11-29-2025, 09:17 PM
all for this, been a long time coming honestly. haven't played in a hot second (need to dig my way out of Coursework Mountain first) but it's always been a mechanic that has allowed for metagaming, even if said metagaming was small and subtle and unlikely to widely affect the outcome of a round
I feel like a lot of players tend to think of metagaming as something you have to actively do. a lot of the more major cases are, sure, but I think it's important to also delineate having certain kinds of in-round knowledge as Meta Knowledge, by its very nature. being able to see how things are shaking out across the station at the click of a button before you join is an inherent advantage over the people who are actually in the round, even if you're just using it to join a strained department and not To Be The Hero
I hope this pushes the rp regulars that observer-join to get more comfortable with rolling with a round's punches, in general. I've done it plenty before and in retrospect I really wish I hadn't - it's much more fun to be on an even field, info-wise
I feel like a lot of players tend to think of metagaming as something you have to actively do. a lot of the more major cases are, sure, but I think it's important to also delineate having certain kinds of in-round knowledge as Meta Knowledge, by its very nature. being able to see how things are shaking out across the station at the click of a button before you join is an inherent advantage over the people who are actually in the round, even if you're just using it to join a strained department and not To Be The Hero
I hope this pushes the rp regulars that observer-join to get more comfortable with rolling with a round's punches, in general. I've done it plenty before and in retrospect I really wish I hadn't - it's much more fun to be on an even field, info-wise

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