Party A hires party B to gather information on party C
To gather information on party C, Party B does not use any of the inRP options avaliable to them within normal RP for their type of faction. They instead create a bunch of random alts which have no connection whatsoever to their faction and use them to spy on party C.
They then count this as proper RP and sell the information to party A
Is this legitimate or is it metagaming?
Keep in mind that these characters are created, not when the request for information is made. There is no mention of hiring operatives. They are merely created on the spot when a member of party C is near where the information is to be gathered.
And as party B is hypothetically a pirate faction there are several options avaliable to them from a simple petition for information from party C to a shakedown of one of their members for info (all inRP of course)
Party A hires party B to gather information on party C
To gather information on party C, Party B does not use any of the inRP options avaliable to them within normal RP for their type of faction. They instead create a bunch of random alts which have no connection whatsoever to their faction and use them to spy on party C.
They then count this as proper RP and sell the information to party A
Is this legitimate or is it metagaming?
Keep in mind that these characters are created, not when the request for information is made. There is no mention of hiring operatives. They are merely created on the spot when a member of party C is near where the information is to be gathered.
And as party B is hypothetically a pirate faction there are several options avaliable to them from a simple petition for information from party C to a shakedown of one of their members for info (all inRP of course)
Unless those alt's characters were included in the contract then yes it is meta-gaming
Take into account that Party B has access to money, enough to purcahse a small fighter under a different name, and use it be undercover and spy.
If Party B had created these small spying ships, and informed Party A, lets say in a comm board post - and you knew about it, and acted any differently with said spy ship around, YOU would be metagaming.
From what im seeing, I see no metagaming. Party B knew there targets would be in an area, thanks to info from Party A, then, with rp justification of using money to use fake id's, buy a small civilian ship, and use it to fly around and spy under different papers - and in the area they were told, they found there targets, and got there info...
' Wrote:Take into account that Party B has access to money, enough to purcahse a small fighter under a different name, and use it be undercover and spy.
If Party B had created these small spying ships, and informed Party A, lets say in a comm board post - and you knew about it, and acted any differently with said spy ship around, YOU would be metagaming.
From what im seeing, I see no metagaming. Party B knew there targets would be in an area, thanks to info from Party A, then, with rp justification of using money to use fake id's, buy a small civilian ship, and use it to fly around and spy under different papers - and in the area they were told, they found there targets, and got there info...
How is this metagaming? oh right, its not.
Read again the OP. He meant using a different character for doing it. Like Part A highers Party B to spy on Party C, so Party B are using party D (which are the same players using different characters) to preform the task. That's indeed metagaming.
' Wrote:Party B does not use any of the inRP options avaliable to them
This and this alone makes it metagaming. If a member of Party B goes undercover, that is an inRP option available to him.
' Wrote:Read again the OP. He meant using a different character for doing it. Like Part A highers Party B to spy on Party C, so Party B are using party D (which are the same players using different characters) to preform the task. That's indeed metagaming.
Not necessarily. Could be different characters but the same person (different ships), it could be a subcontract, could be delegated to a lesser member, et cetera et cetera.