Techno_Roboto

One more thing to add - the reason *why* sending (polite informative and brief) tells to people who are teamed already works so well for joining a team. Broadcast only reaches the zone you are in, and will not reach people who are already in a mission, so they will not see it (unless they happen to be standing around between missions, and to be honest I would prefer a team which did *not* spend a lot of time standing around between missions). Changing your LFG flag will only reach those who do a search after you set it, which people running missions are unlikely to do mid-mission. So the people who are teamed (and running missions) are not likely to see you for a while, if ever. But tells will get through, and if the recipient happens to be busy or does not like tells, they do not have to respond. As long as you send only *one* tell to a given individual, that should certainly not be ill-received.

Suspicious_Pkg, I am glad that you have found a solution that works for you. Just keep in mind that while your solution will work for people with large blocks of play time, people with smaller play time segments may prefer to get rolling with a team sooner rather than later. Personally, I find the idiots who sit there endlessly spamming broadcast looking for a team to be offensive (especially when they are in a zone where there happens to be NOBODY listening who *can* invite them to a team), and I typically wish that said "idiot broadcast spammers" would shut up and quietly start their own teams (by sending tells to the unteamed players of the appropriate level).

Clan_Jericho, I agree that expectations need to be realistic. But, I have found a team at almost any hour of the day, usually after sending only a few tells. The trick is to use the search tool to find people in your level range who are already teamed and contact them - most will jump at the chance to fill out their team if they can. I have even had people respond "no" because they were keeping the group small, then reply "yes" a few seconds later when they realized that I can AE (they were herding).

Trailerpark_J, Oh, those are good! I will be adding them to my own macros for sure, and will include them when I revise my guide above as well. Thank you!

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Personally, I've always found it annoying/rude to get tells asking to join my currently running team.

Set your flag, send out a broadcast. If I want you, I'll ask.
Make your own team if you're that anxious.

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I love it when I get such tells, as it simplifies my staffing up the team. I can always say "no thanks" if I do not want another. And when I send tells, I have never gotten an annoyed reaction, not once - but I have gotten a lot of teams.

Lets face it, flag and broadcast do NOT work well at all, while tells work VERY well.

You do it your way, I'll do it mine. *shrug*

I get a team within a few minutes of logging in, every time.

This is how I do it (your mileage may vary):

Make some macros:
/macro Find Search
/macro LFT t $target, Want another for your team? (Warshade $level)
/macro LFM t $target, Want to join a mish team?
Stash them off on some tray which you do not use during normal play.

Then, when you log in:
#1. Flip your team status to "LF Any", hit your Find macro, select the relevant level range (etc), sort by level.
#2. Click on a name (already teamed and not "not accepting invites"), hit LFT macro.
#3. If no reply, then repeat #2 (with a different name), every ~15 seconds.


Team seeking:
- If the search list is truncated, then you need to select half the ATs and search again (then select the other half of the ATs), I use "all except Blasters and Scrappers", then "only Blasters and Scrappers".
- If there are no teams running in your level range, but you spot a clump of teamed players which are higher level, you can always ask them and see if they will sidekick you up. They get another body to increase the mob spawns, and you get decent exp, win-win. Worst case, they say "no thanks" (and it costs you nothing).
- Spamming broadcast and flipping your team status to "LF Any" does not work terribly well, but it does not hurt to give it a shot. Just do not wait around for that to come through, get cracking on sending those tells out, because tells *do* work. And using macros makes sending tells so easy.

Team leading:
- If there are no teams running in your level range, but a good number of unteamed players hanging around, you could always (gasp) form your own team. Make use of your LFM macro, and have at it.
- If you are the team leader, be aware of the levels of the people in your team. If you have sidekick space and a team opening, and you get a tell seeking teamage, the answer is "yes" without exception. Help the new arrivals get sidekicked up and "recalled" in to the mission.
- Do not sit around forever waiting for a "pefect" team of size 8, instead start killing and add people as you go!
- If seeking people for your team, you can send out multiple LFM tells at once (to different people), basically as many as you have current openings.
- If you are on a team and someone starts complaining about something which you cannot control, be ready to replace them when they drop.

General:
- If the team just is not working for you for whatever reason, then just politely drop it and go find another, do not torture yourself or waste your time.
- If you team as often as you can, then you will find yourself teaming with the same people over and over, and getting to know them. And they will also get to know you, and (assuming that you are an effective teammate) this will make finding teams in the future that much easier. I always send my "LFT" tells to the names I recognize first.


If anyone is having difficulty finding teams fast when they log in, then I hope that the above helps!

Bill, check out the windows pre-fetch. I found turning this down to "2-boot" was helpful for my performance.
link to pre-fetch info

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Third Power available: Goldbricker Jet Pack
First Level Available: 15
Location: Cap Au Diablo - Marshall Brass Mission
Travel Type: Flight
Duration: 90 Minutes

This one is slightly more "involved" to get, but everyone can do it and its easy if you know how. Your first job is to finish a mayhem mission in Cap Au Diablo between levels 10->15. When you speak to your broker, choose Dr. Shelly Percey as your contact. Go through her missions, though I'm not certain if you have to do all of them, just some, or none at all. Someone can correct me on that. At level 15, she will introduce you to a new contact, Marshall Brass. Accept his missions, and one of the first ones from him should be to steal the Goldbricker Jet Pack. Upon mission complete you receive the temp power. Like the others, no enhancements.

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One note on this - make sure you hit Brass up for the mission as soon as you get him at level 15. I waited a bit as I was busy doing some other things, and when I finally got to him I was level 16. The first mission he offered me was "Take another deniable job from Marshal Brass", which is the SECOND mission in the Arc, and the Arc proceeded from there. The FIRST mission, "Take the job against the Gold Brickers from Marshal Brass" (which yields the rocket pack) was NOT ever given to me. Doh...

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Update: Once I finished the Arc, THEN Brass gave me the first mission in the Arc. Rocket pack acquired.
Interestingly, it looks like he is giving me the rest of the Arc again...

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Third Power available: Goldbricker Jet Pack
First Level Available: 15
Location: Cap Au Diablo - Marshall Brass Mission
Travel Type: Flight
Duration: 90 Minutes

This one is slightly more "involved" to get, but everyone can do it and its easy if you know how. Your first job is to finish a mayhem mission in Cap Au Diablo between levels 10->15. When you speak to your broker, choose Dr. Shelly Percey as your contact. Go through her missions, though I'm not certain if you have to do all of them, just some, or none at all. Someone can correct me on that. At level 15, she will introduce you to a new contact, Marshall Brass. Accept his missions, and one of the first ones from him should be to steal the Goldbricker Jet Pack. Upon mission complete you receive the temp power. Like the others, no enhancements.

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One note on this - make sure you hit Brass up for the mission as soon as you get him at level 15. I waited a bit as I was busy doing some other things, and when I finally got to him I was level 16. The first mission he offered me was "Take another deniable job from Marshal Brass", which is the SECOND mission in the Arc, and the Arc proceeded from there. The FIRST mission, "Take the job against the Gold Brickers from Marshal Brass" (which yields the rocket pack) was NOT ever given to me. Doh...