(01-11-2014, 01:12 PM)Haste Wrote: Thinking about this some more, what irks me most is that this promotes metagaming. A lot.
Imagine that I, John the Marduk, post in some weird mindshare thread a fancily-photoshopped image of a player base with some odd semi-Nomad-speech below it about death and destruction.
Now I'm obliged to post in an out-of-roleplay thread that I'm going to blow up this base or die trying. Cool. I understand why.
What's the owner gonna do however? If the base is ill-supplied, they're going to have a couple convoys heading to it with shield fuel and repair commodities. Do they have an inRP reason for this? No, they actually don't, but I think we can all agree that very few people would knowingly let their base be ill-prepared for a siege they know is coming.
Oh I see your point, but what do you expect them to do then, reply back and only when they recieve an anwser they can go and stock it? This is probably the only meta-game that is legit, attacking is easier than stocking, or even building a station. Thus, you shouldn't ask them to give up even more than what they already do. In otherwords, you are making a scene out of it for no real reason. Most stations are within house space, and they are being monitored daily, and they do know not to cause trouble. If however, the rogues decided to attack a station for any reason at all, this gives the owner and the other "meta-gamers" a good chance to form role-play and fun, unless people only shoot bases because they want to kill it and piss someone off ( and let's hope not - its not the type of people we need around here ).
