> -----Original Message-----
> From: Benjamin Jerrad Segal [mailto:birdman@...]
> Sent: Friday, January 07, 2000 4:39 PM
> To: eqbards@onelist.com
> Subject: RE: Who's who (was: RE: [eqbards] A new /who command (OT))
>
>
> On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, John Tatsukawa wrote:
>
> > Ok, so this works for say the guilds. Does it sift through
> the zone fields
> > as well? (At work, I can't test this for myself right now.)
>
> No, and I very much doubt it ever will. Sure it'd be
> convenient, a nice
> timesaver, but as is I just look for someone I know in a
> particular zone
> and ask them how many people are in it. Being able to list
> all the people
> in a zone you're not in takes away from the anonymity
> function, and gives
> a further sense of omnipotence to the player.
>
> But then I suppose wish lists are just that. -.-

Yes, it is a "wish", but a technically non-challenging as they already have
the code in place for doing this already.

It would just be nice to know how crowded certain zones. I don't think that
this conflicts with any ideals that Verant has as they've already
established precedents. They give you server statistics so you know how
crowded each server is, why not zones?

If Verant really wanted to at least restrict usage of this, they could set
up a "board" in each city that you go to (just like the message board). You
click on it and see a window that lists the number of people in each zone.

Regarding "omnipotence" concerns, if Verant was worried about that, there
wouldn't be a "who" function to begin with. Regarding "anonymity", someone
would have to search each zone in order to find the person. IMHO if Verant
intended "anon" to really hide whether you're in a zone or not, they
wouldn't have anon people show up in a regular /who of the zone you're in.

Ah well, time to go a hunting! Have a good weekend.

---Windleaf