[Ryu-Kazuki]

Neus » Sun Feb 22, 2015 3:29 pm[/url]"]Metagaming is against the rules; any OOC information used as IC information is not valid. If it happens, tell a GM and it can be verified if the information was passed ICly or if it needs to be 'retconned'.

Well most of that is pretty obvious Dev; but with Skype and the way people act around here, it's not beyond people to pretend to be another person just to get IC information and make all their characters act upon with with some sort of pulled out of their ass IC reason to back it up. It's just difficult to provide information since Skype is like a message system between people and some of them like to be spiteful and relay information to people who have no business with it in the first place. Without any proof of that, there's nothing you can really point out to a GM unless you somehow knew who was telling who and had some logs or something.

Not that I'm arguing with you, Dev; I'm just saying it's not always possible for us to prove that it's really metagame or not.

In light of the discussion though, we can't really provide any impact on anything because everyone has to have the spotlight on them, and the moment you step in with a challenge or conflict, the masses will swarm you until you're literally dead (I've had people try to force me to kill antagonists before). So, honestly it's a combination of both; gameplay mechanics, and playerbase that contributes to things not being able to actually do anything interesting in terms of chaos or peace disturbance.

But; even if there was, it shouldn't be something stupid like a case of Ameratsu and Allaina syndrome from SL1 again. Even the big bads should have some structure behind their reason for being an event character, and a weakness of course.