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Originally Posted by Tyen  These are MUST commands for every single MMO.
/who all LFG
/who LFG
/who all LFG 50 60
/who all enchanter LFG
/who 50 60
/who all druid 30 50 |
That is a design decision (or has been for WoW and others recently) and I could not agree more that the recent decisions have caused more harm than good. I want to be able to be selective and damned if not allowing the option really encourages me to take what is there. I'd also add as musts:
/who all
guildname
... and if we want to be modern about things:
/who [modifiers] x [distance units] [race] [class] [flags like pvp, on-quest, level, spec and anything SQL can handle and your user can think of]
Hell boys, replicate and modernize EQ's /LFG window and you'd be golden. The main thing is that so much of this could be packaged as 'standard' Db tools for MMOs and for some reason has not been. New releases over and over tend to re-invent the wheel and that is so damned inefficient. Perhaps it is just insular competition, I don't know.
Regardless, do that, do %x stuff for chat, actually put in a few hundred /emotes and you will fix a huge chunk of the problems that even new releases are plagued by. Remember, it is all about user experience in the end and so much of polish is shit like this. To this day I find it jarring when playing non-WoW to get nothing from /sit or meaningless results from /who ...
WAR's /lfg tool is decent. It's map and quest systems work well and it's interface customization is excellent. Hell, it's BGs are by and large very fun too. Still, I miss some odd things and am stunned when a simple slash-command just is not there at all.
