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I will make this short and to the point. I want to be able to transfer my firearm to someone, but it requires me to publicly post my character's: Date of brith Phone number Address of my place of residence Fact that I have a PF and known to carry/own firearms The transferee's date of birth Tranferee's phone number Transferee's address of their place of residence The guns that they will soon possess This is just under firearm transfers. There is also the fact that anyone who makes an account has the ability to be able to see, publicly: Criminal records request Tint Exemptions Criminal reports People who have lost or stolen firearms Why do these matter? Metagame. "Oh, it's metagame and powergame to use this information ICly." So? Will that stop people? No. It will not. How am I supposed to prove that I was just recently targeted for a robbery out of nowhere soon after I put my address up on the forums for everyone to see? One of my characters works for a place that got a tint exemption recently and the amount of armed robberies and grand theft autos that have occured since that exemption was acquired has spiked 300% since that thread was put up. Coincidence? Maybe. I suspect metagame. I do not want to be robbed due to some "honor rule" system that you guys have for the LSPD website. Please hide all private information on there from public users. If this makes it hard to post to the same thread, for example, the gun transfer thread. Make a new system where one person posts both people's applications and then you contact them on discord or in game to confirm. Not sure what other websites have this similar problem, but I suggest fixing those too. Check out all these people who I know where they live OOCly.
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Let me start with this: I really like GTA World but I've also tried the Eclipse RP server and one thing I really enjoyed there was how player's names weren't visible. All they had is an indentification number and you have to manually give them a name with a command (/alias). After that the identification number would get replaced by your own manually set nickname. I think this should be implemented on GTA World as well. It stops intentional and unintentional metagaming since you cannot know someone's full name unless someone told you or you've picked it up somewhere else IC (listening to another conversation). This would also stop people from recognizing you even though you are wearing different clothes and never disclosed your name to them. What if you don't want to give your real IC name to someone you don't trust? Right now the other party would find it out immediately. I know it's OOC information but I still believe many people might intentionally or unintentionally recognize or know people just based on the OOC name tags. You cannot trust everyone to self regulate themselves and it's very hard to regulate this as a 3rd party, that is why it should be helped and midigated with in game mechanics, that's what they're for. The IDs you get when joining could be used as indentifiers but having the player list with names kinda defeats the purpose. PS: Also make it so that name tags/other types of hud indicators are blocked by solid game objects or at least reduce the range. It's a bit silly how you can "see" people through walls.
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Reason is pretty straightforward, I am not accusing anyone on the server of being a metagamer or implying that there are metagamers on the server. But the refund request section reveals any valuable/illegal items a player may or may not have on their person, in their vehicle, ect. That might encourage other players to metagame and rob them for valuable, or search thier vehicle as a cop. Edited for bad grammar....
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