Better LFF+Who

[Sorane]

Hi!

On my server there is a global ChatChannel GlobalLFF for finding groups.

I think something which could be added to make finding groups easier:

/chatwho GlobalLFF

To find out who is in the channel

/listwho GlobalLFF

List the number of people in the channel

/GlobalLFF

Switch into the channel like you can do with /k instead of having to
/userchat GlobalLFF ...

Small buttons over the chat area with which to directly switch to a certain
channel (user or nonuser), configurable. I could provide a screenshot
of how something like that can look from a different game...

/who Playername

Lists all Players fitting to the parameters into the chat window with their current level, class, race and location. Like this:

/who Guardian+Champion/Riven*+Misty*+Trollsh*/48+/NI+NF

Lists all Guardians and Champions who are in an area who's name either starts with "Riven" or "Misty" or "Trollsh" and who are of Lvl 48+. NI and NF are optional parameters "not in instance" and "Not in fellowship".

They would then be output like this into the chat:

Sorane <Guardian Lvl 50, Human> - Rivendell
Fearim <Guardian Lvl 50, Dwarf> - Trollshaws
Calwen <Champion Lvl 50, Elf> - Misty Mountains

"Subareas" would be recognized by the search for the "greater area". Also you could do an optional parameter GUI which instead of listing in the chat
would invoke the search in the LFF GUI.

Additionally an optional parameter like Kin = ... would limit the search to people of a specific kinship.

For example to find all people from Fellowship of the Song and our partner kinship you would type:

/who */*/*//Kin="Fellowship of*"+Kin = "Custodi*"

As shortcut for the a bit unreadable stuff something like

/who *Kin ="Fellowship of*"+Kin="Custodi*"

might be interesting.

I know, Turbine has lots to do. Well, if they want it, and would guarantee it to be included into the game I actually would implement them the parser
for this powerful who function ;-)

Sorane aka Dipl.Inf. Steffen Haeuser, Game Developer with 5 years experience in computer games development