An idea for identifying players physical traits better.

[Hazza the Fifty-Sixth]

Topic: A way of identifying other players



Short explanation (in notes):
-Physical description system like Clockwork where you press F2 (or some other key) to allow people in a certain range to see your name
-Before you know a persons name, you would see their physical description that they choose when joining the server
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Detailed description (why should it become added/...):
I think this should be added as I was looking at the 'temporary rules' and thought that a system like this would be good to implement, rather than the chance of people metagaming to arrest someone.
When a new player joins, they would have to make a physical description, like in Clockwork.
The player would have to press a button to let people within a certain range identify them, reducing chance of metagaming. It would also make it easier for police to identify people without metagaming.
Example:

While it could be easily abused, there could also be strictly enforced rules about it.

 

[BlitZKrieG]

What will happend if your aiming at them with a gun? It would block you view, even if this would be added so when you press right click it wont show it, when hipfiring you would see the details of the player. I'll leave it a -Support. No ideas i saw were good enough to make this idea work.

 

[Tyla Jai]

+Support
I feel this would increase RP massively and reduce meta

 

[TraxØGJ]

Let me just say this. You decided to post an exact system of HL2RP (Half-Life 2: Role Play).
And I have to say that I don't really support this, as we are actually fine with what we have. Is not really needed to make that, and pretty much you can just use /report function if you see people metagaming.


- SUPPORT

 

[joR]

Hmm, I love the concept of removing names but the only problem is for players IDing people for staff members on reports. Imo, I wouldn't even want these physical descriptions because you're able to customize your player a lot, on HL2RP it's harder to do so since you're locked to only a few player models. But yeah, the first thing I said is a problem.

 

[Charles Marston]

I don't think this would be a good addition because I think that you should try and remove all the floating text as much as possible. It's just annoying when you're bombarded by floating text everywhere. It would be nice if you could actually customize your character's body, but unfortunately that's not possible in the Source engine, because there are only a few fixed player models to choose from.

 

[Death Howl]

Oh the joys of clockwork physical descriptions when you know their weight and everything else about someone instantly.

Im sorry but I dont think this will improve anything and many new players suck at a physical description.

Examples


Mail Mare (Saw this on a army roleplay he did not last long)
Was bullied in hogwarts so turned to the dark side
Badass guy can kill you with a finger


-Support I do not picture the staff having to enforce and too many possibilities for mingery. The first two examples were actually true I have encountered them.

 

[Ohad]

First, I think this was already suggested and denied.
Second, I don't think we need that on our server, because we can already customize our characters.
But the hidden names thing might be good.

 

[Niko]

I personally think that doing absolutely anything to hide the names of other players is a stupid idea. It makes the work of admins more than twice as hard as it already is, and makes making ban requests / reports even harder.
Plus, the whole thing is a copy of hl2rp, where I somehow know that you weigh exactly 251 lbs, are carrying a concealed weapon and have a tattoo on your left nipple.

In other words: -support

 

[Belg Lmfao]

It would be nice to have the names removed above player heads and not add even more floating text. If the names will be removed, they should add something to identify the player if he breaks any rules though for the admins. I like the idea but don't make it like HL2RP please.

 

[Ultimate]

How about a unique code for every person,if you meet with person,for examlple he typed /recognize and you know him/her and see him/her name.

It makes reports more easier for every side.

Code can be static for every person like a phone number.

 

[Wade]

I really liked "clockwork things" but physical description wouldn't fit here. Just think about people who don't know how to set it correctly and that would be looking very awful. Well...You thought about reducing meta tho.