So I made an alt... and I'm trying to friend myself so I can mail items, invite to fc, etc, pretty basic.

However since you cannot search for players that are offline I can't think of a way to actually get my alt into my friends list. Inviting from a linkshell or otherwise doesn't seem to work either since it just says "Player not found".

Is this for some reason intentional? Or is it just pretty much missing functionality still leftover from beta or something? Any workarounds? If the only option is to trust a player to help you with it, it just wastes their time, and leaves the whole thing open to abuse & theft.