Alliance... Whos online? I don't know....

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.

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

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.

"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?

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

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.

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

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

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

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

yeah well thinking everyone on ur list online * 3 lol

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

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.

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.

That was pretty much what I said.

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

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

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That's a great idea.

Nice

Looks cool but with guilds with 40+ peolple can be long.

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?