[Discuss] cheating or just smart?

[psymann]

Sandra Goen wrote:
> Is the following smart game play or cheating?
> 
> Your realm signed a treaty agreeing not to attack another realmB. Your 
> realm founds the creation of a new realm from newly conquered regions. 
> This new realm is bordering realmB and begins conquering realmB's 
> regions. Is your realm cheating or just being very smart by side 
> stepping the treaty?

If by cheating, you mean cheating as a player, like running multiple 
accounts, or exploiting bugs, or finding loopholes to game mechanics, or 
something like that, then no.  Because the action is completely 
in-character.  There's no exploitation of game mechanics or OOC 
knowledge involved, so it's not "cheating" in that sense.

If by cheating, you mean, in-character, exploiting a loophole that gets 
you out of the treaty, then it's really up to the characters in the 
enemy realm to decide if it's cheating or not.  I suspect most 
characters would consider it to be cheating the treaty, and would take 
some action as a result.

Whether it's smart depends on the other realm.  If the other realm let 
you get away with it, then it's smart.  If the other realm take offense, 
declare war on you, claiming it's a violation of the spirit of the 
treaty, and destroy you, then it's not smart.  Though if they do that 
and you destroy them, then maybe it is smart after all.

So - not cheating as in bad Sandra, get banned from game.  But maybe a 
sort of "cheating" as in bad Sandra's character, get attacked in-game.

psymann


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