We have finally gone through the data, engaged in deep community discussion, and made our final decisions, and after review, we have:
142 players who earned rewards!
With a total reward pool for Season 1 ending up at 116761.44 PIZZA tokens - not too shabby; that's more than 3% of the current total supply and closer to 5% of the circulating supply!
With that amazing news up front, we had a successful, if shorter than expected, first Season of MOON. Let's discuss some expectations and player concerns we heard regarding the outcome.
Rewriting "the rules"
We will be having a very close look and likely rewrite of the rules of the game, largely and entirely due to the end-of-season results. We hope to encourage a lighter atmosphere of onboarding and pushing downward moving forward in Universe 1.
It's very challenging for us to arbitrate "Rules as Written", "Spirit of the Game", and also come to a satisfying result for the season, all at the same time. We have tried to balance this in our final decision.
Final Results - in a few words
@pharesim and The Curators alliance do indeed win the Win Condition for Season 1. While their behavior violates the "rules as written", we believe their heart was in the right place in working together as an alliance to achieve the goal of the season, in a creative way that played to their own advantages over their disadvantages, relative to other teams.
That said, we are providing a stiff "slap on the wrist" for @pharesim, reassigning three records that were earned with help from other players. The three records are the following:
Solar Satellites Record - worth 376.65 PIZZA
- This will be given to the second-place satellite builder, @Hurtlocker
Graviton Research Record - worth 376.65 PIZZA
- As no other player had this record, it will be sent to @Moon.deposit2, the Season 2 rewards pool.
Ion Cannons Record - worth 376.65 PIZZA
- This will be given to @Mrtats, the second-place record holder.
Additional modifications to the payouts:
We, both admins "Eco" and "HT", played the game and decided to forfeit all our End of Season rewards to create a special reward for three players who showed exemplary behavior beyond just playing the game. This will add ~700 PIZZA tokens each to the prize package for each of these three players.
Top Bug Reporter - @mrtats
- Mrtats sent us several detailed bug reports. For some bugs, he took additional time to test and help identify the root cause thoroughly. MOON is an open-source game, and we highly appreciate players who help efforts to make it better for future players.
Top Translator - @incublus
- We were amazed by Incublus's efforts with language translation. The whole Turkish language was completely overhauled from top to bottom. Many players have raised issues related to language translation, and we rely on help from the community to identify and fix these issues. The game supports Spanish, Turkish, French, German, Russian, Portuguese, and Polish languages.
Top Cordiality - @txracer
- Txracer exhibited overall politeness and a calm demeanor while helping other players learn how to play and participating in heated debates about the game.
What's Next for MOON
We will distribute the rewards "soon" and provide a more detailed look at the list in a follow-up post, as there is a lot of work to do moving forward, and we want to keep pressing on all fronts.
A few players have 24 hours to link their Hive accounts (announced in-game), and then rewards will fly out into wallets. We did our best to not only get everything wrapped up as much and as fast as possible, but also to automate the workflow so that it requires less time and effort next time.
One of these players needs our help to create a Hive account. This is amazing! Since one of our goals is to onboard new people to Hive through the game.
Unlinked accounts will essentially donate any rewards they have earned to the Season 2 reward pool, so there is no pressure if a player does not want to create a HIVE account yet.
Preparing for Season 2
We have decided that we need to take our time and carefully consider and address a few key issues before launching Season 2. It is still our intention to do so "as soon as possible", so watch for upcoming announcements that will start framing the rollout.
In the meantime, please enjoy a Story mode Mission and very soon a Tutorial Mode mission in the still very much "alive" Universe 1.
Your MOON admins @ecoinstant and @hivetrending co-authored this blog post.
