Why so much fear of metagamers...

[Zelot]

And the "Encoded" message I saw the other day... Don't get me wrong I love the guy who made it I really do...
But by RP ALL messages on the Communications forum are "encoded" if we all start using the same "encoding" technique then the entire Communication forum will be full of this.

AHFOPWAFOAWOIFWAJFPAWOKF{WAKFAWK{FAW
WAPJFPWJAFIPAWJFPIJAWPFIJWAIPFJAWPIFJAW
AWJPFPIAWJPFIWJAFPIW

At which point... Why have the forum at all?


Sure you may be Metagamed... and sure that may spoil your RP a little... but it also
spoils your RP by not using the forums to communicate as your faction/person actually
would...

Whether you don't RP the way you should due to the fear of metagaming, or your
rp is forced to change due to metagaming... both are just as bad...

Might as well just take the risk of RPing properly the way your faction would... it makes it
so much easier for the majority of the people on Disco who want to RP with you and
understand why your doing the actions your doing instead of all your RP being in Private
skype channels or going unrecorded on the Discovery server and leaving the rest of us
perplexed as to why you are shooting us one minuite and talking to us about how our soup
is the next....

//end of rant

I am a firm believer in this line of thought.

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