Inspecting other players should send that player a warning/message

[kaynide]

I was going to take a jab at you for responding for obvious bait, but your analysis of your personal experience with this sort of system in action is quite insightful, thank you for sharing!

Their example should also make it painfully obvious why this has been abandoned in FFXIV. It was a system that just made unnecessary awkward situations at best, or rude interactions at worst. Entirely unnecessary.

[Silver-Strider]

What's worse is that looking them up on the lodestone shows only a lvl 90 brd but every crafter and gatherer is at 90. I'm starting to think our friend here is a Titanmen alt.

I mean, there's 7 pages worth of warning signs.

[NailBach]

why is this even a problem? it's virtual gear on a virtual character? i too inspect people if i like their glam to see what it is.

[Remolia]

why do u even have to inspect random players?? Just check their parse numbers, if its not ~99th average - blacklist and move on.

[Jamini]

No-one blacklists that strictly. Iirc anything past 80% is already drifting into critical variance anyway on most fights. (I.E. "Did you highest potency abilities get a Direct Critical under buffs? Y/N/F)

Most groups don't give a fig about parsing past "have you cleared" outside of ultimate. Anyone who is hitting greens-blues is both consistent and above average. Anyone higher is genuinely good at the game.

Gear also plays a huge factor.

[Kewitt]

This was a problem in ffxi they learned

[Fredco191]

hehehehehe

[SomeRandomHuman]

/10 charcters

[Rolder50]

Also there's a plugin that can do that.