IDEAS FOR RYZOM

It would be handy if each player could just adjust the order of the team list , as he needs it...
for example for healing, just be ably to put tanks as top and then under that the mages, and so on. That would make it easier to look at the tank's bars when you're healing tanks in a team. (for example)
So each player can adjust their own window. (the order wouldn't change for by other players) :)

As an avid healer, I can definitely see this as immensely beneficial.
As Im not a big fan of macro's my eyes and mouse are usually hovering over the Team bar and struggling to find the right target. Even for those who enjoy using Macros this clearly is a good way to efficiently keep track of Team stats.

+1 I've thought the same thing a number of times.

+1 Fully agreeing!

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I don't like the "+1" only posts but I like the idea.
An other option would be to group the team members into self named groups (would make the max logical window size bigger though)
Or to add tags to the team members and highlight those filtered by a specific tag.

First would be like this (just using some weird sample groups with the people in here):
Suggestor:
- Fitis
Writers:
- Elvanae
- Swiz
- Xoep
Others:
- Gorran
- Suboxide
- Petulka
- Dominikus

And the second like this (highlight on writers, paranthesis usually not shown):
Fitis (suggestor, writer)
Elvanae (writer)
Swiz (writer, pluser)
Xoep (writer, pluser)
Gorran (pluser)
Suboxide (pluser)
Petulka (pluser)
Dominikus (pluser)

I like the original resorting option.

When i do heals i frequently get annoyed by team members who are in a different region and get themselves hurt. I always click on them and try to heal until i realise 'this toon is always out of range, ignore it'. It still requires some attention afterwards. Would be nice to move that toon to the bottom to help me remember (reduce the level of attention required).

There is another important gameplay change associated with it - it's about macro driven alts. At first i thought it would not be a good idea since it will make macro driven alts easier to control. Now i realised that macro driven toons already work fine as they are, with the disadvantage that those alts have a hard time targetting arbitrary players in team. Currently the solution is to make name based target macros that need to be changed if team composition changes. Almost nobody seems to actually use that option - with the result that arbitrary players almost never get directed healing from macro driven alts in teams. Using this suggestion it would be easier to reconfigure alts to use directed healing on the toons controlled by other people - not a plus for alt-users but a plus for real players in teams that use (lots of) alts.

Groups could be nice too, but i think it's a hell lot more work to implement it. I would rather want to get something elaborate like that on contact list (making groups like 'loved enemies', 'pvp buddies', 'crafters', ..... each displaying a number if collapsed). But that is another suggestion that is off topic in this thread.

My comment on this is that simple resorting by drag and drop or simply by

right click name > move up / move down / move to top / move to bottom

would be more than sufficient to address the problem. As (usually) a healer in OP and (sometimes) in Boss fights this is all good. Could also be used for boss fights by nukers. Tar Team #1/ Tar tar tar / nuke. Then change the order of team and you don't have to rewrite the macro.

However, to make it all be client-side will involve some tricky coding since you are basically hiding the "true" order and setting up a corellation. This involves feedback from the server when you do (for instance) Target target's target, so it could be tricky.

-- Bittty

Ulykus' idea for friends lists is one I have wanted for some time, but should be a subject for another thread.

definitely +1