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Its time for the Christmas Special Edition of my PP commentary.
What special about this one?
Its a few days later than usual, and the raw data hasn't been released, so the charts will be very different, and based on the previous weeks data.
Above are the number of weeks since each power lost control of a system.
I put 29 for Archon Delaine and Felicia Winters, which isn't exactly accurate, but infinity didn't seem right either
Above is a chart showing the total number of systems for each Power, and showing their Major Faction Allegiance.
Mahon has over 97% of all exploited Alliance systems, with Winters and Hudson taking the remaining 3%.
No other power has an Alliance system within their territory.
The left chart above shows the total amount of fortification needed to fortify 100% of all of each Powers systems.
This is obviously influenced by the total number of systems, Antal has the lowest number of systems (all data is from the previous week) and also needs the lowest amount of fortification.
And the chart on the right hand side shows the total number of undermining merits needed to undermine 100% of each powers control systems.
Mahon has the most number of control systems, and needs the most amount of undermining, and Antal and Delaine are the easiest to undermine 100%, and they have the lowest number of systems, so these 2 charts don't make too much clear, other than fortifying more systems is harder than fortifying fewer systems.
These two charts are identical, the left chart orders the powers by Average fortification trigger, the right chart orders by Average undermining trigger.
Fortification triggers are influenced by the systems distance from the capital, and their triggers can be lowered depending on the government types of the systems.
The more spread out a Power is, and the less favorable governments, the more fortification is needed.
Winters is the 4th largest power, with 66 systems, but has the lowest average fortification triggers.
Corporate governments are the ones that she has lower fortification triggers for, and Federation space has many of these governments.
Hudson has both the worst average fortification triggers, and the worst average undermining triggers for himself.
Hudson, Delaine and Aisling all have very bad (for where they are situated in space) government types for their fortification triggers, and its difficult for them to have any triggers lowered.
Antal and Torval have a better selection of favorable governments than the 3 Powers mentioned above.
The other 5 Powers all have favorable government types which are plentiful in their region of space, and have an advantage when it comes to their fortification trigger levels.
And you can see the standard deviation for the trigger amounts on the above chart, to give even more detail over the average.
Here is the score comparison from the past several weeks.
You can see how much larger Mahons lead is getting.
In the last week Torval, Antal and Patreus all increased their score.
Torval and Antal expanded, and Patreus left Turmoil without losing a system, so their increase is logical.
Hudson, ALD, Winters and Delaine all had a decrease in their scores.
Hudson and ALD lost systems and are still in Turmoil, Winters and Delaine both expanded 2 weeks ago (so their score was higher) but then didn't expand last week, so you could look at their decrease in score as just going back to where it would have been 2 weeks ago, if they didn't expand.
Sirius, Mahon and Aisling didn't have much movement in their scores.
Aisling got no expansions last week, or the one before and Mahon got 1 expansion in both weeks, so their score staying equal makes sense.
Sirius went into Turmoil this week, but hasn't lost any system, his score is the only one that isn't quite in line with the others.
Speculation and Commentary
With the Christmas Holidays its difficult to know what will happen.
Player participation could be down or up by a large margin, and different across all powers.
Mahon 89%
Mahon retained number 1 position with a massive 89% to 65% lead.
He was one of only 3 Powers to secure an expansion, which takes him up to 83 Control Systems.
Mahon still has a very healthy starting CC balance of 1172, so he can still soak up a large amount of undermining before he has to start worrying about fortification.
With Hudson unable to expand this week, Mahon will certainly still be in the number 1 position next week.
Hudson 65%
The President lost 3 systems to Turmoil, and has another 3 systems in Turmoil this week.
He is still in 2nd place, but could fall down to 5th position is he remains in Turmoil.
Fortification will be his players main focus, but they have also listed Torval as their main undermining target.
If his players can pull him out of Turmoil, he should retain 2nd position.
Winters 65%
The Shadow President is listed on Mahon's page as having the closest score to him, so perhaps should be ranked 2nd this week, but is listed in 3rd position.
Winters is currently expanding into HIP 44811, which is inside ALD territory and should attract a large amount of opposition.
Winters doesn't expand through combat, so this will have no chance of actually winning, but with ALD having no expansions, it will be interesting to see how high the opposition will go.
If Hudson and ALD remain in Turmoil, Winters should move up to 2nd position, but 4th is as low as they should fall no matter what happens.
ALD 61%
The Emperor lost 3 systems to Turmoil, and has another 2 systems in Turmoil this week, both of which are loss making systems.
If ALD remains in Turmoil, she should move into 5th position, but its difficult to see her dropping into the bottom 5.
Hudson will probably be their main undermining focus, to make him lose his 3 systems in Turmoil.
If they can get out of Turmoil this week (although they probably want to lose their systems) they could move back up to 2nd, depending on what happens to Hudson and Winters.
Aisling 59%
The peoples princess has 4 expansions this week, 3 of which should win easily, with only one being targeted for opposition.
If ALD and Hudson remain in Turmoil, and Winters doesn't win an expansion, its possible Aisling will move into 2nd position at the end of the week.
No Power is publicly targetting Aisling for undermining, but should she fall into Turmoil, its possible she will drop to 7th position, but 5th or 6th is more likely.
Torval 53%
Torval was one of only 3 powers to expand last cycle, and has moved back up to 6th position.
This week Hudson has targeted her for undermining, so there is a very good chance she will hit Turmoil, but this could be used to shed even more bad systems.
If she does hit Turmoil, its difficult to predict what will happen, Sirius may also still be in Turmoil, and Torval may stay in 6th position.
If Torval wins her expansion (which is loss making) and avoids Turmoil, she may move above Aisling, but it would be difficult for her to move into 4th position.
Sirius 46%
Sirius fell victim to another snipe attack last week, and one profitable system is currently in Turmoil.
Winters, Mahon and Antal have been carving up ex-Sirius systems in the past few weeks, and it will be interesting to see who takes advantage of any more systems Sirius may lose.
Its possible Patreus may move ahead of Sirius, but very unlikely, so they should be ranked 6th or 7th at the end of the week.
Antal 43%
The Utopians expanded to 4 out of 6 of the total expansions from all powers last week, which gave them a massive boost in their % score, moving them up to 8th.
Several of these expansions were in areas Sirius controlled a few weeks ago, and it is unclear if any more systems next to Sirius space will be prepared this week.
If Antal wins both of his expansions he should stay above Delaine, but its possible Patreus may be ranked above him at the end of the cycle, although Antal will have a very close number of systems to Patreus.
Patreus 36%
The senator was able to fortify out of Turmoil without losing a system, and moved up to 9th position.
This week he has enough CC to prepare systems again, which may remove some focus from his fortifications.
Without any expansions this week, should Antal and Delaine win expansions, he could move back down to 10th position.
If Antal's and Delaine's expansions are stopped, he may move past Sirius or Torval, if either of them are in Turmoil at the end of the week, but this is unlikely.
Delaine 33%
The pirate lord moved down to 10th position, after not winning an expansion, and Antal winning 4.
With a surplus of only 11cc, no systems will be prepared this week, which will allow more focus on other activities, but there will be no opportunity to expand next cycle.
With less expansions than Antal, its likely he will be ranked under Antal again, but if he wins his expansion he should be ranked above Patreus, and if Patreus is pushed back into Turmoil this should be a certainty.
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Its time for the Christmas Special Edition of my PP commentary.
What special about this one?
Its a few days later than usual, and the raw data hasn't been released, so the charts will be very different, and based on the previous weeks data.
Above are the number of weeks since each power lost control of a system.
I put 29 for Archon Delaine and Felicia Winters, which isn't exactly accurate, but infinity didn't seem right either
Above is a chart showing the total number of systems for each Power, and showing their Major Faction Allegiance.
Mahon has over 97% of all exploited Alliance systems, with Winters and Hudson taking the remaining 3%.
No other power has an Alliance system within their territory.
The left chart above shows the total amount of fortification needed to fortify 100% of all of each Powers systems.
This is obviously influenced by the total number of systems, Antal has the lowest number of systems (all data is from the previous week) and also needs the lowest amount of fortification.
And the chart on the right hand side shows the total number of undermining merits needed to undermine 100% of each powers control systems.
Mahon has the most number of control systems, and needs the most amount of undermining, and Antal and Delaine are the easiest to undermine 100%, and they have the lowest number of systems, so these 2 charts don't make too much clear, other than fortifying more systems is harder than fortifying fewer systems.
These two charts are identical, the left chart orders the powers by Average fortification trigger, the right chart orders by Average undermining trigger.
Fortification triggers are influenced by the systems distance from the capital, and their triggers can be lowered depending on the government types of the systems.
The more spread out a Power is, and the less favorable governments, the more fortification is needed.
Winters is the 4th largest power, with 66 systems, but has the lowest average fortification triggers.
Corporate governments are the ones that she has lower fortification triggers for, and Federation space has many of these governments.
Hudson has both the worst average fortification triggers, and the worst average undermining triggers for himself.
Hudson, Delaine and Aisling all have very bad (for where they are situated in space) government types for their fortification triggers, and its difficult for them to have any triggers lowered.
Antal and Torval have a better selection of favorable governments than the 3 Powers mentioned above.
The other 5 Powers all have favorable government types which are plentiful in their region of space, and have an advantage when it comes to their fortification trigger levels.
And you can see the standard deviation for the trigger amounts on the above chart, to give even more detail over the average.
Here is the score comparison from the past several weeks.
You can see how much larger Mahons lead is getting.
In the last week Torval, Antal and Patreus all increased their score.
Torval and Antal expanded, and Patreus left Turmoil without losing a system, so their increase is logical.
Hudson, ALD, Winters and Delaine all had a decrease in their scores.
Hudson and ALD lost systems and are still in Turmoil, Winters and Delaine both expanded 2 weeks ago (so their score was higher) but then didn't expand last week, so you could look at their decrease in score as just going back to where it would have been 2 weeks ago, if they didn't expand.
Sirius, Mahon and Aisling didn't have much movement in their scores.
Aisling got no expansions last week, or the one before and Mahon got 1 expansion in both weeks, so their score staying equal makes sense.
Sirius went into Turmoil this week, but hasn't lost any system, his score is the only one that isn't quite in line with the others.
Speculation and Commentary
With the Christmas Holidays its difficult to know what will happen.
Player participation could be down or up by a large margin, and different across all powers.
Mahon 89%
Mahon retained number 1 position with a massive 89% to 65% lead.
He was one of only 3 Powers to secure an expansion, which takes him up to 83 Control Systems.
Mahon still has a very healthy starting CC balance of 1172, so he can still soak up a large amount of undermining before he has to start worrying about fortification.
With Hudson unable to expand this week, Mahon will certainly still be in the number 1 position next week.
Hudson 65%
The President lost 3 systems to Turmoil, and has another 3 systems in Turmoil this week.
He is still in 2nd place, but could fall down to 5th position is he remains in Turmoil.
Fortification will be his players main focus, but they have also listed Torval as their main undermining target.
If his players can pull him out of Turmoil, he should retain 2nd position.
Winters 65%
The Shadow President is listed on Mahon's page as having the closest score to him, so perhaps should be ranked 2nd this week, but is listed in 3rd position.
Winters is currently expanding into HIP 44811, which is inside ALD territory and should attract a large amount of opposition.
Winters doesn't expand through combat, so this will have no chance of actually winning, but with ALD having no expansions, it will be interesting to see how high the opposition will go.
If Hudson and ALD remain in Turmoil, Winters should move up to 2nd position, but 4th is as low as they should fall no matter what happens.
ALD 61%
The Emperor lost 3 systems to Turmoil, and has another 2 systems in Turmoil this week, both of which are loss making systems.
If ALD remains in Turmoil, she should move into 5th position, but its difficult to see her dropping into the bottom 5.
Hudson will probably be their main undermining focus, to make him lose his 3 systems in Turmoil.
If they can get out of Turmoil this week (although they probably want to lose their systems) they could move back up to 2nd, depending on what happens to Hudson and Winters.
Aisling 59%
The peoples princess has 4 expansions this week, 3 of which should win easily, with only one being targeted for opposition.
If ALD and Hudson remain in Turmoil, and Winters doesn't win an expansion, its possible Aisling will move into 2nd position at the end of the week.
No Power is publicly targetting Aisling for undermining, but should she fall into Turmoil, its possible she will drop to 7th position, but 5th or 6th is more likely.
Torval 53%
Torval was one of only 3 powers to expand last cycle, and has moved back up to 6th position.
This week Hudson has targeted her for undermining, so there is a very good chance she will hit Turmoil, but this could be used to shed even more bad systems.
If she does hit Turmoil, its difficult to predict what will happen, Sirius may also still be in Turmoil, and Torval may stay in 6th position.
If Torval wins her expansion (which is loss making) and avoids Turmoil, she may move above Aisling, but it would be difficult for her to move into 4th position.
Sirius 46%
Sirius fell victim to another snipe attack last week, and one profitable system is currently in Turmoil.
Winters, Mahon and Antal have been carving up ex-Sirius systems in the past few weeks, and it will be interesting to see who takes advantage of any more systems Sirius may lose.
Its possible Patreus may move ahead of Sirius, but very unlikely, so they should be ranked 6th or 7th at the end of the week.
Antal 43%
The Utopians expanded to 4 out of 6 of the total expansions from all powers last week, which gave them a massive boost in their % score, moving them up to 8th.
Several of these expansions were in areas Sirius controlled a few weeks ago, and it is unclear if any more systems next to Sirius space will be prepared this week.
If Antal wins both of his expansions he should stay above Delaine, but its possible Patreus may be ranked above him at the end of the cycle, although Antal will have a very close number of systems to Patreus.
Patreus 36%
The senator was able to fortify out of Turmoil without losing a system, and moved up to 9th position.
This week he has enough CC to prepare systems again, which may remove some focus from his fortifications.
Without any expansions this week, should Antal and Delaine win expansions, he could move back down to 10th position.
If Antal's and Delaine's expansions are stopped, he may move past Sirius or Torval, if either of them are in Turmoil at the end of the week, but this is unlikely.
Delaine 33%
The pirate lord moved down to 10th position, after not winning an expansion, and Antal winning 4.
With a surplus of only 11cc, no systems will be prepared this week, which will allow more focus on other activities, but there will be no opportunity to expand next cycle.
With less expansions than Antal, its likely he will be ranked under Antal again, but if he wins his expansion he should be ranked above Patreus, and if Patreus is pushed back into Turmoil this should be a certainty.
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