More security PLEASE!!

[Nabiri]

im not going to unravel the drama onto a thread... and delsus...wrong again. By the way I only have one level 50... not much to choose from.

I've been in a situation before where I wanted info of mine hidden from certain people who were harassing me. I totally understand how it sucks when you can't hide your info. I don't have a reason to hide at the moment, but I'm for this.

[Jynx]

Never seen much reason behind /anon in XI really, don't see the point here either. Hell at least XI had one reason, if you were a whm and not seeking a party you pretty much had to go anon to avoid raise requests from around the globe.

But as far as people finding out what rank/class you are it's not a massive feat to find out.

Chances are unless your really going out of your way to throw me off, I'm just going to check your weapon and average gear level.

[NoctisUmbra]

There's absolutely no legitimate reason for one to need to hide their class levels. If you need to hide who you are in your LS to avoid drama, find a new LS.

[Nabiri]

There's absolutely no legitimate reason for one to need to hide their class levels. If you need to hide who you are in your LS to avoid drama, find a new LS.

Just because you can't think of a legitimate reason doesn't mean there isn't one.
No one said anything about hiding from a LS.

I'm unsure why people are being so offensive.. ready to attack I mean, because they do not understand this person.

I once had reason, a very good reason to have my AH info in FFXI hidden. Harassment is a very good reason, for example.
I was quite bothered when I discovered FFXIAH and that it was displaying all my buying and selling info to anyone who would look at it. I had to make an account to hide it. I'm glad I had the option, as if prevented some very possible stress.
There are very good reasons to want character info (of all sorts) hidden, and it doesn't mean you're a bad person or some sort of drama starter.

(I love your sig btw.)

[NoctisUmbra]

Just because you can't think of a legitimate reason doesn't mean there isn't one.
No one said anything about hiding from a LS.

I'm unsure why people are being so offensive.. ready to attack I mean, because they do not understand this person.

I once had reason, a very good reason to have my AH info in FFXI hidden. Harassment is a very good reason, for example.
I was quite bothered when I discovered FFXIAH and that it was displaying all my buying and selling info to anyone who would look at it. I had to make an account to hide it. I'm glad I had the option, as if prevented some very possible stress.
There are very good reasons to want character info (of all sorts) hidden, and it doesn't mean you're a bad person or some sort of drama starter.

(I love your sig btw.)

I'm not talking about AH info. There can be solid reasons to hide that. Levels though, no reason.

At the moment there's no way for people to see what your retainers are selling by 'looking you up' except through the use of that yg software, which is not condoned by SE.

The OP is asking to have his class levels concealed. I completely disagree and am against SE implementing any feature that would allow players to hide their class levels. It only serves to mislead fellow players.

Also if someone is harassing you for whatever reason, blacklist them.

(Thank you ^^)

[Nabiri]

I'm not talking about AH info. There can be solid reasons to hide that. Levels though, no reason.

At the moment there's no way for people to see what your retainers are selling by 'looking you up' except through the use of that yg software, which is not condoned by SE.

The OP is asking to have his class levels concealed. I completely disagree and am against SE implementing any feature that would allow players to hide their class levels. It only serves to mislead fellow players.

Also if someone is harassing you for whatever reason, blacklist them.

(Thank you ^^)

I know you weren't talking about the AH, that was my personal example and my bad experience. :3
I did mean that though - he/she may have a good reason for wanting to hide level or something else that you couldn't think of.
If you disagree against hiding it, that's just fine, your opinion and you probably have good reasons. ^^
but again, he/she may actually have a good reason to hide. Just because we can't think of it doesn't mean it isn't possible.
With my AH example.. many people couldn't understand that I had a good reason for wanting to hide it, most just assumed I had bad intentions and were suspicious of me. But the good reasons did exist.

I have nothing really against showing our class and level on the forums, but others might.
One thing that did bother me at first when it was implemented is people attacking and judging others based on their characters highest rank. It's just a silly reason, but a reason one might dislike it. There may be plenty of other valid reasons.

[Agoven]

Um...this is an MMO people pride themselves on position and rank and file...it's a challenge of supremacy. If you concerned with what people can see of your character um...why are you playing an MMO...go play solo console.

[NoctisUmbra]

I highly doubt anyone in this game is going to go around looking people up and then laughing at them because their levels aren't high, or something of that sort. Should that even be an issue, the blacklist feature works quite nicely.

OP states that members of his LS knowing what class levels he has leads to drama. There aren't a large variety of reasons for there to be LS drama over a player's levels. It isn't difficult to guess the scenarios as to why he would want to hide them. None of those scenarios merit the addition of a feature that would allow anyone to hide their levels.

There may be good reasons. Fact of the matter is, there are no reasons good enough to make up for the bad side-effects.

[Gramul]

It's to prevent a level of animosity.
And we all know how that can screw things up.

[KaiKatzchen]

more so to avoid drama in my linkshell.

I feel bad that you feel you have to hide who you are (character wise) because your LS causes drama about it... if that is in case the fact. Maybe you need a new LS, not a way to hide your info... you should be proud of every level/rank you get on your character, not feel like drama will happen due to it.



I'm proud to show my rank/level and even if I hit Rank 5 on something my LS congrats me. Thats how it should be, support and such!