Abiltiy to see online status of alliance members.

Maat1985

With the release of inifinity dungeons the matchmaking is going to allow you to see who is currently online.
I believe this is a feature that would greatly help allicance and should be made standard on the alliance page.

Imagine you need to someone to move in war or quest.... you know who you can ask and when cus you will be able to see who is online...

Would be a big step forward for in game communication.

Comments

SiriusBreak

Also good for calling people out on lying about not being on when you ask them to join AQ or AW. Sure you can see the amount of time since last login occurred, but that doesn't let you know if they're lurking. Would help weed out the BS artists and strengthen Alliances in many ways. I like this idea.

Maat1985

Why are people tagging this LOL???? What is funny about it???

SpiritOfVengeance

Sorry but I don't agree with having this a normal alliance feature. It sounds like a good idea but maybe some alliance members want to have a bit of privacy instead of having officers and the leader keep watch on whoever is online. If members are that inactive then you need some new and better ones.

Maat1985

Every game i have played that i can think of that has a clan or alliance or even most games with a chat system show who is and isnt online....
Maybe there are some games that dont.
But from my experience it is normal to see who is online.
I dont have he problem of people being too inactive in my alliance. But i run an international alliance and it would certainly help make things easier for me if i could see who was online.
Much easier than remembering time zone differences and stuff.

SiriusBreak

@SpiritOfVengeance - I have 0 issues with players doing solo content while AQ or AW are running. But have the decency to not lie and say you'll be in ASAP as you're done finishing X quest. Champs are tied up, it happens. As to the one who inspired me to agree for the push for this, they are getting the boot at the end of AQ. It's more than just this situation with that player, but the point is, it would inspire people to stop lying. If you're on and busy, cool. Just say so. When people have the gall to ignore LINE app completely for 12 hours, I have 0 tolerance for such disrespect. I just think overall it would help keep people honest, and help officers know what's up. That's just my personal stance though.

GroundedWisdom

I'm not for this one in Alliances. The last thing we need is to chase after people for War and AQ. People don't need added pressure.

shchong2

I some other games, it is common to have such a feature. However, don't get me wrong, I don't have problem in other games having the ability to see other ppl being ONLINE or OFFLINE, bcos those "other games" did not seem to be stressing players out as much as AW, AQ, various quests, various completions, endless arena grinding, etc.....

While speaking specifically on "inifinity dungeons", I do understand the pairing requires 2 players to help each other out, however, since this is still MCoC, somehow I don't think it is a wise idea to have this features in MCoC. This may further stress even more players out. It was once very enjoyable, nowadays NOT very much so, some (if not many) veterans have quit, if more stress are introduced by the online/offline status, and with someone chasing after other members for movements/participation without being considerate about their real life activities and commitments, it will be a big issue. Don't get me wrong again, sometimes I can only afford to login for 1-2 minutes to check what's the new solo or alliance mission or how much time left, or just to make a movement in AQ to use the full energy but it doesn't NOT mean I have the time to fight bcos I'm at work <== ok to login quietly and move and close it, NOT okay to openly spend a few minutes to fight a match.

Still, feature wise it is nothing wrong, however when coupled with MCoC, there maybe more side effects and repercussion than originally intended.

Maat1985

I just see it as a way to differentiate those who may have only logged on for a minute from those playing but not helping.

But that was not my reason for suggestion.

My reason for suggestion was simply to know who i can ask without hassling someone who is not currently available.
I run a chill ally. We allow people to have thier lives. We dont expect people to drop everything to move at a moments notice.
We tag people and ask “when available can you move” no pushing or hassling.
I was looking at it from the point where often in war or in a map3 or 4 quest maybe 2 people could move and do what you needed you would then be able to see who was online and not hassle the person currently not playing.

Totally different reasoning to how u guys see it potentially being abused...

shchong2

Maat1985 wrote: »

Why are people tagging this LOL???? What is funny about it???

It is nothing funny, but it is all about some NON-CONSTRUCTIVE forum members doing weird things. It happens all the time. Let them be, there's nothing else they can be useful for

The thread is great, at least plenty of healthy and constructive discussions and inputs, good to keep it up. We can ignore the LOL.

SpiritOfVengeance

@SiriusBreak
I don't lie so do not assume, your opinion of you agreeing that alone is fair enough, if I am in a quest I say ill finish my current quest off so I can bring my better champs and if that quest is some hard challenge or an act 5 quest (because I am currently exploring it) then I would quit if it was taking too much time. That last comment of mine was my own opinion which is how I see it.

Anyway my comment will get drowned in here, you guys will have the higher chance of getting what you want and ill end up forgetting about this which is totally fine with me since I can adapt to the change. I won't continue arguing so that I don't stop this tread from getting closed.

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Maat1985

@Bajjsbwuqjw no we dont....

It tells you when someone last logged on. Not who is actually active.
If i log on and am playing for 5 hrs it will say last logged on 5hrs ago.... even though i am online