Metagaming is when anything from outside a game affects what happens in the game. This can be difficult to isolate in Diplomacy because human nature is to learn from mistakes (for most of us, anyway). So what qualifies as metagaming, and why is it wrong? Bribery In his book The Game of Diplomacy , Richard Sharp recounts a number of cases of bribery, some of them more jokey than anything else, but bribery (or blackmail) still. In those days of a smaller, less anonymous Dip hobby, it was - perhaps - easier to use these shady tactics. The underlying philosophy seems to have been that if " the rulebook doesn’t mention the subject " anything goes. Teamplay The online game can't really include teamplay. If two or more players enter a game as a team, agreeing to help each other against all-comers, this isn't a fair game. It is, of course, easy to work with someone you know, and as a one-off it is probably acceptable, assuming there has been ...
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