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[EvilGenius]

Player faking information - arrrrg!

[oliverkeers13]

We don't punish here, but we do frown upon the practise of ARGjacking, a similar occurance was a few months ago, when a player decided to create a character following it on earth, so he played his own character. The players didn't know whether it was real or not, and got a bit angry. The biggest problem is a waste of resources and time. I'm surprised that Sasuntsi hasn't learnt by now, having been around for a while, that it's not good practice.

Now that all that's sorted, can we merge the threads to prevent congestion? Preferably in Questions/meta? Thanks.

[European Chris]

Re: Player faking information - arrrrg!

[Scott]

well, offhand, I quite like the idea of people making their own little carvings in the world in edifice to PxC. I mean, ultimately, the wiki and the card catalog and PxCTrades and all those are essentially along the same lines, sorta. The difference is of course the goal and usage. But then, I've seen the wiki cited by new players, who think, at fFirst, it is in-game.

Actually I quite enjoyed reading The adventures of Jimmy Leahy, and are saddened nothing new has been written in a good while. It's simply good writing.

The rule, I believe, is that fFan fFiction should always be labelled clearly. Jimmy's blog says quite directly "This is NOT an official Perplex City site!!!!" (It didnt at fFirst, thus the ruckus). Emulation is the sincerest of fFlatteries. The difference between ARGjacking and the rest is intent.

[EvilGenius]

Merge away!

[oliverkeers13]

Yes, but I meant the identical posts you made in News/rumors and the card thread itself. Oh, and I typed the P, so there's no need to include the square bracket. It's meant to be a capital if it's the first letter in speech anyway.
Oh, there's no need to grovel, just kiss my hand before you address me directly

[ChalcoDoror]

[EvilGenius]

Ah, the life . . .

[European Chris]

It's just as well you're not in a position to go near him. I think that cravatingitis is contageous.

[Sasuntsi Davit]

Hmm...
Well, in my defence I wouldn't really call it ARGJacking as I wasn't screwing around with the PerplexCity ARG in order to promote some other one. It was more of a small joke that I thought people would find out not to be a real kloo pretty quickly.

The second thing is, the UPC Database is nothing but an ordinary website where anyone can write, modify or delete an entry without having to set up an account or pass a validation system.
If I was someone making a game, I wouldn't put a key story item in some place where it could get very easily deleted.

Anyway, I wasn't planning on letting you guys go on a wild goosechase...

However, everyone should be weary of this kind of thing happening for real when the big money prize is close to being found, because you will get some players messing about and throwing people off the scent in order for them to win.

Rest assured that I won't be one of them, but I might throw in some red herrings now and then just to add some fun

[EvilGenius]

No harm done, I'm sure. This was the first time I came across something like this (and never even heard of ARGjacking before) - I'm sure more experienced players did, indeed, saw this for what it was, even though a couple of us jumped on it..