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Friends and blacklist

Your private friends list and blacklist: how to add people, what each list does, and how they differ from blocking.

Last checked Category Your account and safety

Two private lists help you keep track of who is who in Vesper City. Open Social → Friends & Blacklist.

The two lists

  • Friends: people you want to keep an eye on or help.
  • Blacklist: people you want to remember to watch out for, or to pay back.

Both lists are private and one-way. Adding someone never tells them, and nobody can see who has listed them. A player can be on only one of your lists at a time: moving them to the other list keeps your note. Each list holds up to 200 players.

Adding and managing

  • Use Add a player: type a game name, pick Friends or Blacklist, and add a note if you like. You can also add someone from their profile.
  • A note is up to 100 characters, and only you see it (for example "owes me a favour"). Notes follow the same language rules as the rest of the game (Staying safe and reporting).
  • Each list can be sorted by name, level, when you last saw them or when you added them, searched by name, and filtered to Online now. A row shows their level, gang, where they are and the buttons to message them, open their profile or remove them from the list.

What friends do

  • Private chat: you can choose to take private chat only from friends and gang-mates (Chat: The Party Line and The Back Room).
  • Jail alerts: if a player has you on their friends list and you land in jail for 10 minutes or more, they may get a notice so they can try to help (from level 5, and only if you haven't switched the alerts off). Gang-mates get the same notice. And if you bust out someone on your friends list, a real rescue pays extra cash (see Jail and hospital).
  • The online dot: when two players have each other on their friends lists, each can see when the other is online (see Your profile and privacy).
  • On the map: in the Graphical view, the city map shows which of your friends are out and about in each district.

What the blacklist does

The blacklist is a reminder, nothing more. Someone on it is not blocked and not hidden, and it never changes a fight. It also keeps them from getting the jail notice above if you land in jail. It is only for you: they are never told.

Friends, blacklist and blocking

Blocking is something else. It stops a player messaging you, and neither of you then sees the other's social buttons (mail, friend requests, bounties and so on); burglary, gifts and jail help also respect it. Block from a player's profile or in your mail, and see Staying safe and reporting. If either of you has blocked the other, you can't add them as a friend (friends are told where you are), but you can still add them to your blacklist.

Tips

  • Put the players you would help out of jail on your friends list: a rescue of a friend pays extra.
  • Use notes: in a big city you will forget why someone is on your blacklist.
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