Feature Requests

It would be great to have a thumbs up, thumbs down system for worlds. A five star ranking system. Lately a lot of unfinished worlds have leaked into the game and more often than not with my friends I find myself checking out like 4 different worlds before we find something we like. It's a huge waste of time. It would be great to have the ability to rank worlds, having a top rated tab. So that way we can filter out maps that are low quality. A plus would be being able to write a review for a world as well.

I'm going to get straight to the point on this one. On a platform like VRChat, NSFW stuff is going to happen, no matter what the terms says and no matter what is/isn't allowed. People are going to do this no matter what you do and in fact it already does happen... all the time. I feel the best solution to the problem is some sort of age verification as well as usage of the NSFW tags in the SDK for avatars and worlds. The use of the age verification system would let users set their birth date or just their age and would automatically filter out content with any NSFW tags along with the option to hide birth dates and ages either from everyone or people that aren't friends or both. The report system would be a way to get around issues with this as well as users showing proof with ID so that false reports do not occur. Plus with this system, legally the situations players find themselves in would fall upon the players themselves rather than VRChat, especially if you make a disclaimer specifying this in the terms. As it currently stands, potentially the legal issues fall on VRChat for not enforcing the terms enough to filter out NSFW content and this would resolve the issue entirely. It's only a matter of time before something happens in-game and VRChat gets sued. I'm no lawyer, but it doesn't take one to know stuff like this happens. As for NSFW Content Filters, this would also solve the issue for adults that do not want to see certain NSFW content. Again, making it legally their responsibility rather than VRChat's responsibility. Making use of the check boxes in the SDK would make it much easier for this filter to work. There's honestly no good reason for this to not already be a feature in VRChat beyond lack of time as I know it does take time to implement something like this and some effort on the team's part, but this would solve a lot of potential future issues and I'd rather not see this platform in the same position as the Titanic, thinking everything is going great and then one thing happens and it's all over. Edit: I'd like to also add at this point that most VRChat users, or at least from what I've seen, actually don't care if NSFW stuff is in VRChat. Most people generally have a "keep it in the bedroom" sort of mentality where they're fine with it if it's not in their face. I've in fact seen many NSFW avatars in public worlds as well as NSFW discussions and other content in public worlds and people just don't care because the users, avatars, and worlds stay in VRChat without being reported or anything. There is literally no way around NSFW content and this is the only solution that makes sense: Just allow it and use content filters and age verification.

I want to be able to send a "Reply" without having to receive an invite first. I want to be able to reply to a reply. I've seen some suggestions of an in-game messaging system, and I really think this is the way to do it. Add a new button next to invite and request invite that says message. then allow people to use the system already in place for replies to send a message. Allow people to reply to the message. allow people to reply to a reply.

Having an calendar in-game would let people who are not on slack actually know what kinds of stuff is happening! (And it looks/is better imho) There would be a calendar button on the menu and clicking it would bring up a window similar to WoW's calendar ( https://www.blogcdn.com/wow.joystiq.com/media/2010/11/decembercalendarchangesrlt.jpg ) Users would be able to select a date, create an event and other people could sign up for it. The creator would be able to set a starting time for the event and choose a world which it would be at. Since this is a global community I think it would be best to use UTC time to coordinate everyone, and if possible, setting your own time-zone in settings and having VRchat convert the times to your local time. Before the event starts a notification would appear (As shown in picture) so you can hang out with friends and not forget the time. An option to auto-join the event world 5-15-30 minutes before would be handy too!

I have been around for awhile now in VRC and I have noticed a growing number of children under the ages of 9 and younger coming into the VRC worlds and harassing normal players. I would like to request to add a report under-aged player to the report forms to help deal with these problems and set an understanding that rules must be upheld. Otherwise They're just going to think they can do what ever they wish without consequences and sexual predators are going to attack these children. I have heard such cases in vr already to have happened from others I have met the youngest being 5 years of age.

Expose avatar performance rank to the groups system. VRChat dev team is in full control of the ranks exposure to the system. A newer ranking system can be easier implemented this way compared to exposing the rank to Udon. Make instance, select groups, select region and minimum avatar perf. Make joining not possible if not meeting the req, and make switching to a non-compliant avatar not possible if in the instance.

Currently, VR users are able to change their keybinds, but Desktop users are not able to change their keybinds. For example, if a player wants to change their gesture keys to a separate key, such as numpad, or unbind/rebind the safe mode because people may use it accidently, it would be a very useful tool. You used to be able to change your keybinds on Desktop using the input menu from Unity, but this was removed, so now players are completely stuck with the default keybinds. I'm not sure why this feature was removed, because tons of other games, quite literally 90% of them, allow you to change your controls and keybinds. This is really good feature for accessibility reasons as well, such as people who prefer to use arrow keys or IJKL instead of WASD.

tl;dr: A separate status for "Online Friends" not in any favorites groups, and separate statuses for each favorites group. The highest level of availability applies to people in multiple favorites groups. This is a suggestion I've heard floating around a lot but haven't seen posted (unless I missed it). It's often repeated nowadays that VRChat isn't as fun as before due to everybody being on orange / unavailable. As somebody who is always on orange myself, I stay on that status for two reasons. The first is that I accept friend requests from kind people I don't necessarily know too well who I wouldn't want to mix with my close friends. The second is to keep some friends groups separate either due to them explicitly stating so or just my own judgement. I would like to instead have a different set of statuses for different people I can set as needed. For instance, if I'm streaming I would be unavailable to most but joinable by a list of people I trust to be in my stream. If I were just hanging out and relaxing I would only be available to join by people I'm very close to. And I could have a different status on a favorites list of people I trust to join me in any situation. I think most people on orange have a lot of friends they would trust to join them in most cases, but their friends list is so full that they have to be selective. I know most people now see orange as unavailable and won't even send the request out of not wanting to be rejected. I think having different statuses for different people / favorites lists would clear a lot of this up and bring some of the fun back. This would be an effective resolution to the "orange status" problem even if it were only applied to one favorites list.

Wanna bring us closer together and add some noise with scheduled events? Let's bring some organization and mojo to the boards. Just like Discord, add a Calendar tab, and a panel to schedule events with a date/time and short description. On the front page you can show the next upcoming event to help further engage the community with your festivities. Users can opt in to receive reminders when an event is about to happen via the present notification system.(I forget things easily!) Nice to haves(Brownie points): Pick a gallery image thumbnail to be a part of the event panel. Add TimeZone/Location the group is primarily based on. Schedule, pick, and create room instance automatically when the event starts, and will have a link/button to easily join aforementioned room instance. Event Bulletin on Groups Tab - Feature list of events that are about to happen(From public groups). ## Permissions ## Add permission for a user to create an event. Add permission to allow a user to receive notifications. Add options to restrict event to specific role(s).

This feature request is asking for: The ability for users to set safety settings based on specific avatar stats, rather than the current broad "shaders", "custom animations", etc. So for example: Being able to ignore lights and polygons for very poor avatars, but being able to restrict Texture Memory or Skinned Meshes to Poor or Medium. This allows users to tailor their expeirences more to their hardware and what they feel is acceptable in terms of performance. Bonus points for a "presets" system. The safety settings themselves could be converted to this system, where VRChat has presets for each trust level, and users can make custom presets for each trust level or globally.