A ingame "Friends List" would rock, displaying who is or isn't online that way you don't have to ask "Hey is x on?" There are one of two ways I think it would have to work, either the player being displayed or [Account] - Player. I think the account player would work best due to the fact that most players have multiple pilots.

Or simply have the complete roster of active players available *IN-GAME* rather than a sector by sector roster. Perhaps <H> would bring up the full roster while <h> would still bring up the sector roster.

Perhaps there could be a way to modify bountybot, then we could use some thing like...

/msg bountybot seen <nick>

Bouty bot will either display the last active time or say this user is online.

No I was really looking for a list, not manually looking for every person online that I know, that would be annoying and pointless.

Once the game gets larger, more ppl are on at once, harder to find people, etc. The whole msging and finding ppl will have to be reworked once the universe grows, and a friends list seems great to me.

~The Penguin

it would have to let the person you want on your list to agree with it though, im sure your enemy wouldent want you to know he is online right when you log in.

Obviously. I'm sure in the end it would be like a AIM type setup where you could choose between the three. "All People Can See Me" "Only Those On Friends List Can See Me" or "Block Only These People"