Since quite a few new members have reported that they experience game freezes and even crashes when opening the friendslist, i wanted to share the info here together with the mod that fixes that problem (mostly).
The problem occurs because the friendslist has an auto-refresh. So if you have a lot of people in your friendslist or you cabal has several hundred members (like ours) the problem happens.
Agnitio has released a mod that stoppes the auto-refresh and thereby the freezes/crashes for most people.
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Of course, we still should consider purging old members that haven't logged in for a year or longer from the list.
There have been recent voices about Dragon&Wolves cabal for being unresponsible to not warn new members about this issue (besides their annoying ninja-invite tactics) since they have about the same number of members als LoMS. So we don't want to get the same on us.
The problem occurs because the friendslist has an auto-refresh. So if you have a lot of people in your friendslist or you cabal has several hundred members (like ours) the problem happens.
Agnitio has released a mod that stoppes the auto-refresh and thereby the freezes/crashes for most people.

Pulling up Friends/Cabal List freezes game
I’m pretty sure the chance of it happening does correlate to the number of people in your cabal and/or on your friend list. Normally when you open the friend list window, the game interface draws a table that shows all your friends or cabal members which takes some time on slower PCs or if you...

Of course, we still should consider purging old members that haven't logged in for a year or longer from the list.
There have been recent voices about Dragon&Wolves cabal for being unresponsible to not warn new members about this issue (besides their annoying ninja-invite tactics) since they have about the same number of members als LoMS. So we don't want to get the same on us.