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*reads the thread*







*points to the PuG guide in his signature*


If you still can't get a FULL team together in LESS than a half an hour after reading that guide....

...then you should send me a PM on these boards with a time and place that you want me to meet you in-game and I'll form the damn team for you and show you that it's not as hard as you're making it out to be.

I wonder if anyone would take me up on that, or if they'd rather sit outside of the game and keep complaining instead?

Had some experiences on both sides on Virtue, recently. Put together teams of 8 for the first Midnighters arc and a Hess TF quite quickly within the past few weeks. On the other hand, I've also had a few experiences of failing to stir up much interest, especially villainside--telling two global channels, sending people tells, broadcasting, the whole deal.

There's little doubt on my end that running PUGs has gotten far trickier in the last few months. Used to be I could just throw up my LFG flag and shout that I wanted a team for about 10 minutes in order to get a team on my tanks and defenders. That stopped working, so I joined the LFG channel... which stopped working, so I started leading teams... Leading teams still works for me more often than not, but I don't like the way the trend is going. It's at least gotten to be enough of a pain in the butt to form one that I've temporarily stopped playing support.

This has become City of Wallflowers, that's just not going to change. If you want to be on a team, you'll have to change with it, and lead.

I really need to alter/update my guide to make it more general....

I do feel your pain in this,Caestus.I do wish things would change,and teams would become easier to form and to join,but unfortunately you are dealing with people who will find a way to make it your fault that you cannot find a team.

Like its your fault that they say no to your team invites all the time,you know?

When you work with things on your end to fix the problem,like the players suggest,they still say no.

In the end,you arent the one at fault.Good luck trying to get them all to see it.Blood from a Stone type deal,you know?

there were tons of farming before AE but AE made it easier to farm. If u like tf teams id suggest signing up on the freedon channel of the forum for the monday and wednesday tf's hosted by mr. e and luna de nocturne. if u have toons on freedom server this is a fuin way to get on a team

I'm on the "form your own team" camp... and at the same time I can sympathize with people who don't want to do it, because I don't like to either.

It's not like forming a team is as easy as inviting people and fighting. You can't move at your own pace anymore (i.e., I sometimes have to AFK every few minutes,; as a teammate there's always downtime during which I can do that, as a leader I have to recruit, select missions, etc. ), you have to cater to what other folks want to do, sometimes you get into arguments or get blamed ; there's about one hundred reasons I could list but basically it comes down to this : when I load up a video game, it's not for socializing, but blowing stuff up.

I like playing with players, but I'd rather not deal with the people behind the players unless I absolutely have to. As a teammate, I don't. As a team leader, I do.

That being said, I know I'm the problem - and that applies to everyone who complains about not enough people to team. Accept your lazyness and either do something about it or don't annoy everyone else with it.

I was able to form a quick 3 man team on Triumph yesterday in Outbreak to do the Isolator Badge. Easy to do and faster to get the badge.