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DakAtak · Feb 24, 2006, 06:19 PM // 18:19

As we all know, there is an auto complete feature for the whisper field including names of those people with whom we have recently chatted or that are on our friends/guild lists. It seems obvious that they should apply this feature to the add party member field as well. As ANet always stresses, this is a team game, so please make it easier to team up! I am sure we are all tired of copying and pasting long names into this field. Please rally for the cause and post with a /signed if you agree and maybe this will be noticed. Thanks ANet for all your hard work!

Edit: Also suggested below ...

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Originally Posted by tommarrow

I think even easier would be if you click on someones name in the chat window then their name could appear in your party window so all you have to do is click the + symbol. It is like this when you click their character why not the chat window?

Blair46 · Feb 24, 2006, 06:34 PM // 18:34

I'll /sign this because I guess it is useful.

What I tend to do though is click them and get the whisper field to show up, let that autocomplete the name, then copy-paste. It's not difficult or annoying to repetitively have to do that, but it would be a bit easier just to have autocomplete in the party entry field.

DakAtak · Feb 24, 2006, 06:44 PM // 18:44

Thanks Blair. I do the exact same thing, as we probably all do. Imagine how much copying/pasting is going on everyday when the auto complete code has already been written. I have to believe that this is just an oversight that has somehow gone unnoticed.

LifeInfusion · Feb 25, 2006, 02:13 AM // 02:13

I think it would require a lot of server processing power but if it doesn't I am all for it.

Blair46 · Feb 25, 2006, 02:55 AM // 02:55

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Originally Posted by LifeInfusion

I think it would require a lot of server processing power but if it doesn't I am all for it.

How so? The auto-complete for private messages automatically saves any names of people online in your friends list and guild list, but they also save the names for auto-complete when you've previously talked to that person (well, if you've talked to them since you've logged on).

Seeing as how districts hold like what, maybe 50 people? maybe 75.. but, since they don't hold that many, wouldn't they be able to treat it the same way as friends/guilds list?

I mean, I can only assume that the same is going to be happening with online Alliance members when Factions comes out.

The only downside to having auto-complete for a whole district, is that since there are so many people, there are bound to be times when there are several people with very similar names.

That can get annoying.

DakAtak · Feb 26, 2006, 03:45 AM // 03:45

All of the client processing talk is really not a factor. All I am asking for is the same auto complete from the chat field to be applied to the party window. The feature itself exists already and is already running, we should just have it in both spots.

DakAtak · Feb 27, 2006, 04:24 PM // 16:24

Bump...

abatage · Feb 27, 2006, 11:37 PM // 23:37

Yes I ALWAYS wonder why the autocomplete is in whisper but not in add team invite! I sign

/signed

DakAtak · Mar 02, 2006, 10:43 PM // 22:43

I really think this should be a no brainer...

DakAtak · Mar 04, 2006, 05:55 PM // 17:55

Bump...

David Lionmaster · Mar 04, 2006, 06:01 PM // 18:01

sounds good, i cant tell you how many times ive accidentally misspelled people's names, when they have these wierd names that make no sense.

/signed

Flixified · Mar 04, 2006, 08:17 PM // 20:17

/signed

brpeck · Mar 05, 2006, 04:23 AM // 04:23

/signed

This is a great idea! It wouldn't be intense on the server processing and the entire thing could be made client side. It's just the same as when you hold ctrl to see all the names, they are already on your client, so it's just a matter of sorting the list.

Znow Whyte · Mar 07, 2006, 07:53 PM // 19:53

Yes! If there was some way for that to just auto complete my life would be so much easier!

tommarrow · Mar 07, 2006, 09:22 PM // 21:22

I think even easier would be if you click on someones name in the chat window then their name could appear in your party window so all you have to do is click the + symbol. It is like this when you click their character why not the chat window?

/signed

DakAtak · Mar 09, 2006, 03:44 PM // 15:44

Thanks, Tommarrow. I added that to the original post.

DakAtak · Mar 11, 2006, 02:55 AM // 02:55

Bump...

DakAtak · Mar 13, 2006, 04:32 PM // 16:32

Bump...

lishi · Mar 13, 2006, 06:49 PM // 18:49

Quote:

Originally Posted by LifeInfusion

I think it would require a lot of server processing power but if it doesn't I am all for it.

not really probably the client have all the name of player on the same district(if you lagging and press ctrl you will see the name of ppl even if you can't excange info with server) so everthing will be client side.

and filtering a name in even 100-200 names take nothing comparing rendering the screen

DakAtak · Mar 23, 2006, 04:32 AM // 04:32

Quote:

Originally Posted by DakAtak

All of the client processing talk is really not a factor. All I am asking for is the same auto complete from the chat field to be applied to the party window. The feature itself exists already and is already running, we should just have it in both spots.

Again, I don't think it is a factor.