[@HeySeuss]
I mostly do NRP for collaborative world building much more than for some 4X type thing.

That being said I have had all sorts of situations where you get players who power game shit.  For instance in a space RO there was this one guy who just kept giving himself all the best tech without any real regard for context of plot.  He insisted he had that, yet seemed much more occupied with thinking up ridiculously advanced tech than anything else.  It actually bothers me when people in NRP try to make societies where "culture" is irrelevant not for some thematic reason but because they just care about gaming things.  I've made hive minds with more culture than some human civs in sci-fi NRPs simply due to my lack of enthusiasm regarding creative energy writing about the armaments of various spaceships or making galleries of my favorite sci-fi deviant art pictures.