Teaming Incentive

I am simply proposing a series of very enticing and desired rewards you can acquire simply by teaming.Whether it be accolades,or badges,or something that the players have been dying to have in-game.I think this method might see people teaming more,and not doing one of the following..

1)Hang out at Pocket D
2)..or ask for more time to complete a mission before they join your team.That does suck so much,and it makes me mad.It's as though they think that you are going to wait on them,as well as the team too.

Would you like to expand on this more with details? Otherwise, this is coming off as a rant instead of suggestion to the game.

Teaming already gives lots of benefits, say like faster kill speed or access to S/TFs and trials. You can get badges in missions and S/TFs and trials, as well as accolades like TFC.

Also, who is hanging out in PD and why? Could they be with their friends or doing PvP matches?
And why can't you just start your team, run missions, and invite a player after they finish their mission? If you are teaming for a period time, it would definitely be longer than the completion of one mission that is already in progress. It would be frustrating to me, at least, to be 75% done on a mission in a very large map and asked to join a team, knowing you will have to do it all over again.

With SSK, you also get Mentor badges whenever the team's doing your missions, too, so you also get badges along with everything else PennyPA mentioned.

There's really not much to do to make teaming more valuable without also breaking the game. Rather, I think making FORMING teams easier is the way to go.

Say, you know how you can set your flag to "Looking for Anything/Missions" etc etc, so you'll always show up on top on search lists? Imagine a search list for teams instead. The team leader flags their team as looking for members for whatever they're doing and players will know who to send tells if they wanna join a team that's, say, already in an instance and therefore outside of broadcast range.

Or, on that note, make a new channel like broadcast, except the new one will reach reach even to instances. Of course, it would also need to be part of the initial, un-edited chatbox, complete with a fancy button to be immediately able to type in that channel. Definitely DO NOT bury the channel under other channels and don't even allude to its existence like the AE channel.

At the end of the day, though, CoX is played by humans, and it'll always be down to luck whether you can find 20 teams a day or go 20 days without anyone wanting to teaming up with you. That's the nature of the beast, especially with an MMO as soloable as this one.

Woah! Deja vu!

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

The sliding scale upto a 2.5 times XP/inf multiplier seems like a strong enough incentive to me.

This sounds familiar....even in the same voice I believe.

The extra xp one can get on a team is all the incentive that is needed. People are going to do their own thing and that's their choice. No reason to get upset by people doing what they want to do when they want to do it...be it hanging out in the D or just asking for a few extra minutes to take care of something.

so how many times are we going to have to go through this with you samson? people do not want to team all the time. get that through your head already. if the game was purely focused on teaming then maybe, but IT IS NOT. get yourself some global friends that feel the same as you do and you will never have a problem with teaming.

OK. I have a great idea..

Let's increase the amount of XP you get for teaming.
Allow people to take on higher level foes than they normally would.
Increase the spawn size.
Increase their kill-speed.
Make special mission arcs that can only be played by teams.
Make badges that can only be obtained through teaming

I think those would make excellent incentives for teaming, don't you?


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I guess I should clarify the intent of the sentence you quoted Memphis_Bill. I was trying to make the point that he should move on to a brand new suggestion thread, hopefully with a different topic and a detailed suggestion. The problem is that the tone of the OP's post is innappropriate for making a suggestion.

Since this is the suggestions forum, I suggest that he start over in this thread stating the exact incentives he suggests be added for teaming and not make comments about what he does or does not like people doing with their time. The fact that he doesn't like people finishing their mission before joining his team or that he doesnt like people hanging out in pocket d should never have been brought up.

Of course even if he does start over it will unlikely change my opinion as I have no problems with teaming as it is.

TL DR version: Thank you for pointing out the flaw in my previous post Memphis_Bill. I have now revised the sentence into the paragraphs above.

OP: There are plenty of incentives to team already, and no one liked this suggestion the last time you brought it up. Stop taking offense at perfectly normal and understandable behavior. Your problems are largely self-induced--No one wants to team with someone who is hypersensitive and impatient. You catch more flies with honey--if you want people to team with you, smile and bring cookies. I tend to bake sugarcookies for my teams.

BBQ_Pork: Your sig really caught my eye--Someone told you that you were "as funny as cancer"? What is wrong with people? And you deleted all the blueside chars on your homeserver due to "popular request"? That's pretty cold stuff. If more than one person told me to delete all my characters, I would be pretty upset. I'm hoping there's more to the story, or that you're making a joke that I'm too dense to get right away.

Mais non, pas encore...

It's not a good idea and will never be a good idea no matter how many times you post it.

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