Pissed Off –
Hopefully that got your attention and I need your advice and thoughts.
I love planets and planets.nu is awesome, bringing back my renewed love for the game. As we all know planets is a game of commitment and sometimes long commitments, I am currently in a game that has was started in 2012, over 2 years now.
I also appreciate the variety of diplomatic approaches and understand that some believe that anything goes: backstabbing, false information, spying, sharing information, etc. The bird race (Romulans) even have such features that turn traditional diplomatic relations into a weapon.
However, I have one complain, one thing I hate about planets, one thing that has me so upset that at some point it might drive me to quit playing all together = cheating.
When I mean cheating I mean playing TWO races at the same time.
This has happened to me on more than one occasion and now more recently in a game in which it could change the tides.
Here is the scenario:
You are in a game and have worked out some relationships with fellow players; share intel, secret alliances, safe passages, and neutral zones. The game progresses and you are now in some big battles – your allies work with you to destroy other races and trade with you.
Then – for whatever reason – one of your allies drops in the middle of a long ongoing battle. I don’t like it, but I understand. Real life, forgetting to get your turns in, whatever – they are no longer there.
I also welcome a NEW player to join and pick-up with the other ally left off. I usually drop “share intel” down to “safe passage” until I know what will happen next. Your ally may become your enemy - I understand a new player may assess the information and decide to do something different.
Yet – what happens when this new player that has joined in the dropped player slot is just one of the other players in the game? We know this is cheating and we are not supposed to do it, but it has happened on a few occasions.
Recently this has happened to me. My ally from the beginning of the game dropped and now a new player has taken his place. This new player is a brand new account, no history, no other games, nothing. A free account.
Logic and Reason would dictate that this is not an ACTUAL new player, for if it was they would most likely play a test game, join a beginner game, join a mentor game. In this case however, they had to SEARCH for a game already in progress and then select a drop race that is not doing very well and join in as them. This happened very quickly.
While it is only conjecture – I believe I figured out WHO it might be. I don’t want to make accusations, which are based solely on conjecture – but this is nuts.
This game can go south very quickly because of the intel they have on me, where there ships are, and a host of things. Now true – a new player legitimate player could decide to do the same thing, but that new player would also NOT have the information and also power of being an existing player with two accounts.
So what do I do, now and in the future?
Now – do vocalize my concern in the game with everyone?
Future - This disturbs me so much that I have actually considered to create my own second account to use when a long-term ally drops a game so some other enemy may not do so in a nefarious fashion. My justification would be that we ARE allies, see everything, and know everything. However, I do NOT want to cheat either, because it ruins the spirit of the game.
This is the second time this has happened to me. What to do – it is beyond frustrating. I know it is a game and it normally wouldn’t be a problem, but since I have put in weeks, months, and sometimes YEARS into a single game – to have it all come unraveled because a player wishes to CHEAT – it just so unnerving it pisses me off.
What are your thoughts?
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