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you know all those players who are not in your faction, but are on your buddy list? a lot of times you just arent on at the same time. or how about the players you only know in-game on your buddy list who accidentally get deleted from it? the in-game mailbox would work similar to the forum inbox. you can get mails from any player in the game, but you would have options for it, such as only getting/ seeing mails from your friends. you could also choose to disable your mailbox completely, until such time as you choose to reactivate it. perhaps you could also get buddy requests in your inbox limited, obviously, by the space in your buddy list.

obviously it would NOT work as a limitless buddy list. you wouldnt be able to open a chat window with them, as you can on your buddy list. maybe you could only get a single mail from a player per day or week. they wouldnt be able to spam you, because of IP addresses and different accounts. however, the messages could be long, so that you could say everything in just
one mail. perhaps only players with homes could use this feature.

i suggest this simply because a lot of players might not even have forum accounts. even if they do have a forum account, they might be more active in-game than on the forums.