(not directing any of this to your reply, but just commenting about the game itself and developing on that, since I read the post you mentioned too)

Its easy to ban accounts that help each other on ogame. On the old times "Pushing" was instantaneous ban... and the only way to do it, would be by destroying ships and then recycling.

But that can be spotted too, and it was prevented with the 3 strike rule and buffering that with exponential curve.

All of these (and many others) was tested with thousands of people many years ago, across all the globe.

I think if people just think about the rewards, they will be unhappy (at least that's how I see games). But obviously they are free to do so. Either way, the game admins will have to choose what to do...

Some games on Hive, the fun of playing it, is also to support (from my side at least), and ultimately for me is a studying process... I want and am always eager to understand what works and what doesn't... spot suckers and anonymously fuck them completely. Its kind of a dark side on me.

Either way, I try first, to have fun, otherwise I just disengage. Life is too short to be following the "nowhere" path.