Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-35065776-20181015192857/@comment-36014035-20181016083140

At the risk of being banished to the lowest ring of wiki hades by writing this, I wish MT would overhaul/update the friends functions and ingame socialization options. I assume the reason they haven’t touched this part of the game is because of the various stabilization issues mentioned above and other posts. Some of the things I would do are:

1. Create ingame messaging. Maybe even a “global chat,” although global chat to me is more of a source of entertainment than anything else.

2. Give players a “social bar” - this is a limited character message board (uh, more than 12 characters!) that would appear on a player’s map. Only the player, not friends or random people, can post and change the text. So, if you want your crafters charged, are working on a certain HO room, etc., you can post that info there.

3. Activate the guilds function. I know a lot of wiki friends don’t like guilds, but I do.

4. Give a better tutorial in the beginning about how friendship works. Free fixers, what charging is, etc.

5. Let us put access passes on our WL.

6. Making friending easier ingame. I’ve made awesome friends via wiki, but why on earth do we need to go to social media to find game friends? That makes no sense to me. If I hadn’t come to wiki, I would still have the same 3 friends I started off with, plus about 10 very inactive players that I sent requests to via the game generated invite list. For a game that gives such an advantage to people with good friends, I think that’s a functionality gap.

7. Make it easier to track friend activity. At least fix the glitchy visit tracker function. Other games do this, so I don’t think this is an unreasonable request. Add sortable GBs here, too.

I’m going to stop now because if I take too long writing something on wiki, the post tends to “get lost.” But that’s the general drift.