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A question about bases. - Lythrilux - 07-14-2014
(07-14-2014, 11:07 AM)Lythrilux Wrote: If a base is Core one,
and Core one bases can be blown up without RP,
does that mean you're free to metagame them?
This crossed my mind earlier today. No one ever answered, so I thought I'd make a thread. (Not saying I would do this, I'm just curious).
RE: A question about bases. - Lord.MacRae - 07-14-2014
May you explain what you understand exactly in "metagaming a Core 1 base" please?
RE: A question about bases. - Lythrilux - 07-14-2014
(07-14-2014, 11:42 PM)Lord.MacRae Wrote: May you explain what you understand exactly in "metagaming a Core 1 base" please?
Using knowledge that your character (the character that blows up the base) would not know normally. E.g if you used a Rogue ID'd ship to find the base, then used a Navy ID'd Capital ship to blow it up.
RE: A question about bases. - Alvin - 07-14-2014
My simple guess is just no as its against server rules ? But I guess there are almost no way you can prove that unless you confessed or made it really oblivious.
RE: A question about bases. - HassLHoFF™ - 07-15-2014
Still don't understand why destroying a Core 1 base doesn't require RP though. It's a RP server and all actions should/must contain RP.
RE: A question about bases. - Highland Laddie - 07-15-2014
@Hasslehoff - the same reason it doesn't require RP to construct a Core 1 base. It's a self-policing rule to help prevent troll bases from appearing. It helps police PoBs without giving the Admins more work to approve-disapprove them until they go for Core 3.
RE: A question about bases. - St.Denis - 07-15-2014
So are you trying to suggest that Bases above Core 1 are never metagamed and then sieged? I am sure that Bases have been found by certain Characters and then conveniently 'found' again by a Character that can legally destroy it.
I would think it rather naive to think otherwise and as somebody said before 'How do you prove it'?
RE: A question about bases. - AceofSpades - 07-15-2014
Would be impossible to reliably prove unless it absolutely fell into your lap.
I'd say typically you just take the knowledge for what it's worth and move on to the next Core 1.
RE: A question about bases. - Sath - 07-15-2014
Almost anything we do, while we see the player list and log in a ship that is near the "action scene" can be considered metagaming. But if we can RP it out, then fine. Like, we know a base is there. But when we bring our character to seige it, we can justify it by saying that while on patrol/ or some random crapchat, we can prove that our character somehow got to know the presence of the base
This can be considered borderline metagaming, and not much can be done about it, since there are loopholes in RP which you can use to prove that you are not metagaming. Also, how come you know that he logged in his police character, found the base and siegeing it with another character. If you are defending it in game, like you tell him "You dont know the location of this base.....and so on" in game, this can also be considered metagaming right? Since your cahracter wouldnt have known if he was here before, and how the police character of him suddenly turned to something else.
RE: A question about bases. - Fluffyball - 07-15-2014
(07-15-2014, 12:17 AM)HassLHoFF Wrote: Still don't understand why destroying a Core 1 base doesn't require RP though. It's a RP server and all actions should/must contain RP.
He got the point. If we want to be RP server, we must preserve this RP.