How often do people use the player search

[Morningstar1337]

I occasionaly use it when putting together parties and someone wants to add a friend, and I can't/won't promote him for one reason or another

[AeraLure]

Would that really stop it though? I'm not sure they are using search. Are they? They're sending a tell message to every player on the server and unless I'm using player search wrong, you can't do that. Player search can give you general results based on class or level you are looking for, but I don't think you can simply get a list of all active players on the server at any given moment, let alone mass message all of the them. They're using some sort of script.

[Callback]

I didn't even know it existed.

Remove it. Other MMOs don't have it and they do just fine (and whispers aren't spammed by anything! Just some bots talking out loud in a couple towns). If you want to find a player you can look them up by name.

[The_Greatest_Evil]

I have more normal players on blacklist than gil sellers. Most of them are ''females'' miquotes.

[Atoli]

I'd like to use it more often, but it's such a pain to use x.x
I wish they just gave us a field to only type in a name / part of a name and have that person pop up then (even when offline, just shown as offline like they are shown in LS lists).
But no, I have to check like 5 million parameters and if they apply or not just to find someone, so...I use it about once or twice a year and end up still not finding what I was searching for.
They could remove that broken thing for all I care...

[Warlyx]

twice in 2.0....after that .....never , if only we coul use commands like FFXI /sea rdm 40-50 all , but for what purpouse ? :S

[Lollie]

The in game search is so inefficient compared to a lodestone search for their purposes i would be surprised if that was their only means to find names. more likely they only run the player searches on the starter towns occasionally to catch new players that will not show up elsewhere yet.

[MoonPhaseAlpha]

I too use it fairly often.

[Bixillarla]

Would that really stop it though? I'm not sure they are using search. Are they? They're sending a tell message to every player on the server and unless I'm using player search wrong, you can't do that. Player search can give you general results based on class or level you are looking for, but I don't think you can simply get a list of all active players on the server at any given moment, let alone mass message all of the them. They're using some sort of script.

Yup you can, leave the name part blank and use world search and dont add any criteria and you can get a list of 200 people that are online.