There's just a large part of me that absolutely refuses to believe that metagamers can't be caught, no matter how dedicated they are at it. I've caught players metagaming and I've caught admins metagaming—crafty ones who were annoyingly good at covering their tracks. It's annoying as hell and rather involved, but that's a pain I'd prefer to deal with than gridlocking the whole server into being unable to organize and communicate with one another in how they want to RP. Maybe that's me.
It isn't impossible by any means, don't get me wrong, but the other part of it (less so now, but back in the day) was
who was doing it.
You may or may not have seen it yourself but compared to TnB, where shitty behaviour and poor sportsmanship is
usually called out universally, that wasn't the case at Neb.
I can't really compare it to TnB in that regard but imagine knowing some of your biggest and most popular players were probably metagaming but you not only had very little proof but banning them without an outright smoking gun (that they never gave) had the very genuine risk of kicking off a cascade of people rallying to their defence and intentionally kicking off drama that could and did implode the forums/community itself for a time (usually on their order via a discord chat or whatever).
Don't get me wrong though, if metagaming
was caught and proven then people got nuked 9/10. It was taken seriously. But if you only 'suspected' certain people of it then you were shit out of luck, and most of them had years worth of experience with avoiding retaliation.
I enjoy S2RP more than S2K but its a difficult thing to work with even in the idea cases, I suppose.