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mcmiver · May 03, 2006, 06:53 PM // 18:53

The problem:

There is no 'who's online' / roster for alliances!!
We have it with guilds, but not with alliances.

So short of adding *everyone* in your alliance to friends, what are you meant to do?

It would be much easier to arrange gvg/alliance battles if we could see who was online.

An 'alliance' message feature would also be nice, eg from leader of alliance.

My proposal:

Put up a roster in the alliances tab that lists the players that are online and their respective guilds.

Put in an alliance annoucnement system.

Feed-back on this idea appreciated.

Lampshade · May 03, 2006, 08:20 PM // 20:20

Is asking is XXXX is online in alliance chat so hard? Or how bout adding them to your friends list.

sinisters chaos · May 03, 2006, 08:45 PM // 20:45

well lampshade i kno my list is full, and spamming the alliance chat to ask if like 10 of ur freinds are on, is not a good idea, but then again i asked Gaile about this on one of her visits in LA d1, and she said she doesnt know where GW could fit the members of 10 diff guilds, but i propose u can see 1 guild at a time in your alliance to see whos online.

Raiin Maker · May 03, 2006, 08:52 PM // 20:52

Quote:

Originally Posted by sinisters chaos

well lampshade i kno my list is full, and spamming the alliance chat to ask if like 10 of ur freinds are on, is not a good idea, but then again i asked Gaile about this on one of her visits in LA d1, and she said she doesnt know where GW could fit the members of 10 diff guilds, but i propose u can see 1 guild at a time in your alliance to see whos online.

i think arenanet could put a list of all the ONLINE alliance members under a tab in the guild menu. this would save space, because rarely are all of guild online at once, and it saves having a new menu.

agentnull · May 03, 2006, 09:41 PM // 21:41

"Friends" has dropdowns for Friends Online, Friends Offline, and Ignored. Why not have that for each guild in the Alliance menu, to show which members are online?

sinisters chaos · May 03, 2006, 11:56 PM // 23:56

ok well look, a full alliance has 10 guilds, lets say 10 people are on each guild (which is not very many) that means it will show 100 people, which will take up a lot of room, usually lets say 20-30 ppl on, depends on teh guilds, that can go voer 300 people on 1 list... i find it nearly impossible, i just say u can see the roster for one of ur alliance guilds at a time

agentnull · May 04, 2006, 12:13 AM // 00:13

Click N. You see the arrows, either pointing down or to the side? That's what I meant. You can choose to show any or all of the guilds' members online.

sinisters chaos · May 04, 2006, 12:19 AM // 00:19

yes but agent, if u do want to show them all, and theres 300 of them online, how is this possible..... i mean i know the whole time i would keep it to "show none" due to it taking up half of my screen with names

agentnull · May 04, 2006, 12:23 AM // 00:23

Well, it's the same way when you have enough friends to fill up the list. You have to scroll down.

sinisters chaos · May 04, 2006, 12:38 AM // 00:38

but u dont have close to 50 on at a time, wait can u even fit 50 on a list..

agentnull · May 04, 2006, 12:55 AM // 00:55

I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure the max is 100. I know it's at least 50.

sinisters chaos · May 04, 2006, 12:58 AM // 00:58

yeah well thinking everyone on ur list online * 3 lol

Kakumei · May 04, 2006, 01:28 AM // 01:28

I would like -some- method of seeing allies' rosters.

Lexar · May 04, 2006, 02:18 AM // 02:18

Friends list goes to 100 people and alliances can have 1000 people. So there's a problem, no matter how many sub group you make.

My suggestion is when you click on a guild in the alliance tab, it drops down a menu of who's online, and goes away when you click on another guild. Clean not too spammy or cluttered.

agentnull · May 04, 2006, 02:26 AM // 02:26

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lexar

Friends list goes to 100 people and alliances can have 1000 people. So there's a problem, no matter how many sub group you make.

How is it a problem? The Friends and Guild list goes to 100 people because of the database size. The Alliance database, I'm assuming, just has a list of the Guilds. The only change to the database would be that each Guid is linked to its members database.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lexar

My suggestion is when you click on a guild in the alliance tab, it drops down a menu of who's online, and goes away when you click on another guild. Clean not too spammy or cluttered.

That was pretty much what I said.

cobra3k · May 04, 2006, 08:29 AM // 08:29

I made a mock up just for some inspiration. Give feedback on this:

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c3...3k/newmenu.jpg

Alathys Tylderaan · May 04, 2006, 08:35 AM // 08:35

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lexar

My suggestion is when you click on a guild in the alliance tab, it drops down a menu of who's online, and goes away when you click on another guild. Clean not too spammy or cluttered.

/signed

That's a great idea.

]SK[ · May 04, 2006, 08:48 AM // 08:48

Quote:

Originally Posted by cobra3k

I made a mock up just for some inspiration. Give feedback on this:

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c3...3k/newmenu.jpg

Nice

Arcador · May 04, 2006, 10:58 AM // 10:58

Looks cool

but with guilds with 40+ peolple can be long.

mcmiver · May 04, 2006, 11:50 AM // 11:50

Quote:

I made a mock up just for some inspiration. Give feedback on this:

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c3...3k/newmenu.jpg

yeh that looks good! Even if they listed just the people online under drop down tabs below each guild it would be a start.

I mean, couldn't they just fetch info from the guilds tab and display that, instead of putting people into a new database?