Security and Safety regarding Lodestone and Ingame issues.

It has come to my attention, that their is No way to remove someone from following you on the lodestone, to remove your account from the lodestone, or to remove yourself off another players friend list in game.. although you can remove them from your friend list, and Black list them. you will remain on their friend list, they are able to see when you are online, where you are / what you are doing etc. I feel this is Very Stalker friendly.. Players have all these tools at their disposal to stalk and harass others, meanwhile players have no tools to prevent it from happening. Preventive measures such as Being prompted to accept followers on the lodestone, being able to remove them if you don't want them to follow you.. the ability to remove yourself from a in game players friend list, or make it so that when I remove a player from my friend list, I will be automatically removed from theirs.

I myself had a incident like this happen, I have no way to deal with it, I tried swapping servers and they were able to find me via lodestone even though I changed my name.. I swapped back to my original server, they were able to see me on friend list since it automatically updates the (Deleted) to my new name... I had only 2 options, to Submit a report to SE regarding this Harassment and hope it was dealt with and the harassment stops.. or to reroll a new character and start all over again.. Which is clearly not fair after putting in hard work, time, and dedication into your character. if I only had Preventive measures in place to help me avoid or deal with these issues I could of resolved this myself with ease. I think these issues need to be addressed and something implemented to enable players to remove themselves from other players in game friend list and to remove followers off the lodestone and block them, or perhaps hide your account entirely.

SE takes harassment VERY seriously. If you submit a ticket you will likely get a response within the hour, with in the day at tops (normal business days, not sure about weekend)

Your character is assigned a character ID (shown on the lodestone). This is how they keep track of you (from their database perspective, most likely) You can change your name, appearance, server, everything, but your number will still be there. They would likely have to restructure their entire data system to mask this, which would be impractical for an online game.

Even if they were not on your friends list, they could still look you up on player search, or go on an alt and look you up on player search.

In short, the right thing to do here is to report harassment, I am pretty certain that it will be dealt with promptly and effectively. If it is very bad stalking you could even report it to your local authorities who could investigate the matter further.