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^ These fine examples above are what I am talking about.

Playing the game beyond the rules established, playing the game more than the game intended.

Fitting balance numbers are considered part of the game as they all wind up effecting numbers on the field when it comes to shooting each other.

Getting people to back stab your supposed best friend, causing immeasurable damage well beyond DPS numbers an AR can put out in a million life times. Deleting your corp or booting the CEO out in a hostile take over and getting it pitted into a war it cannot win nor stop.

Watching your little empire crumble because you trusted the wrong guy.

Then getting your revenge....

This is meta-gaming. You are all playing it and those most unaware of it are pawns on the board.

Kitten Meta gaming. If CCP wants to have meta gaming in a FPS they can say goodbye to Dust. FPS don't like meta gaming. They like shooting people in the face. Dust reviews across the board have been subpar.

we can destroy your corporation in PC. make you hate this game.

There's an MMO called EVE Online. Perhaps you've heard of it? By many accounts it is a terrible game. It's PVE is predictable, and unengaging to the point that automation is seen in some cases as a requirement. It's PVP consists of hours of intense boredom punctuated by moments of extreme excitement. And yet, in spite of this, it has persevered. In fact, it has flourished because of one of the strongest player driven meta-games and player driven narratives on the market. If that doesn't interest you then you best get out, because I'd rather see dust burn than turn into another run of the mill sub-par call of duty clone.

I need people like you around - how else am I going to farm like by being awesome in comparison? :D

Eve has an extensive meta game and is completely newbie friendly. I even made a guide. https://dpwf7uc3ns479.cloudfront.net/newbie-guide-final-2013.pdf

Also I've been doing nothing but making this game Newbie friendly for the roughly 300 neck beards under my care who've joined in the last two weeks. Hard to get much newer than that, we have to teach them which end of the rifle shoots try hard MAG burnouts.

CCP doesn't try to allow for mechanics that allow meta-gaming abuse. Majority of the meta gaming in Eve is usually at the fault of the players for allowing it to happen.

What Dust and CEOs alike need to do is make the rewards for being loyal higher than the fun factor of trolling your own team. Meta game is what I came for, without it, Dust is just your average shooter with worse graphics and a half assed NPC marketplace. I love all this spy stuff and teamkilling, but when anyone can do it without consequence, it becomes stupid. In Dust, you can't place bounties, can't go after people, and can't really check identities. It's just too easy.