Congratulations to all the mentees for killing me! Thank you for this experience, there were many good discussions which inspired me to reflect Planets. During next months I will create a manuscript for next mentor game based on these discussions, and I will make new videos and texts which I hope will be of better quality and give all the needed information in smaller and more easily digestible pieces.
@Yuggoth wonderful to hear about you! I'm looking forward to see you again in a game. It's important part of playing Planets that you know when you've got time to play so you won't experience Planets burnout. So it's very smart to have a pause every now and then.
@Mobibu - perhaps @Thorwen taught us the most important lesson of all: in the end, the game is called Planets. It doesn't matter if you have the best fleet or how many ships or skillful enemies you have defeated in a game; at the end the one with most Planets wins. So, if Thorwen's strategy was "counterproductive" for the aims of the MvM game format, then perhaps there is some reason to alter the reward system so it wouldn't promote this kind of behaviour (explanation for outsiders reading this post: Thorwen mostly concentrated to take planets from other mentees and left me, the mentor, alone, expect sending some Patriots against me and a lone powerful Rush only at the very end). But that is perhaps morally questionable, but not against the site rules.
Then again, I can't know if he has cheated here or not (meaning if he used multiple accounts to organize ship transfer from Birmen to himself and took the planets to "illegally" boost his planet count). I have informed @Big+Beefer about this game and it's admins' job to decide if something like that has happened or not. I personally like to think people are innocent until proven guilty, so I'd like to congratulate Thorwen on having the most planets at the end - you really have a consistent, aggressive and ruthless strategy, it was very efficient although it might not prove to be very good strategy in the long run: Planets.nu is a public game with public profiles which gain reputation. If one becomes known as a ruthless and difficult player, it for example could prove to be difficult to do alliances and trade in future games. |
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