[Discuss] Theoretical realistic messaging

[Justin Pope]

To be clear, I don't think chatting about general strategy is a
problem. Sharing scoutings, talking about which region you'll be
attacking next, gathering international allies, sending orders - those
seem to me to be abuses of the message system.

> Would you be so kind as to provide a link to the web page that provides this
> rule? I would probably even settle for a web page that hints that this could be
> frowned upon. So far, I haven't seen it on the official site, or on the Wiki.

There have been discussions on the topic of cheating several times
over the years. It boils down to a player or players (not characters,
that's the whole point of the game) gaining an unfair advantage over
others. The game provides certain features and limitations universally
- those are the "rules". By circumventing them, you (the player) have
now gained an OOC advantage over those who follow the rules. That's
cheating.

I'm sorry I can't find the details right now - I'm at work right now,
behind a pretty strict proxy.

> The real costs of implementing this system would far outweigh any small bit of
> "realism" that might be gained.

As I said later on, I agree with you on this. I don't think it's worth
whatever benefit it might have.