Guild Wars 2

So this is an idea that i’d like to see added sometime in the near future if it is at all possible.

The idea’s origin is from the fact that I like being rather organized and having things at my finger tips.

The concept is this…I have friends that I’ve made in game that are strictly dungeon/fractal/WvW/PvP runners and others that are of various guilds and statuses within said guild. I would like to see a hierarchy option, such as grouping contacts in mobile devices, available to help sort these players out.

Example:

Legend: [x] offline ; [a] away ; [o] online ; > closed tree ; | open tree

[o]>Dungeon Runners
[o]—Fractal Runners
|[o] Person 1
|[a] Person 2
|[x] Person 3
[x]—PvP Players
|[x] Person 4
|[x] Person 5
[x]>WvW Palyers
[o]—[wxyz] // I’d like the option for “[ ]” here for guild tags if possible
|[o]—Leaders
||[o] Leader 1
||[x] Leader 2
|[x]>Second in Command
|[o]>Rookies
[x]>[abcd]

Within this system i’d also like it to prioritize “online” people in the top of their given sub-directory followed by the contact filtering options we already have (such as Name A-Z/Z-A, Location A-Z/Z-A, AP 0-x/x-0

I understand one may nickname a player and use search as a filter, but if you have a full friends list of mostly online players it becomes quite tedious to have to sit there and look for someone since all the names are not the same number of characters you get a puzzling question such as “which of the following lines contains 7 -’s?”

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- – - – -
- – - – - – - – - – - – -
- – - – - – - – -
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The point is that the answer is not immediately obvious and that there may be a way to remedy that (this is assuming that you don’t recall the players name/nickname you assigned them – just to complicate matters further – thereby not allowing you to search the name).

I realize that I’m not being entirely realistic, as most people won’t have this problem, but I’m just trying to point out a reason where this could be a beneficial/convenient addition.

I think tagging people (wvw, dungeon, etc) and then filtering the list would be much more efficient especially for people who do lots of things than having a tree structure.

Lol, you’ve really thought this through! I would agree there could be some tuning up of the old “friendlist” formula. Which incidentally seems to be one of the few basic systems Anet didn’t alter almost at all when they constructed this game. Our familiar list ingame being very little different than any that has ever come before it.

Some might say, “why fix what isn’t theoretically broken?”

I say, “What’s wrong with adding an ‘advanced options’ menu?”