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*Screenshot right after joining.*

Moon is a new game built by a team on Hive that caters to different types of players:
* it is a space strategy game
* you can build your space empire
* you can build alliances or annihilate enemies
* you can farm inactive players (you should read the [rules](https://moon.hive.pizza/index.php?page=rules), tough)
* but you can also play it without taking much of your time, over long-enough periods of time
* there are various leaderboards for competitive players
* the game seems to have quite a bit of depth (check out [this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t64JxDVQ14M) by @ecoinstant made right before resetting the public testing universe)
* it works well on mobile
* it works for Web 2 players, with a small layer of Web 3

For long time users of Hive (back to the previous chain)... do you remember the St**mNova game? That game was fun and got people excited. Unfortunately, the game economy was broken due to the rewards and usage of multi-accounts in a profitable manner, and it was a one-time thing - when conditions to end the game were met, it wasn't restarted again.

I briefly tried out Moon in the testing phase. I didn't continue because it seemed quite overwhelming at the time (as I said, it has depth), and knowing it would be only a few weeks away until the game will launch I thought I'd better start fresh like everyone else, even if that puts me at the same level of understanding of the game as everybody, more or less.

Moon is a fork of St**mNova from the gameplay perspective (which is based on oGame for those familiar to it), but we don't know much about how rewards will work. What we know is that the PIZZA token will be involved. By depositing PIZZA tokens, one gets Pizzabits in-game. Not sure exactly how those can be used, because anything game-related doesn't need Pizzabits to be developed. But from what I read between the lines from the [announcement](https://peakd.com/hive-185582/@hive.pizza/announcing-moon-launch-and-getting-started-guide), part of the PIZZA deposited to get Pizzabits will be used to distribute to players as rewards. One can also get Pizzabits from expeditions, besides deposits.

Unlike St**mNova, Moon will also have seasons (i.e. universes), lasting many months each. When condition for victory are met in one universe, the game is reset, and things start over from scratch. Possibly with different end of season (universe) conditions.

That gives everyone a chance to restart from the same level in the new universe, and new players can join all the time, while keeping the game exciting for them too. If they join during a season but after a while, they can use the remaining season to learn the game, so they can start the new universe with a good routine about the game. If they join at the beginning of a season/universe, they benefit of similar conditions, although, of course, older players already know what to focus on early on and could get a head start, but that advantage can quickly disappear, if we have involved players who like this type of game and have a little time to look around at first.

I hope the game will have as fewer exploits as possible now that it will go out into the wild, because it has the potential to be fun, engaging, and a magnet to Web 2 gamers to Hive, indirectly.

Now... Getting back to building my space empire...  💪  [Join](https://moon.hive.pizza) if you want to. No referral link, apparently.

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