As BBR has alluded to the issue with a friends list is that there's no way to automate something while retaining anonymity in games. You can't click on a
character and add the
member to your friends list.
We may have backed ourselves into a corner with this whole anonymity thing but I think it's far more a boon than a hindrance. I realise there are some people who don't care about such things and would rather have more of a.. hm.. social approach to friends/contacts/chatting etc. I'm happy to investigate these things as long as it doesn't distract from the core of the site and is a deliberate opt-in to enable. But at the moment there's so many other things to do that will enhance what's at the heart of the site (RolePlaying) that I find it hard to justify spending time on something that's going to save you writing a list! (c;
Keep in mind that something like this will take about as much time for me to implement as things like;
I've cherry-picked the requests that will take about the same time, others will take (a lot) more time, some actually less. I'm not trying to dishearten you or suggest it's a no, but what I devote my time on is a balancing act. At the moment it's all dedicated to a responsive site version, and once that's completed then there's a huge outstanding list in the
RPoL Development forum.