Character Info Command

[___________Athlonder]

I just recently switched over to AO from Dark Age of Camelot. I do say that I enjoy AO alot more than I enjoyed DAoC, but I have a request that be implemented into your game.
I think that it is silly that the only way to get info on a character is to be standing right beside him to do a shift+left-click on him. What if someone is messaging you from another city and you want to find out his/her stats without having to ask them.
In Dark Age you would just use a /who (/who <name>) command, and it would list off their name/guild/location/lvl, and if they weren't currently online at the time, it would tell you that also.
I would like to see such a feature implemented into AO. I think alot of people would enjoy it. Thank You.

[Gearbox]

You can use helpbot to do that now, actually.

Just type

/tell helpbot whois Joe

(assuming the person's name is Joe, of course)

And Helpbot will come back to you with the person's level, profession, sex, faction, guild, and guild rank.

[___________Athlonder]

That's cool. I didn't know that helpbot could do that, but that is another problem I have with AO. No commands really seem to be as simple as they could be. In Dark Age, things are easy to pick up, and simple, but doing a "/tell helpbot whois Joe" instead of a simple "/who Joe" is retarted. I have noticed other people complaining that alot of the commands are very poorly designed, and I would have to say that I strongly agree!
But I do thank you for replying to my post Cat.

[Gearbox]

Sure. :P

By the way- the reason this one is so obscure and awkward is because it's being handled by a third-party tool. It's not part of AO's built-in functionality.

So you're right- I do wish that function were simply incorporated directly into AO, eliminating all the extra "tell helpbot whois pretty please with sugar on top" stuff. :P