Gods_Kill_People wrote:Nitro wrote:Honestly, it's nice to be able to find out the playtimes of someone you're trying to get in contact with who you don't know on the forums/discord/skype.
ask them IG via a PM?
What I mainly use it for is when I get a message on my character's door saying "So-and-so wants to meet up with you for such-and-such reason" and I've never made contact with them in person before. I have what amounts to a flexible work schedule on the weekends a lot of times, and knowing what time someone might be on helps me to plan what times I should try to get a lot of work done and what times I should check the playerlist to get in game and RP.
All The Sinners Saints wrote:I am not sure why whats essentially a cyber stalker tool was needed when the portal already exists.
It's not a cyber stalker tool, or it's a very poor one. First of all: the most stalkery information there is what time you played most recently, and you get no information beyond the most recent play session, apart from when the character was first made. I struggle to see how anyone could be put in any danger in real life from this information--the very nearest someone could get is
maybe a guess at your time zone, assuming you have a typical work schedule.
As far as getting online when you're online to try to stalk you in-game, there are DMs to deal with that, and the server portal shows the information about who's currently online anyway. I don't see how cihparg's playerlist is helping a stalker do anything they wouldn't do otherwise, while it does help those of us who are
not stalkers make connections with people.
Cortex wrote:You can ask on the forums like some people usually do.
You can try that, but there are 696 forum accounts and 20281 unique players (only
973 active over the last month we have data for, but we don't have an easy way to say how many of the forum accounts were active over that period). The forums don't catch everyone, while the playerlist does.