>Who Idea

[LittleLostThief]

I'm a fan of who c myself.

If you are in a large clan of ten or more people, it's more convenient to type "who c" when you log on to see who is available so you don't go through the rigors of trying to contact each of those ten people a few times to see if they are on or not.

I will also use it sometimes when I am sitting idle too long with the hopes that maybe someone logged on that I want to interact with, even if they didn't want to initially interact with me.

It can really knock the number of people you need to spam contact down to ten OTHER people you interact with outside of your clan, decreasing the delay of finding someone (potentially) by a near infinite amount in my mind.

I am not arguing in any way that I don't think "who c" can be abused.  I think it is most often a problem of people not using it responsibly over it just sucking balls completely.

[hyzhenhok]

Anything so I can avoid:

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A foreign presence contacts your mind.
A foreign presence leaves your mind.

That's kind of silly.

A local-based who could be made less abusable by making sure it only works in cities and towns, though.

[NoteworthyFellow]

I'm going to throw in my vote with hyzhenhok.  I'd love a "who" command that tells you how may people are in your area, but make it only work in cities/commonly-inhabited settlements to avoid abuse.  So, it can tell you how many players are in the Rinth, Allanak proper, Tuluk, Luir's, your tribe's camp, etc., but if you're in some secluded cave, you'll get the standard reply of how many people are in the gameworld as a whole.

Make it work a little like this if you're in, say, Allanak:

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>who

There are 56 players currently in the world; 22 in Allanak.

Now as soon as you leave the gates:

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>who

There are 56 players currently in the world.

Presto, no chance for abuse, and all it'll do is let you know how much of a chance of interaction you have in your little supposedly-inhabited area of the world.

[Rhyden]

Anything so I can avoid:

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A foreign presence contacts your mind.
A foreign presence leaves your mind.

That's kind of silly.

Totally agreed. I -hate- when people do this.

[Tisiphone]

Totally agreed. I -hate- when people do this.

Sometimes people have a reason for this, besides pinging your sdesc. Like:

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contact amos
You contact the tall, muscular man with the Way

think (IRL) Oh, shit, I want my friend Amos, not this guy!

cease
You dissolve the psychic link

contact 2.amos
You contact the muscular, tall man with the Way