Rules around Cloak and Rp Clarification

[Semir Gerkhan]

Someone from the staff please correct me if I'm wrong.

After reading several staff members in this and other threads who talk about the same thing, it's pretty clear to me that what has prompted the warning is neither the use of the cloak to spy, nor the "discovery" of Lichtenfelde secret base.

It's the use of the info obtained in this way and its spreading in RP to other factions that the staff has deemed inappropriate, because they consider it's excessively damaging to those affected.

As the staff has already expressed on other occasions, player RP is 99.9% non-canon, so what we players do in RP will almost never affect the development of the story. To say it in some way, canon is shielded from what players can do in RP.

So, from what I understand, the only point here seems to be that the consequences of spreading that evidences would have been so damaging to the affected player factions that it would have practically destroyed them in RP. And that is understood by the staff to be not fun for the players, so this is the reason why the warning has been made. Warning, not a sanction, because it hasn't really been considered that the authors have done so in bad faith.

However, this is only what I understood from what the staff members have explained. I still think that the use of the cloak should be regulated so that there are no uncertain situations like the current one. I see that there are still subjective discussions between players about what is the incorrect way to use a cloak, or when metagaming is done using it, which shows that it's not something that is clear to the community.

A clarification thread, like the one recently posted about ganking, linked to the rules thread, would be perfect for this issue as well.