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Posted - 2013.05.21 02:35:00 -
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Tuna the Fish wrote:Is there any way to fully enjoy the metagame without griefing? If I don't care to lie, steal, cheat. or backstab, can I still enjoy the metagame?
Yes.
I've been told that I'm one of the most overtly involved in the DUST metagame (it's not a particularly deep metagame at the moment, so it's hard to become submerged unless you're very small) so I guess it's my job to contribute to this thread.
Metagaming is any strategy, action or method used in a game while transcending the standard constraints that the game seems to offer you. Thus, the New Eden metagame is simply the use of tools other than those explicitly offered by CCP, or the creative misuse of the available tools.
In the game, your means of determining your enemy's location is a code-based scanning system, with rules for when it can ping the opponent, which you can augment with specific ingame items. Metagaming is realising that the players on the enemy team also know the opponent's position and exploiting this knowledge by means such as asking them or persuading them to disclose the information.
If you don't want to lie, steal, cheat or backstab you are still welcome to become involved in the metagame. Superficially, this is how I am involved. If you have any skills with network mapping (figuring out relationships between various players, corps, alliances), you can use such skills defensively to protect the corporation whose interests you are looking after.
If your investigative skills are strong, you can look into offers which seem too good to be true and categorically display them as the scams they are. You can trace connections between alternate accounts and protect people from giving their trust to a wolf in sheep's clothing.
There are as many "good guy" counters as there are "bad guy" exploits of the metagame, and these are all open to you.
Once the market opens, using metagame knowledge to operate in this space is another option, as well as doing corporate PR, diplomacy, mediation between warring parties, etc.
What do you want to do in New Eden?
Tuna the Fish wrote:or is all I can look forward to being mistrusted by any corporation I join simply because I'm new?
This is a separate issue. You're going to earn trust from ANYONE you interact with. The best way to be who you are purporting to be in this thread, a generally honest person. |
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Selinate deux wrote:Are people really that desperate to infiltrate that they're using alternate PSN accounts?
Otherwise, you can just check the PSN ID for known griefers. Just make a list of them somewhere, share them with others, and keep it up to date.
You do realise that an alternate PSN takes very little effort, right? |
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Selinate deux wrote:Mithridates VI wrote:Selinate deux wrote:Are people really that desperate to infiltrate that they're using alternate PSN accounts?
Otherwise, you can just check the PSN ID for known griefers. Just make a list of them somewhere, share them with others, and keep it up to date. You do realise that an alternate PSN takes very little effort, right? No, I've never been inclined to make another one, nor do I see enough value in it to do it just to screw over other corps in one game.
It takes about five minutes and lets your alts gain passive SP. Not quite a move of desperation. |