Feature Requests

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.

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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.

As lots of people have all kinds of avatars, why not have it so that we can categorize the avatars in different sections. So let's say you have a anime avatar, put that in the Anime category, and avatars with sound put that in the avatars with sound section, and so forth.. Scrolling through all the avatars is a bit too much when you have too many avatars uploaded.

It'd be helpful for world creators to know how many people are entering their world as well as how often users are coming back.

Due to the recent announcement of anti-cheat; there is a very LOUD group of people angry. Maybe a way to combat this is adding a Steam Workshop implementation; just like how Garry's Mod workshop is. Every addon can be manually reviewed and accepted. Instead of making things straight-up illegal, make it allowed through Steam Workshop and regulate it. You should also be able to add a moderation system in Steam Workshop, so you can add users as moderators as you would as adding a Discord moderator. This should ONLY add client-side features. For now, this feature should only be implemented through Desktop/Windows. You should also allow instance creators to allow certain addons while in-game. Let's get a reference from U.S. history. For this example, I am treating mods as alcohol and VRChat as the U.S.. The U.S. banned it in the 18th amendment, yet that never stopped alcholol problems, it only made it more unsafe and unregulated. People started creating ways to avoid this law, like disguising their alcohol through water bottles or other ways. Many people were affected by trying to use medical alcholol as drinking alcohol. The 21st amendment allowed drinking, since the U.S. literally couldn't do anything to stop it, so instead they made it legal and regulated it. In summary: Add Steam Workshop implementation for addons that affects the client. Add a system which Map creators can select addons to allow, meaning that if you load into a map where an addon is not allowed, the addon will be turned off until they go to another map that allows the addon.

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.

Maybe like an eye with a cross icon or something, it would appear next to their nameplate like the mute icon. This would let you know the person you're looking at doesn't see your avatar, either due to not finished loading, or they've turned off avatars. That way I don't look like an idiot trying to show off a gesture animation and all they see is a robot thing flailing it's arms. Or in the case of switching avatars, I'll know when I am safe to use my animations again so we don't desync.

In addition to the inventory post that already exist, I want to be able to give players items to consume/spawn only usable in my world. For example, if I make a Minecraft-esque world every player would find a starter kit in their inventory with a shovel, axe, torch and pickaxe. When leaving the world the items would disappear. Or a flare gun players can use to find each other on super large worlds. Assuming persistence exists, a tick box would exist on the imaginary item component to either make it disappear on switching world or you keep it forever (Or until consumed?)

With the new cloning feature: Allow avatar creators to set a “pedestal only” option so that avatars can still be used as quest rewards or Easter eggs for special avatars in worlds, for example.