Rules around Cloak and Rp Clarification

[Michela Calliente]

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.

I also understood this to be the root of the problem. Not how the evidence was obtained but the gravity of the discovery. Although the general view - the idea behind it was to simply spice things up between Order and Phoenix. Order could have investigated and ruled out that Phoenix is not actually infected. I certainly don't think Phoenix would be destroyed completely from that single RP but I am more than willing to accept staff's ruling if the basis is that the faction would be destroyed.

Either way - the rules would benefit from being updated insofar as what one can do with a cloak inRP and what one can't. As one of the point from the admins was that apparently there's absolutely no counter-play to cloaks. Or at least a clarification on what are areas/NPC bases that are allegedly completely inaccessible to player. Or how can one uncover infection. In this case, the station is not even the discovery - the players were followed to a station of unknown but alien origin with alien NPC/infrastructure clearly not shooting them.

If the only acceptable ways to discover infection are:
- The Wild purposefully uses Nomad style of communication
- The Wild uses Nomad weapons & equipment

In my view, this needs to be added to the rules or there needs to be a clarification at least. More importantly staff needs to align internally as before the RP was published - the Story Head / Lead Dev was asked if this is okay and it was given explicit confirmation that ''yes'' it is not breaking any rules. Another staff member also said this is fine from a sanction perspective.