[Mighteh]

whats wrong with being interested purely in himself ?

And as to XP. I XP whored that round aswell, so i just speak from experience.

My fleet was as follows:

DE pods = 120
BS pods = 60
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and i was very successfull, achieving 6 mill SCORE and starting only on tick 900.

Now u go figgure, if that makes me a good player ;/

Scanning for others does not make you a good PA player.

Being good AC and DC makes you a good officer, not a good player.

Waking up when u need to, making smart tactical moves, building balanced fleet, knowing what to send at a given target, and stuff like that makes you a good player. Those who went XP just had no need for any of the above...

Lets say you get defence, then u quickly calc up your losses (wich were usualyl WELCOMED as they lowered your score) versus amounts of roids (and XP) gained. it was just ideotic, that i hit JBG twice a week, besides other targets, and got away wtih it (given, noone ever defended him, but thts my POINT, deam it) Game was not meant to play like that. U are supposed to be biggest baddest planet out there with biggest baddest fleet. What does XP make you,really ? just the guy who landed on most roids, but also who LOST the most roids in order to artificially decrease your value ? pfft