Posted by Better yet.. on August 04, 1999 at 11:39:16:
In Reply to: caveat posted by SphereMaker on August 04, 1999 at 11:30:06:
Forget playing from the same site. The Immortals will easily see that there are four players from whatever.com, or somewhere.net, all grouped together, playing together, helping each other out. Eventually, these people get caught and punished, such as has happened to groups like the Neosoft and Smug/Aussie gangs. No, the true threat is something you're missing entirely, and that is groups of OOC friends who coodinate via untraceable (or less traceable) means, via ICQ or IRC. This, I think, will be the trend (and already is in some cases.. but I won't go into that). These people can then get away with questionable things that, were they of the same site, they'd get called on, and can achieve the same level of OOC information sharing as can a group that plays from the same lab.