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Originally Posted by Stefan
Why is privacy not an issue? The problem is that enabling this makes it possible to automate ip-checks or sending the ip somewhere else by script, which cannot be tolerated. The ips are accessible on gold servers because they are supervised by me.
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What do you mean by ip-checks? Checking for banned accounts? Checking where people live?
And why would we need to send the IP elsewhere by script? You do realize that virtually every single website you go to (including these forums) logs your IP? IPs are also not personal. At any given time (depending on your type of connection), there are dozens of other people with your exact same IP address.
At the very least, a MD5 hash should be provided for IPs.
It's not reasonable to omit a useful feature like IPs because of some unwarranted fear that some angry playerworld staff with an Ak47 is going to show up and knock on the door of every house within a 100 mile radius of where the IP supposedly originates.