Good afternoon, Gentlemen and, if availiable, Ladies!

 I finally got here! Five years of Sins, and here is my first forum post. Today I would like to start an interesting topic, which, as I was told, had been already discussed in ancient times. I will be listing current multiplayer personalities, giving them rankings, explaining their tactics, and giving a description of their strengths and weaknesses. Let the Flying Pasta Monster forgive me for that.

This topic will be regularly enhanced and updated. I don't think I will handle it all at once. And yes, I have not yet decided whether I will talk about myself here .

I will be making different interactive menus etc., but I am not sure how to do that on this forum; I will appreciate any help and support from both administration and community. Let's begin! 

The maximum general star rank is 7 stars; for everything else - 5 stars.

The Best of the Best

These are the five greatest sins player for December 2013; the numbers are "ranks" in the top.

 1. Grimm (steam name: Grimm)

Strategy ***** - Tactics ***** - Eco spot ***** - Suicide spot **** - Combat skills *****

Style: conservative, researcher, "micro" 

Preferred faction: random player

Best faction: non-vasari

Strengths: effective fleet control, great tactical vision, unpredictable

Weaknesses: no major weaknesses; he can be defeated by very aggressive play. As of 14 Dec 2013, the author wasn't able to defeat or equally fight Grimm without feed advantage.

2. Doci (steam name: Fuhrer)

Strategy ***** - Tactics ***** - Eco spot ***** - Suicide spot **** - Combat skills ****

Style: agressive, spammer, dominator

Preferred faction: random player

Best faction: TEC Rebel

Strengths: colonization and expansion, timing, assault and attacking, resource control

Weaknesses: sometimes overexpands, too self-confident and therefore doesn't expect much from weaker players

3. Ghost (steam name: Ghost)

Strategy **** - Tactics ***** - Eco spot **** - Suicide spot ***** - Combat skills *****

Style: very agressive and very annoying "micro"

Preferred faction: random player

Best faction: TEC

Strengths: mainly very effective combat and tactical vision

Weaknesses: late game fleeting

4. Pemi (steam name: drunk&happy)

Strategy **** - Tactics ***** - Eco spot **** (for him its just another combat spot; Pemi rarely feeds) - Suicide spot **** - Combat skills *****

Style: domination, defensive vs good opponents

Preferred faction: Vasari Loyalist

Best faction: any, IMO Pemi is better as Advent than VL

Strengths: rushing, late game

Weaknesses: predictable, early game vs. skilled Advent or TEC

5. Faernal (steam name: Faernal)

Strategy **** - Tactics ***** - Eco spot ***** - Suicide spot ***** - Combat skills ****

Style: establisher, imperialistic, supporter

Preferred faction: Advent Rebel

Best faction: same

Strengths: game vision, ability use, team player

Weaknesses: bad researcher, too often falls to Red Button

Here I will begin to list players without such a detailed "top" ranking. The reason for it is that it was already hard to make  a well-grounded list of the Best; for the main mass of players it will be impossible. I will try to list all main multiplayer figures: I kindly ask the community to assist and remind me of what I might have forgotten.

I will also try to give possible counters to their main tactics, where applicable. 

Multiz ******* (steam name: Multiz)

Style: agressive, imperialistic

Preferred faction: Vasari Loyalist

Strengths and weaknesses, counters: you can defeat Multiz by making something unexpected. He is usually preparing for what he sees and doesnt scout extensively. E.g., if you were spamming cobalts and stopped increasing fleet, he will probably not expect mass LRM or corvettes coming from behind - more cobalts at best. He always forgets about mine control on Drone Host. But, regardless, he is a great sins master and don't expect things to be easy if you are against him. In eco spot he will almost always end fighting, especially as Vasari.

Achilloraptor ******* (steam name: Dr. Raptor) 

Style: agressive, expansionistic

Preferred faction: TEC  or Advent (in more recent games)

Strengths and weaknesses, counters: a great spammer with a good tactical vision, he will not go in any kind of suicide combat. Never let him outspam you early game - if Mike grabs the chokes you are dead; that's his biggest strength when he is in control.