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Friends on Map

AuthorMessage
Survivor
Mar 20, 2010
10
Wouldn't it be nice to see anyone you have on your friends list on a map? or some locale indicator?

Delver
May 31, 2009
231
that would be awesome, what a great idea. it would be limited to the area your in since thats the map you pull up. still great idea!!!

Geographer
Feb 14, 2009
835
A+ Student
Jan 05, 2009
1706
ccm800 wrote:
Wouldn't it be nice to see anyone you have on your friends list on a map? or some locale indicator?

My guess is that something like this would slow the game. Imagine being in the commons on a busy day, and the game is trying to track the friends of 30-50 people in that area. The game already lags under those conditions for people with minimal requirements for play....

Survivor
May 10, 2009
22
ccm800 wrote:
Wouldn't it be nice to see anyone you have on your friends list on a map? or some locale indicator?


ooh good idea i like that


Defender
Dec 14, 2009
111
I like this idea.

Perhaps to address performance issues, it wouldn't have to be real-time, but like a "last seen here" type thing. So it wouldn't have to be a real-time tracking item. Perhaps up to 30-60 seconds delayed.


ccm800 wrote:
Wouldn't it be nice to see anyone you have on your friends list on a map? or some locale indicator?

Survivor
May 04, 2010
24
Is there now a way to do this? I have "friends" telling me where I am BEFORE I say anything to them. I will be in the game playing by myself, then all of a sudden I get a friend quest to teleport to me because "Your in [blank} dungeon and it gives high XP points?" How would someone know where I am located in the game, if I am quietly playing the game and have yet to talk to anyone?

Normally I have my teleport on, but lately I have turned it off since a certain new option to the game has started in the last week. People I thought were friends are now showing up in my house uninvited!