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Quote  If I understood it correctly it is not limited to players in the same alliance, and at the start it will only show who's online (playing or afk).  I'd love a golden monkey club for issues relevant in Djebeli/Elijal, but when I'm on or offline is nobody's business outside of my alliance.   

nice! love it!  LOL

and as far as knowing when im on and off, that is kinda scary, but then it makes sure you are friends...with well... friends  Big smile

@Dev team, sometimes we forget that a lot of things talked about or "promised" was probably suggested by the players and are very game changing and needs to be worked in properly.

A new UI can be helpful in making those changes. 

I say get the 'little' changes out of the way and move on to the heavy stuff.
illy started on a great foundation of open world sandbox rts with some great key elements, and I see nothing wrong with improving the foundation before adding a second story or third in this case lol

keep it up!  Smile
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-1 If you are able to see the amount of friends someone has.  Thats just my opinion I guess.  Having the very definition of the word "friend" butchered by networking sites creates a back pedal in human evolution. Additionally, friend farming gives the undesirable people in the elgea community another tool to make GC a disdainful place for anyone mature and/or intelligent who has been here longer than a month.  

I can see it now:
"Hi welcome to illy! /me snuggles:you ... click this link ... add me."

...and miles to go before I sleep.
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that would be pretty bad if that happened...

idk, in all the mmo's i played...you couldn't see if the friend was online, only if they was also in your guild/alliance/clan 

and with the private chat, don't have it be a pop up, or a message to the player, have it be a room we create then we have to send a message with the link to the room or something along those lines

this game has a way big emphasis on not doing nice things with diplo's and knowing people's on/offline status at any given moment is a big thing, as people are pointing out

another thing this really brings up is the whole chat system and notifications, i say combine and let me have the option to display what i want in the tabs...

like have the tabs be a default setup, then have a button on each tab that opens a window with checklist on what i want displayed on that tab, whether it be a...

Notification (and be specific on which ones; Magic, Diplo, trade)
Player message received (mail notification display)
Whisper's (a friend or person who is only talking to you) 
Alliance chat 
Global chat
Have a check to make it so i know which tab i picked will talk to global or alliance

or something like that...maybe?


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Thought my session just changed to UI3 for a few seconds there :o)
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If one of the aspects of having someone as a friend means that all friends can see when people are online, I imagine most people will have a very limited number of friends.  I can think of less than a dozen people outside my alliances that I would have any desire to have this information, and I'm more gregarious than average.  (I think.)

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Originally posted by Rill Rill wrote:

If one of the aspects of having someone as a friend means that all friends can see when people are online, I imagine most people will have a very limited number of friends.  I can think of less than a dozen people outside my alliances that I would have any desire to have this information, and I'm more gregarious than average.  (I think.)


I agree.  In fact, the only friends I would have right now would be alliance members anyway.
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Points: 2042 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 07 Jun 2012 at 15:55
I think there may be confusion about the friends list. Your friends will have no idea who else is on your friends list and will certainly not see them online. And there is no way to see how many friends someone has. Each person in the list that you may add has to be mutually agreed upon, meaning you cannot add someone to the list and see when they are online without their express permission. And if someone is annoying you by sending friend requests that you refuse, you can block them and you won't receive any further requests from them.

Hope that helps clarify.

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Originally posted by GM Luna GM Luna wrote:

I think there may be confusion about the friends list. Your friends will have no idea who else is on your friends list and will certainly not see them online. And there is no way to see how many friends someone has. Each person in the list that you may add has to be mutually agreed upon, meaning you cannot add someone to the list and see when they are online without their express permission. And if someone is annoying you by sending friend requests that you refuse, you can block them and you won't receive any further requests from them.

Hope that helps clarify.

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Will all my "friends" automatically be able to see if I'm online?  Or can I choose to appear online only to specific friends?
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Points: 2042 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 07 Jun 2012 at 19:46
Originally posted by Rill Rill wrote:

Will all my "friends" automatically be able to see if I'm online?  Or can I choose to appear online only to specific friends?

Good question. At this time it will be such that you appear online to all friends. 

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