(11-03-2014, 09:09 PM)The CELT Wrote: If you were referring to the player list on discoverygc.com then using that information logging on to a character is possibly a legitimate course of action.
I am referring to both.
(11-03-2014, 09:09 PM)The CELT Wrote: But when you use the player list ingame to jump from 1 character to another for the purpose of pirating in that other system I believe that is Metagaming as the other character did not know at the time there would be someone to pirate.
You yourself may believe it is metagaming, however it is completely legitimate within the way the game works. It's just simply switching from one activity, to another activity. It's just coincidentally swapping from system x to system y with faction z. How else do you think pirates, specifically ones that do pirate in ore fields, find their targets?
(11-03-2014, 09:09 PM)The CELT Wrote: As Jansen wrote to me once "Metagaming is uncool"
Indeed it is. However, in the context of the playerlist, such metagaming is acceptable because it's a fundamental way to source encounters, interactions and keeps the server active.