Form your own teams. Look for other lone players around your level with the Search function, send tells. Don't rely on broadcast in a game where most of the population is in instances.
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Learn to team? It's not that hard. I never have a shortage of team opportunities available whenever I want.|
Originally Posted by Caestus
I've played CoX for going on two years now. And never before have I had this problem: I can't find any teams. Just today I logged on my brute hoping to get in some missions for a while, only to find out no one in Cap au Diable wanted a level 17 brute on their team.
Why? They're all in AE, getting their powerleveling on, and didn't want to bother with a measly level 17 anything! I can't play this game solo anymore, it's just so gosh darned B O R I N G. AE is ruining this game for the people who want to team with fellow players. Is there a solution to my problem? |
* Use the team search tools.
* Join an active SG.
* Use your server's global channels. (These can be found in your server section here on the forum)
* Form your own teams.
* Make friends in-game. Find other players that like doing what you do, and global friend them.
As long as you are willing to put forth some effort, you will have no problems finding teams. If all you want to do is broadcast LFT, and hope someone will grab you up, you'll probably be disappointed.
While I agree with the whole "form your own team using all peoplefinding tools available"...
It's fricking impossible to get a team going Redside. Nobody is looking, nobody wants to join, nobody will join if asked. Add in that I don't want to have to do all the team leader crap EVERY time I play a villain, and it's downright painful.
I'm finally to the point where I want to complain about this ****. I can find teams or form teams heroside- it's not the easiest, but at least it's possible. Redside? Yeah, it was tough enough before AE came around, and now it's basically "throw yourself at crappy AE things or play your villains solo"
All the advice like "form your own team" is great and all, but it doesn't necessarily work.
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Please don't act as if this has never occurred before AE existed, it's not exclusive.
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Originally Posted by Caestus
I've played CoX for going on two years now. And never before have I had this problem: I can't find any teams. Just today I logged on my brute hoping to get in some missions for a while, only to find out no one in Cap au Diable wanted a level 17 brute on their team.
Why? They're all in AE, getting their powerleveling on, and didn't want to bother with a measly level 17 anything! I can't play this game solo anymore, it's just so gosh darned B O R I N G. AE is ruining this game for the people who want to team with fellow players. Is there a solution to my problem? |
When the update comes out that allows people to set their missions as if they were on an 8-mmeber team (i16 or Rogue, I can't recall which), teaming will probably go up some. Sure, some of those "padders" left out will be clueless AE babies, but they'll learn what's what after a bit. Or I could be wrong and things could get even worse.
Regardless, I know how OP feels, redside is tough, but I've been seeing this getting better, slowly. I'm on Freedom, Pinnacle and Virtue, my handle is the same as my forum name. Anyone can feel free to hit me up to see if I'm available.
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Originally Posted by Caestus
I've played CoX for going on two years now. And never before have I had this problem: I can't find any teams. Just today I logged on my brute hoping to get in some missions for a while, only to find out no one in Cap au Diable wanted a level 17 brute on their team.
Why? They're all in AE, getting their powerleveling on, and didn't want to bother with a measly level 17 anything! I can't play this game solo anymore, it's just so gosh darned B O R I N G. AE is ruining this game for the people who want to team with fellow players. Is there a solution to my problem? |
So what you are really complaining about is not that there are no teams available, but that YOU don't want join the teams that are available because YOU don't like how they are playing.
I don't like running AE missions myself, but I don't complain when my choices force me to play solo.
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Try soloing a Kin/Rad Defender.|
Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
So what you are really complaining about is not that there are no teams available, but that YOU don't want join the teams that are available because YOU don't like how they are playing.
I don't like running AE missions myself, but I don't complain when my choices force me to play solo. |
That should make for an entertaining thread.
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So...you mean people ARE teaming.|
Originally Posted by Caestus
I've played CoX for going on two years now. And never before have I had this problem: I can't find any teams. Just today I logged on my brute hoping to get in some missions for a while, only to find out no one in Cap au Diable wanted a level 17 brute on their team.
Why? They're all in AE, getting their powerleveling on, and didn't want to bother with a measly level 17 anything! |
They are Teaming in the AE :-)
Probably teaming more than ever before too! ^_^
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Originally Posted by Prof_Backfire
Try soloing a Kin/Rad Defender.
That should make for an entertaining thread. |
I'm actually leveling a kin/rad at the moment. I was wanting to do a Citadel TF, and was waiting for a tell to come in asking me to join. While waiting, I soloed. Not bad really, especially once I got fulcrum shift.
Then, I decided "why wait, make your own team!" Took me 30 minutes and thank goodness I had patient people, but with only 2 bites from my global channels, I finally went to search and sent mass tells. Had some people not respond, some not wanting to join, but I got my team going with the minimum amount. I looked for the standard ATs, a fender or two, a troller, couple of tanks and scrappers and a blaster, but settled for what I could get. Turns out that was the best team I've ever run Citadel with. Very few team wipes. It was beautiful.
TL;DR: Search is your friend. May take you a while and some people may not want to join, but even redside you can make a team with some effort.
BTW: AE is the latest FOTM to blame. Before it was Demon farms. Yes, it's difficult, but man, is it worth it. Most people wanting to team these days on any regular content is usually good at what they do.
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Originally Posted by Prof_Backfire
Form your own teams. Look for other lone players around your level with the Search function, send tells. Don't rely on broadcast in a game where most of the population is in instances.
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Don't be afraid to SK up lower players. If you find someone at your level to join you, you can now SK or Lacky up two other lowbies. This increases your team building potential. It may be useful if you have recall friend to port the lowbies who don't have travel powers, or will likely not survive the sprint to mission doors.
In addition to using the Search Function I also have a macro which broadcasts "Level x-ish team, running regular (NON-AE) missions. Looking for more teammates" As a macro I can easily edit it to repace the x with whatever level our team is running at.
"The one thing that can stop a full team of MasterMinds dead in its tracks... a doorway!" --Frogfather
I must say, as a newer player, this is what I find to be the most frustrating.
When I learn how to, I'll be more than happy to head up missions. With the number of people I see on chat typing "lvl x charactor LFT" you'd think it would be easy to throw teams together. Lastnight when I was asking for a team to join, there were three othere similar level ATs also looking for a team at the same time.
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I don't really understand why people hate forming their own teams. If there were three other people broadcasting at the same time for a similar-level team, that would have been a four-person team (which is fine in this game), and you could have all been off.|
Originally Posted by sydney
I must say, as a newer player, this is what I find to be the most frustrating.
When I learn how to, I'll be more than happy to head up missions. With the number of people I see on chat typing "lvl x charactor LFT" you'd think it would be easy to throw teams together. Lastnight when I was asking for a team to join, there were three othere similar level ATs also looking for a team at the same time. |
All it would have taken is for one of those four people to start inviting. Whenever I see that kind of thing, I start inviting, and it's amazing how fast a team will form.
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See, I feel that this is going to be a silly question, but I'll ask anyway.
After invites go out and the team comes together, how does the group leader select missions that go along with the level of people within the group? eg: selecting mission(s) in the sewers.
As in the case lastnight, I didnt want to start inviting people and then lead them into a mission where we all get wiped out inside of 20 seconds.
I also can't understand why so many people think it's not a team unless it's 6-8. I have more fun with 2-3 people than I do on full teams. (not directed at anyone)
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If the team is all around your level, then start off with your missions. Ask if anyone has missions they'd like to run. You can see the level of the mission in the mission list.
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Originally Posted by sydney
See, I feel that this is going to be a silly question, but I'll ask anyway.
After invites go out and the team comes together, how does the group leader select missions that go along with the level of people within the group? eg: selecting mission(s) in the sewers. As in the case lastnight, I didnt want to start inviting people and then lead them into a mission where we all get wiped out inside of 20 seconds. |
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The team leader (the person with the star) should invite people so that the group is composed mainly of a level range of +/- 4 levels, including those who are sidekicked. Usuall practice is for the team leader to select the missions from the highest level player on the team.
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Originally Posted by sydney
See, I feel that this is going to be a silly question, but I'll ask anyway.
After invites go out and the team comes together, how does the group leader select missions that go along with the level of people within the group? eg: selecting mission(s) in the sewers. As in the case lastnight, I didnt want to start inviting people and then lead them into a mission where we all get wiped out inside of 20 seconds. |
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
Thomas Jefferson
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You simply look at the mission list. Any missions that you and your teammates have will have a level number next to it, and the difficulty indicator. Then its a matter of learning what your team can handle. Take note of the level of mission your setting, and its difficulty. Try it out, see how the team handles it. Adjust as needed. |
Originally Posted by sydney
See, I feel that this is going to be a silly question, but I'll ask anyway.
After invites go out and the team comes together, how does the group leader select missions that go along with the level of people within the group? eg: selecting mission(s) in the sewers. As in the case lastnight, I didnt want to start inviting people and then lead them into a mission where we all get wiped out inside of 20 seconds. |
Keep in mind the level your teammates are. Example, you and another are level 17, you recruit 6 level 14s and do not SK/LK any of them up. Doing a level 17 mission on difficulty 1 will be very challenging. Most of your team will be under par. Team Wipes are likely. Doing a lvl 14 on difficulty 5, will give you foes around 16 maybe some 17s. This is survivable. But will be less xp for the lvl 17s on team.
Don't be timid about selecting missions. Communicate with your team. Ask your team if there is a specific mission they want to do. In most cases, they wont care, if there's xp in it, its all good.
"The one thing that can stop a full team of MasterMinds dead in its tracks... a doorway!" --Frogfather
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Because these threads are popping up daily now, I think Turg is correct.|
Originally Posted by Turgenev
IMO, it's a subversion of the community to sow dissent for when CO is released, as they hope to get people
into that game. I wouldn't be half surprised to see the complaints disappear a month after CO goes live, and our population remains about the same. And three months later, we get the CO refugees as they realize what a mistake they've done.  |
Here is a guide for those who aren't just sowing dissent.
(This post is a saved .txt file that I'm just going to copy and paste until these pointless threads go away.)
I've been playing blue-side all weekend and last week nearly every night. Every night I get 6-8 tells from random people asking me if I would like to join them for a TF, trial, random mission, some in the AE, some out, all without me even setting my flag to looking for team. Unfortunately I'm usually either forming a team with my SG, or just about to log off. I did get into a PUG ITF at one point which was a blast. Yes there are times that it can be difficult to form a team, but its not impossible if you try.
I'm aware that you're talking about red-side with probably a lower level toon than me, but it sounds like most of the people complaining about teams not being available are too picky on what they will do, I mean, are AE missions really THAT much different from the rest of the game that you can't stand them? No drops? You get tickets where you specify what type of drops you want, which I've made more money from than I did before. Level too fast? Turn of XP at a certain point. Too many unknowledgeable players? Help them out and teach them a few things. No players on your server? Re-roll on another, more popular server. The game is about the journey, not the end, so why is it so hard to start the journey over somewhere else especially if you aren't enjoying it where you're at. To much broadcast chatter? Leave AP/Cap and/or turn off broadcast or just ignore it all on your own, its not THAT intrusive.
I usually send out a broadcast saying I'm looking for a team, wait a minute if there are any responses, if no, I go run a solo mission. Repeat when I'm done with that. 90% of the time after a couple runs, I'm on a team. If not, and I'm bored with solo, I'll break down and try the AE which almost ALWAYS works. Luckily I'm also on an active SG, which we are always welcoming new people into so eventually enough of us are on to form a good 3-4 member SG team with maybe a few others. Occasionally I form my own team, but thats very rare because I just don't like being leader and having to cater to everyone's wants, so I usually only do with friends.
No, its not exactly the same as it was before the AE, but its not impossible to play as so many people are crying, though you may have to expand and change your play style and adapt. There are ways to deal with the 'problems' that AE has introduced and the others just seem so small and don't affect my enjoyment of the game much at all. But most of all, remember, this is a game.
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I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
Thomas Jefferson
Roll a tank. Learn HOW to tank. Use the search function.
People put good tanks on their friends lists and will look you up every chance they get.
Outside of AE, I have found its easy to find people for a TF. A little bit of work and your good to go. Whats missing is the random PUG's just doing missions. AE has taken that over for the most part.
What I miss is the PI AV arcs. People used to be doing those all the time, and dont anymore.
Maybe its just me but I find no difficulty finding teams red or blue side. I belong to my servers global channels and there is always something forming and a few people up to joining a team for missions or task forces. 1 or two people joining me is a great start and we pick up people as we go along.
I got tired of soloing after my first few months playing and started forming my own teams and never looked back. Its all about trial and error and communicating. I ask my teammates their opinions and if they have anything else they'd rather do. More often than not people are just content to go with the flow as long as there is xp involved and not too many team wipes.
Its all about being proactive. Once you start and people like the grouping experience you will get friend requests and people will be looking for you when they log in and asking to join whatever you got going on
Where are we going and Why am I in this Handbasket?
Since a lot of players hang out in Atlas/Cap, have you gone there to recruit for your teams? Some players will jump at the chance to leave the AE building and do regular content.
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Originally Posted by Prof_Backfire
Try soloing a Kin/Rad Defender.
That should make for an entertaining thread. |
I don't have a kin/rad def, but I am currently soloing:
An Earth/Emp Troller that only has Healing Aura
A Rad/Rad Def that only has Rad Infection, Enervating Field, Lingering Rad, and Choking Cloud
A Sonic/Sonic Def that only has Sonic Siphon and Sonic Dispersion
An FF/Energy Def that only has PFF, Force Bolt and Dispersion Bubble
And a Kin/Ice Def that only has Siphon Power, Repel, and Siphon Speed
My first 50 is a Kin/Psy Blast Def that only took Siphon Power, Repel, Siphon Speed, Inertial Red, Transferance, and Fulcrum Shift. It took me 2 1/2 years to reach level 50 soloing.
I'm trying to make these alts with no support buffs or as few as possible unless the system doesn't allow me a choice.
I've played CoX for going on two years now. And never before have I had this problem: I can't find any teams. Just today I logged on my brute hoping to get in some missions for a while, only to find out no one in Cap au Diable wanted a level 17 brute on their team.
Why? They're all in AE, getting their powerleveling on, and didn't want to bother with a measly level 17 anything!
I can't play this game solo anymore, it's just so gosh darned B O R I N G. AE is ruining this game for the people who want to team with fellow players. Is there a solution to my problem?