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[gonger]

Hello,

Thank you all for your opinions.
Nobody commented on the alternative proposals for giving less precise information, though. Opinions, please?
If there is nothing left to say, I will present the topic at the next Dev meeting.

Gonger

[Illysia]

It seems the simplest way to handle it but leave some privacy is to have an opt out for the people who are truly bothered but for others have an indicator that means they have played within the last month or not. If they have not played in the last month then chances are they are at least temporarily inactive. If they have played within the last month, there is still a chance they might pop back up. Make recently played an "on/off" kind of thing without giving details of day and hour.

[Lusserall]

The best way would be aopt in on myplane for the players who want this shown.

[Taya]

The problem with using myplane is how very few people use it. A lot of people who have absolutely no objection to showing info (which is actually already publicly available anyway) still won't be bothered to go and take the time to select it or won't realise it.

I would say that I'd favour Illysia's suggestion instead. It would give out nothing about when a person logs in so no one could use it to directly note down people's actual playtimes or timezones and so on. The only thing it would tell you is "has this person played in the last month or not?" and if even that much information was too much for someone, they could still opt out from it.

The problem of course would be finding someone with the time/will to make such a thing.

[kiaerulf]

The problem with using myplane is how very few people use it.

I believe the reason that people don't use MyPlane is that it really isn't visible to people - many might even not know it's there. I don't find any link to it anywhere. An obvious place to find such a link would be at planeshift.it in the menu under community, but no.

- Kia

[Taya]

Yes Kiaerulf, that's a big part of it. Plus it would mean people would need to take effort to go onto another site and log in and select an option that does nothing to help them directly, and from my experience, this doesn't happen much. I'm fairly sure not many players would feel a need to hide their IC character description for example (though I might be wrong there). Either way, when you log into myplane hardly anyone has anything viewable and if any kind of feature like this one is opt in only, then I can imagine it not having very much practical use.

[Roled]

re: myplane

Besides the privacy aspect, which I think IS important and should only be an opt in, not an opt out, I am a lazy elf and myplane is just one more thing to monitor, check, signup for, etc.  That's why I don't use it.
RR

[Zalya]

I use myplane all the time. I love it. And I would not object at all to having this feature implemented at some point. Even just the vague "rusty weapons" would be useful.