Powergaming/Metagaming/Powerplaying

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The other day I was bored in my Rogue tagged/ID'd Werewolf in New York. I was blasting NPCs because I hadn't quite gotten the hang of piracy yet and continued to fail at it. However, all the NPCs in my hold gave me an idea.

I hid in the debris field, and issued out a distress call on System chat of an NPC Navy recruit, John somethingorother. I forget what I called his last name. I then RP'd him giving the location, as well as a list of all the other NPCs in my hold, which included a BHG and a few VIPs and civilians. I then RP'd my character, Ketzel, discovering that he had escaped from the hold and managed to send out a communication, shooting him in the leg to shut him up. My character, smirking all the while, admitted it was true, and that since the opportunity had presented itself, offered up the whole of his cargo of NPCs for 1 million credits ransom.

A BHG indie found me, and after I gave him the BH in my hold for free, and the LN made it clear that they weren't going to offer to pay for the hostages and would rather let them die, payed the ransom himself. Which immediately pissed off the LN that was in charge, who declared him an enemy of Liberty.

It was very fun RP, and it was boring in NY until that time. Hopefully, some newbies who hadn't seen RP before got to see what happened, and hopefully, others got a kick out of hearing it.

Was this powergaming? I didn't mean it to be. The only thing is, I see it being somewhat similar to the Joker's RP with the Zoners, with the exception that with the Joker's RP he had previous OORP discussions with some Zoner players on the subject first.

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I was going to turn your ship into something that would have been better named "Lada" but I was told to be nice.