Some people do.

I did that when I was a noob too and I'm sure many others did. But in today's community, hours are more of a bad thing then proof of oldbieship.

ok go ahead

Well since you're pretty well known, people are more likely to know you're actually a really long-time player. For everyone else they're just targetted for it.

I agree.

It's not that I believe hours proof of having no life. Others do.. and I hate seeing the amount of harassment people get if they have a significant amount of hours compared to the other person. I don't even see why removing hours would be such a big deal, tbqh. Best-case scenario is that they're toggle-able in V6 so people can choose to hide them.

Whenever I say "publicly" I ultimately mean that staff and the player themselves can see them, not usually other players.

again, if it's not hours, it will be something else. Hiding hours will not magically change the nature of Graal's players.

ITT FuManchu is embarrassed by his hours.

ITT Demisis tries to be intelligent but is only making himself look stupid w/ his assumptions.

Despite what you believe, you're hardly making a good point at all.

While you're right that it wouldn't change the nature of Graal players, it's irrelevant to this because:

(note how I said players can be harassed because of other things - things that can be kept obsure - while hours can't)

And taking out hours will cut down a significant amount of harassment - enough that I decided to make a post about it.

It's entirely relevant regardless of whether you believe it to be or not. I imagine it would be sort of hard to play most servers without using your items, which could easily become a target for insults (World of Warcraft is more than enough example for this), Kill/death/spar statistics, and so on. This sort of negative interaction will always exist among players as long as it is an online game, and considering all the things you could possibly be insulted for, if you really feel harassed or insulted about someone talking about your hours online, you're probably being oversensitive.

Hey doesn't it suck how on WoW level 80 players repeatedly kill lower level players? They should take away level 80 and make 79 the max level, regardless of the fact that level 79 players would still persist in doing the exact same thing.

I have met some pretty arrogant Graal players but I can't fathom anyone making fun of someone else on Graal for having.. items. I do see people making fun of kill/death/spar ratings but it's never nearly as bad as the harassment people get over hours.

I played WoW with my friend for several months and I've only once seen someone make fun of another player for having an item. It was that huge PvP mount that takes ages to get. You can't assume Graalians will do the same (items are easy to get on Graal anyway) because of WoW.

"They'll harass people over something else anyway" isn't a valid reason not to do this.

"Oversensitivity" isn't a reason to excuse harassment.

If WoW players don't want killed while leveling, they play a PvE server............................................ ......

Does graal have servers where it's not possible to harrass people? :confused:

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A very, very small amount. This is not a big concern at the moment for graal, nor will it ever be. If you're being harassed, tell a GP.

It's plenty valid reason, because if we start removing all sorts of multiplayer aspects from the game because some people feel like trolling over it, at what point do things stop getting removed? When it's a single player offline game?

Having people say things you may not necessarily like comes with the territory of human interaction, surprised it has taken as long as starting Graal for you to realize this.

Could probably implement some "Hide hours" option for profiles, yes. The only issue would be having a new global-flag added, but if it's important enough it wouldn't be a problem.

The only question is: do a lot of people really care or is it just one person who needs some help getting people to stop harassing him?

I'm sure only a few would care about such a thing.

If it is a major issue that a lot of people think needs correcting, I would be glad to add an option in the Graal v6 profile system.

I have to say it's sad that this is even being considered.

Hours aren't really that big of a deal to keep public...