alright, Kendaer is swamped with work, so we won't see the hooks in the core for a while.  for now these are the edits you need to do in list.php to hide players.

add:
in the sql statements on lines 75, 79,and  88.

add:
after line 124---$row = db_fetch_assoc($result);

add:
above:
near the end of the file.

You also have to subtract the count of users that have that setting on, that would appear in that bracket, and subtract it form the second statement in the for.

That is the reason why it is showing those blank entries.

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Sorry to gravedig this, but..I figured a way with core modification, to hide players from the list.php - you do need to do it by acctid.  At least that is how I did it...and I also accounted for it so that the total number of players is reduced by one, too....That is all core modification.

What I'd like to know and can't figure...is how to hide a player in user.php...so that you can't enter blank and have their name show up in the list, you'd literally need to have their name.

Every time I futz with user.php, I end up with NOBODY showing up that way....or JUST the one I actually want to hide showing up.  It's weird, LOL

For some reason, the same thing I did in list.php does not work out in user.php (ctually, you have to do that in a /lib file for user.php, because the list is called from a function - just can't figure how to alter the function to get the result I am after.

That is not what is trying to be done here...see your Direct Message on this to understand what I am trying to accomplish.