Reverse invites?

WI search functionality would work both ways, that is, not only allowing leaders to see potential teammates, but advetise themselves? Something like that:
A. "Recruiting for X " options are added to current "looking for X/not looking/autodeclining" combobox. Option auto-resets once team is full or leader enters instanced map, and can be reset manually.

B. It is possible to send an "application" to those who set "recruiting" option on themselves (and only to them). Application will contain name, AT, level, and maybe primary/secondary (not sure this is a good idea though), and if leader accepts it, applicant joins the team.
C. Longrer and fully-visible search comment, pretty please.

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I understand why you want all this, but sending a tell asking for invite works a charm. I like option A tho.

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I understand why you want all this, but sending a tell asking for invite works a charm. I like option A tho.

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It doesn't.
1) You see who's in a team, but you don't see leaders, nor you can tell if team is full. (So, /tell often goes to the wrong member. If that member is me it's as good as lost in most cases, since while I would spell Ask OurLeadersLongName, well, lots of things will happen.)
2) Without some bind-fu ur tying up your clipboard any way to send multiple tells with the same text is painful. So messages normally don't contain any info beyond "J. Random Hiro LFT." (I know bind-fu. More or less. But I also don't send those /tells.)

And no on spams nobody in this scheme.

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It's usually called LFM, looking for member. Most of the more modern games have it. It doesn't work any better than LFT...

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Well, in a few games where I saw it it worked, although there were other factors at work too, no not the banned topics, but the fact that you pretty much HAD to team to get anything worthwhile.

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Perhaps an injection of (un)common sense and foresight?

Change your search comment to 'Team Leader' before you start sending out invites.

Sorted. And don't fire back at me with cries of 'Nobody will bother! Woe!' Do it yourself, people will see it and think 'Now why didn't I think of that before?' and copy it themselves.

'But what if people forget to change their status once they're no longer a team leader?' I hear you ask.

Tough. If you're too lazy not to revert your status, suffer the consequences until you do change it.

Let's use our intelligence here people, it's why we're the #1 dominant species on this rock.

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/signed. A more developed LFM /LFT system would be ideal
Failing that, simply showing the team leader start in the search tab would help a lot.

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Valid points, and I definitely plan to try this, but, there's one problem here, - No place left to tell what exactly we're planning to do without some cryptic code no one would understand. Not even with it maybe... <font class="small">Code:[/color]<hr /><pre>LF3M Fltln Lvl 18 can sk 2.</pre><hr /> Definitely won't fit...

As for using our brains, - I wasn't asking for rideable ponies exactly, and current search comment ISn't usable for anything but "no blinds, plz." Its length isn't limited by backend either, bur solely by search window being non-resizeable. Ok, I understand that devs aren't morons and there is a reason it isn't resizeable, but it isn't THAT difficult to work around that reason somehow, whatever that reason is.

Edit/ADD Other 2 items might be more tricky to estimate without knowing details, but probably neither is a pony either.

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You can hover your mouse pointer over the search comment, bringing it up in full in its own little window and enabling you to read the full length.

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You do? First thing I tried... Didn't work. Maybe I did something wrong like mouseovered 10 pixels left of the needed place... Ok, I'll retry next login.
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Sorry, that internet thing makes you sound hostile when you really don't feel anything like it. No any kind of offence meant to anyone.

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None taken. The mouse-over always works for me, so I don't know why it's not working for you if not. If you still have no joy on retrying, I suggest getting in touch with Technical support. and seeing whether they can offer help.

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I always find the best way to look for team was using search, find ppl my level in teams &amp; use the below to send tells

/t $target, Hi, any room on your team for a level $level $archtype?

you can then hit enter &amp; the up arrow then click a different name &amp; send the same message.

That said, I would like to see a better search system where I can see what teams have space &amp; who is leader of a team.

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None taken. The mouse-over always works for me, so I don't know why it's not working for you if not. If you still have no joy on retrying, I suggest getting in touch with Technical support. and seeing whether they can offer help.

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Yes, it works now. Maybe first time it was b/c of some pecularity of how chat is handled on trial acc, or /me doing something wrong and I didn't bother to re-check it. But now it works.

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If the person is heading a team, why not simply bung a star next to their name in the search window? Instead of the oh-so-random list of names, some of which are on teams and some arent...which I hate, have a status list. E.g. Leader, team member, solo, They have it on the Global list, for example. Why not extend it to the mind numbing search list?

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