Change Character Function

It’s already something that’s possible for some just not the average user for so many reasons.

It would make life easier but would create many issues imo.

I can see this opening up so many more ways for people to break rules easier than they already do tbf

Also there hasn't been a qué for a while so I don't see the need for it

I don't see how this makes it easier to break rules. If someone breaks a rule then quickly switches character, staff will obviously have logs of that.

I’m sure there’s a “dev” reason as to why you can’t switch characters so fast like that

adaco said:

I don't see how this makes it easier to break rules. If someone breaks a rule then quickly switches character, staff will obviously have logs of that.

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Don't know why cars got invented so many people run people over with them. (just because something being changed could have negative affects if someone uses it badly dont focus solely on the negatives especially on a rule that can be broke has easily as this)

Moral of the story: i dont see how this makes it easier to break rules its the same as doing F8 quit ? In a perfect world we would have a dayz timer where you sit in the ground for 60 seconds waiting to log out

Bmav said:

Moral of the story: i dont see how this makes it easier to break rules its the same as doing F8 quit ? In a perfect world we would have a dayz timer where you sit in the ground for 60 seconds waiting to log out

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Obviously it’s something staff can monitor however just another thing piled on the staff to check.

Another issue being it would not change the users Session ID therefore making it harder for players to report other players and they would believe there is no issue just something they missed in RP.

However 60 timer to logout would prevent a lot of issues however idk if it is possible with the F8 menu.

Maverick Delta said:

Obviously it’s something staff can monitor however just another thing piled on the staff to check.

Another issue being it would not change the users Session ID therefore making it harder for players to report other players and they would believe there is no issue just something they missed in RP.

However 60 timer to logout would prevent a lot of issues however idk if it is possible with the F8 menu.

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I doubt it would be hard for staff to view when a player has switched characters.

Also if someone has just broken a rule, lets say RDM - the person who has been RDMed if they clip it and have the RDMers session ID and the time the incident happened then again I am sure staff would be able to figure out who it was, same way they do now.

I think people are deeping this too much, I don't think being able to switch characters without disconnecting would affect anything rulebreaking wise bar maybe "combat logging", but again, I imagine it would be easily traceable. As someone has already mentioned, I am sure there are dev reasons as to why you can't just switch characters on the fly which I imagine is why it's not already a thing, nor really needs to be as disconnecting and connecting takes a matter of minutes.

adaco said:

I doubt it would be hard for staff to view when a player has switched characters.

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No this part would be incredibly easy to keep a log of.

adaco said:

As someone has already mentioned, I am sure there are dev reasons as to why you can't just switch characters on the fly which I imagine is why it's not already a thing

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As far as I am aware this is already a thing for staff/devs and is something purposely blocked for us already. For imagine some issue raised and issues not yet mentioned.

kiran said:

Add a command or button on F1 menu to change which character you want to play with rather than have to fully disconnect and reconnect

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If it was ever added it'd be an option when interacting with a bed in a house to "go to sleep" or something similar, we wouldn't have the option to do it anywhere as that'd be misused

adaco said:

I am sure there are dev reasons as to why you can't just switch characters on the fly which I imagine is why it's not already a thing, nor really needs to be as disconnecting and connecting takes a matter of minutes.

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The reason it's restricted to devs/staff is since originally it had large issues of spawning in dead (which was fixed) and since then there has been other issues like spawning in at the location where the previous character was, helmet armour persisting across characters etc