The player list experiment

[Lord Caedus]

I mentioned it during the initial discussion on the discord, but if this was done, which I don't think is necessarily a great idea, the best way to do it would be to show what region someone is in, unless you're in that region as well, then it can show specific system information. A small example would be Player A in New York seeing Player B logged in in "Bretonia" but if Player A moves to Manchester they can now see that Player B is in Cambridge. I think this would be the best way to implement it to reduce the issue of it being hard to actually find people, while still keeping the intent of obfuscating their presence for everyone logged in to see, I'm just unsure how practical that would be to implement.

On a side note, I think a good change in relation to this would be disabling the ability for bots to track the online player list and pinging discords when players with certain ID/IFFs fly in to a system. If anything is actively working to harm activity it's that. People aren't going to log in to look for an encounter when they can simply wait for a discord bot to find the encounter for them.

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