EQ2Players.com - What features do you typically use?

[DarkViper]

<p>Hi all, </p><p>Besides the obvious that some areas of the site need some fixes (which is covered in separate threads), what features do you typically use on EQ2Players.com? Also, what features would you want to have?</p><p>Thanks for the feedback,</p><p>- Jacob</p>

[Xalmat]

<p>I use the following all the time:</p><p>Character Profile</p><p>Alts Profile</p><p>AA Profile</p><p>Item Lookup</p><p>Character Lookup</p><p>Guild Lookup</p><p>Rankings</p>

[Mysticdraco]

<p>I don't have a full EQ2Players account, but I look up other's gear and the leaders boards quite a bit.</p>

[Zerebro]

<p>I use a lot:</p><ul><li>character profile for rankings of my own chars (wishing I could pwave)</li><li>checking alts of other players</li><li>checking progress of friend's toons</li></ul><p>What I'd like:</p><ul><li>finished quests</li><li>not-finished quests</li><li>sending mail in-game (only allowing guildies!)</li><li>quicker updates of character profiles (range of 15 mins, not days)</li></ul>

[Barx]

<p>Before I cancelled all the features, I used the following ones a bit:</p><ul><li>Player profiles (general idea of what kind of gear they are wearing)</li><li>Player alts (this was a biggie)</li><li><em>Some</em> leaderboards.</li></ul><p>The leaderboards are a huge area for improvement. Mainly because some of them that are "WW all classes" or "Serverwide all classes" are not representative because of variations by class. For example, if you look at WW most masters... the list of who appears on there depends mostly on class, because some classes have far more spells than others. Those leaderboards would be more useful if it was a percentage-based approach. (IE 95% of all masterable spells instead of 135 masters, as a made-up example). Same with "Most recipes known" -- and here it's even more useless since you do not see a breakdown by class and yet that HUGELY influences the # of recipes.</p><p>Back when it actually worked, I used the chat with guild function. I'd love to have that fixed, it was actually useful (since then you could talk in /gu even when you could not get in game).</p><p>So, things I'd like to see added, expanded, or fixed:</p><ul><li>Definately more frequent updates</li><li>A chat with guild that works. The old one had a clunky interface to boot, a complete redo with a sleeker system would be nice.</li><li>Better appearance on many of the pages. The item icons are always messed-up looking on the character profile, for one thing.</li><li>Better item database search. Make it an honest-to-goodness useful item database, including <em>where</em> it comes from and, if it is dropped, the drop rate data that Zam seems to get. But if the item DB part is to be useful, you should be able to do advanced searches on it... IE find me L80 items that are quest rewards with at least +50 to heal. This feature would probably be a pain in the rump to develop well, but I think it would also be the showstopper.</li><li>Better leaderboards that are either normalized by class or at least make sense.</li><li>More leaderboards in general</li><li>Make all this stuff included in Station Access (or give a discount) <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></li></ul>

[cuchulainn16]

<p style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Verdana; color: black;">This is all great feedback. Please keep it coming. I can't promise that we can implement everything you would like but we are definitely listening and your feedback is crucial.</span></p>

[Lantis]

<p>I stopped pretty much using EQ2Players over the past year due to lack of regular updates and such, but these are the features I was using before (and would use again if things improved):</p><ul><li>Character profiles (see what guild they're in, what are their alts, last played date)</li><li>Leaderboards (per class/per server)</li></ul><p>And of course, whatever data gets pushed through the XML/CSV feeds.  And in this case, the more the better <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p><p>Amongst the things that would be nice (but not sure if doable): being able to view a character's past guild history would be a boon to guild leaders / recruiting officers.  It would be nice being able to view a list of the past guilds a character has been a member of (at least those he stayed long enough for it to be shown on their character profile).</p>

[Kordran]

<p>In the past, I primarily used it for the character profiles and leaderboards, but I canceled paying for it when it basically became completely broken and abandoned by SOE.</p>

[Loxus]

<p>Eq2.players has huge potential and I'm glad you guys are finally looking into it instead of letting your cust base spend money on outside sites to manage their guilds.  I never understood why you didn't implament these features better.</p><p>Anyway water, bridge blah blah.</p><p>Guild tools,</p><p>A working guild websites that people can actually get into and edit.  For the last 4 years I've tried (unsucessfully) to edit our guild website and been told "you don't have access to do so."  Get with your guild leader in game to have them grant access... I am the guild leader!</p><p>On the guild boards there should be forums (of course) a Calendar, Mail system, News, pretty much everything that guild portal provides.  But also...</p><p>DKP system database not that program you half heartedly attempted a year ago, I mean a real database!  that can track points, raids, attendance, Loot, where the loot came from (tied into the game) and what mob, Members attended.  Point spendning stats, how much items are worth points wise, how much members spent on the item. etc...  Alt's of mains spending points for alts or mains.  Member attendance percentages.  Master spell turn in for DKP.  Include in the database a searchable function of the current raid tables.</p><p>Why don't SOE have their own lootdb.com?!  this amazed me, it's your game!  you should have a function in game that brings up all loot from a targeted mob (that has been dicoed to date) by clicking the "show me the money" button.</p><p>Screen shots prompt that, when you take a screenshot asks if you would like to save this directly to the guild web site for news updates.</p><p>Lock out timers for all members that guild leaders can click to check who's locked out of what and when they can re-enter (tie this into the calendar).</p><p>Tie the mail system of the guild web site into the in-game mail with mass mails to the guild, and ranks from the website.  Or select members from the guild roster on the web site.</p><p>The ability to post raid stratigiest flags in zones from the website at a predetermined time.  IE I set up a raid for Friday at 9:00 have the raid atratisist post a flag at a predetermined spot at 9:30 at coord XX, XX, XX  Once per day.</p><p>The ability to promote, demote and remove members form the guild rooster.</p><p>The ability for members to select a upgrade item slot that they wish to upgrade and identify which mob it comes from and to post to the raid notice message IE a wish list of who wants what Item.</p><p>What mythical (and similar quests) updates they need to complete X quest.  So a guild/raid leader can how many people need X mob for flagging updates.  This would be awesome if you can tie it into the guild tool in game also.</p><p>Also keys and flags, and who's flagged for what.  Make this also interactive with the calendar, IE I want to join a raid doing VP but I haven't killed Levi, so it won't let me sign up for the VP raid.</p><p>Just some ideas.</p>

[DarkViper]

<p><cite>Loxus@Everfrost wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Eq2.players has huge potential and I'm glad you guys are finally looking into it instead of letting your cust base spend money on outside sites to manage their guilds.  I never understood why you didn't implament these features better.</p><p>Anyway water, bridge blah blah.</p><p>Guild tools,</p><p>A working guild websites that people can actually get into and edit.  For the last 4 years I've tried (unsucessfully) to edit our guild website and been told "you don't have access to do so."  Get with your guild leader in game to have them grant access... I am the guild leader!</p><p>On the guild boards there should be forums (of course) a Calendar, Mail system, News, pretty much everything that guild portal provides.  But also...</p><p>DKP system database not that program you half heartedly attempted a year ago, I mean a real database!  that can track points, raids, attendance, Loot, where the loot came from (tied into the game) and what mob, Members attended.  Point spendning stats, how much items are worth points wise, how much members spent on the item. etc...  Alt's of mains spending points for alts or mains.  Member attendance percentages.  Master spell turn in for DKP.  Include in the database a searchable function of the current raid tables.</p><p>Why don't SOE have their own lootdb.com?!  this amazed me, it's your game!  you should have a function in game that brings up all loot from a targeted mob (that has been dicoed to date) by clicking the "show me the money" button.</p><p>Screen shots prompt that, when you take a screenshot asks if you would like to save this directly to the guild web site for news updates.</p><p>Lock out timers for all members that guild leaders can click to check who's locked out of what and when they can re-enter (tie this into the calendar).</p><p>Tie the mail system of the guild web site into the in-game mail with mass mails to the guild, and ranks from the website.  Or select members from the guild roster on the web site.</p><p>The ability to post raid stratigiest flags in zones from the website at a predetermined time.  IE I set up a raid for Friday at 9:00 have the raid atratisist post a flag at a predetermined spot at 9:30 at coord XX, XX, XX  Once per day.</p><p>The ability to promote, demote and remove members form the guild rooster.</p><p>The ability for members to select a upgrade item slot that they wish to upgrade and identify which mob it comes from and to post to the raid notice message IE a wish list of who wants what Item.</p><p>What mythical (and similar quests) updates they need to complete X quest.  So a guild/raid leader can how many people need X mob for flagging updates.  This would be awesome if you can tie it into the guild tool in game also.</p><p>Also keys and flags, and who's flagged for what.  Make this also interactive with the calendar, IE I want to join a raid doing VP but I haven't killed Levi, so it won't let me sign up for the VP raid.</p><p>Just some ideas.</p></blockquote><p>Thanks Loxus. For the guild admin issues, that's actually something that is a bit more complex. You had to be the creator of the guild web site, and in which case the creator should have granted anyone access that needed it via the admin panel. If you PM me your character name, server name and guild name, I can get that sorted. If anyone else has a similar issue, the best way to do this is to open a CS ticket and they can sort it out as well now -- we created a new tool that would allow for us to handle these wheneveer they came up.</p>

[maddawg138]

<p>before i cancelled all the extra stuff i use to look at character achievements(world disco's, server disco's, deaths, how fast to specific levels etc) and the item database to see what item has been disco'd on what server and by whom.</p>

[MoeSizlak]

<p>Player and guild profiles are the 2 biggest for me.</p><p>Areas that could use improvement I would say is the sortability of a guild roster and the item search in general.</p><p>Features I would like to see added...</p><p>1) quest journal with both completed and in-progress tabs</p><p>2) faster refresh of character data - or a way to push character data in game to update to players (would be important with the quest journal feature)</p><p>3) a census search that can be done both by server and worldwide that will just give class counts and can be filtered/sorted by level range as well.</p>

[Gormak]

<p>As others have said:</p><ul><li>Faster Refreshes</li><li>Better searching (player and leaderboard)</li><li>Better AA examination. The current AA tool on the site is horrid.</li></ul><p>How possible is it to link the players quest journal into this? Permissions would need to be gotten right.</p><p>More statistics in aa (like the breakup of exploration, quest, named kills etc).</p><p>It would be awesome if we could have the player profiles to display character modifiers as well, like crit, reuse, recast, base, +damage etc.</p><p>Essentially id be looking at any stat that can be seen ingame should be available on eq2players. Well, this is the dream anyway <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" /></p>

[Valdaglerion]

<p>Leaderboard stuff mostly. As someone that is achievement and trophy focused I would, as others have said, like to see a much more consistent update to the site.</p><p>I do hope the web team is working with the game devs on porting the new achievement system for viewing as well</p>

[cuchulainn16]

<p></p><p>This feedback is excellent and I really want to thank you all for taking the time to send us your feedback. It is good to hear what is important to you and how we can improve the site. Many of the issues and suggestions brought up are known to us already and we are working hard to bring them to you. Some may be technically more challenging then others, so please hang in there. I understand the current frustrations with eq2players and I can assure you we are committed to making things better. We will be keeping you in the loop and value your feedback when changes are being rolled out so we can make adjustments.</p>

[Dawnslight]

<p>Used to be able to chat with guild while not in game from the guild site on eq2players... cant now.  but many in guild have said they wish they could.</p>

[Barx]

<p><cite>Dawnslight@Befallen wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Used to be able to chat with guild while not in game from the guild site on eq2players... cant now.  but many in guild have said they wish they could.</p></blockquote><p>They are developing a new "chat with guild" feature from the ground up and scrapping the old one (which doesn't work) when they're done. That was one of my favorite features (back when it worked) as well.</p>

[Terron]

<p>I use it to look at my characters at work (at lunchtime like now) especially the rankings.</p><p>I aim to get one adventure level per alt per month (for those not maxed) and the history (when updated) is useful for that. It can also trigger memories.</p><p>Sometimes I look at the achievements if I am think about changing them.</p><p>Sometimes I look at my characters' gear to</p><p>Sometimes I look at the alts of a player applying to join my guild</p><p>Sometimes I look at the pictures I have uploaded, but not often.</p><p>I sometimes looked up spells but that hasn't been updated with the name changes.</p><p>I sometimes look up items.</p><p>Sometimes I play with the leader boards. For example I found that my guild were number one on our server for most deaths which was good for a laugh in the guild forum (though we have slipped to number two recently).</p><p>I would like to see more ranking and history information (though first I would like the current information to be more accurate/complete).</p><ul><li>Dates when major questlines are completed - Shadow Odyssey Timeline,Fabled&Mythical epics, Sword of Destiny, Claymore, Godking, Prismatic, Master Crafter</li><li>Number of heritage/signature quests done</li><li>Dates when certain achievement landmarks are reached, perhaps every 10, perhaps 50,100,140,200.</li><li>First kill dates for major mobs - like Trakanon </li></ul>

[Silerua]

<p>Some of the features I use very regularly are all related for one purpose... BOOKS!</p><p>- Item Discovery, to find out who discovered an oddball book I wanted</p><p>- The main Character Profile page, to find out if they've logged on recently (if I'm lucky and they haven't locked their account)</p><p>- The Alts listing, to see if they have an alt that logs on more regularly (if the discoverer doesn't) that I can stalk... I mean...  make friends with with ulterier motives <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/908627bbe5e9f6a080977db8c365caff.gif" border="0" /></p><p>Though I use this less and less because I know where all the books I have left come from pretty much, they are still very handy-dandy features that I like.  Something I've always wondered...  Is it just a package I need to purchase extra, or could we ever see server-by-server discoveries?  There are some items that I wonder if they just got some "help" in receiving the item, and if they were the only person to ever disco it, then I could assume as much.  Or does the item package thingie that it tells me to get when I view item disco have more handy specific information, like... maybe... where they were when they discovered it?  I don't know how you all keep track of this info, but I assume that'd require more game/website interaction than is already there, and I don't really have any desire to increase you guys' workload to that extreme.  I'm just throwing out things that'd be handy for me... uh... *cough* I mean for people -like- me.</p>

[Terron]

<p>For my previous response achievements now mean AA</p><p>For the highest entries it would be nice to have a date and zone.</p><p>It would be nice to have some of the new achievements stuff available - total points, achievements done, triumphs done with leader boards.</p><p>It would be nice to have some Most Recent fields - quest completed, achivement done, named killed</p>

[Dessellion4]

<p>The features I miss are the ability to check what alts a particular person has.  I used to use this all the time to compile a spreadsheet of guildees characters.  I stopped receiving it when I refused to pay extra anymore.  Not much I know but when you're already paying for Station Access at a terrible exchange rate of pound against dollar then every little counts.</p><p>Personally I really feel that some of these little extras should be included in the extended SA pack.</p>

[Dechau]

<p>I've been using the item search function a lot, and to start with it was my main reason to pay for it..</p><p>I don't really use that anymore, and have just not stopped my payment to it, because of slackerness <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p><p>Its out of date, items are not in database, even though they have surely been discovered..</p><p>Other than lewt, I look at players different AA setups and stuff like that..</p><p>Updated itemdatabase would be top of the most wanted list for me for sure <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p><p>Thanks</p>

[Jesdyr]

<p>I use it for three things</p><p>1 - Uploading Screenshots for posting on these forums.</p><p>2 - Looking up a guild to see who is in it.</p><p>3 - Looking up someone's character to see what gear they have and who their alts are. The problem is many people restrict access.</p>

[dibble]

<p>Interesting.</p><p>So far there are 20 (non-soe) replies to this post (including this one).</p><p>Of those, 10 replies <em>specifically</em> mention that they regularly use eq2players for <span style="text-decoration: underline;">looking up alts</span>.</p><p>As a guild recruiter, this is the main reason I use it too.</p><p>So if 50% of the user feedback state that they use this functionality, making it possibly the MOST used feature, why have they got rid of it in the new version of eq2players?</p><p>If you don't want to act on user feedback, then why ask?</p>

[Whitecat13]

<p>I use the eqplayers to protect my guild from guild looters and bad players by being able to look at people's alts. I want to be able to prevent bad apples from being in my guild. It is why I bought the feature and pay the extra money.</p><p>This has become more important with loot options being heirloom and people rolling for alts.</p><p>I know some Raid guilds use this to make sure a person does not have conflicts of interest.</p><p>If you take away this feature I would stop paying for the service. In fact I don't think people should be allowed to block who their alts are.</p><p>I also have used the feature for looking at discoveries, leaderboards,  I like to know when people are telling the truth about being fully mastered by looking at the leaderboards.</p><p>I have also looked at AA set ups(This was poor by the way especially with spent point totals) and equipment set ups.</p><p>I used the private comparison leader boards to see how I compared to other people of the same class I was. </p>

[DarkViper]

<p><cite>dibble wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Interesting.</p><p>So far there are 20 (non-soe) replies to this post (including this one).</p><p>Of those, 10 replies <em>specifically</em> mention that they regularly use eq2players for <span style="text-decoration: underline;">looking up alts</span>.</p><p>As a guild recruiter, this is the main reason I use it too.</p><p>So if 50% of the user feedback state that they use this functionality, making it possibly the MOST used feature, why have they got rid of it in the new version of eq2players?</p><p>If you don't want to act on user feedback, then why ask?</p></blockquote><p>We'll have it in our next build - we had to make last minute calls for the launch of the new site to remove some functionality if it wasn't 100% and alts was one of them.</p>

[dibble]

<p><cite>DarkViper wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>We'll have it in our next build - we had to make last minute calls for the launch of the new site to remove some functionality if it wasn't 100% and alts was one of them.</p></blockquote><p>Oooh, that's great to hear.</p><p>I'll shutup then  :c)</p>

[Avianna]

<p>The ability to look up alts.</p><p>My guild is not recruting at all till this is returned and fixed.</p><p>I encourage other guild leaders to do the same to get this issue fixed fast.</p><p>This is not acceptable as a guild we NEED to have the right to know who we are allowing in our guild. There are people out there that steal and cause problems in guilds and we do not want them coming in on an alt and destroying our beautiful guild.</p>

[Hellswrath]

<p><cite>DarkViper wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>dibble wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Interesting.</p><p>So far there are 20 (non-soe) replies to this post (including this one).</p><p>Of those, 10 replies <em>specifically</em> mention that they regularly use eq2players for <span style="text-decoration: underline;">looking up alts</span>.</p><p>As a guild recruiter, this is the main reason I use it too.</p><p>So if 50% of the user feedback state that they use this functionality, making it possibly the MOST used feature, why have they got rid of it in the new version of eq2players?</p><p>If you don't want to act on user feedback, then why ask?</p></blockquote><p>We'll have it in our next build - we had to make last minute calls for the launch of the new site to remove some functionality if it wasn't 100% and alts was one of them.</p></blockquote><p>What about the ability to look up a list of our item discoveries?  I haven't seen you mention it and was wondering if this was being addressed.</p>

[Lady Shai]

<p>I use everything on the site mostly.</p><p>However I would LOVE to see  the alts list returned AND kept current! Last time I checked on my page I had about 24 alts  that had been deleted long long ago still showing up on there.  Its rather annoying!</p><p>And please one day fix it so when I check the box that says "remember me" it actually does that? Not once have I ever had it remember my stuff <img src="/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>

[Phage]

<p>I'm sorry if this has been posted already, but I like to see which items my toons or others have discovered.  On the old site there used to be a link where it says World Discoveries and Server Discoveries that showed a list of the items.  Any plans on this returning?</p>

[JTEclipse]

<p>Pretty disappointed to see the disappearance of "My Leaderbords" and "Best in Class" sections.</p>

[isest]

<p>As a guild recruter I use the look up alt tab all the time. I also use the look at guild all the time.  The reason why is simple. We had the same person more than once who nailed our guild bank vaults try to get back in using a new alt.  Aslo you dont want to let folks back in that you might have had problems with for various reasons.</p><p>The problem with the new website is we went from having a functional tool for guild lookup, to 4 toons per page, and the download versions really are not user friendly, especially if your in a group and trying to figure out if your going to toss an invite or not.</p><p>My sugestion is that when you click on the guild tab at least give us 25 or so we can look at.  Also it would be nice to have the sorting features back that we use to have.</p>

[Nofro]

<p>Being from the PvP server I’m looking for a toon that is cross faction to see:</p> <p>1) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What class he is</p> <p>2) What his alts are</p> <p>3) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What his gear is like</p> <p>On the same faction side I’m looking for:</p> <p>1)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Alts</p> <p>2)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Gear</p> <p>3)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>AA setup</p> <p>Besides that I use the leader board information to determine where my toons stack up server and worldwide.</p> <p>I use the guild feature quite often to:</p> <p>1)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Find a name of guild someone is referring to by acronym (doesn’t work now because it won’t give you a list w/o the first 4 letters of the guild name).</p> <p>2)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Find out who the largest guilds are (again doesn’t work because I can’t get a full list).</p> <p>3)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Find where some of my buddies landed.</p> <p>4)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Determine the strength and weakness of a guild, usually by looking at their roster for the folks I know.</p> <p>5)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Finding out who’s in guild management and what their class makeup is.</p>

[Ademelo]

<p>I used to use the class/server leaderboards, but they've been removed it seems.</p>

[Mini]

<p>As a player, I am greatly concerned with giving everyone access to see everyone else's alts, that's why we had the ability to turn them on and off when it was a paid (but broken) product.</p><p>Guild Officer, Leader, Recruiter or whatever have absolutely ZERO right to see my alts if I choose not to list them.  MORESO, if I am not even a member of their guild.  Who's to say they don't use this feature to create "hit-list" of some sort for recruiting from other guilds?  There are many nefarious ways to use this information, and not everyone is an honest and upstanding person.</p><p>Bottom line, my choice to deny other people the right to see what all the toons I play .. is my choice.  No one else has a right to see.  I am sorry, but there are in game mechanics a person can use if they are skeptical of new recruits, members or whatever.</p><p>If people have a problem with that, there are many different methods of addressing this, starting with an all or nothing show-alt feature for guild and/or public settings (instead of individual toons). </p><p>You can also add in a feature that will "ban" a players account from joining a guild, if a toon (based on ID and not name) is banned from a guild.  However, I suspect this may be more difficult to implement and/or maintain in game.</p><p>These are just some of the concerns I have and other people also agree on.</p>

[Mini]

<p>And, as an aside, change the entire site back to the way it used to be.  Information was MUCH more easy to get to, like the world/server/class ranking and such.</p><p>As it is now, I have to look up a name, then modify listing choices buried within that information screen, jsut to come up with the listings of old.</p>

[Gladiolus]

<p>90% of the time I only used the guild chat. It was great to be able to arrange things during the day, with guildies logged into guild chat from work, instead of having to wait for them to get home and log into the game and only then start discussing our plans. Several like to play other SOE games and it was good to all still be in the same chat, just by having a browser running on the side.</p><p>Other than that I did occasionally use it for other things, like revising lists of guild crafters, etc., but the new layout is too fiddly to use, having to go through a labyrinth of menus to find anything and then having the guild list split over too many pages.</p>

[Cronqar]

<p>The one feature I am using the most, or better was using, is the "network & server status" page. I play at sometimes odd hours which coincide with regular server downs and it always has been somewhat helpful to see the servers as down or locked. This always gave you a feel when locked that it would be about 30 minutes for the servers to be online thus giving you the opportunity to take care of other things instead of constantly trying to log in to "no zone available" messages.</p><p>Lately it seems this page is just not reflecting actual serverstatus but always shows every server as up. This shouldn't be too difficult to link somehow to the servers instead of having someone have to update that page manually.</p>

[walker471]

<p>Hi. I have a problem.  When EQ game first came on web. My oldest grandson kept on telling me to buy the game. He convince me that playing with other was great. So I did buy the game.   Watching him play the game, I got interested in it.  So I brouht another copy of the game. I am really stuck on the game.  At this time, in playing the game, my character was attack by gnolls, Luckily a strong player came and recue me by killing the gnolls. I noticed I had picked up a strong armor spell, it seems that he might like it So I traded it to you. It was no bother then. Now you need a EQ2 account??? to trade. I call that stupid.  I have two grandsons who want to form a nice group with thier friends. I purchase two copies of EQ2 games from a game's retailer. I set one up on my number 2 computer. I got my first character to Qeynos. I tried trading with a character on my number 1 computer.  It was no go. Is there any way to trade without bothering with any expensive accounts. I know if I belong to a guild with both of my eq2 games in the guild. It sounds reasonable, though I have'nt try it.  Very difficult to apply to join guilds????.  Is there any other ways to trade?               walker471  thanks for viewing.   </p>

[Arkenor]

<p>I'd like the functionality of the old leaderboard back. You used to be able to select the exact level range you wanted. Now you are limited to either a single tier, or everyone.</p><p>I also don't seem to be able to see my discoveries listed any more.</p>

[Areila]

<p>Mostly I use EQ2players to look up guilds, players, alt, AA setups... the usual kind of thing.</p><p>If I were to request one thing, it would be that you updated the AA tables. Seriously, I don't know the last time that was updated - the ability names don't even correspond with TSO. And now that new SF abilities have been added, we can't even see them, nevermind having things show up as 10/8 points spent.</p><p>I really hope this is in the works, it's nothing but sheer laziness if not! It hasn't been updated since <em>before</em> TSO?? Why on earth not?</p><p>On another note, I do like the new website and most of the changes (and I'm seriously glad you added an alternative to the tiny guild chat box), but I just can't understand why it's taking so long for everything to be updated. I can understand new SF gear not showing up, adding all of those would take a lot more time than updating the AA tables, for sure...</p>

[Sydares]

<p>I liked the personal leaderboards most of all - knowing how I compared to other people on things like when I levelled up or who got the server-first discos, while admittedly arbitrary, are what made me visit EQ2players. I'm disappointed by their apparent disappearance.</p>

[Catria]

<p><cite>Sydares wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>I liked the personal leaderboards most of all - knowing how I compared to other people on things like when I levelled up or who got the server-first discos, while admittedly arbitrary, are what made me visit EQ2players. I'm disappointed by their apparent disappearance.</p></blockquote><p>/signed</p>

[Mini]

<p>As typical SOE.. no reponses to post (or even acknowledgements) going back to before February!!</p><p>I guess the "wish list" they started has since fallen on deaf ears.</p>

[Katz]

<p><cite>Cruelx@The Bazaar wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>As typical SOE.. no reponses to post (or even acknowledgements) going back to before February!!</p><p>I guess the "wish list" they started has since fallen on deaf ears.</p></blockquote><p>One of two things probably happened.</p><p>1. They dropped the ball.</p><p>2. They didn't drop the ball, are busily working on the site, and aren't communicating that to us.</p>

[Mark180]

<p>What feature do I typically use? Hmm.. I use the ones that work. Oh Wait, nothing works 2 months after xpac release. You people have to be terribly arrogant to ask such a question. SO, how about you get it working.. then ask this?</p>

[Whilhelmina]

<p>Hello there,</p><p>I used a lot 2 features on EQ2players previous to the change :</p><p><img src="/eq2/images/smilies/d6741711aa045b812616853b5507fd2a.gif" border="0" /> The leaderboard of the server discoveries (not the number of worldwide discos but the number of server discos)</p><p><img src="/eq2/images/smilies/d6741711aa045b812616853b5507fd2a.gif" border="0" /> The list of my own discoveries</p><p>Both features are now missing from EQ2 Players. Could those be added back please ?</p>

[Vuethon]

<p>I typically use Guild Chat and would like to have it as an iPhone app <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />... either that or a website that is iPhone compatible...</p>

[Roslyn]

<p>As a guild recruiter, the ability to search people's alts is crucial and tells me a lot about the person I'm talking to. There are the obvious no-go list people, but it's generally more like is this a new player to the game who isn't entirely familiar with how EQ2 guilds work or is this a veteran. The search function itself can be a little wonky - sometimes I'll put in the name, and it's far down on the list even though it's an exact match. Not a big deal though.</p><p>The second biggest use of players for me is the AA specs, which is obviously outdated. It might be cool to implement a mirror AA spec on the site as well.</p>

[Sty Frost]

<p>I do believe this tread to be a stall tactic.  humm its been here for how long and the site is still totally useless.  </p><p>1 - the leader boards have always been lacking -- now totally useless</p><p>2 - Item look up - better information off zam and eq2 wikii</p><p>3 -  character look up is useless all one has to do is make there toon anonymous-- the even paying for the extras you loose</p><p>4 - update update update</p><p>5 could always go on but enough is enough </p>

[Raster]

<p>1. My characters item lookup.</p><p>2. Lookup other characters & their alts.</p><p>3. Checkout guild rosters.</p><p>4.  Compare my main character stats/accomplishments vs server/WW.</p><p>Wish I could see Battleground Stats/accomplishments.</p>

[DrkVsr]

<p><span style="font-size: medium; color: #993300; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;">1) Level up location and time (for both Adventurer & Artisan)</span></p>

[Thorasin]

I used to use pretty much all the features on eq2players but now I don't use any cos none of them work. Just adding my voice to the hundreds of others that wont be listened to <img src="/smilies/283a16da79f3aa23fe1025c96295f04f.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

[HeadImp]

<p>Other people have mentioned the ones I use, but will add my voice in the chance those get fixed first.</p><ul><li>My characters', friends', and guildies' quest completed rankings, server discoveries, and (especially) achievements.</li><li>character search for prospective guild members, including alts.  Would like to see past guild history for characters, including dates.</li><li>Would like to see rankings within the guild like the original site had.</li><li>Would like to see rankings and character pages for Test server.</li><li>Time and place of level up.</li><li>I rarely care about worldwide rankings, so would prefer server rank to be default instead of world.  (Also, like others have mentioned with some classes having many more recipes and spells than others, have these displayed as percentages rather than (or in addition to) absolute numbers.</li></ul>

[Elwin]

<p>How about some response from a red writer to let us know IF eq2players will EVER be functional again.</p>

[Betchemin]

<p>What I use is the Character profiles. Check out friends profiles and levels. (Although given that my character now links to a 12th level conjurer rather than a 90th level monk, even this functionality is no longer usefull).</p><p>Guild roster. This I use but again it would be nice it it now was updated to reflect thinks like the artisan level correctly. I have posted the simple fix to this page but it has never been implemented. Not that is matters as our guild seesm to still be on Runnyeye.</p><p>What I would like to use is the guild bank. Unfortunately any new stuff (Kunark and beyond I think) does not show up in the bank. This makes it somewhat useless.</p>

[Lyleana]

<p><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #3366ff; font-size: x-small;">   I was wondering when/if the everquest2.com look up feature for toons will ever work again? I can't look up my friends profiles anymore much less see my own alts on my character page because I keep getting that [Removed for Content] Error Message. At one time, if all else failed, I could look up my friends profiles by typing in the guild name under 'Guilds' in the search feature on the everquest2.com website and click on their name and I could see their profile, that no longer works because of that [Removed for Content] Error Message. I know that my guild, for recruting purposes, used the look up feature for toons alot, can't do that now because keep getting that [Removed for Content] Error Message. I really wish someone would fix this it is really frustrating. *mumbles* I hate that [Removed for Content] Error Message!</span></p>

[Axeluis]

<p>Yes, it's simply RIDONCULOUS that this site has been non functional for so long. Being able to look up alts is crucial as a guild leader, as someone has mentioned.</p><p>HELLO SOE!!! When will this be fixed? People do indeed need this feature! Get the gnomes on it post haste and fire those [Removed for Content] goblins!</p>

[Dekedar]

<p>When raiding and gear goes up to alts. I use it to check what gear my alts have / don't have to see if I'm interested in bidding.</p>

[Juravael]

<p><span style="font-size: small;">You do realize that <span style="color: #ff0000;">DarkViper</span> has not logged onto the forums since last September?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;">Here, have a look for yourself : <a href="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/user/profile.m?user_id=96946" target="_blank">All about DarkViper</a></span></p>

[Elwin]

<p><cite>Glenedhel@Antonia Bayle wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-size: small;">You do realize that <span style="color: #ff0000;">DarkViper</span> has not logged onto the forums since last September?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;">Here, have a look for yourself : <a href="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/user/profile.m?user_id=96946" target="_blank">All about DarkViper</a></span></p></blockquote><p>He probably died waiting for a response.</p><p>This is nothing short of fail.</p><p>I wonder if this thread had of been named '101 more fluffy pcs of crap we'd like to see in Marketplace' we would of got some sort of response.</p>

[crackers_87]

<p>Moved post!</p>

[Yonaton]

<p><cite>Roslyn wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>As a guild recruiter, the ability to search people's alts is crucial and tells me a lot about the person I'm talking to. There are the obvious no-go list people, but it's generally more like is this a new player to the game who isn't entirely familiar with how EQ2 guilds work or is this a veteran. The search function itself can be a little wonky - sometimes I'll put in the name, and it's far down on the list even though it's an exact match. Not a big deal though.</p><p>The second biggest use of players for me is the AA specs, which is obviously outdated. It might be cool to implement a mirror AA spec on the site as well.</p></blockquote><p>I know the posting is old,but:</p><p>Seconded.</p>

[Fanatica]

<p>I agree with previous post, even if it's old. I always checked toons who contact us for a raiding spot, to see if I know them or remember anything about them from chat. I am specifically interested in their guild, if any, since we are an alliance.  We have had some bad experiences with people from certain guilds, and we try to avoid these.</p>

[Skandragon]

<p><cite>Fanatica@Runnyeye wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>I agree with previous post, even if it's old. I always checked toons who contact us for a raiding spot, to see if I know them or remember anything about them from chat. I am specifically interested in their guild, if any, since we are an alliance.  We have had some bad experiences with people from certain guilds, and we try to avoid these.</p></blockquote><p>Well, until Sony provides a solution:  http://eq2mission.flame.org/sony_guilds</p>

[Roslyn]

<p><cite>Skandragon wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Fanatica@Runnyeye wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>I agree with previous post, even if it's old. I always checked toons who contact us for a raiding spot, to see if I know them or remember anything about them from chat. I am specifically interested in their guild, if any, since we are an alliance.  We have had some bad experiences with people from certain guilds, and we try to avoid these.</p></blockquote><p>Well, until Sony provides a solution:  http://eq2mission.flame.org/sony_guilds</p></blockquote><p>You are a saint! I saw that the xml information was still there and couldn't believe there wasn't a site utilizing it. Thank you so much! Now if only I could check their alts.</p><p>Edit: Looks like that site doesn't show you their guild either. <a href="http://data.soe.com/xml/get/eq2/character/?name.first=Roslyn&locationdata.world=Permafrost">http://data.soe.com/xml/get/eq2/cha...orld=Permafrost</a> I use that link and then just replace the name/server I need ctrl+F "guild" until I find it.</p>

[Fanatica]

<p>Thanks so much. Very appreciated <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />.</p>