106547-friends

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It's odd in a community like this you end up making friends amongst the rifraf.
 
Sometimes you might want to talk to them in game, even though they're on a different server.  Conveniently, there's the Account Friend function, so no matter where they are, no matter what character they're playing.. you can talk to your friend.  Even if they're a scummy Dom and you're not.
 
Except... and unless... you live in North America and your friend plays in Europe.
 
"Player not found."
 
Not "Player is on an EU Realm and we won't let you talk to them because... reasons."
 
Social Carbine Lead, can you explain this behavior and when we can expect a bridge between the systems for social interaction, or an update to the UI message to more accurately reflect that your systems are subpar for social interaction?	
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			My guess is the US and EU servers don't talk to each other at all.  Therefore they would have no way of saying "Player is on an EU Realm and we won't let you talk to them because... reasons.", because they could not query the EU server to determine if that player exists or not.	
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			Ok.. but why not letting the chatserver(s) interact? ^^ ... I am not a (server-)technician (is this job called like this?). :D	
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			I'm near positive it's because the two systems don't talk to each other.  Maybe the continents are considered different factions and they haven't installed the translator addon.  I don't know, I simply want to, y'know.. talk to my friend in game.	
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I think only Carbine would be able to really answer this on a Technical front, I can only assume its because they have the 2 systems completely seperated, and to implement something that bridges it, would be extremely hard or simply not a priority.
 
I suggest SKype, Teamspeak3, WeChat, FaceTime, anything, you can utilize so many resources to talk to your friend
 
If they are important enough to you, you will find a way to reach them.
 
Heck, how about a phone call? :)	
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			There was a post from Cougar a long time ago on this subject(It will take me forever to find) however I remember it vaguely that it just is not possible to do because of the technical side of the servers in question sadly. It is the same reason we have a hard region lock as opposed to a "soft" lock like GW2 and such...	
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			Chua had same conversation with cougar at Launch: https://twitter.com/Cougardc/status/476378733507780608	
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			I was really hoping this was a thread about Whodini. :*(	
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