[Poll] Forum player page tracking

[darkwind]

All options other than option 1 require us to find an additional 200 average players first. Or cut the game universe down to New York, New London, New Tokyo, New Berlin, Ile-de-France and maybe one Tau/Omega/Omicron/Sigma. Maybe both.

In an ideal world we'd all just be logging in and finding encounters organically, but that hasn't really been very reliable for about a decade now -- probably longer. Adding additional barriers to entry, like forcing players to boot up the game and sit docked on a station for a few seconds -- which will not meaningfully increase player counts, and does not create any opportunities for player interaction at all -- is just going to make fewer people play the game.

We tend rarely to agree, but this one is the case i have agree with you for 100%. You are right.
The main point of information with online solution with pointing where is player presence, to make worthy gameplay with a low online server.

The proposal Jammi makes with showing only amount of players in specific systems sounds very attractive nevertheless though.
and thinking from all angles about it, i can see it merits and very tempted to try.

There are two counterarguments to Jammi's idea:
- Firstly ingame players will see exact player names anyway, so technically Jammi's idea will not change much
- Secondly, forum page requires player being already authentificated to forum. Which brings extra layer of security to this player page. So technically player page at forum is already sufficiently defended and changing things much from how it is in game anyway makes little sense

So considering that... i think player page at forum should remain actually the same.

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