how to team these days

I admit, for the past, maybe, 3 of the 5 years I have played this game, most teaming was done with global friends. I would occasionally get into a PUG (sometimes blind invite even), but that was a rare thing.

I learned over this (horrible) double XP weekend that I don't think I know how to get on teams any longer. I put up my LFT flag, and tried this on several servers (even Freedom), and I get nothing at all. I announce over broadcast LFT - and still nothing. I have in my LFT flag - something like no farm and no PL teams. (This can't be it, can it?!)

For those of you looking for a PUG, and don't want to lead or form it yourself - what do you do to get on a team?

(shameless self-bump)

No one has any helpful advice?

I do the same.... the LFT flag up and periodic announcing. If nobody bites, then I happily solo. It's just that when I finally choose to solo, I usually get a /tell or invite response just when I arrive at my door mish. *sigh*

Oddly enough, I have been invited to teams more often when I don't have my LFT flag up than when I don't, it even happened this weekend when I was checking out a toon that had been parked awhile and was going to work on his enhancements/sets.

My Stalkers used to never get invites, period. Now they keep getting requests to join Barracuda SF teams (most certainly just because of that one temp power) that I keep turning down anyways as I have no interest in that crap SF.

1. Stand somewhere near the train/ferry in your favorite zone. This works best if it's a high traffic area.

2. Juggle.


I'm constantly amazed how well this works.

Usually just ask on global for a team or if need be send tells to folks and hope to get offered a team. I generally have very little prob getting teams still do it the old fashioned way of also flagging myself lft.

I work my arcs and if folks my level range send me a tell or on b/cast i generally invite them. I never bother with MA so is always arc missions i be doing.

Sometimes you just have to take matters in hand, and start the team yourself.

I set my flag to LFT, put "NO FARMS" in the search comment, and usually get team invites all the time. However, I also monitor several global channels and join whatever gets announced there; you may want to find the most active global channels in your server and join them.

Flag up, peroidic broadcast messages in zones the level range I need in, and I always try to work in level, AT and powersets if it isn't obvious.

And then, the magic ingredient.

Humour and light-heartedness. For example:

"Rushmore.: Level x Tanker looking for a team! I'm blue, I'm true, I'll take damage for you."

"Rushmore.: Invite Rushmore, the level x stone tanker to your team, and you'll get Liberty, Justice and apple pie. (Rushmore may not come with apple pie. No cash alternatives.)"

"Rushmore.: Freedom fries? Pah, how about Freedom Force! Rushmore (With only x levels of stone tanking fat!) is part of a good, balanced buttkicking."

How to team!
By Perfect Pain <3


Open up the /SEARCH function and start looking for people NOT GRAYED OUT, that have the light blue colored names in my general level range and start sending tells.

Hi, I am starting a team for levels X-X (never spread farther than 3 levels). I am NOT running AE missions, You will get real drops this way NOT TICKETS. Want to join?

or

Hi, Want to join my farm? All I ask is you stand next to the door and do nothing. When I say reset GTHO so I can reset as soon as possible. Want in?

Never have ever had a problem getting a team together for anything.

So what... My little guide wasn't helpful enough?

I don't ever give up the star, and sometimes I am especially Bit**y and when people ask for the star... I kick them to show my EVIL POWER MUAH HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

rawr

Read the PuG TF guide in my sig, just use it to form normal teams. Then you'll never be teamless.

Broadcasting is near useless. This is a multi-zone, heavily instanced game, people are rarely around to see it if they're teaming.

Use the Search function.

One thing I look for when I'm scraping together a PuG, a not-idiotic-looking name. If your name is .Killa, atwork, HELLBLAST3R. You have zero chance of ending up on my PuG. This might sound petty, but it's my PuG and I call the shots here.

//Jack

I just flag as looking for any on teams menu. also put on broadcast that i'm looking. also watch chat window for any that fit my needs. i created my character today a healer and no solo fighting. i have gotten in enough groups to reach lvl 21 last group before server shut down was great and plan on working with them tonight.

Use /sea and the LFG flags. Works villainside.

I'm slowly learning that Broadcasting just isn't worthwhile. I've met some success, usually in Steel Canyon, when I run the Midnighter Arc for the ump-teenth time. But, for the most part, I don't get much.

To be fair, I usually form teams in the 10-20 range, since I've got a lot of lowbie alts. It seems to me that a lot of people are levelling past this range via AE.

Still, I've got to try using the Search and sending Tells more often. It seems that is the most effective way, since it's direct communication. I just got to get over the notion that sending tells to someone who isn't "Looking For Any" is rude. I need to remember that most players don't even change their flags at all.

And sometimes, none of the above works.

You can ask on all channels until blue in the face and nobody answers, whether you are starting a team or looking to join one. It can very well be that people in the particular level range you're looking for are mostly farming AE.

I tried starting AE teams - that's never a problem. You get twenty tells in five seconds.

Regular teams, though... it's painful to the extreme. It's the worst when you get one other poor schmuck who, like yourself, believes in doing content and then... NOTHING. And the two of you stand there looking at each other like it's a date gone bad.

It's in the mail Laz.


//Jack