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Hi , Im a new member and I love this game a lot . I mean its the best game in world for me
So I played for the first time and I won the game , here is a gold medal but Its kinda worthless ! I cant see myself in leaderboard (which rank I am) or I dont see even a congratulations message nor a privilege.
Dont get me wrong , what I love about this game is there are no privileges in this game but new colors , and these kinda harmless things would be nice . Also I cant add any friend (in app thing)so I can play with them any other time?
So these are my questions , tell If I get these things right and didnt miss any page or something

Winning and getting the medal helps you in the future. If you have a lot of medals in less games played, you will be seen as a strong player and people may want to work with you. Alternative, I personally don't want to work with someone who has played 25 games and never won a medal.

For adding them, I think you can click their outpost, click the info button at the top, then in the top right should be a heart (unless that's just for L2 but I don't think so). After that, if you join a new game, invite your friend and press the heart button.mit will show you a list of other people you have payed with, and have your 'hearts' at the top. You can send an invite which they will recieve through email.

mathwhiz9 wrote:Winning and getting the medal helps you in the future. If you have a lot of medals in less games played, you will be seen as a strong player and people may want to work with you. Alternative, I personally don't want to work with someone who has played 25 games and never won a medal.

For adding them, I think you can click their outpost, click the info button at the top, then in the top right should be a heart (unless that's just for L2 but I don't think so). After that, if you join a new game, invite your friend and press the heart button.mit will show you a list of other people you have payed with, and have your 'hearts' at the top. You can send an invite which they will recieve through email.

Oh thats nice! Thanks ! But I personally think people with less experience and medal are the best!(or me being naïve is better) So not really helpfull on that part .

I typically target stronger players first haha, because I feel lots of gold medals means the player has a better chance of successfully backstabbing/deceiving me. Even though that makes no sense for me to think as I personally have a good ratio right now and I rarely backstab, just good at getting people rallied for large scale gang shank. This game got me paranoid.

stormeagle wrote:I typically target stronger players first haha, because I feel lots of gold medals means the player has a better chance of successfully backstabbing/deceiving me. Even though that makes no sense for me to think as I personally have a good ratio right now and I rarely backstab, just good at getting people rallied for large scale gang shank. This game got me paranoid.

I used to think that way, but then thought more about what leads to my success in games, which is fair dealing and sticking to agreements even if there isn't a short term maximization of value for me. As long as I've negotiated fairly and agreed, keeping my word has earned me far more than betrayal has. I've tried both routes and working well with others has been far more successful.

I think that players who have been long term successful are players who certainly know what they are doing tactics wise so they are more feared as adversaries, but these players also tend have the diplomacy part figured out too. You probably want them as allies, more than you want someone with no medals, and even more so than those who have quit several games. Quitting a high percentage of games makes it far more likely that the player will quit if things get hard, and it's when things are hard that you most need a good ally. Since you want to be sure that an alliance is good for the long term and you have someone who will stick with things (agreements and the game in general) on your side - my matrix for rating who to work with is to first avoid those who quit and then to prioritize finding an ally with a good medal count.

Of course, I'm only L1, so I only play in casual matches, medals might mean different things in the more competitive ranked play environment, but here in the noob lands lots of casual games - a good number of medals has more often translated into dependable than it has materialized as 'threat'.

dybdalli-lama wrote:Of course, I'm only L1, so I only play in casual matches, medals might mean different things in the more competitive ranked play environment, but here in the noob lands lots of casual games - a good number of medals has more often translated into dependable than it has materialized as 'threat'.

In L2 land, it's the same. Most people with a good medal count have been honest and were able to build an alliance that kept them strong also in the end part. Of course there will be exceptions, but people with good profiles can be good partners.

There is of course the risk that they know more tricks and that in the alliance you could build with them, they'll be the stronger player in the end game. But mostly if you wanna take them out, I see how someone would want to do it early game. If there's no early agressor you could say "Hey, he seems pretty good, let's take care of him before things get out of hand."