Me and a few friends were talking in-game and we came across an idea where we should be able to add tags to your friends, in your friends list.
We think this will be useful for those who want to find people under those certain tags, for example: #Builder
^Putting some of your builder friends in this category, instead of having to search for them in your friends list (if they aren’t favourited).
We also think this should be a customizable feature, just so we can categorise people under specific tags, that we’d want. I hope this gets considered at some point, as I think it would be pretty useful.
Thanks for reading!
Favorite Friends is already a sort of this. However, problems start to arise when you remove a friend or just by having a lot of friends (when searching by tag)…
If a friend is removed, every tag would need to be checked to see if you have no other friend with that tag before removing it… if this lack of removal doesn’t happen properly, players will be unhappy when they find out some friends no longer have a tag, have the wrong tag, or that they have no more tags to use for grouping friends.
You could also just be able to make custom ‘collections’ that are able to be empty and have no friends in it. Then just assign friends to what collection you want. I’m sure you can just store the data for what collection has what friends in it, inside the collection itself. Then whenever you need to call that data you can just check if they are still friends, if they aren’t then simply automatically remove them from the collection? To make this with better performance you can also cap how many people can be added to a collection.
This is totally understandable, and actually makes sense (Steam itself does this with the “collections” on its normal desktop AKA “Large Mode” view).
However, Jerry, note that hiccups can occur that can possibly cause a friend to get removed from the collection accidentally (unless these collections are completely handled server-side).
