IMPROVEMENT IDEA: We desperately need ABILITY to SEARCH Rankings by player alpha sort

[RiverBummer]

It's really hard to find player's by name in this game. Some have obscure spellings (and typos) and it would be useful to be able to locate by name search.

Perhaps let the RANKINGS list become a directory of who is playing in each world as well as rank order.
Perhaps add an option button to the PLAYERS tab to "sort by alpha" rather than by rank and give a second option to give it a wild card regular expression match pattern:

e.g.
Show users beginning with R in first name: "R*"
Show users having Tynon in their name: "*TYNON*"
Show users with special-characters in their name: "&||'||$||@"

etc.


Right now the only way to chat with someone or find their profile or invite them to guild is to send them a short whisper by spelling their name exactly correctly and then clicking on the link to their name in the private chat window to view their profile. But we don't always want to fumble with obscure spellings on the keyboard to look up a person's profile nor tip them off that we are looking at them (their power levels and formation before an attack) by whispering them.

As it is, the only way to find someone is to page through hundreds of pages of ranking pages and hope you can spot their name in all the spam. Or if you know a priori they are in a guild then to look at their guild and search members. But not all play in guilds.

It really would be a nice feature.