Search Options

I know it's already broken, but how about (after fixing it) changing the team search box so we can indicate (via tick boxes, perhaps) whether we're interested in Blinds, Farming, Filling or PLing? It seems these are the common things people put in the comments box, and what the people searching could do to know. It's awkward having to look through everybody one by one to see if they might even accept an invite, or whether they are suitable for your team.

I am always disappointed when I get invited to a team only to find it's a powerlevel or farm group. They clearly haven't read my comment.

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Work on the search/invite options is a definate /signed. Even if only to bring its annoyance factor to attention.

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yeap /signed

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Whilst I heartily agree to the search function being revamped, I will just ask this:

Do you honestly think the people that don't read your search box will give a damn to what your search flag is set to?

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Team Search please. If half-full teams could show up on a list showing their levels, leader and any attached comments that'd be excellent.

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Aye, leader of team and how many members would be nice to search on. And don't list em if they're on a TF.

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Aye, leader of team and how many members would be nice to search on. And don't list em if they're on a TF.

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Agreed

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Oh and actually see who is on the team would be nice too
Plus ability to hide from that search if you don't want more in team.

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but how about (after fixing it) changing the team search box so we can indicate (via tick boxes, perhaps) whether we're interested in Blinds, Farming, Filling or PLing?

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Unsigned.

Reason: NCNC don't really approve of these activities (and neither do I really, though people are free to waste their money however they wish, just don't bother me with it). If they add official game functionality flagging whether people wish to be contacted about these activities, then they are officially endorsing those activities.

I don't think I want to be part of the first game to actively state that Blind invites, Farming, Filling, and PLing are a part of the game officially sanctioned by the game's developers.

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/comment Team Leader X members

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/comment Team Leader X members

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And you expect people to update it each time a member leaves or join?

didn't think so.

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/comment Team Leader X members

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Nice idea. Don't think I've ever seen anyone do it though.

Plus since the /sea box is limited to 50 results it can often trim out half or more of people in your range, even if you filter to a 10 level range (so you won't see such leaders sometimes even if they did exist)

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I think he means that should be the system used.
As in, you send the invite, where you chose the comment. The game then tacks on who the leader is (normally you I if your sending invites) and how many members the team has.

If not, thats my new suggestion

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Well, LfM system /signed. I'm big fan of these and comments+"may I join your team" /tells just aren't the equivalent.

For one, for most people /slash commands binds and macros are all Greek, and even if someone would write "super team leader tray" with macros like
/macro T1 "comment Leader, 1 free space"
/macro T2 "comment Leader, 2 free spaces"
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/macro T7 "comment Leader, 7 free spaces"
/macro SL "comment ask $target for invites, not me"

etc.

most people still won't use it b/c it's not standard. (and that tray will take valuable screen space.)

(I'm not saying anything about people who, say, send someone a "may I join team" tells when $target isn't in any team and then send "ask your leader" in reply to "I'm soloing" )


The original suggestion... Well, let's not talk about THAT.

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I would dearly love to see a better search system implemented - it is painful asking every member of a team if there is space for a lvl xx defender to get a load of replies saying 'Sry team full' and you just know you have asked everyone on the same team

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I didn't make the / remark to be rude, just to present an option.

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I think it just requires the search applet to be a bit more intelligent:

When looking to join a team: Only show team leaders of joinable teams (ie ones not on TFs or with 8 members) and for all that is holy DONT truncate - or at least give the option. Give customisable level ranges. (trying to get a team at lvl 42-45 is made much more difficult with the current system.. all you get is a screen full of 50s, half a dozen 41-49s and the inevitable, "This list was truncated")

Make the default search option "Looking for Any". I'm sorry, this is a MULTI player game. If you want to solo fine, but frankly you're the odd ball, and so it's up to you to turn the option off if you want to play like that.

For team leaders looking to recruit: Again, customisable level ranges for people that can join the team (i.e. not already teamed, showing as afk, or teaming options flag set as prefering not to)

Have additional options to the ones we have to include things like RP or Badge Hunting (but NOT PL or Farming for precisely the same reasons Ravenswing mentioned).

Oh and have it ready for I14. It is called "Architect" and building a team is central to the game after all

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I'd prefer it if the invite automatically added the senders combat level. It still won't cure the problem of blinds but at least we'd have some sort of a clue as to what we might expect if we were to joint the team but yes the option to show only team leaders and team sizes gets a big /signed as well

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You know what...

If you could put something like "LFT" flag on, and the group leaders could put "invite any" flag on, then the game could automatically fill teams, perhaps?

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Is that not what WAR dose?

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And WoW.

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Aye but I've never seen anyone actually use the WoW one. Weird how different MMOs with the same tools end up being used differently (or ignored)

The WAR one is used and pretty handy though.

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The WoW one doesn't consider builds, so you end up with a team with a Paladin, a Druid, a Warrior, a Shaman and a Priest, and it turns out they're all specced for DPS and thus none of the five can (or, more accurately, none of them will) tank or heal.

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The WoW one isn't used simply because it's often too specific. When i played you could only set three options on what you wanted to do, you couldn't flag yourself as "wanna do any lvl 60 instant", you could only pick three instances, or three specific quests. Maybe changed now, dunno.

WoW used a global channel to find teams, which imo worked infinitaly much better. It's also pretty much the same thing we've come to use now. How many here really use the lfg tool to do a TF or such, most of us that i know use the global channels, like sals badgehunters or defiant events.

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