Friends consolidation tool

salimoneus · #1 11-28-2014, 08:40 PM

Was wondering if there is anything out there that can help consolidate friends lists from serveral toons into a single list and then set that list for all toons. Have been toying with the idea of coming up with something like that but wanted to make sure I wouldn't be reinventing the wheel.

IanelarAzure · #2 11-28-2014, 11:42 PM

I haven't seen anything, but it wouldn't really be hard to do as long as you have the friends setup all on the same machine. Its just text files.

salimoneus · #3 11-29-2014, 12:18 AM

Nah shouldn't be too difficult at all.

Nefarum · #4 11-29-2014, 12:39 AM

I would love for this tool to exist.

Doil_Boil · #5 11-29-2014, 09:30 AM

It's called control + c and control + v [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

fastboy21 · #6 11-29-2014, 11:28 AM

i don't have any friends...

can someone write a program to help me?

myriverse · #7 11-29-2014, 11:58 AM

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i don't have any friends...

can someone write a program to help me?

Chat bots! How quaintly 90s.

Thulack · #8 11-29-2014, 02:19 PM

Go to your characters ini file and your friends are listed in it. Open up a new text doc and just copy and past all the names into file one then copy that back into all your ini's. You would have to do this each time you added new friends on each toon but its better then nothing.

salimoneus · #9 11-29-2014, 03:25 PM

The problem is that when you add a friend to one toon's ini file, it's not added to any others. So all toons ini files are out of sync unless you manually edit each one and figure out who has been added to which files. Plus they will be out of order in each file, so good luck trying to keep 8 or 10 or more (incl mules) all updated and in sync with manual edits.

fastboy21 · #10 11-29-2014, 04:37 PM

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Originally Posted by salimoneus [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

The problem is that when you add a friend to one toon's ini file, it's not added to any others. So all toons ini files are out of sync unless you manually edit each one and figure out who has been added to which files. Plus they will be out of order in each file, so good luck trying to keep 8 or 10 or more (incl mules) all updated and in sync with manual edits.

its really not that hard...even if you don't have the computer know-how to write some basic code to do this without having to manually edit, it isn't that tough to manually cut and paste every once in a while if it is really that important to you.