gajop
commented
7 years ago (1) would also need to track changes in friended/unfriended (on steam) and update the friend list accordingly. (3) once steam accounts are linked it would be nice if you could have your steam friends visible even if you don't login through steam; more importantly allow people to be friends if one uses Steam and the other ZKLS. hence why I dislike this solution
PS1: generally i dislike ZKLS implementation of asymmetric friends. I use it like a watchlist ("follower") now. I think it would benefit retention if friendship was symmetric and required people to accept it. PS2: The real problem will be in friending people through Chobby (which is what we want I think?). After you've played some games with someone and want to do more, you should be able to send a friend request so you can teamup later. I would expect this to friend people on Steam if both accounts are on Steam, or allow a intuitive way of doing that.
Licho1
Atm., there is an issue in newbie friend scenario. If you are a ZK player and want to play with steam friends, you invite them, they join the game and register. But after registering, they are not automatically marked as your friends.
There are many solutions, like:
1) server could send "UserRegistered" with steamID every time someone registers. Clients would then check this against local steamID friend list.
2) clients could send entire steamID friend list to server and server would track it
3) wrapper based P2P notifications (send information about friends being online/offline in ZK, basically friendlist independent of ZKLS).
What should we do?
Solution 1) is probably simplest and won't hurt server much.
Solution 3) seems pretty robust, we could also show steam online/offline status in the friend list and it would work for coop when ZKLS is dead. But sounds more complex in GUI (for wrapper it should be a piece of cake).