1 - Monitor bulletin/news boards
2 - ???
3 - Profit
Should step 2 require your elimination, so be it.
I'm unlikely to go out of my way to conflict or cooperate with other players, at first anyway. In multiplayer situations I doubt I'll be trying to RPG a consistent character. One day I might be your stalwart self sacrificing wingman, the next I might decide I don't like how shiny your your paintwork is, depends who's paying I guess.