Team Builder Deluxe! Coming soon?
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CoyoteShaman,
Posted on: 2010-07-13 20:42 in Suggestions and Ideas
This would certainly be one good way to retool the City Terminals into something useful.
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We have no idea how they are going to do it, but the Devs have said they are working on a system to make teaming easier. Who knows, maybe it will be something similar to this.
Or maybe something completely different 
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Originally Posted by DarkGob
This would certainly be one good way to retool the City Terminals into something useful.
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Perhaps the moment you set yourself to "Looking For Team" or "Looking for Trial," you will be automatically placed onto a team (regardless of level - yikes!) that has designated as being a team of that nature (running missions, patrol, strike-forces, etc.)
That would be BAD! It has to be a separate, optional system.
Dec out.
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Originally Posted by Decorum
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I...saw something I shouldn't have and am not talking. Feel free to be encouraged, though.
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I...saw something I shouldn't have and am not talking. Feel free to be encouraged, though.
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And I'm encouraged.
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Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha
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Darn right! I really hate the forced teaming STO has, because mooches use it to power level. They join other players missions without asking and then camp at the entrance/spawn point while other people do all the work so they can grab the end mission bonus for easy xp.|
Originally Posted by Decorum
That would be BAD! It has to be a separate, optional system.
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Nothing turns people anti-social faster than forcing them to team with people they didn't go looking for.
Sometimes I feel they should force people to automatically set to LFT so they consciously have to turn it off instead. More then not you have many people LFT all over the game but never really put themselves LFT. Or have a button that allows you to personally set if you want to be LFT when your not in a team. Every time I log in, it is the first thing I do is put myself LFT. Even my comments says always LFT.
Lets hope it does get introduced with GR or I16 as someone posted.
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Just to note...nope. I'm not in the beta. What I saw was here (a post mistakenly on the wrong board) which was quickly removed. Just "fair play" NDA of my own. |
CoyoteShaman is close: M'thinks Decorum is wondering dangerously close to an NDA cliff. |
Dec out.
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I.E. the old leak that got posted on Live by someone who either didn't know he was in Beta or somehow mistook his Beta client for his Live client (it's an easy mistake to make, actually). It's probably a safe bet that we shouldn't talk about it considering it was deleted pretty short-order, and it spoke of a non-functional system, anyway.|
Originally Posted by Decorum
Just to note...nope. I'm not in the beta. What I saw was here (a post mistakenly on the wrong board) which was quickly removed. Just "fair play" NDA of my own.
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I highly suspect that an auto-team feature like they have in WoW could only help the game. It would go a long way to shut people up that they can't find teams, and it might make the game feel much more populated if every time you went "I want to be on a team right about now!" the computer replied "OK! You're on a team right about now! Enjoy!" Ease of access and cutting out the middle man would help team-minded people a LOT.
Interestingly, it would help anti-social dicks like me, as well. I don't tend to join many teams in City of Heroes because if I play with people, I want to play with people, not mute bots who just need another set of hands at the keyboard. Teaming by person-to-person communication is personal, and as such I'm unlikely yo bother. Teaming via soulless auto-team robot, on the other hand, is impersonal, and I would be very much convinced to use it as a regular tool. If I join a team in such a way, I won't care much for socialising with my team-mates. I'll just worry about grabbing some experience and not getting dead.
It's a lot like teaming in your run-of-the-mill online FPS game, like Battlefield 2142 that I keep bringing up. In that game, I can team without a qualm, but I view the rest of my team as background noise. We try to work together, but we don't try to greet each other. That sort of system will make pick-up groups a LOT easier to run with, because they'll be a lot easier to swap in and out of.
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
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While I agree with all this from Sam's point of view, I also agree with it from the reverse. It would make it much easier for social groups to find social people as well.
I think it's just all the way around a great idea for helping everyone.
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Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha
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Hey, check out this. Either scroll down to the middle of the very long page or do a content search on it for "recruit". Looks perfect and it's already built by NCSoft and active in an NCSoft game.
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I hear ya. It's amazing how many people are apparently looking for teams, but they don't change their status when they log on. I smack myself upside the head when I discover I forgot to change my status to "Looking for Any". I think they have to have tio keep "Not looking" as default because recruiters would waste a lot of time inviting people who didn't want or weren't ready to be on a team. I guess the people who forget to change their status are the ones that make it easier for the rest of us to stand out when team leaders are looking.|
Originally Posted by plainguy
Sometimes I feel they should force people to automatically set to LFT so they consciously have to turn it off instead. More then not you have many people LFT all over the game but never really put themselves LFT. Or have a button that allows you to personally set if you want to be LFT when your not in a team. Every time I log in, it is the first thing I do is put myself LFT. Even my comments says always LFT.
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If they implemented something like this, I think auto-accept should also be an option. I hate it when I get my screen filled up with Wentworths ad Recipes and Salvage (Turning the volume down to so I can think), then clear it all away to find a team invite I didn't see and is no longer valid because "my" spot is now filled (probably by someone who JUST logged on).
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I actually had this idea a long time ago, but my account was screwed up for years and I was never able to log on to the forums and eventually stopped trying.|
Originally Posted by Kiken
We have no idea how they are going to do it, but the Devs have said they are working on a system to make teaming easier. Who knows, maybe it will be something similar to this.
Or maybe something completely different |
Now that I've finally been able to share the idea, the devs will probably scrap whatever they were working on and implement my concept instead.
Just kidding.
Be interesting to see what they come up with. Whatever it is, I'm ready for it if it helps those of us who find the existing process kind of grueling sometimes.
You may be one of the majority of players who loves being on a team, but are are more comfortable having someone else lead it and select the missions. To get onto one of those teams, you have to rely on the limited, human perception of the team leader and the rough recruiting tools at his/her disposal. It sucks boogers when you have been diligently advertising your desire to get onto a team for almost an hour, and someone else with a similar build who just logged on gets invited right away because you didn't advertise at the exact moment the leader was looking to fill a slot.
Well, no more my friend! Introducing the Team Builder Deluxe! Now, you simply need to log onto on of our kiosks and register your desire to be placed on a team. Indicate what kind of team you desire and how many hours you expect to stay online. Desire to be on a balanced team, with a wide variety of archetypes? Won't play without a tanker or defender? Want to be a team leader? Don't care? Check all that apply, then simply wait. The Team Builder Deluxe will assemble a team based on your criteria, invite all the players automatically, including the team leader. If someone logs off, the leader simply queues the Team Builder to provide another one, based on whomever is next in line/is the appropriate archetype, etc. Dc'd? Return to the game within 3 minutes and your spot will be waiting for you. If it takes you longer than 3 minutes, just back into our kiosk when you do return and you'll be reinvited to the same team the first time someone leaves.
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Do you all think this would work? I would love to just log on, register to be invited, then wait for my invite to pop up. I think this would be especially useful on some the lighter servers, where I sometimes have to log off in frustration because my character wasn't able/ready to solo yet and I couldn't get invited to a team. Imagine a server where only 8 people currently logged on want to be on a team and the Builder brings them altogether very quickly. Chime in with your thoughts or refinements, please.