T650 Top Families by Size
1 We Are TheOne (6150) [102,5] 1999 22595347 83183
2 AOTP: Ritual of Battle (6144) [12,30] 1700 17983248 61935
3 Randoms at war (6153) [113,56] 1564 25394396 69338
4 Cute Things In a Small Tub (6147) [49,65] 1483 21622107 60611
5 Les Cols du Tour (6146) [67,117] 1271 17847690 58681
6 Down not out (6152) [47,31] 730 7600335 28902
7 1St Round Of The Sith (6145) [116,90] 667 8120120 35811
8 DEATH (6151) [84,76] 653 5102443 23004
I made family system lists about 48h ago and checked for recent changes, listed below:
6150 310 systems - No change
6144 298 systems - No change
6153 193 systems -2 system(s)
6147 184 systems +1 system(s)
6146 154 systems - No change
6145 90 systems + 7 systems(s)
6152 88 systems - No change
6151 77 systems -9 system(s)
- 6150 and 6144 clearly seem to have the best spreads in the galaxy
- 6150 and 6153 who are about to war have about 40 system shares with eachother
- 6147 and 6153 have big cores but few outposts across the Milky Ways
- 6146 Big core, only no outposts. Pickle seems to be slacking and needs to be whipped by his fam to get them some more planets too match that Networth
- 6145 seem to try to expand their spread my skirmishing with 6151 and by the looks above it seems to be working
- 6152 and 6151 are the families who are in the corner of taking all the beatings from one family saying Hi after the other, but from personal experience rounds in those families tend to be the best to get to know your fellow family members who stick around and continue to help eachother out.
Where all the bigger fams war eachother, 6151 and 6152 have been retaking and attacking constantly and or the dominant families in the Universal News bar on the old map.
Done with all the raw data, now lets get down to the juicy part where we rate and grade.
1 Randoms at war (6153) [113,56] 1564 25384569 69153
Key/known player players: MTG_Dad, hoit, Cells (L)
Just like my fam early on in round, just when you hit first in Networth you’ll get people knocking on your door and that is what happening now.
They’ve been skirmishing with 47 and earlier with 45, and 51 and/or 52. Their infra & incomes come close to that of 6150, but with their 2 huge pop bankers their NW gets inflated a lot. Not to mention their gap in size with 6150 means they have a lot of expensive infra and with being cancelled on just after a big jump while 50 has been saving, this could be a short war depending reserve funds and on tenaciousness and thats one thing I know Cell and I have in common.
It will be interesting to see the ver likely fight of the FA’s Cells and The Young Wolf, the winner will probably win the round.
Contenders for 1st, but seeing all of the above I think they need to aim to try and secure the 2nd place. But nothing is decided until the fat lady signs!
2 We Are TheOne (6150) [102,5] 1999 22578902 82985
Key/known player players: Frosty, Modnar, TBO, Xenon(L), Mizzle, Undeath, The_Young_Wolf
The family to beat. Last round they were the favorite FTW and they are again this round and have been since SOR. Their timing for canceling the NAP with 6153 their biggest competition infra wise, is impecable.
It will be interesting to compare the changes in size & NW once the first 12 ticks of war are up and obviously the fleet NW at SOW.
Contenders for 1st, nothing more to add.
3 Cute Things In a Small Tub (6147) [49,65] 1483 21663656 60444
Key/known player players: UnknownInPvC (L), Paytimer, Stars/Vicious, Lethal, LuStIn (No more Alundra 
. We all hope to see you back on soon!)
Recently having lost their leader, one of their drafts took over control and seems to have settled in nicely on Alundra’s comfortable control chair.
It seems like they managed to re-explore all planets and besides some NW loss haven’t lost any ground. Plus I notice Lethal in there now. That should be some welcome additional attacking experience.
Especially seeing how close the gap with the 50 and 53. They could be the laughing 3rd party if the clash of the titans war drags on too long.
Contenders for 1st, the might be the biggest surprise of this round depending on what they do while 50/53 fight it out and how long that will take. Time will tell
4 AOTP: Ritual of Battle (6144) [12,30] 1700 17964606 61772
Key/known player players: Sol Invictus, TheIronFist, Ricking, Hell, Pentacle, Xanthus, Krypt0n, Redlink, Kawiz
The family that didn’t give much info in the earlier PvC’s. It shouldn’t be a surprise then to most people, that I’ve been hiding with this bunch of misfits since SOR.
We had the bad luck of losing the very first big war of the round with 50, right when attacks openend up. In a way that has also been our luck with being able to secure such a big core compared to our NW that is still behind on our size.
No other fams dared to come close because 6150 has a good presence in a lot of our systems, helping us to get back up on our feet.
Earlier today we overtook 46 in the rankings after having had a short 48h war, because Pickle declared war and he had to learn to at least fight till you are able to cancel.
All my fun is over for the moment, so I figure I’d use a couple minutes of my time to look into all this info and write it all down for you.
Pretenders, if we continue like we have, we will good change to get a top 3 finish and if all of the above slip up, who knows what could happen.
5 Les Cols du Tour (6146) [67,117] 1270 17880662 58543
Key/known player players: Pickle, Ni, Remo, Caedmon, Hala and Kuwait recently joined them after they kicked out IC_Death. Probably because ICD was bloating about having the same name as his awesome & equally entertaining president!
Pickle’s fam, he didn’t want to share any information. Seeing the theme and hearing my family members complaints about those annoying french words and their stupid cycling sports.
Knowing how much drugs are being used there it would be no surprise if this theme was all vaped up by Pickle alone! Some people call him Maurice!
They recently took a small beating from 44 that should have woken them up to make some of this round. So go enhance those red blood cells on your attackers go for the Tête de la Course!
Pretenders, seeing Pickle refused to give info I’ll give him the 5th place finish!
6 1St Round Of The Sith (6145) [116,90] 665 8110813 35742
Key/known player players: Kirikai, Swagga, SSL, stormworld, TheBadTrip, Gurney Halleck
We finally arrived at the tail of the rankings with the number 1 of the bottom families.
From what I saw it seems they have managed to nap most of the big fams around them to secure some peace and there’s no better way to move up, by pushing someone else down further.
They been slowly expanding their spread and taking planets from 6151. Seeing they got Swagga I have to ask here: How many times has he crashed his trannies up till now?
If it is zero, my pickle might get harder than Swagga’s elephant ivory tusk! 
Pretenders, likely they will finish just below where they are now. 7th
7 Down not out (6152) [47,31] 730 7574483 28835
Key/known player players: Drones, Zanharim, WhiteLightning, Trina, sgtHAWK
Compared with the first PvC they have managed to gain a rank and are within the backdraft of 45, looking for an oppurtunity to overtake them.
They have a small core and not many outposts. Securing more systems will be key for this family to help them grow.
Pretenders, seeing the line-up I favour them for 6th place at EOR, depending on activity a lot from Zan & WL.
8 DEATH (6151) [84,76] 654 5098156 22948
Key/known player players:UndedBizarroSkratch, DarkTemplar
As said earlier, they should be having the must fun this round, constant stream of incomming attacks and families trying to nibble planets away.
From the looks of it they are not letting go easily and like a pitbull continue to hold on and not let go. Keep that up till EOR and there’s a good chance you guys can surpass 52 again.
Pretenders, I hope they will manage to get of the bottom place again but against better judgement after this long PvC. I’ll place their finish at their current place. Go proof me wrong!
Damn T653 now! I’d better go wrap this up and post it. I Hope you all enjoyed the read. It feels good that some of you are thinking of me while pooping. I will return the favor in the morning! 
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