You're right, people will be bashed for hiding their stats. [i]"Your stats aren't visible, that means you must be a crappy player!"[/i] A solution to this could be that stats are only displayed when someone makes a post in the recruitment forum, and they'd only be visible until the fireteam was created and subsequently closed. This way, the stats are accessible, but only when they're relevant (i.e. when looking for people to play with), this way people still won't be able to spontaneously look up a player's stats, but they're still available to those who actually have a reason for wanting to know.