Yea but if i get pk'ed from your faction and become resentful I can go around on discord / an alt char telling all your associates the number to fuck with you. I guess there is a possible way to "re-roll" the number to change it up but it just means more of a backend recode.
If it's whitelist then there's no point in the number besides being a little gimmick, you'd be denying access to the possible RP of an associate who is using or doing something they shouldn't be in a criminal org and if the whitelist truly controls who can buy what then entering a silly number is pointless and just becomes redundant, I guess the solution is simply requiring it to be entered once per session so it does not become cumbersome, but I easily see a guy going LOA, getting back on, not remembering the number and hopping into discord #made-men-ic "@here hey what's the fucking number for the fucking racket i forgot"
The system has changed once significantly. at least the back end (and some interaction elements on the front end) so it's already far superior to what we launched with, and as it's a system that you would interact with more than a dozen times daily it is purely function over form. It needs to work, and it does.
In the same vein, since it's a system every user interacts with constantly the idea that you can add 'RP' interactions to it that won't become redundant is nearly impossible. Even if you think it's epic to enter a number every time to get a shipment there's someone that will think it's cringe. The intended use case will be run out and optimized by users.
I'm not saying it can't be done (a recode) but it takes time and all the niche questions and holes that I'm asking and poking need to be answered with full diction before I can even consider making a mock write up for it. So keep it rolling.