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When are you looking for a team on Infinity? Recently, it's been at least somewhat populated in the evenings (for NA time zones), even showing up a "moderate" load. Infinity also has postings down in the server forum for some regularly shceduled events, like TFs on Tuesday evening and Saturday afternoon and "Tanker Tuesdays" and some Hami raids.

OTOH, if you are looking in what would be the middle of the work/school day for NA time zones - sorry, most of us are elsewhere than in PC/RI/Praet.

Have you tried joining some of the global channels for Infinity, like Infinity Hamidon or AE_Anonymous? That's the other place teams form.

But back to your original OP - as more than one person has pointed out, your suggestion of placing people on whatever shard had open spots when they log-on would erase the opportunity to schedule events at all because you would never know if everyone would land on the same shard.

I see what you are saying - but given that you are already confused by some of the common abbreviations, such as AT or TF - wouldn't adding another set of abbreviations to denote how long something is "expected" to take just adding more complications?

Plus, although there s an "average" time for many (but not all) TFs/SFs - I have seen some of these TFs take much longer than expected due to things going awry or due to a team member's need to go AFK because the kids knocked something over and made a mess (we have a lot of parents who play the game), etc., so any time estimate you could be given would be just that - an estimate. PuGs for regular missions (tips, radios, arcs, etc.) routinely lose and add players, so no big harm if you drop out after a mission or two to log off or go do something else.

And that also assumes that the person forming the team has enough knowledge about the average "estimated" time to give you a solid estimate instead of a WAG (wild-a** guess).

There's absolutely nothing wrong with asking the leader after you join how long he/she estimates the team tasks will take and then bowing out if you can't commit that much time. In fact, it's a very polite thing to do if you don't know the answer and you know that you must log off at a partocular time.

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I have your blaster's cousin (or maybe big sister) Tina Beretta, a FF/DP 'fender on Infinity.

Or combine three other inspiration of the same level & type into a Wakie....

Personally, I try to carry a Wakie, a Break Free and a blue endurance inspiration when I think I'm might need to self res. That gets me back into the fight with only three clicks.

You say that as if having more than one or two characters is a "bad" thing. Embrace altoholism!

I wish to become a member of the Church of the Drunken Squirrel - do you have some pamphlets/literature I could distribute?

^this.

This is exactly why I have bought every box as it came out - for ease in re-installing the game when a computer wipe has to happen or upon buying a new one.

I have tried to follow the bizarre legal reasoning frorm the OP, without much success. It's not something that would succeed in impressing the professors at the law school I attended....

Why care about any particular character?

If the character has an amusing backstory or you have fond memories of it - what does the level matter?

I have to agree that I will miss the old Breakout/Outbreak, too.

David Hasselhoff is the anti-Freddie Mercury.

Pre-congrats!

/em soapbox
Well, that assumes that you (the cardholder) diligently review transactions in your account every day, or even in real-time as they post to your account. Because the way your bank knows the card was stolen is because you called them first to tell them that.

Oh, and BTW - no bank calls up a vendor to inform them that a card they provide to a consumer was stolen. If you think about it, that would be crazy - how would the bank know which retail stores (both bricks & mortar and online) to call with that info on how many accounts?

And authorizations on a card are processed via almost instantaneously. Both for in-person purchases at Wally-World and online stores. There really isn't any difference from a payment-processing speed & monitoring standpoint.

In fact, the clerk at the Wally-World is more likely to stop a transaction because the person handing them the card doesn't match the name on the card (think of a male handing them a card in a female name) or looks nervous or whatever. An online store can't do that.

<climbs down off the soapbox>

Yeah, I work with financial institutions and card issuers...

Identity theft and card fraud are srs bznss.