Alynore Posted February 11, 2012 Share Posted February 11, 2012 Suggestion: Please allow the ability to add friends if they are offline. Mkay, buh bai. Mwah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThtreLady Posted February 11, 2012 Share Posted February 11, 2012 I'd like add my voice for this request. I have a number of friends who play this game and I'd like to be able to find out when they are online. The obvious way to do that is to add them to my friends list, however I can't because they are not online. .... um..... How am I supposed to know when they are online to add them to my friends list if I can't add them to my friends list until they are online? Seriously, this is ridiculous and a major problem for a supposedly "social" game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terminova Posted February 11, 2012 Share Posted February 11, 2012 Took me a week to add someone to my friends list because it kept saying that person didn't exist. Please fix. >.< Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JediMasterTEP Posted February 11, 2012 Share Posted February 11, 2012 I also agree! I also think you should be able to add people who are on the opposite faction to you. It would be better to connect with your friends if we were able to add friends on other factions so we can meet up on neutral planets or just to play around with each other! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
planetwide_ex Posted February 11, 2012 Share Posted February 11, 2012 /signed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shevin Posted February 11, 2012 Share Posted February 11, 2012 I was pretty surprised when I couldn't do this. Had to use mail and try and hope I was online at the same time as a friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samborino Posted February 12, 2012 Share Posted February 12, 2012 Agreed this needs to be implemented ASAP its actually really annoying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drakonous Posted February 12, 2012 Share Posted February 12, 2012 /signed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morkhaine Posted February 12, 2012 Share Posted February 12, 2012 Its a known bug. When they'll get around to fixing it, however, is anybody's guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LannArran Posted February 12, 2012 Share Posted February 12, 2012 I'd like add my voice for this request. I have a number of friends who play this game and I'd like to be able to find out when they are online. The obvious way to do that is to add them to my friends list, however I can't because they are not online. .... um..... How am I supposed to know when they are online to add them to my friends list if I can't add them to my friends list until they are online? Seriously, this is ridiculous and a major problem for a supposedly "social" game. Agreed. It shouldn't be all that tough, a simple query to the database to see if a record with the person's name you are trying to add exists and if there is one then boom person is now a friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drakonous Posted February 12, 2012 Share Posted February 12, 2012 /signed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivoryneedle Posted February 15, 2012 Share Posted February 15, 2012 /signed Also would like to be able to invite people who are offline into my guild. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nyvann Posted February 15, 2012 Share Posted February 15, 2012 Agreed. It shouldn't be all that tough, a simple query to the database to see if a record with the person's name you are trying to add exists and if there is one then boom person is now a friend. It really makes you believe that this game engine and coding has been 'duct taped' into such an unwieldy and inefficient mess that they can not fix such a simple and critical thing when this game has been out this long. Still broken. It's pretty unbelievable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThtreLady Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 It really makes you believe that this game engine and coding has been 'duct taped' into such an unwieldy and inefficient mess that they can not fix such a simple and critical thing when this game has been out this long. Still broken. It's pretty unbelievable. Actually, that's the worst part - it ISN'T broken. Or at least not according to the CS response I got to my /bug report. It is "working as intended" - they don't want us to be able to add people offline. And that is simply a ridiculous position to hold. How in blazes am I supposed to find my friends? Do a /who or /friend every other minute? You'd have to be daft to do that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sknn Posted February 18, 2012 Share Posted February 18, 2012 \signed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UCFbaron Posted February 21, 2012 Share Posted February 21, 2012 Let us add offline friends! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewatcheruatu Posted February 21, 2012 Share Posted February 21, 2012 Bumping this one, since it's the first result that came up when I did a search. I have to think the CS who said it was "working as intended" was probably just misinformed. My sense is that this is one of those bugs that to us seems as though it would be really simple to fix, but somehow, some quirk in the code actually has made this ridiculously difficult. Otherwise, I think it would have been done by now. Unless, of course, it really is working as intended. In which case, boo. There's no conceivable reason for it to work this way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bebedelette Posted February 21, 2012 Share Posted February 21, 2012 This! Kept saying the person didn't exist, I thought I was imagining things :-p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FingiesCeano Posted February 21, 2012 Share Posted February 21, 2012 Yep. /signed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyersfan Posted February 21, 2012 Share Posted February 21, 2012 (edited) Actually, that's the worst part - it ISN'T broken. Or at least not according to the CS response I got to my /bug report. It is "working as intended" - they don't want us to be able to add people offline. And that is simply a ridiculous position to hold. How in blazes am I supposed to find my friends? Do a /who or /friend every other minute? You'd have to be daft to do that. I'm glad to hear that. I didn't think that it was a bug. It was just a nonsensical design. I vote that this be changed. It's really frustrating spamming "/friend ThisGuy" to see if they're online. Edit: My least favourite part is that the system says "ThisGuy does not exist." Clearly, he does exist. I have seen him or know that he does. At least give us a proper message saying something to the tune of "ThisGuy is not online an cannot be added to your friends list." Edited February 21, 2012 by flyersfan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyclonit Posted February 21, 2012 Share Posted February 21, 2012 This should be implemented ASAP. I know that looking through a list of all somewhat thousand characters on a server does take longer than looking through the list of currently online characters, which would then put a higher load on the servers, but this definitely should be an option. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharkfinsix Posted February 21, 2012 Share Posted February 21, 2012 this seems to be a no brainer for a MMO....no clue why it is the way it it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dexsite Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 /signed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth_Gao_Gao Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 +1. this is an obvious feature that shouldn't even have to be requested. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toonimator Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 Another feature that should be a no-brainer: adding alts to your friends list. It's not so bad when your alts have simple names, but adding in punctuation, odd spellings, it can get tiresome typing 'em out correctly every time. I just rolled some toons on a new server, and I had no problem adding alts to my lists when they were still on their starter world; but the first guy I leveled to 10 and off Ord Mantell? "does not exist" for all the others. In fact, why isn't there a 'ghost list' automatically created on every server you have characters on, that automatically stores all of that server's alt-names (divided by faction, of course) so you can just start typing one and it'll provide a drop-down for the correct name? WoW doesn't even have that (but there's zero problems adding an alt to your friends list in WoW, so...), but you'd think it'd be fairly simple to implement since they already have records of your alts for a given server. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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