Callsign infos on in-game dialog pop-up

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Callsign infos on in-game dialog pop-up

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Here on the forums users have a profile, with an avatar but most importantly their active rate on the forum, their ranking and subscription date, the description ecc. On LU website there's the win ratio, date of the last match, affiliated team etc. All these infos are public and are there for a reason.
I think especially the LU infos (in particular affiliated team, win ratio, teammates and forum callsign subscription date) could be useful to trying to understand the kind of players you are playing with, or just to see what they are up to (historical player, new one, lots of matches ecc). Instead of searching for these infos outside of the game, I think it would be nice to have an in-game pop-up dialog (for example when clicking a callsign in the players list, or having a key mapped to show every player who is playing in the same screen page), window or whatever to access those infos. Apart from the GUI choices, I'm saying the client already has to check for a global registration to approve, so couldn't it also sync the rest of the data?
That's nothing special or important, just something some other games have and that I sometimes wish there was. Just bringing it out
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Having additional information or things like an in-game avatar would be neat, but we'd have to standardize on some dimensions for the avatars and have some sort of moderation system in place.
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Yes, I see... Anyway I'm just happy you didn't mock me for this draft idea. Maybe someday we will see it.
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Is there any moderation for forum avatars?
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Not beyond removing one after we see it being used, no.
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Perhaps a player's in-game avatar would be the same as their forum one?
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