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Here's a hate-inducing truth — over the past three months, more than half of the fake stones our guild eliminated were ones I personally buried.

Don't rush to criticize. In this Pixels place, those who bury stones and those who dig them up are essentially grasshoppers on the same string. If you don't believe me, let me break down the numbers for you.

I set my sights on the neighboring 'Reapers' guild purely because their defense was too tight. There were patrols at 2 AM and again at 5 AM, leaving me empty-handed for three straight days. The more they defended, the more pumped I got — tighter defense means higher Yieldstone output from that mining area. Eventually, I figured out their shift change window and slipped in the fake stones during that fifteen-minute handover. By the time they realized, the day's settlement was already past.

So we pulled off four rounds, and our guild was in an uproar. The defense lead was cursing in the channel, 'Which idiot keeps launching sneak attacks in the middle of the night?' I was holding back laughter and almost lost my composure.

Luke mentioned in that interview last year that the reporting success rate sits around 67%. I thought that number was insane. Think about it—67% means if I bury a stone, the enemy has a one in three chance of tossing away BERRY for nothing, while my expected cost is only 0.67 stones in reporting fees. How could I not take that deal? But on the flip side, if the enemy knows I’m calculating like this, they'll tighten their patrols, forcing me to move my strike time to an even more obscure hour. Back and forth, the amount of BERRY burned on both sides just keeps increasing, muddying the whole pool.

How should I put it, Luke is quite shrewd. He doesn’t force you to fight; he just gives you a sheet that says, 'Every time you annoy the enemy, the system takes a little cut, but you might profit too.' Isn’t that just the most cunning way to implement RORS? Every 1 dollar of destruction means the enemy has to fork out 1.5 dollars to fill the gap, and the capital turnover just skyrockets.

Last month, someone in the group shared some data saying the customer acquisition cost for Pixels dropped by nearly 40%. My first reaction was: duh. The two newbies in our guild didn’t come in because of ads; they saw me and the 'Reaper' going at it on the street and thought, 'Wow, this game can be played like this,' and came knocking for a spot. You know how people are—they might take a hundred bucks in a red envelope and run, but if you make them hate an ID, they'll set alarms just to log in and watch you.

Now when I open Pixels every day, the first thing I do isn’t collecting crops, but checking the progress bar of the neighboring guild. If they're climbing faster than us, I start plotting—should I strike at 1 AM or just go for the 4 AM window when they’re most tired?

A guild bro asked me the other day if I get tired from thinking about this stuff every day.

Yeah, it’s exhausting. But if you ask me whether I’d go back to playing those solo mining chain games where no one even chats? No way. I’d want to uninstall that after three days. This current chaotic situation of 'you stab me, I stab you' is tough, but at least every day I wake up knowing—someone's waiting for me to make a move.

Is Luke intentionally manipulating people's emotions like this? Forcing everyone to act like spies, yet they all seem to enjoy it.

If you ask me, he’s doing it on purpose. @Pixels #pixel $PIXEL