Remove job titles

[Pollux]

I agree that it gives a metagame problem, as you are not able to avoid the information and leads to spoiled potential RP.
I always thought that these job roles dedicate your character to a specific type of role-play and prevents failRP and acting outside your characters job or background.

I.e a citizen would not randomly pull out a pistol and mug someone; as a citizen you are expected to act like a regular person.
(So if you want to mug people you need to dedicate your job role and set up a proper RP background.)

So this begs the question if the job roles should be kept out of the scoreboard and character description; and rather be only visible to administrators that can regulate proper RP backgrounds and failRP.

I disagree with job names forcing people to have a good background RP, as most people just wait a bit before doing /job criminal and whipping a galil out. It does I guess help a bit with powergaming but I'd argue metagaming from jobs is a bigger issue than the potential for people to powergame. Background RP is extremely rare nowdays meaning there's even less of a reason to keep job names around. We have gamemode features such as passes and associates which would help reduce powergaming even without job names.

After a bit of thought, I don't see many downsides to this apart from merchants being even harder to find. Metagaming is so common even if unintentional, you can't say you've never pressed tab to see how many cops are on or who's a cop before doing something or treat someone differently after you see their job name (for example a fake or undercover officer).

Something similar to this worked extremely well when undercover cops could first request their job colour to be changed to green and have an obscure job. I was able to actually become part of criminal groups as an undercover officer simply because the colour of my job was green when people hovered over me other than blue. Nowdays its hard to do this again as people know about the undercover feature. A change like this would for sure improve the quality of roleplay a ton, so I'm for it.