Ethics in a Literal Video Game

RELSPI

RELSPI
Siobhan said:
I can sometimes be a bit grey area, but generally I try not to do crimes, or at least nothing major. This has meant there are engineers that I can't unlock, but such is the price of role play.
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I think the only ones that affects is the Dweller (who'll accept you giving, like, liquor to a theocracy) and Etienne Dorn (who is a literal slave trader), right?
 

Siobhan

Siobhan
RELSPI said:
I think the only ones that affects is the Dweller (who'll accept you giving, like, liquor to a theocracy) and Etienne Dorn (who is a literal slave trader), right?
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One of them wants explosives too, can't remember which... But yeah, I think most stuff can be got from other engineers these days... I don't really do much with it tbh.
 

Morbad

Morbad
As a player, I:

  • Won't do things I recognize as cheats (generally a broader definition than Frontier's).
  • Try to avoid abusing mechanisms that accentuate what I consider to be flaws in the game's persistence (things like relogging/reinstancing/mode switching to refresh spawns or areas).
  • Stick to Open if at all possible, regardless of the activities my CMDR is engaged in, normally only utilizing the other modes to work around technical issues.
  • Resort to third-party information sources only as a last resort.
  • Don't bring personal/OOC baggage into the game and try to respect other players.
  • Never block anyone and accept most (though not all) friend requests, in order to facilitate better instancing.

The CMDR I play:

  • Refuses to participate in activities that harm a handful of minor factions he has sentimental attachments to.
  • Believes that if they've got themselves stuffed into a can, they've abdicated their personhood, and are now commodities.
  • Doesn't judge other CMDRs for their choice of employment or ideas of fun, but will absolutely terminate perceived threats to his freedom of movement or action, with extreme prejudice.
  • Does not feel any particular need to explain himself to anyone.
  • Is probably not going to accept requests to '1v1 me bro' from those in combat FDLs while he's in an exploration Courier.
 

RELSPI

RELSPI
Siobhan said:
One of them wants explosives too, can't remember which... But yeah, I think most stuff can be got from other engineers these days... I don't really do much with it tbh.
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Oh, Liz Ryder wants landmines, which were a bit of a grey area for me. IIRC she says they're for research purposes, and it's not like our ships can't carry literal air-to-ground biological weapons (i.e. caustic missiles).
 

RELSPI

RELSPI
Morbad said:
As a player, I:

  • Won't do things I recognize as cheats (generally a broader definition than Frontier's).
  • Try to avoid abusing mechanisms that accentuate what I consider to be flaws in the game's persistence (things like relogging/reinstancing/mode switching to refresh spawns or areas).
  • Stick to Open if at all possible, regardless of the activities my CMDR is engaged in, normally only utilizing the other modes to work around technical issues.
  • Resort to third-party information sources only as a last resort.
  • Don't bring personal/OOC baggage into the game and try to respect other players.
  • Never block anyone and accept most (though not all) friend requests, in order to facilitate better instancing.
The CMDR I play:

  • Refuses to participate in activities that harm a handful of minor factions he has sentimental attachments to.
  • Believes that if they've got themselves stuffed into a can, they've abdicated their personhood, and are now commodities.
  • Doesn't judge other CMDRs for their choice of employment or ideas of fun, but will absolutely terminate perceived threats to his freedom of movement or action, with extreme prejudice.
  • Does not feel any particular need to explain himself to anyone.
  • Is probably not going to accept requests to '1v1 me bro' from those in combat FDLs while he's in an exploration Courier.
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Nicely put, and what I was thinking when I posted the thread, but unfortunately you just admitted to being a slave trader in real life. Checkmate, criminal.
 

RELSPI

RELSPI
M4st0d0n said:
I have shot so many space ambulances. Engineers made me do it.
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I prefer things that are, in practise, very disrespectful - namely, rolling all over what is basically the mass grave of hundreds of miners killed in a corporate experiment (Dav's Hope) and rolling around the crash site of a tragic icon, downloading data from his last words (Jameson's Crash Site).
 
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