(07-23-2023, 11:00 AM)Karst Wrote: Discovery has major issues with scaling; the world has a population in the dozens of billions, but the actual number of players in the game and on the forums is in the low three digits. So everyone is aware of everything, any person with a little bit of free time can keep up with the sum total of all information that is created in the universe.
In my personal opinion, the post that is being complained about does kind of slide into powergaming territory. But if nothing ends up being done about it, it's best to treat it as described above: A crazy conspiracy rant on a website with black background and broken links, because that is in all likelihood what it would be treated as inrp.
(07-23-2023, 01:42 PM)Antonio Wrote: You wrote it better than I would. That and the idea where people often forget we represent such a small percentile of the total population and for the most part your character is just another drop in the sea of ships and characters doing the same things. It goes against the player idea of being the "protagonist", the hero who saves the day and majorly impacts an outcome of entire factions, wars or houses, which is appealing at a first glance. It's important to find the balance between the two, overdoing the hero arc can get too cliche too fast for the quality of the presented roleplay.
On the matter of scale, it's a probabilistic issue similar to two airplanes colliding in flight. They have to be at the same altitude, headed for the same point, and completely out of communication with each other. They will almost never hit each other, even if they're both actively trying to kill each other.
A Sirius-wide communication affecting the story through a particular character depends on a lot of conditions:
The communication has been sent unencrypted, or so trivially encrypted that anyone can break it.
The character is on the appropriate communication channel.
The character is paying attention to the communication.
The communication is persuasive to the character.
The character has the necessary free time, proximity to the problem, and ability to do something about the information they receive.
The communication is not pulled or blocked by network authorities before it is complete.
The character decides to do something about it.
It doesn't matter what the exact probabilities of these conditions are, because having to multiply them all together to get the desired outcome shrinks the probability down toward nothing. It gets even smaller when you realize you need to do this for thousands or millions of people, not just the one.
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