Ok, we've been depending on third party bots for a long time, and while they have had it's use (and some fun plugins) I think it's time for FC to step up and enhance orgs with new org tools.
If you can see in lft interface where people are (well most places have a name label, some have a "Not Found" result due to being inside a mission, a building or a location which FC didn't give a proper label) therefore FC has the code already placed to locate an entire org's roster when they are online.
How about a new org feature that displays as follows in a window:
Name | Rank | Profession | Level | Location
With the following buttons at the bottom of the window
Send Tell | Invite to Team | Promote (if the user is the appropiate rank) | Demote | Remove from Org
Of course we'll still use helpbot to do !whois, but adding a "Whois" button to the org window would also be useful to check out players who may have applied or shown interest in joining the org and leader/officers/members use that feature to check out the prospect/applicant.
Also the possibility to show offline members and when they last logged in would help the leadership to remove inactive members.
Another possible feature would be to allow members to add their "alts" so they would be linked to their Main by adding next to "Location" the label "Main", if the character logged in is the main then the result would be "None" otherwise the main name would be displayed.
I think such an org feature would be great to enhance organizations.
Yes, another MMO has this feature, and when I was playing that "fantasy" game it was one of the most appealing things of being in a guild there, I could always contact officers, the leader and other members in seconds.
Of course that "other" MMO also has a mailing system, which of course Means has stated does not like, but maybe I will post another thread making a more convincing argument that it would enhance the game and not take away from it.
btw I would suggest the command /org roster as a perfect fit to this new feature.
Macrosun, I know you could make this happen....
/org roster