More and more I've just been making my own teams lately. It seems like when I make my own teams there's a higher probablity of the team being really good 
Haven't really gotten into the public channels much. With broadcast now being a pretty horrible medium nowadays for grouping I've mostly been sending individual tells to people across all zones and that works well for the most part. I do agree about including the player's name in your whisper. Using a bind it's as easy as $target 
I did join a couple public channels on Freedom but I'm kind of apprehensive to play on that server for a little while due to me making a complete idiot of myself (only I would manage to do something like that in one night...). I was trying to get in on this conversation in one channel but was sending all my messages to the other. This went on for about 10 minutes before I realized what I was doing (was running a TF at the time so wasn't really paying attention to chat). Everyone in the one channel was like "what's this guy talking about?". I was so embarrassed I don't even wanna get back on Freedom for a while xD
I'm actually wondering, how do you guys set up your chat if you're in multiple global channels? Do you put them on separate chat tabs so you can keep them separated, or do you keep them all on the same tab so you don't miss anything? Actually a smarter move might be to make each channel have separate chat colors so I can tell them apart. Can't believe I didn't think of that before my "I'm an idiot" episode >_<
The door and the hunt are repeatable. Just the 'intro' mission from her is not.
ATs to 50 - TA/A Def, Nrg/Nrg Blaster, EM/EA Brute, WS,ELM/ELA Stalker