Idiocy in your /Search note

I believe my current message is "Blind invite me if you'd like your testicles sauteéd".

You'd be amazed how few blind invites come my way.

One of my /kins has the message "I do not have Speed Boost." So far, no flack for not having it... but seriously, with the name Captain Slow, you should have been able to guess.

Some amusing answers in there, and a whole lot of ridiculous posturing and The Usual Garbage.

I'd expand upon that paragraph a lot, but that wouldn't really achieve anything for the vast majority of players, because they're not playing the game with people outside of their clique these days, and that, dear readers, is the BIGGEST problem this game faces.

So I'll only expand on it a bit. This is just my opinion, it doesn't need to be argued, disagreed or agreed upon by others, it's simply my opinion and the rationale behind that opinion.

Those people who are set to "SG only" in their search comments, (known quantity, only play with 'good' players, yada yada yada), there are many other 'good' players out there, that they will never meet. There are a lot of poor players too, and that can be annoying (I should know, I've played with most of 'em). But to limit yourself to SG only, that's really very very sad.

I reckon the reason people still put in 'my level or higher' is because they're still of the firm belief that getting levels -faster- is somehow more fun or something; they're also the kind of people who don't like to help others, and fail to see the obvious corollary -- if you're playing with people HIGHER than yourself, then you're abusing your own rule because it advantages you. You won't team with 'lower level' people but you'll happily team with 'higher level people'. Leechers do this. Socially maladroit scumbags do this. A lot of CoH players with 'my level or higher' in their search comment are self-labelling themselves as players I don't want to play with, it's a good thing.

I think I'll have to put in more interesting search comments, like "if are braindeath on a stick, then please avoid playing with me", I'm sure that will raise hackles across the board.

I put "I don't take blind invites" in all of mine. I've found that if a person can't be bothered to send a tell, the team most likely will not stick together for long. I wont even touch the fact that I've gotten more debt from the blind invite teams than I have from any other. I don't care if I level fast, I just don't like getting beat down because the team doesn't work well together.

This was posted in the 'Rude Tells' thread many moons ago and I always thought it would make an interesting Search Note.

"If you say 'plz' instead of 'please' because it it shorter, I will sa 'No' instead on 'Yes' because it is shorter."

Grin.

In my search notes I have "No teaming because I get lost easily, and I can't type fast"

The slow typing sounds funny, but, I have been accused of being snobby and stuck up because I can't type fast enough to both fight and join in on team conversations at the same time

Lisa.

My usual search comment is "Maybe". Oddly I almost never get blind invites when I use it. I don't understand why, but there you go...

Except on my pirate themed controller whose search comment is always "'Troller for sail"

Sure today is the first day of the rest of your life. But so was yesterday. And look how that turned out.

I'll put "teams my level or higher" if I'm not interested in losing access to powers - which is most of the time. Not gaining XP was only part of the reason I never liked Exemping.

With my level 50 characters I'm liable to put a message like "40+ only" or whatever minimum level I'm comfortable with.

The only odd thing I put into my listings is "No Duos Please". I've just had way too many bizarre and bad experiences in duo pugs. Its like Murphy Brown trying to find an administrative assistant, or Mary Tyler Moore's Marry Richards trying to get a date: I always seem to find the crazy ones. A team, even as simple as three, seems to increase productive and fun conversation, and mitigate disasters and mistakes.

I use the "Not Accepting Invites" setting on my (Bots/FF) MM, but just in case it slips off, I put "Petless Trick Arrow" down.