The problem i have is that the grey is so ambiguous. Sometimes they aren't looking for a team and sometimes they are. I send tells to grey's anyway just in case.
Fact is most people just forget to change they're status, just put in a search comment and leave it.
I think it should work the opposite way round. the white looking for a team should be default and the user should have to express otherwise. This'll make people more aware of their LFT status. With this being a game largely based on teaming i don't think most people will mind. It's easy to just set hide.
I also like the idea of a message reminding you of your status 
will certainly help people remember what they've put rather than being suprised when they dont get asked to team and visa versa.
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The problem i have is that the grey is so ambiguous.
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But I think the grey is ambiguous only because people get set to it when they log in or leave a team. A third part to this suggestion would be to preserve LFT status; if you're set LFT, join a team, and leave it you should be LFT afterwards.
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I think it should work the opposite way round. the white looking for a team should be default and the user should have to express otherwise. This'll make people more aware of their LFT status. With this being a game largely based on teaming i don't think most people will mind. It's easy to just set hide.
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I wouldn't go that far. For one thing, I don't think it's a game largely based on teaming - if I look at the search list, blue and grey are present in roughly 50/50 proportions, even amongst players "on mission map".
I would say that the game normally allows you to choose for yourself whether you prefer soloing or teaming, and many of the design decisions made since release seem to be aimed at making soloing easier; obvious examples are the way AVs turn up as EBs if you are solo or have a small team, multi-builds, Containment, and the way all the CoV archetypes are at least reasonable soloists.
Currently:
Grey name: In a team
Blue name: not in a team
Red background (and name?): Not accepting team invites
Green backgroud: looking for missions
light grey background: Looking for Any
I think an explination of the grey and blue names would be helpful... the number of few month vets I've met that didn't know about that...
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i just like to see that status stay put until the use changes it, i had plenty of time putting my self on red, and after using the team search it turned grey again.
the only reason why i use the list is to see what lvl that one tell is, plenty of times i get in teams 10 lvls lower then my self.
and when i leave for the reason that i'm not interested in helping low lvls until i finally get to lvl 50, i get rude child talk about being lame or the famous n))B insults.
personally i thing it should auto defult to the not exceping invites untill you choose to change it.
also i think it would be better if once you where on a team you didnt show on the search window.
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personally i thing it should auto defult to the not exceping invites untill you choose to change it.
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Assuming you mean "not accepting", I don't think that would work unless the current situation where people generally have the default left unconsidered was changed. If the last setting was "sticky", as I propose, you'd only have to change it once, of course.
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also i think it would be better if once you where on a team you didnt show on the search window.
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People do rely on that to find teams with space (not that that flood of tells when on-TF isn't mildly irritating), and also you might use it after a "Get Local Name" or similar to discover the AT and level. Personally I would like a facility for teams to advertise a desire for more members, but that's a bigger change than the original proposal.
If you could change your status once you joined a team you could say if you were on a TF or looking for members.
When you're set "Not accepting invites", the Team element of the chat display turns red.
I think there's a persistent annoyance with people not really being aware of the state of that setting - both to people trying to assemble teams, who end up blurting tells to people with plausible search comments (if they're nice) or all and sundry, and to people who want a team but don't get one.
Suggest that the Team element turns colours appropriate to _all_ LFT statuses - obviously distinguishing the LFT white and the non-LFT grey carefully. Furthermore, it'd be nice if the appropriate symbol applied too.
If we wanted to go further, it would probably not be overly onerous if a message appeared reminding you of your LFT status on zoning.