Roleplay - A guide

[Derkylos]

Munchkin (noun) someone who endlessly min-maxes every character they ever have in order to gain the most advantage from each character.

Hmm...Munchkins are usually described as those that bend the rules of game mechanics (not possible in freelancer), in order to gain an advantage over everyone else. Your definition more accurately represents a "power-player", which is the kind of guy that will look at the numbers over the RP aspect.

This is not to say that powerplaying and RPing are mutually exclusive...you are no better at Rping if you use class 3 guns than you are if you use class 9s. In fact, some may say it is bad RP to intentionally nerf yourself, as most people in RL would prefer to be good at what they do.

Power playing becomes a bad thing when the person in question disreguards RP in favor of power play
(2xtizona+4xnomad on a Sabre is powerplaying with no respect to RP, 2xDebs+4xKrakens on the same ship is powerplaying with respect to RP)

Other than that, I totally agree that noone can "win" at RPing, but it is very easy to "lose" ('tho the correct term is, really, "fail"), and I have definetly witnessed a large number of people "failing" on Disco, and, yes, I find this sad...

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