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flammanga · Nov 30, 2011, 12:08 AM // 00:08

Something I have been missing in game for a while is the ability to Group friends or to add Tags to them.
My thoughts on both those things are:
Groups: The ability to put your friends in different groups. Preferably groups we can name/rename ourselves. example: sellers, runners, FoW, UW, DOA, HA and many more that can be thought of.

Tags: Just a small line of text that you can add to any player on your friends (ignore) list. For instance: "great t1 FoW", "dust seller", "lockpicks", "friendly PvEer".
The reason why I would really like to see this is because I have a full friendslist and only a third of them I know and know why they are on there.

Why should this be done before the release of GW2? one might argue..
To get more involved with more people in game before the release and giving a new impulse to the excisting players will create a bigger tighter community for Guild Wars 2.

Guillotine Princess · Nov 30, 2011, 12:37 AM // 00:37

That would be a nice touch. Additionally what I would find helpful is knowing what alliance members are online as well. You can look at your own guild roster, but that is all.

Gladiator Steven · Nov 30, 2011, 12:40 AM // 00:40

/signed
It's about time they gave us a small little box that we can type VERY brief descriptions in.
Characters would be limited however, hopefully to a reasonable amount.

Lanier · Nov 30, 2011, 01:03 AM // 01:03

/signed for sure. It would be nice to organize the buyers/sellers on my friends list and to seperate them from my guildies and alliance members.

flammanga · Nov 30, 2011, 01:04 AM // 01:04

Quote:

Originally Posted by Guillotine Princess

That would be a nice touch. Additionally what I would find helpful is knowing what alliance members are online as well. You can look at your own guild roster, but that is all.

That would be a nice addition as well!

AngelWJedi · Nov 30, 2011, 03:58 AM // 03:58

also so you can know why you ignored that person. i tend to forget after a while why i had someone on ignore list xD

Songbringer · Nov 30, 2011, 04:23 AM // 04:23

Yea, totally /signed

I often find myself deleting people only for them to message me in the next few days and I am like who are you? lol XD

Maybe you could replace there char name with "dust seller" because you don't really need to know who they are in a case like that. Then when it puts there name in the box for whisper it would show there char name. That would also be able to limit them to say the # of characters that a gw's name could be...however, if it also implied the rule of being two words+ might not be a great idea.

Just throwing that out because it would save space and you wouldn't have to have a super wide friend list. It is already annoying to have to widen it to see what zone people are in imo...if you double that width again for a special name...ugh

Edit: Or, make a scroll bar for the bottom of the friend list as well as the side

Venganza · Nov 30, 2011, 04:45 AM // 04:45

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Originally Posted by flammanga

only a third of them I know and know why they are on there.

So umm, these are friends?

Anyway, have you not discovered the low-tec joys of a piece of paper?

Or would you rather have GW staff piss about pandering to every daft idea that crosses their desk rather than concentrating on GW2 or code that matters?

Gill Halendt · Nov 30, 2011, 08:04 AM // 08:04

I've been missing custom afk statuses as well. "Away" is a bit generic, I could be away for a couple of minutes ("Be Right Back") or definitely away for a while ("Away"), but there's currently no way to discern.

Auto-afk after some minutes of inactivity and custom autoreply messages ("Don't bother messaging. I'm taking a break for lunch and won't be back until 9:00 PM" or "Just went peeing, don't start the dungeon without me just yet!") could help, too, but I'm afrad that would make GW closer to a graphic instant messenger...

Oh, and what about chat logging?

gremlin · Nov 30, 2011, 08:04 AM // 08:04

Its a good idea but I feel an idea for gw2.

I depend on a couple of notepads for much of my gw play as its the only way to remember friends who are really just contacts that you added for a reason that is long gone.

I note down character birthdays I should also list what my current mission state is so I can remember who was going for what.
Sure by all means add it to the game if it can be easily achieved but I will not push for it.

As for daft ideas I think its up to us the players to throw ideas at the community and hopefully anet in the hope that they might prove useful.
Its for anet to pick out those worthy of inclusion.

I rattled on for ages that they should use environmental effects in pvp rather than altering the skills every time there was a problem, now we have these fluxes.
I like to think someone saw my posts and thought it worth experimenting with at least in part.

flammanga · Nov 30, 2011, 09:04 AM // 09:04

I thought of it as being an idea for Guild Wars 2, and then I thought that Guild Wars could be an excellent place to test out how it would work best.

Programming wise it is not a hard thing to do at all. Especially since all of it is pre written for tons of applications. Just finding the right setting for the Guild Wars Community might take some tweaking. And can then be implemented in Guild Wars 2 (as well)

Canthas Monk · Nov 30, 2011, 10:07 AM // 10:07

Quote:

Originally Posted by flammanga

Why should this be done before the release of GW2? one might argue..
To get more involved with more people in game before the release and giving a new impulse to the excisting players will create a bigger tighter community for Guild Wars 2.

Yeah that makes 0 sense stop trying to use big words.

Quote:

Originally Posted by flammanga

The reason why I would really like to see this is because I have a full friendslist and only a third of them I know and know why they are on there.

You only know a third of your friends list this is really all I need to know. No.

Fluffy Kittens · Nov 30, 2011, 11:33 AM // 11:33

it's called FRIENDS list for a reason. You're not supposed to put random people in there. So you should know the reason they're in there -_-
/notsigned

Gruff · Nov 30, 2011, 12:11 PM // 12:11

/signed would appreciate this function would love the list capacity doubled or more also :S

Lummy · Nov 30, 2011, 12:14 PM // 12:14

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rezz Anna Nicole

it's called FRIENDS list for a reason. You're not supposed to put random people in there. So you should know the reason they're in there -_-
/notsigned

signed x 1000

sometimes people reroll and u cant keep track of everyones ign

ChaosWarrior · Nov 30, 2011, 12:51 PM // 12:51

Good idea to use it, can't really understand why other people don't like the idea.
You don't have to use it guys...

Dewshine Wildclaw · Nov 30, 2011, 01:04 PM // 13:04

/signed I like this idea, I can live without, but in no way against it.

Showtime · Nov 30, 2011, 02:28 PM // 14:28

/signed ... .. . ..... .

Mireles · Nov 30, 2011, 04:12 PM // 16:12

/not signed this isn't google plus or facebook.... work should be done to improve the game... not social media

Toraen · Nov 30, 2011, 04:18 PM // 16:18

/signed because it would be convenient, although not really necessary. Navigating a large friends list would be easier with the ability to group them by area of expertise or whatever else.