To Lane Hackers

[SnakThree]

This would be a very very boring game if nobody used the playerlist, seeing as how roleplay hinges on interaction, and their interaction with you is perfectly well within their bounds of roleplay.
Interactions are fine. If they are created by characters. Not by players

Get escorts, take a different route. Don't whine about it on the forums.
This was our RP. I specifically ordered to take certain route to raise activity of my guys. I knew it would draw attention of certain players/character. But not 2/3 attempts to trade we get metagiming Hacker in Colorado that logged onlyfor the sake of robbing IC and gets offline after that.

And if the Lane Hacker ship or ships in question had been sitting on the lane for an hour waiting for you or someone else to come along, would you have continued on?
They were not. After 5th or 6th time of getting pirated my guys started to suspect something fishy. I myself checked it and found out that certain Hacker logged on only after we reached Shikoku

If they had been lying in wait quite obviously on the player list, would you continue exactly along your planned route into their ambush or would you use the information to change your route and avoid them?

We do not metagame, at least not hurt others fun

Frankly, I find this thread a bit sickening.
From what I am interpreting, you're accusing other players of not wasting time lying in wait and of using information that is readily available.

Information is avialable for players, not for characters

Do you know realize how many systems we have in this mod? Do you realize how large each of those systems truly are?
I do. Do you realize how much time we have wasted to get "drop all of the cargo"

Some metagaming is in fact required in order to actually play the game without making it into more than a second job...without making it into a second life itself.

We play game for fun. If somebody uses inaccesible information for character only for the sake of his fun it's wrong

Suspension of disbelief.

Sometimes, you need to stop asking how something happened and just accept that it did, move along.

I would. As should all of you who are not involved, nor invited to participate in this discussion

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