Quote Originally Posted by GeminiReed View Post
How would you handle the case where somebody set their profile private? Regardless the only thing "needed" is a way to commend folks that have already left the instance and a list of names and classes is enough to accomplish that.
Given the concerns of people here I would propose the following:

There should be the ability in the system settings for UI to opt out of the commendation system like there is a toggle for the “skip previously viewed cutscenes”, similarly setting your calling card to will private will do the same.

In this case on the revamped commendation screen only the profiles set to public will be eligible to get commended/commend. Since commendations are social events it stands to reason those unwilling to be social wouldn’t want to participate to begin with. It would also stop bothering those who want to save one second on loading to the overworld.

Likewise the only optional yet somewhat core of commendation functionality is for mentors (whether this is effective or not is another topic) and being a mentor is (or according to an ideal world) a person open to the public to help out.

So as far as I can see it provides an out for those who don’t want to be social while similarly incentivizing the adoption of a public calling card.