please give us the option to enable others to see us in the map

in our friendslist, please enable an option so each individual will allow their friends in their friendslist to see them on the map, much like we can track other party members.
this icon colour would be a different colour than the party, which will supersede the party icons. so if your friends are within the same party, but there are other people not on your friends' list, or with the option disabled, you'll be able to more easily recognise your friends on the map.

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Originally Posted by eksynn

in our friendslist, please enable an option so each individual will allow their friends in the on see them on the map, much like we can track other party members.
this icon colour would be a different colour than the party, which will supersede the party icons. so if your friends are within the same party, but there are other people not on your friends' list, or with the option disabled, you'll be able to more easily recognise your friends on the map.

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Only if they make it so when you unfriend someone, you're also removed from the other parties' friends list. Otherwise, this is just giving stalkers an easier way to find people.

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Originally Posted by LianaThorne

Only if they make it so when you unfriend someone, you're also removed from the other parties' friends list. Otherwise, this is just giving stalkers an easier way to find people.

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I'd only agree if it was as this says.

The friends/black lists are really clunky in this game.

It would have made sense if maps had any scale to them. With how tiny every zone is, it takes no effort to find someone in a single fly-through.

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Originally Posted by LianaThorne

Only if they make it so when you unfriend someone, you're also removed from the other parties' friends list. Otherwise, this is just giving stalkers an easier way to find people.

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The fact it doesn't remove you from their list, when games going back to the early 2000s were able to, is really confusing. There is usually some VERY valid reasons to remove someone from your list(they stopped playing, you had a falling out, they ended up being a stalker when you got to know them better, etc), and having it so you stay on theirs is just back asswards.

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Originally Posted by LianaThorne

Only if they make it so when you unfriend someone, you're also removed from the other parties' friends list. Otherwise, this is just giving stalkers an easier way to find people.

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This is the real problem stopping this, but it is a good idea OP that I'd love to see implemented. An overly attached stalker still tries reaching out to me or following me on alts. No matter what server or name I change to in the datacenter my friends are on, they have realtime updates :(.

I know you specified for individuals, but with the janky foundation they have already, I wouldn't trust it being able to be removed for their side if you decided so as a player.

Agreed with OP, it would be a good addition. In terms of the rest of the issues I posted about it in another thread. I'll quote it here:

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I think all MMOs should give you the option to completely remove a player from your game if you wish to and it should be for their whole account, not just that one character. Putting someone on your blacklist should give you the options to make them disappear for you, make yourself disappear for them, exclude each other from any and all matchmaking/party finder listings and make it so they cannot find you using the Player Search function. These options would also include being unable to enter your regular and FC houses (assuming you are the FC leader and owner of said house of course).

It would help with more than just stalking but also with many other situations. For example if you've had a falling out with a friend or a partner of some sort. Some people struggle with moving on if they have to keep seeing that person in-game constantly and they often change servers or quit the game altogether because of that one situation. It would tremendously help many people feel much safer with continuing to play the game after any such incident. Maybe the only single exception should be PvP so that players who are really good don't just get blacklisted by everyone and never get to actually play PvP.

The reason for this is that even if you block chat communication, they can still see you, harass you in-game with their character, use emotes, follow you around and so on. Or if you are a more sensitive person and you need to just not see that player anymore, you can completely remove them from your game and yourself from theirs. I cannot currently think of any real downsides to this in regards to game functionality but I'm sure any that come up can be remedied fairly easily by adjusting some of it.

On a related note, if you remove someone from your friends list, it should remove you from theirs as well. This will prevent a whole lot of stalking that goes on in this game and it seems like this is one of the very few games that are still so behind in its friends list system design.

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Originally Posted by LianaThorne

Only if they make it so when you unfriend someone, you're also removed from the other parties' friends list. Otherwise, this is just giving stalkers an easier way to find people.

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wait, when you unfriend someone, does it not remove you from their friendslist? why?

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the friendslist thing wouldn't matter though.
have you guys played second life? there's an option in your friendslist to enable others to find you on the map when you search for them. this is what i'm talking about - the option would be to let OTHERS find YOU on the map, not the other way around.

although i agree the way i worded the op was a bit confusing lol