Removing the player list won’t stop people from knowing whether a clan’s players are offline or not. The in game list is secondary to BattleMetrics, a service which lets you know what users are currently connected to a server. If you play through Steam, you can also check server status and current players (and activate auto-retry join if it’s full) directly through Steam.
Get a list of the enemy clan’s gamertags > Check BattleMetrics (or Steam directly) for whether they are online or not > Raid them offline
There was a period of about two years where there was no in-game player list, and yet offline raiding was still pervasive.
Removing the player list will not resolve the core issue. The core issue is offline raiding.
@JustHorse you’re an authority on this game, you should know this as well.
Would be nice if they hide all Steam ID. And steam overlay players list too.
So they will be able to disable a player list completely.
But this is not gonna happen anyway.
Since in UE4 if Steam API is integrated you can’t disable functions inside it. (As far as I know)
I still agree that players list help the offline raids.
Also, clan tags on the buildings, help too.
But let’s imagine that the player list is disabled and you can’t check a building owner with a repair hammer.
Looks more challenging now?
For a big clan, there is no difference.
For small and medium this will make their life a lot harder.
There will be no changes but well we can discuss this topic why not!
I don’t know if there wont be changes. I mean we’ve all been getting those “changes to our user policy” emails the past 2 weeks from nearly every game and social media company because of privacy issues and tightening up on it.
It’s important for balance and disclosure. I picked a fight with our server troll, and while he exposed his profile for a brief interval to me, the entire server was able to view his VAC bans. In the past, only the “no-lifers” (sorry, I include myself in that lol) would run BM like @TwinCrows says, and only the hardcore would run the Steam Game Info screen stretched all the way to the bottom. The Player Log applies much-needed countermeasures to the newcomers or single-screen players.