Twinking
How it impacts the game.

How, do you ask? Think of all the other players whose @stats aren't the end all of things, the types who roleplay. Now comes along JoeBaka who twinks, has this OOC advantage due to min-maxing and absolutely grinds someone whose here for the story, into dust, with minimal loss, due to an OOC advantage. I don't know about you, but I perceive this as a slight.

There should be a rule about this, that absolutely states that OOC stat discussion, in favour of trial and error and discovering your characters strengths and flaws IC, is violation of a rule. We are a roleplay enforced game, we are all here for the story, sometimes we lose, sometimes we get two steps ahead.

We aren't here to twink and cheat the system to our advantage at the expense of others, who actually went out and did these things IC instead of a quick local five minute discussion via local OOC, regarding what stats they should grind to the exact level to absolutely take out X target. Relevance is everything, and I'm ashamed this is actually happening.

Like saying ICly I am 'useless' at X skill, wink wink or I am 'lame' at Y stat and need to keep training on it. It was my understanding that this was a sort of 'gray area' to a certain point.

That being said, I have found players that kind of break immersion by taking it one step further and ICly bringing up how they measure their progress. Like I need X amount of time to feel have I have improved in Y, etc.

The problem is that these new 'twink' players flock to even newer players trying to help them and instill this sort of behavior in them as acceptable until it sort of becomes the norm for a lot of people.

I support your idea, but just like policing that other players have proper descriptions in accordance to their character's appearance. Even with a rule in place, it would be difficult to monitor.

People don't want to RP and discover IC'ly, they want to sit in a cube until they've trained to be a badass instead of learning via trial and error.

Don't get me started on the 'It takes me several days to even feel like I've improved at x skill/stat'. No, you gradually learnt over the course of those days, the UE you accumulated over the course of those days represents that. Everyday you're taking in a bit of information, you don't suddenly just get gainz. You wouldn't even notice the small difference at that rate unless you spent weeks training overall, please stop being so meta about stat discussion IC'ly.

But idiotic jokes aside.

People can do whatever they want if it's IC, as long as they aren't blatantly discussing game terms I don't understand why someone can't find a mentor, lock themselves in a room, and roleplay obsessively training like a goddamn nerdlinger.

Lots of people do that in reality as well, they usually become experts and have no fucking lives whatsoever.

I think what they’re talking about and I see often and try not to get too pulled into, is people being talking about weird shit like training your luck or some substat in a weird way that makes no sense or hold any calue aside from trying to cutely hint that you should plug UE at something. But hey, to each their own. If they aren’t rule breaking in the way they explain it or play it then it is what it is.