command replicates and extends the functionality of the search status dropdown shown in your team window when you are solo.
command is used with a status number to set your seeking/not-seeking status. The command takes one argument:
Here, X is a bitfield. If you understand the term "bitfield" then skip over the next section to see the numbers! Otherwise I refer you to this
Wikipedia article where it is explained. The discussion is somewhat technical so I will
attempt to give an explanation here. Don't worry if you don't understand it at first! The
numbers sections lists examples.
Please forgive the messed up formatting of the tables below. The migration to the new forum software did not preserve them completely accurately.
Binary and bitfields
Remember those binary numbers from school? Where we represent everything as a sum of powers of two (1 2 4 8 16 32...) with each unique power occurring at most once in the sum? For example 5 is 4 + 1 and we write it 101 in binary. The following table may refresh your memory:
Code:
4 | 2 | 1
---+---+----
1 | 0 | 1
Five is equal to four plus one so we write 1 in the four column, 1 in the one column and the result is 101. Similary 18 could be written 10010: 1 in the sixteen column plus 1 in the two column makes 16 + 2 = 18.
Code:
16 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 1
---+---+---+---+---
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0
A bitfield is basically a binary number where each 1 is not just a power of two but a checkbox! Imagine you categorised your CD collection by whether or not a song was recorded live, whether it was an acoustic rendition and whether it was a remix. Then you could make a table of your songs like this:
Code:
song | live | acoustic | remix
-----+------+----------+-------
A | 0 | 1 | 1
B | 0 | 0 | 1
C | 1 | 1 | 0
Here song A is a remix of an acoustic set, song B is a remix of the original cut and song C is a live, acoustic track.
But don't these look kinda similar? What if we pretended that the table columns were binary numbers and said A=5, B=1 and C=6? That's what a bitfield is.
The numbers
The
lfgset command understands the following numbers:
0: Not seeking.
1: Looking for any team.
2: Looking for patrol.
4: Looking for missions.
8: Looking for Task Force.
16: Looking for trial.
32: Looking for arena.
128: Not accepting invites.
So, if you use the command
/lfgset 4 you set yourself to looking for missions and if you use
/lfgset 16 you set yourself to looking for a trial. You can verify this by searching for yourself in the search box.
Remember that the Find Member window sometimes lags and you may not see yourself correctly the first time you search!
Because the argument to
lfgset is a bitfield, however, you can flag yourself as looking for more than one type of team. Up for a TF or trial? TF is 8 and trial is 16 so use
/lfgset 24 and you will show up when someone searches using either of those two filters.
Note that the lowest numbered icon will show up next to your name in the search window. If you
/lfgset 36 you will show up to someone searching for an arena opponent ... only with the green mission symbol by your name.
