Friend/Guild avatar list

Are there any plans to add any more filters to the friends list?

One that I believe might be useful, is a filter to show friends that are online and hide those that are offline.
We already have the "green light" on those friends that are online, but that doesn't show on guild members.

It can take a little while to scroll through a long friends list plus 100 guild members just to find the one friend you want to visit that is online.
Having the choice to hide the offline friends would be a help.


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i would prefer in the panel along the bottom, if my friends were shown in order of who is online first.
It is more useful to see who is logged in first, if you need to chat or send invites.
currently our guild is spread across several pages but usually there is not more than 9 of us logged on at once
it would be more sensible to see who is on line than who is the highest level.:o


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grrr that would make more calls to server = more instability i presume... i guess BB knows they need to work on performance/stability of server first.

i am not sure how it would add or subtract from performance? The little green dot already demands as much from the servers as it will ever do.
I would have thought it would be a cut and paste of a command so that the display priority changed in a minor way?
To be able to see who of your guild or your friends is active would be useful on lots of ways i would have thought

it is never a cut and paste easy peasy job

In this case you want a custom sort function (with multiple options) implemented where they only have a default 1 sort hardcoded in the software. So they need to tinker with that to refer to the sort preference and then sort out that all of that will work without bugging any display etc

Now if you meant, change the sort option to a different one that is hard coded, then your preference is not necesarily other peoples preference who will argue they prefer sorting on level and others alphabetical which opens a whole new can of worms

As to first option- sort options are nice, new content is nicer which kinda gives my priority where it should be on the list of things to do in the future- somewhere far far away

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Originally Posted by IMarduk

grrr that would make more calls to server = more instability i presume... i guess BB knows they need to work on performance/stability of server first.

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[censored] you obviously have no idea whatsoever what you are talking about

duboisdvoleur

Please do not use profanity on the forum.

Sinister-King

more [censored] from someone who wants to pretend they have a brain..what i meant if your pathetic little brain can grasp this is that it is absolutely pointless having silly little pictures along the bottom of the screen unless they serve some useful function.the only useful function they could serve is to let us know who is available and logged in/on.who gives a damn what your level is if you only log on once a month?
i look forward to positive comments from people who are capable of rational thought or even positive feedback which of course would exclude Nancy boy and malduck

duboisdvoleur

Make yourself familiar with the forum rules.

Sinister-King

lol i would be agreeably suprised if either has done programming 101

this game as about having a chat and getting to know people and co operating on quest and adventures
there is no point whatever in not displaying who is on line and available in the first instance
ii would create an immediate improvement and cost a miniscule portion of any competent programmers time










































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You already have two filters: friends and guild friends. Why not a third filter that shows online users only?

that would be good

Being interested in UI design, here are my suggestions of improvement:

Front web page

• The right column with "add friends" syndication and game advertisement are not aligned. It looks a bit haphazard.
• The posts in the news feed are not properly differentiated from each other. It makes them float into each other which makes readability harder. Some kind of horizontal shader or thicker ruler would be a great improvement. My suggestion is to let the beige background fade out into transparency between each post, so that the texture behind it pops out.
• The minimize post button disappears when put on top of the teaser image. The teaser images are stealing attention from the post itself.
• There are too many horizontal lines inside a post. Having a horizontal line below the title of the post is unnecessary.
• The amount of posts are way to many. Use the archive more or at least auto hide posts that are older then a week. The oldest post is about new year and it's soon summer!
• Consider replacing the rectangular teaser to the right with a square icon to the left. It would be less intrusive and guide the eye rather then confuse and cover the minimize button.
• Profile editing is a mess! Way too many headers, segments, icons, buttons and horizontal rulers. It would be much better if I could just type in my current password, edit whatever and press save. That would be 1 segment, rather then 3. Consolidate them to make it easier.
• The fact that the forum profile settings is different and contains a link to another page is not apparent. Consider adding an icon with a arrow or something to mark it better. But only if you first remove some horizontal lines and other features. (EDIT: actually there is an arrow, but it blends too much into the +/- that show/hides the segment. Make it pop out more).
• In the invite friends frame on the right side: the most important feature here is the Invite friend part, not the Click here. Thus, the Invite friend text should be larger.
• The shop icon and segment is very beautiful.
• Consider putting the forum posts into its own box. Right now it blends into the shop box.
• Consider gathering all social features into the same area (the social links to the upper left and the join facebook, as well as the invite friends).
• Why do you have a advertisment about a game called Settlers online, on the Settlers online webpage?
• The right hand column is so long it covers the footer.

Ingame improvements

• Make it possible to customize one or two slots in the resource bar. I like keeping track of fishes to optimize my buffing. Now I have to click the economics tab every time.
• All the archive posts are editable. If I start typing the text will change. I think they should be locked.
• When I visit a friends town, I would like to have a quickbutton for returning home. With many friends it can be hard to find oneself in the horizontal list. EDIT: found it, below the arrows in the friends bar. Perhaps it should be possible to do this by clicking the portrait?
• Sometimes the quests can not be completed. First I thought this was due to a bug, which was solved by completing other quests so that the list was refreshed. Now it seems like it's due to my level not being high enough. This is not written anywhere in the interface however, the sub-quest simply does not appear. I think it should appear but be grayed out - with a tooltip that says my level is too low.

Other
The dirt pathches are rendered above the road, which I guess is because the terrain objects like trees should cover them and they are in the same layer. Perhaps you could make the dirt patches transparent?

personally i reached the point of having 200+ friends, and not taking random friend requests! it just happens over time for active people

i would like to sugest a few new functionalities for the friendlist.



-be able to sort friends by online/offline status

-be able to sort friendlist alfabetically or by lvl

-create friend groups

(this options are available in alot of mmo's out there, and i dont mean lazy fb games x)

Be nice if the green lights worked once in a while.

HI,

Can you change this list on way that I can see online friends together... not like now (from moment to moment) online... 2 offline, then 2 online... 5 offline...

So can you make that we sort online contact from beginning of list?

best...

I hear you!

In my guild we are 88-96 people then add the friends outside guild meaning I have to scroll through 10-11 windows of people since you can only see 9 people at the time (this is fine). But it would be nice to be able to toggle between offline/online players.

Maybe also a search options field, so you can search on a friend name?

Kind regards,
Magnus

agreed !
there should be a "online" button under all/friends/guild"

http://prntscr.com/3eh58d

want this so much

I agree to an "all/online only" toggle for the friends list. Also, while a search facility there could be useful, (somebody mails you "Hi, can you buff 1 of my bldgs plz?" ~ "Actually, no, I can't. I can't find you in the 500+ faces on my list", something as simple as a toggle "sort by level / sort by name" would do.

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Originally Posted by Hairy

Also, while a search facility there could be useful, (somebody mails you "Hi, can you buff 1 of my bldgs plz?" ~ "Actually, no, I can't. I can't find you in the 500+ faces on my list"

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While I heartily agree that searching you friends list is difficult, in the case above the correct answer would be:
"Only if you whisper me first, since I can then use your nick to visit you island."
http://i.imgur.com/S6XnPcA.png

I've done that, and the classic "what level are you?" aswell.

There's a competent friend searcher when inviting someone to an adventure, could that be duplicated? (Without breaking 2 other things...)

You don't need to ask what level they are to find them in the list, simply click their name in chat and click visit as Fexno says.

That's not immediately possible when you just get a mail from someone. You have to ask them to whisper in order to get a link to them.

Why not implement a /v playername to visit people?

Every time the friends list resets to the start, (which is often,) I have to click the '>>' next button 22 times to see if the guy I'm sharing an adventure with is back online. :(

Hi all :)

I think we should have a custom friends list so they can not only be ordered on their level as it now is. Just an easy drag and drop feature! We could also have different lists like guild friends, real life friends, same language speaking friends, very generous friends :p , etc.

Then this game will so much better :D

Have a nice settling day!

Bart

Hello,

Minor but nice thing. We have buttons to sort our friends:

*all*
*friends*
*guild*

Can we please have also:
*online* which show all but only online
?

Thanks :p

Ah, that might work if they ever get the green lights to work properly. Been cranky since 2011, but as they've now managed to re-create it on Test server, maybe there's hope?

+1. A good idea.

The interface could do with an overhaul, I like this idea but would like some other things. Being able to set status ( active/afk/busy) and I'd really like to see a last on-line status so clearing people off friends list is easier.

First BB must add options where we can see who is online.

very good thought but have you considered how much space it would take up on servers?

It would just be a filter applied to existing data. I can't imagine space on the servers being much of a consideration.

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Originally Posted by Mcfeast

very good thought but have you considered how much space it would take up on servers?

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I see where you're coming from given the lag issues we've been experiencing for a long time, but this really shouldn't be an end-user concern. If the servers can't cope it's up to BB/Ubisoft to upgrade them. We're out of beta, the servers should be adequate.

I was thinking, and this is getting more and more frustrating:

Is is possible to get a new overview for the friends/guild icon list?

If I am looking for a specific friend or guild member I have to skip several and look closely because the list is not in alphabetical order
but in Level (friends) or guild rank en level (guild) which make finding a member fast very difficult.

Thinking about this I thought it would be nice to be able to have:

• showing only online friends.
• be able to alphabetical order this list (to be able to find members faster) it is ordered on level (in guild on Rank/level.)
• make a best friend list
• Manual refresh button like in TO so it doesn't hijack focus (removes cursor) from chat and mail. (thank you SmurfAsH :) )

I have tons of "friends" not playing regular, or are not "Best" friends I have good contact with.
Some new friends are low level so always at the far right, a pain to check if they are online.
Most friends are now level 50 so they take up first 2/3 'pages' before the lower levels are shown (being level 50 does not imply you are a 'best friend').

Just my two cents :)

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Love,
Amy

+1

There is already room for another tab, it goes ALL, Friends, Guild, BLANK SPACE

Just make that "Online"

That is the bear minimum that needs to be done, but the whole thing needs reworking as Amy has said above.

..and get rid of the auto-refreshing script that also hijack focus (removes cursor) from chat and mail.
I rather get an updated list manually by clicking one of the sorting buttons.

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Originally Posted by SmurfAsH

..and get rid of the auto-refreshing script that also hijack focus (removes cursor) from chat and mail.
I rather get an updated list manually by clicking one of the sorting buttons.

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YES, good one, I forgot, added it in the list, thank you for the heads-up :)
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Love,
Amy

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Originally Posted by SmurfAsH

..and get rid of the auto-refreshing script that also hijack focus (removes cursor) from chat and mail.
I rather get an updated list manually by clicking one of the sorting buttons.

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I couldn't count the times I've typed whole lines of chat, only to discover nothing actually made it into the box because of the refresh thing… super-annoying

+1 from me

I like it.
Ive wanted a "show only online friends" for a long time :)
Would help alot when trying to see if your friend is online :P