Your main job as a PlanetWars player is to foster teamwork and cooperation with the other people in your faction ingame. Coordinate with your team on things like who starts air, what factories are best and what strategies to use. You'll be playing every game with these people so get to know them. If you are losing a game, your job is to snipe the enemy command centre.
The PlanetWars metagame is really complicated, requires coordination and strategy, and the cannot really be played by just anyone on the ground. If you'd like to learn how to play the metagame, just sit in the faction chat channel and ask a lot of questions. The elected officials can basically run all the war and economy aspects and have access to the whole factions resources. It's a bit sad that it turns out this way but without this, 'winning' PW consists of going around and harassing every player to use their ships or metal (Or send them to you so you can use them), which is massively time consuming, very annoying for players who don't care about PW and is not really very fun.
