The Friendslist, Why I think it needs to be changed [Merged]

[kharmin.7683]

1 hour ago, Dravvi.3146 said:

PS forum moderators merged the thread, the updated portion starts on page 5, don't think they wanted me bringing this back up but the devs have yet to solve the issue overall so I am going to.

Creating a new thread on the same topic as an existing one is against the CoC, so that's probably why.  Probably not that they didn't want it brought up again... just not in a new thread.  /shrug

Edited December 22, 2022 by kharmin.7683

[Zaviamoon.4569]

I have never liked the follow-on friend list. I have few friends I really do not like people lol, but I have a long list of people following me these are people I have never talked to or did anything in game with. It's just creepy and pretty much the same as stalking someone you do not know.

[Birdie.3869]

I just want to throw out there that if you have friends or guildmates or followers that are hiding "offline" all you need to do to find them is sort by location and hover over the top offline members. The ones who are "offline" will have their location pop up with their other usual info. That seems like something that should be fixed to me.

 

This doesn't work with blocked people though, as no info appears on hover over. So remember to block your followers if you play wvw a lot and feel you're being stalked even while offline.

 

And yes it's not uncommon for wvw opponents to add you to friends to see your location, I've had it happen to me several times and I don't even play wvw that much. And yes I know they're doing it, my followers list is empty and suddenly I get a follower after a fight in wvw who's "offline" in wvw when hovered.

 

Blocking them does solve the issue but Anet could still make it a little easier to manage the friends list though, I'm sure I've blocked people who've wanted to be friends the same as people who wanted to follow me around the borderlands with their friends.

I like the idea of invaders names not showing up in the friends/followers list while in wvw, it would make it much easier to see if it's friend or foe adding me.

[Dravvi.3146]

9 hours ago, Birdie.3869 said:

I just want to throw out there that if you have friends or guildmates or followers that are hiding "offline" all you need to do to find them is sort by location and hover over the top offline members. The ones who are "offline" will have their location pop up with their other usual info. That seems like something that should be fixed to me.

 

This doesn't work with blocked people though, as no info appears on hover over. So remember to block your followers if you play wvw a lot and feel you're being stalked even while offline.

 

And yes it's not uncommon for wvw opponents to add you to friends to see your location, I've had it happen to me several times and I don't even play wvw that much. And yes I know they're doing it, my followers list is empty and suddenly I get a follower after a fight in wvw who's "offline" in wvw when hovered.

 

Blocking them does solve the issue but Anet could still make it a little easier to manage the friends list though, I'm sure I've blocked people who've wanted to be friends the same as people who wanted to follow me around the borderlands with their friends.

I like the idea of invaders names not showing up in the friends/followers list while in wvw, it would make it much easier to see if it's friend or foe adding me.

Yeah and going offline should never be the solution anyways as I have said before way back in this very post, As for blocking? It didn't before but does now sorta, they never announced it but once you block someone the other player cannot add you to their friendslist anymore nor can they message you or invite you period as usual.

So they are slowly fixing that side of things, but I think the majority of people who are going against the idea of them updating the friendslist are those who have several hundred friends and are afraid the system change would kill their friendslist.

It would not not neccessarily be the case, removing the followers list and making it a request system would secure it but they could also retroactively make it so those who have mutually added one another would appear on the list where as those that didn't would be removed.

Edited December 23, 2022 by Dravvi.3146

[Dravvi.3146]

On 12/22/2022 at 1:24 PM, Zaviamoon.4569 said:

I have never liked the follow-on friend list. I have few friends I really do not like people lol, but I have a long list of people following me these are people I have never talked to or did anything in game with. It's just creepy and pretty much the same as stalking someone you do not know.

This is also a thing I agree with, it's just kinda weird and stalker-ish yeah.