Understanding Discovery Roleplay...

[sovereign]

I have characters in the Rheinland Military, the Bundschuh, Das Wilde, etc...

As such, I have access to the military's member forums, the Keepers forums, the Volksfront forums, and know plenty of stuff that could screw any given faction.

Each character is in one (1) faction. They don't know all the stuff I do. So, if it isn't relevant and in-character, I pretend I don't know it. The RM don't know where the Wilde base is. The Bundschuh don't know the intricacies of RM battleship operation. So I act accordingly. Its really easy.

If you RP as a spy, then okay, you RP as a spy. When you are found out, you are attacked as a spy, then go report what your character knows to his parent faction if he lives.

If you RP as a not-spy and use your forum access to be an RL-spy, as soon as the parent faction probes into it and finds out your source, you'll shortly get kicked from both factions, banned from both forums, and there will likely be a public thread detailing both your exploits and how neither faction will tolerate any such buggery, which will likely get you kicked from all other factions and shunned by everyone.

There was such a thing awhile back, where someone with both a Lane Hacker and an SA offered to "hack" someone the SA teamspeak password or some such. Xoria, leader of the Lane Hackers, condemned the action openly, and gave a nice threat that if they went through with it, then the admins would have a nice, shiny ban request.

We are a community, when we fight with people our characters are fighting against each other while the players fight with each other. It matters not whether you win or lose, the point is to have fun- if an action isn't fun for everyone, it usually gets condemned by most people and gets you shot if you do it. Like chasing fighters in battleships, for example.

That being said, I'd like the Darkwings to read what I just wrote. They have a "no multi-clanning" policy that causes no end of integration problems and has burned a lot of bridges.

We're all one big, happy family here, not a bunch of clans struggling for supremacy.

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