moonshot

[GoodTaste]

Does "moonshot" here mean "hitting with a missile"?

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moonshot
In one moonshot, all systems told the men to abort.
From the Hansard archive
Players in an alliance will often give each other moonshots by attacking a certain amount of ships purposefully left behind.
From Wikipedia

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https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/moonshot

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

No, it doesn't. It's a noun.

In the first example, a moonshot is an attempt to launch a rocket to the moon: In one attempt to launch a rocket to the moon, all systems told the men to abort.

I don't know what the second example means. I wonder if it's a term used in a game.

 

[GoodTaste]

Yes. The second example is particularly puzzling.

 

[jutfrank]

Moons

Moons are created when a debris field is large enough to form together. The largest debris fields will yield a maximum 20 percent chance of creating a Moon, and they will also create the Moons with the most available space. Players in an alliance will often give each other "moonshots" by attacking a certain number of ships purposefully left behind.


See the bold parts. Notice the use of inverted commas around moonshots to show that the term has been explained.

From here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OGame#Moons

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

From here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OGame#Moons

Aha. Then it IS from a game. That's what I suspected.