Search system

[Hulan]

Just out of curiosity: What's the point in searching for (character) names?

If it would display the location of the player in question or all his/her class levels then sure, I could see that come in handy. But that might be a pretty hard thing to add. And if it just displays the name and current class or something... then it seems rather useless to me.

Mostly I think they (we) would like to be able to quickly and easily find out where people are. As of this moment, there is absolutely no way to find out the location of a person without asking them (which I'll admit isn't exactly onerous, but sometimes is slower). The /search function already displays the location of each resulting entry, it would just be nice to query a specific person. Really, any system would work, the /search all [name] is just what most people coming from FFXI are used to when looking to see where a friend is at the moment.

As for the subject at hand though. I must confess, I sometimes forget about the old search. Hopefully the more options they add like this, the more often people like me will remember it is there (it really is quite useful, if only more people - myself included - remembered it existed).