[greiskul]

Yes, you could add anyone to your list of people you wanted to your friends list to see if they were online. And if they were online, there was a spell that told you the cardinal direction they were from you, plus a fuzzy distance (they are very far to the north). So people used to hunt each other when they got to disagreements, and at higher levels, it was common for entire groups of people to get into wars with each other. The lack of instancing of any kind, made it so to advance you would need to go hunt monsters in an always shared environment, and with monster respawn rate sometimes being too low to support multiple people hunting at the same spot, and monsters not spawning in view of a player, made disagreements on who got to hunt where be bound to happen.