Talk:Friends List

Ignore list

Please, I BEG, do make at least 100x more space in it. Unbelievable how fast it fills up. 81.108.187.87 14:05, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

I'll second that, and does the ignore list prevent trade requests as well? The latest craze is to annoy people by spamming them with trade requests.--74.103.157.38 19:27, 5 January 2017 (UTC)

No, iggy (sadly) does not prevent trade or party requests, yes, we definitely need more space on it, and yes, that comment you replied to was almost 8 years old. Also, I suggested to Joe Kimmes himself on his talk page a while back about maybe increasing the list capacity, he said he'd refer the suggestion forward but it's likely not going to be changed, because apparently fiddling with those settings could cause data corruption or something. Jeree95 (talk) 12:09, 7 January 2017 (UTC)

Appear Offline

I'm not sure if when you appear offline if it still changes your character name for other players. For example: I log in as "character A" and have my status set to online. I then swap to another character (Character B) and set my status to offline. When I look at the guild roster my character name has changed to character B. Do other guild members see this name change as well?

Not sure when this was asked... Well, nowadays, if you set your status to "offline", Guild window will display your "default character" (the one that accepted guild invitation) and the amount of time you've been "offline". --NIN37 18:03, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Ignore Chat

Am not sure if the Ignore covers chat in outposts, distinctly remember this not working a few months back. Has this been updated? D3th n1gG4 04:02, 1 April 2007 (EDT)

It does cover chat in outposts. You will no longerr be able to see what they are saying if you ignore them. I am not sure if they can see what you are saying though if they are on your ignore list.--Eloc 04:03, 1 April 2007 (EDT)

Thanks for clarifying this now I can safely ignore my whole guild :D D3th n1gG4 06:28, 1 April 2007 (EDT)

Remove from friend list

Who put the remove from friend list option right below the send whisper one? Done25

Not quite sure about that, but I was wondering if somebody could still see my status if I removed them from the list. It's not that I want to ignore them, but just taking them out of my list to make room.--66.231.41.244 08:35, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

Each player has their own Friends List. When Player A adds Player B to their Friends List, Player A is not automatically added to Player B's list. Same way, when Player A removes Player B, nothing happens to Player B's list (so if Player A was there, he/she will still be there; if wasn't will still not be automatically added nor removed).

So, in short, if such somebody added you to their friend list, they'll be able to see your status (unless you added them to your ignore list, in which case you'll appear as Offline). --NIN37 18:12, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Bugs

I have been having serious bugs with this list, often causing me to go on Do Not Disturb whenever I close it, occasionally crashing GW when I open it and once turning off the AFK label caused the text display for the /report command. Is anyone else having such bugs, or do I have corrupted code somehow? 69.40.243.42 10:29, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

May be your connection. Calor 04:36, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Offline friends list

I'm looking for an application in which you can chat and see players in a guild and in your friends list, but without having to start Guild Wars. Something like Windows Live Messenger, but without having them to have an account. Does anyone know something like this, or, if not, who should I ask for something like this? << horsedrowner | talk | guild >> 08:40, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

xfire.com? Krothal 15:19, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

What would xfire have to do with Guild Wars? The point is that they dont have to get an account themselves. << horsedrowner | talk | guild >> 19:12, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

I don't think there is such an application, simply because of security reasons. This is me guessing, but an external program being able to access the servers, access your account to check your guild/friends list, allow you to see them and connect to them.. It sounds dodgy to me, and really hard to do and still keeping it safe. - anja 19:18, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

"I'm looking for an application in which you can chat and see players in a guild and in your friends list, but without having to start Guild Wars." What would your application have to do more with Guild Wars than XFire? XFire = See when your friends are online, what game they're playing, and what server they're on; Join in on their games with one click; See what the friends of your friends are playing. Add to this the issue Anja mentioned and you might realize that XFire is what you're looking for because a third-party application accessing GW servers will not happen. Krothal 12:57, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

What I mean, is that I want something to view my online/offline friends from Guild Wars, WITHOUT having them to get xfire. << horsedrowner | talk | guild >> 17:49, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

But wouldn't that require whoever were to make such an application to get permission from Anet to access their servers? I don't think they'd allow it just like that... Just as Krothal suggests. 193.215.199.34 13:00, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

Unfortunate, most other mmo's allow this and there's no reason GW couldn't. the friend list and chat system operated on a separate server from the game. It would simply be a matter of connecting to that server without the full gw client. 96.231.60.197 18:50, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

Friends List Length

Can we please get more space in the friends list? It's very restrictive in its current state, not allowing you to keep there more than 50 names. I think a simple modification of that variable for the friends list to be able to hold 100-200 names would make it much easier for players to keep in touch with each other. Thanx! Krothal 15:21, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

I agree completely, I've had my friend list maxed out since 2005. Unfortunatly, I doubt GW will make ant such change, claiming something along the lines of server space restrictions. =/ 96.231.60.197 18:52, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

Glitch

Does anyone else have the problem of putting a person on their friends list but still get PM's from them? Is there a way to prevent this glitch from occurring, or is it just spontaneous? And why not increase the ignore list a bunch, if you for example had an entire guild roster after you? 24.254.220.39 00:44, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

If you want to not receive whispers, add them to your Ignore List (you'll show as "offline", so no whisper can be sent to you).

I'm not going to discuss the size of the Friends/Ignore lists (try using ArenaNet:Guild_Wars_suggestions instead).

Also, if someone wants to put a whole guild into their ignore list... well, something is wrong, either with the player or the guild. Perhaps changing guild could fix it? :P --NIN37 18:17, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Custom Message

Can we please have the option to change away message.--24.26.8.197 23:13, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

This request should go on ArenaNet:Guild_Wars_suggestions..—Lupo(talk) 23:19, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

Delete Character

Hi, I have a question, what if I have a friend in my "N" with the name "Name1", what happens if that guy deletes that character (or if delete all characters)? I guess now that name doesn't exist nobody can add that character to the Friendlist, but what happens with the people that had the name added before the character deletion? will they still see "Name1 (Name2)" in the "N" when that guy is online? Even more, what happens if that guy change the Main Account name?

Thank you !

I still have a friend in my friends list with a name of a char he has long since deleted, and it still shows up as "Old name (New name)". I guess, when you add someone to the friends list, it's really their ID that is added, the name isn't that closely linked to it. I don't know what would happen in a conflict, since a name is released for everyone a few days after you have deleted a character. - anja 09:40, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

Ignore List Bug

I added a guy to my ignore list but somehow i still managed to recieve PMs from him. Is this some sort of weird bug or what? Coz it never happened to me before.. -User:Kyte

I'm getting this as well, I added a guy who was harassing me to my ignore list then a few months later he starts sending me whispers again but on a different character, and when I try to put his new character on my ignore list it says "Person A is already on your friends list as Person B" but Person B is on my block list. I also can't seem to remove the 'Person B' from my ignore list, it just makes an interrupt sound. So now I'm stuck with this guy whispering me every day and I can't block him. Lyenyo 15:34, 4 July 2010 (UTC)

Possible Bug

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Weird Problem, don't know why

For some reason this is happening, and I don't know why. Character show's offline in friends list, but in guild menu he's online; when you message him it says he's offline. Its not only me, happened to an officer who was online at the time I told him to test it himself

Any Explination? --The preceding unsigned comment was added by User:Michaelb29 (talk).

It's a rather frequent bug where a player appears online or offline in one person's guild member list despite the fact that they're not actually so. It's can usually only be seen by one person (you), and is rather harmless, all in all. If it persists (I'd wait a day), perhaps contact support. But, this has happened to myself and friends of mine countless times, and it always fixes itself quite promptly. 161.184.140.160 03:51, 20 May 2011 (UTC)

Your toon and your friends list connect to two different servers: your toon can be online, but without connecting to the friends list, they will show as offline. The list of guild members uses a different mechanism, so the friend can be offline (friends) and online (guild, adventuring) at the same time...and simultaneously.

So, it's not so much a bug as an artifact of the feature that allows you to reconnect quickly, e.g. without losing progress in your current VQ or dungeon. It's a similar effect to losing your red dots.

Incidentally, whoever the person is can reconnect to the friends list by displaying it and clicking on the button (reconnect to friends list if I recall correctly). — Tennessee Ernie Ford (TEF) 04:05, 20 May 2011 (UTC)

I always seen this situation the other day when I was going over the wall with a guildmember. after leaving ascalon, she didn't load into the area. She showed online in the guildroster, but upon whispering her she was saying offline. So it looks like there can be a time difference between dc-ing ingame, dc-ing on the fl/wsp-system and dc-ing in the guildroster. Dit you try asking your guildmember in guildchat if he/she was around? Rumian 04:24, 20 May 2011 (UTC)

10 hours later they showed offline, i constantly talked to see if they were online or not through the offline/online period; 10 hours doesn't seem like an artifact.--"Get crazy with the cheese wiz" -Beck 08:52, 20 May 2011 (UTC)

Did they sign back into the friends list? It won't go away until then (or they logoff/on). Did they DC again? It can come back. It's possible that you are seeing something other than what I am describing; it's hard to tell from the details provided so far. — Tennessee Ernie Ford (TEF) 09:04, 20 May 2011 (UTC)

Just noticed

If you try to add a new name in your friend list, the action will be aborted if any of your mutual friends on the list changes town. When they change town it will cause the list to update, and when it updates it cancels what ever name you were trying to type. I had this problem just a moment ago when I were trying to ad a new friend, but one of my mutual friends was spamming tonics the old fashioned way via traveling back and forth between his guild hall and maguuma town. I then noticed that every time his location was changed in the list, my typed words disappeared and the marker left the field. I just thought we should make a notice of it somewhere on the wiki. — The Hex

Added to Notes. | 72 | 02:41, 30 May 2011 (UTC)

Mutual Friends

I have been having loads of problems with this since it has been introduced, aside from the fact its a pain trying to explain to a few why they don't make the incredibly small limit we are allowed it seems to be constantly bugged. I have experienced more than once now that even though we are mutual friends one of us does not show the location randomly for intermittent periods of time for no good reason. Quite frankly I'm sick of the "oh so I got bumped for someone else type comments" and likewise although it shouldn't matter have felt a little like "mmmm what did I do" when it has occurred the other way around. Please iron out all the little glitches so I can save my explanations for when a deletion has actually occurred. SleepyGamer 23:02, 14 September 2011 (UTC)

sorry i didn't notice this eairlyer but if you are still having problems with it please post on the support forums other wise anet will not see your request, they can be found here- Zesbeer 04:35, 19 November 2011 (UTC)

Ignore verification

I put the {{verify}} tag because in Jade Quarry I got a team message from a person who turned out to be in my ignore list. The person was using another character and that is why I did not find out until I tried to add that account (again, but based on the new character name) to the ignore list. ---- Magnum 19:34, 10 September 2015 (UTC)

He must of have had a similar name but used a second account. Bad situations like that are probably just gonna increase, since few at anet are watching out--Ruine Eternelle 19:52, 10 September 2015 (UTC)

Edit : all characters of the account are ignored, so again it was probably another account with a similar name.--Ruine Eternelle 19:55, 10 September 2015 (UTC)

No, as far as I know, ignore doesn't work for allchat in PvP instances. I'm not sure about team chat. --Lemming (talk) 21:09, 10 September 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for info Lemming. As for alternate account, no, it was the exact same account. No similar name, I tried to add to ignore from recent teammates and the message "[...] is already [...]" popped. I might go to test it for trade chat and if messages on trade chat appear too, I suggest editing the article with "(except PvP)" in Ignore section. ---- Magnum 22:21, 10 September 2015 (UTC)