Turgenev

You know, I give, and I give, and I give, and it's never enough.

Personal note: If you use it on a lvl 50 toon, it doesn't add to the patrol XP. Shouldn't it? A 50 can use patrol XP as debt amelioration...

There was one that particularly bothered me, but I'm past that now.

I'm more disappointed by being rewarded for not being logged in with a particular toon, just to get a day job badge. IMO, it's a dumb design, rewarding players for NOT logging in a toon just because you parked them somewhere...

But to answer the direct question: Not that I can recall, no.

What time zone are you using as a reference? Late night for the Aussie crowd is far different from the Right Coast crews.

This, basically. And there's nothing preventing you from advertising the Mantis run on Freedom TF Chat either - so long as it doesn't conflict with the scheduled runs, you'll prolly find people who're more than willing to run this up. Ask Luna or E to add your run to the global channel MOTD if you opt for that route. I'd run this SF again, no sweat.

Man, I missed out on EVERYthing, this week. ;( Anyone take screenies/demos of the event, by chance? Hope everything went well!

There's a bunch of us. (raises hand)

Your listening to me wasn't very good, MB. I still got it earlier, but not by the usual 3 week stretch I was seeing. For the 75th month badge, I got it around July 21st. The newly-stated anniversary is now the 28th, so that's when I'm expecting it to go live. (And if I get it earlier, I'll still announce it here, as it would indicate there's still a problem with the badge scheduler.)

Here's my announcement post about the 75th month badge if you want to see an actual timeline on it.

Cannot cope.

This, basically. Farmers have come back again, so they make the noise in AP, but go anywhere else and you'll find it's at least 80-90% teaming populations.

Heck, I handheld a newbie for an hour last night to show him how to get wings, from the market purchase to crafting with salvage. I'm so nice that way. XD

Actually, we KNEW.

(j/k though, I actually just doublechecked the vet rewards page and noted that all of my dates were changed, past and present, to the 28th. Which is funny, cuz I started with the headstart weekend on the 25th, but who's counting in MY favor, huh? )

(Still the prettiest.)

Yep, just got mine.

Basically, this. The problem is rooted in the paradox where someone wants to team, but they don't want to step up and take the leader reins to get it started.

I never have problems forming a team with PUGs on Freedom. If I'm lazy and just LFT, I'll get one within five minutes depending on the zone. If I'm forming, I'll get a full team of 8 in under 60 seconds.

The problem that the OP cites is basically a social one. It takes a minimum of effort to form a team on Freedom, but it does mean doing more than just putting up the LFT flag and hope that someone invites you to all the missions you want to play.

Addendum: Kudos to crayhal for stepping up and being an active player.