Phoenix Risen (HOD)

Phoenix Risen (HOD)
Alliance overview
Alliance Name:	Phoenix Risen
Alliance Tag:	HOD
Genre:
Founded:	August 25, 2011
Leader:	Admiral T-Wayne
Members:	37
Recruiting:	Yes
Alliance stats
Alliance Rank:	Deus Class
	Total	Average
Overall:	1	1
Building:	1	1
Destroyed Ships:	1	1
Fleet:	3	4
Defense:	2	2
Research:	9	8
Crew:	1	1
War records
Wins Losses Draws 26 27 0
Last updated: 2017-11-22
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Phoenix Risen, or HOD, established August 25, 2011, is a force to be reckoned with in the SFC Original universe. We are the #1 ranked alliance in essentially every category that matters -- total and average-per-player game points, building points, and destroyed ships points. As of November 21, 2017, we are third in total fleets, fourth in average-per-player fleets, and second in total and average-per-player defense.

We believe that our members and our opponents are to be respected as people and as SFC players. As is seen in the following Alliance rules, we expect our members to be civil to each other and to opponents. In return, we expect our opponents to be aggressive but civil toward us. Being human and humane toward each other is a dictum of the basic rules of (real) war. Applied to SFC, this helps retain players and ultimately increases game enjoyment for all of us.

As one of our members put it, HOD is "A happy, family-like alliance that supports members in their style of game play - whatever that may be."

In keeping with this "family" orientation, HOD accepts players of all ranks and playing styles. We have our Player-vs-Player experts and we have our NPC hunters/master builders. We attract mature players who are serious about their game play, and we welcome applications from the newest of the new. When given the opportunity to work under the tutelage of our senior members, even the newest players can move up quickly in game rank, develop substantial civilizations, and make valuable contributions to the Alliance and to the overall SFC playing community.

Origins

The original HOD members began the new alliance to provide the opportunity to play with people who valued multiple styles of play and who were sold on the importance of respect among players. Subsequent members have been attracted to HOD because of these core Alliance values.

Leadership

Leader: Admiral T-Wayne.

• The Boss!

First Officer: Eben Bear.

• Also, leader of our Special Operations team

Archduke of HOD: Commander Applejack.

• Leader Emeritus of the Alliance.

Officer: Bob Uzzell.

• Ill-tempered old guy and honorary Hell's Angel

Officer: Captain Morg.

• All-around nice guy and beady-eyed Heph killer

Officer: Silent-Bob.

• Alliance IT/computer maven

Officer: Integrity First.

• The player name says it all!

Alliance Rules

Each member agrees to abide by the following rules:

1. No attacking fellow alliance members unless they are inactive. This includes probing.
2. Do not use the alliance as a threat towards others.
3. Be polite to not only fellow alliance members, but the community as a whole. Foul language and insubordination will not be tolerated.
4. No begging. It is OK to ask for help. That is how you learn. There are a lot of people here willing to dole out advice.
5. Learn to Fleet and resource save. If you are not in "d", "v", or "p" mode, this is just a way of life if you want to survive.
6. No bullying. This is where you attack the same active target day in and day out the max number of times, in an attempt to drive them away from the game.
7. More of a suggestion than a rule, but get out there on the forums and meet a few people. The people here are better than this game ever will be on it's own.

Alliance NAP's

Phoenix Risen is and has always been a No NAP alliance.

Personal NAP's however are up the each player and DO NOT apply to other members of the alliance.

Alliance-Specific Ranks

HOD members have Alliance-specific ranks that are based on overall SFC ranks:

Highest-ranking non-officer: GOAT (Greatest Over All Total)
2-99: Reincarnated Phoenix
100-299: Candescent Phoenix
300-999: Embered Phoenix
1000+: Hatchling Phoenix
Visitors: Wandering Phoenix

Tools of the Trade

We recommend that our members use the following scripts and tools to enhance their SFC playing experience:

1. The Eljer scripts, for Chrome and Firefox browsers, offer several enhancements to the basic SFC user interface, report reformatting, etc. The original Eljer site no longer is active; we host the scripts at an alternative site;
2. The Open Parser galaxy page parser collects game information whenever a player who has installed the tool navigates to a different solar system using the SFC Galaxy page. The parser then sends the information to a server-based database, where it is stored with information that is collected as other game players navigate from one solar system to another. This collective information then can be accessed and queried to better understand opponents' dispositions, Heph locations and historical tracks, and the location of NPCs.
3. The BattleMentat combat simulator enables you to model a battle before it occurs, thereby enabling you to determine what ships to apply to the battle or whether to run from the fight!

The Greasemonkey scripting engine must be installed into Firefox before any of the above scripts and galaxy parser tools can be installed into that browser. The Greasmonkey home page provides fairly clear instructions regarding how Greasemonkey is used, so we will not repeat those, here.

Similarly, the Tampermonkey user scripts engine needs to be installed into Chrome, Version 35 and higher, before any of the above scripts and galaxy parser tools can be installed into that browser. Once you have Tampermonkey installed, it will show up as an icon to the immediate left of the "Customize and control Google Chrome" icon, and to the right of the edit control into which you enter Web page addresses. Select this icon to open a menu. Select the "Get new scripts..." menu item. Navigate to the page (such as www.eljercode.com) where your user script is located. Download the user script, using whatever link, button, etc., that web page provides for the download. The user script will download into Tampermonkey, which will control its execution from then on, as you navigate within SFC.

For Android phones, most scripts can be made to work by using Firefox for Android and the USI user scripts engine. Firefox can be downloaded from the Google Play Store. USI can be obtained by using the "Firefox: Customize with add-ons" bookmark that comes pre-defined with Firefox for Android. As of this writing, we haven't been able to get the user script which tightly integrates Open Parser with SFC to work,but the eljer scripts and the Battle Mentat integration script seem to work fine.

HOD maintains a Skype chat room for use in plotting attacks or simply talking about SFC and other vitally important aspects of life. Contact Admiral T-Wayne or Eben Bear for access to the chat room.

Sharing Spoils from Multi-Player Engagements

HOD's position is that each participant in a multi-player engagement is a valuable contributor and should share equally in the spoils of war, irrespective of the amount of resources they committed to the engagement. The spoils to be shared are those which remain after each player's expenses (hydro burned as fuel, cost of IPBMs, and cost of destroyed ships) have been covered, to the degree that is feasible, using the acquired resources. The cost of defenses destroyed during a Group Defend are not to be subtracted from the spoils of the GD prior to calculating player shares.

This position applies to players involved in a Group Attack, Group Defend, or debris field pickup. It also applies in the case where a player identifies a target, then asks a particular Alliance member to "provide all the muscle" to take out the target. In this latter case, the identifying player and the active player share equally in the spoils of war. This position does not apply if a player posts an identified target to the Alliance's message board. Any reader of the board is free to take on such targets and has no expected obligation to share in the fruits of war with the poster.

This is the Alliance's default policy. It isn't mandatory. Players are free to negotiate alternative arrangements before performing a multi-player engagement or collaborative operation, such as farming of an inactive. If no such alternative understanding is agreed to before the engagement, it is expected that the involved players will abide by the default policy.

Admission

Please send requests to join to either Admiral T-Wayne or Eben Bear. Please include at least one of your colony locations in the memo box of your request to join.

Urban Legends (or are they?)

• Some rogue Alliance members are running an underground campaign to make the Slurpee the official drink of HOD

• The Alliance suffers from periodic revolts and other acts of subversion by crew droids. The rebel crew droid leader reportedly is named "Wilbur"