Hi,
in the recent Blogpost about the plans in 2013 were once more a lot of statements that basically say “we want to give players reasons and ways to interact and socialize”. Because of this i would like to point out again that a few rather simple additions to the current friendlist would already help a lot to improve communication between players.
With the simple additions i mean functionalities like adding a note to a player, or just the ability to group players together (like “guild”, “dungeons”, “RL-friends”, “wvw”).
The main problem that i am experiencing with the current system is that i try to socialize with people, even when i just picked up a random party to run some dungeons. If i meet friendly and competent players, i add them to the friendlist so that i can find parties more quickly in the future.
However this does not work as intended – even though the Accountname is shown in the friendlist as well, i usually remember the Charakter that this player played when i (first) met him. Thus it happened to me several times already that i was looking for some people that i met some days ago, but since they logged on on another character and i didnt check their accountname before, i was unable to find them in my friendlist!
I will keep it short from now:
I would love to see some basic communication features implemented, like you can find in any messanger nowadays:
- grouping people together
- setting notes
- maybe groupchats that don’t require people to leave their party
- an option to create a tab in the chatwindow for individual conversations (you can create new chatwindows right now and use the checkboxes to enable/disable game messages/ mapchat/ guildchat etc. – i would love to see an addition that enables me to group individual conversations in these tabs)
Since anet usually loves to pay attention to details and tries to make things as perfect as they can get, here are some longterm suggestions which are probably rather complicated to implement and would take a lot of time. However, maybe this creates some ideas that are more simple to realize
- a chathistory that shows recent conversations with individual players
- add a list of all the different character names, if you hover your mouse over an entry (of course only, if both players added each other)
- make other people more than just an entry in your friendlist:
add the possibility to save screenshots and “attach” them to players
add a list of “common achievements” like: you have completed following dungeons X times together, and first entered a party to play World vs World
- Add character Icons to the friendlist (like the ones in the partymenu or even a bit more customized avatars) to give us something visual that we can link to other people.
- enable Players to add status messages, instead of just choosing between offline/away/invisible/online
thats it for now, but i am sure there are many useful additions that i didnt think of yet! So feel free to add those to this thread.