What do you want to see in an update to the Friend List?

[Zasz]

i like the idea of a gratz system, shinobi, and agreee with you... but i doubt thats something that will ever be implemented. for one thing, when you hof do you really want to recieve 40 GRATZ!!! at one time? itd lag me out, dont know about you...

crazygirl, your right about that.... the idea of an inbox has been suggested many times before, i think svet said it first, and i like it...

[Esme]

I'd like all of the above, esp more ppl on list and inbox

And i love the idea of being able to set your online status to hunting so that ppl know you're not being rude by not answering a pm straight away.

[Pretender]

Originally Posted by Esme

I'd like all of the above, esp more ppl on list and inbox

And i love the idea of being able to set your online status to hunting so that ppl know you're not being rude by not answering a pm straight away.

yes, status is also very important.
good thinking!

you could set it to hunting, crafting, miing, afk, etc.

[Wistrel]

I started a thread/poll on this one ages ago on EP. Lot of good suggestions over there, check it out!

http://entropia-pioneers.kicks-ass.o...t=friends+list

[Phoenix]

Definatly an offline message buffer and unlimited friend list, sorted in tabs, alphabetically, and maybe a person that sent you a message you have not replyed to should be indicated in some other color.

And mailboxes like in WoW could be useful (NO, im not advertising )

[cyco animal]

definatly an off line msg system, othergames have this why not PE?

If MA's was worried about usuing up to much server space a small inbox will suffice, not like well be attaching ingame images to each other...hmm but thats an idea

[Wistrel]

If you think about it, it is understandably not a high priority for MA to change the messaging system. "It aint broke so don't fix it" mentality applies. Theres so much else that will effect more people (in a noticable "ooh thats cool!" way) to do first. People don't really start having issues with the friends list till they are seriously into the game.

The solution to offline messaging is to spend more time in the game so people can message you. This has the terrible side effect that you might spend more PED's and or contribute to the game community by playing more often and make Calypso a better place for other players.

Somehow I don't think they will be rushing out to change this one. Besides its far more sociable to meet and talk to people in person. In this age of mobile phones and instant messengers and the like a lot of people tend to forget that

[Deathifier]

Around the time of last Land Grab I sent suggestions to support on what they can do to improve it.

The basic idea is to split the list into several 'tabs', one is your normal friends list (though double the size would be nice), one is your soc list (auto-updates as members join/leave so you can track who is on) and one specifically for people with hangars (or in the future other buildings, or even in general for events) so you don't have to keep space reserved or juggle names when people want to fly to space.

Offline messaging I don't see as really necessary, though being able to send a single message and have it (and only it) buffered for cases where people logout as you are writing something long and important would be nice.
Alternatively if the PM history was accessible (much like almost any instant messenger) ingame and if there was an option to resend already sent messages then that would work just as well IMO

- Deathifier

[Snipe]

i said all of the above.

my ideas can be seen here that i wrote about the FL (also other ideas of myne)

My Ideas!

[Kay-T]

I would like all of the above.. but other things people previously in this thread suggested too
The idea of a seperated list to seperate people in would be nice, like soc, active friends, business and so on. an inactive tab would be nice where people who have not logged in in x amount of time are taken off the prime list but still available. maybe have a user setting to delete names who have been inactive for certain amout of time too. The ability to have a seperate soc list within and a date/time stamp to their last log in but for management ranks or soc leaders only so you have a way to know to boot someone for inactivity or not.
offline messaging capability would be nice as well and would be acceptable instead fo seperate soc listings.
a Gratz button would also be nice too as well with the "away" idea to use when your busy so when your hunting the other person at least can know why it is taking you an hour to respond.
An ability to retroactively revoke permission to be on THIER friendlist. that way if you make the mistake of letting some annoying person on your f/l you can ratify that mistake so you dont have to deal with them anymore. (for example the annoying noob who you let so you can answer questions and provide guidance to but turns out to constantly beg you for peds and and doesnt care about useful information.