📝Power gaming

(Category A+)

Power gaming can be defined in many ways.

Main Definition – A player who declares that their own action against another player is successful without giving the other player’s character the freedom to act on their own choice.

GTA V Mechanics – In a sense power gaming is a type of metagaming, because your character would not know the mechanics of the game or even if you are in a game, and thus should not be able to do things just because they are technically possible within the mechanics of the game. Their decisions should be bound by their personality, their physical capabilities, and the knowledge they have gained within the roleplay scenario. Not by the mechanics or any other knowledge that you as a player have access to, but your character doesn’t.

Roleplay Commands – Providing false or misleading information through the use of SVRP commands this includes, but not limited to both /me’s and /do’s and all other commands that are employed by SVRP staff.

Sub Definitions

• Forcing player to participate in unwanted roleplay, such as a player who describes his character as doing something with or to another character that would usually require the other to play along (such as a fight or sexual encounter or any other scenario)

• Forcing another character to think, feel or act a certain way by some action on your part.

• The act of forcing an action or situation on a player without allowing them to roleplay their own actions, response, or allowing them to roleplay against the actions, situations, scenarios that has been forced upon them or have otherwise found themselves in.

• Roleplaying that your character has some type of unrealistic special trait or supernatural ability that allows them to gain an advantage in a roleplaying action or scenario.

• Using unrealistic GTA V mechanics to gain an advantage in any situation.

• The act of using SVRP commands to gain an advantage over other players while roleplaying an action or scenario.

Examples of Power gaming

Disclaimer – The roleplay scenarios listed below are intended as examples only and are intended to be a guide to what power gaming is, these are broad examples and power gaming encompasses more than just these examples.

• Supernatural Abilities – Let’s say you say you needed to have a surgery done for whatever reason after the surgery you would need to rest and heal, however you as a player and due to the game mechanics not forcing you to rest, you get up and run out of the hospital right after your surgery is concluded. Because there is no in-game mechanic that incapacitates you from the pain that you’d be feeling. You would have had to roleplay some sort of supernatural healing ability.

• Power gaming Roleplay Commands – For this example let’s say you are a gang member that is being searched by the Police, Prior to this search you have placed a pistol inside your pants waistband. The police roleplay searching you and finding the pistol, and instead of you roleplaying that there would be a pistol on your inside your pants waistband you roleplay that there is no pistol to be found.

• Forceful Roleplay – You have been living in the city for a while now and you decide it is time for you to settle down and find someone to start a relationship with. You spot someone walking down the street and think they are cute, and instead of naturally developing the relationship you decide to force them into loving you.

• GTA V Mechanics – You are being chased by the Police for a crime you committed, you happen to be fleeing on a bike and know that if you wheelie down the road you will gain a speed boost and will be able to outrun the Police.