A better way to join teams...

[_____________StarBob]

Shouting "*level* *profession* LFG" is becoming old. There could be a better way to join teams much faster and thus make gameplay more action and less sitting and waiting. My idea would be to make a menu or an access terminal that lists all the teams within your level range or a specified levle range that are in your area. Once you find one you want to join you can send a request as well as your shift-click information. This will make teams much much easier to create and get into. This would be an excellent thing to implement... If there's any questions I can answer them, I have this all planned out in my mind

[delsabre]

Yay!! We want global clan/omni-tek/neutral recruitment boards instead of those stoneage chat channels

*click(signed up as looking for more)*

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Looking for team:
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Team 1 in Tir: [join request]
name lvl prof
name lvl prof
name lvl prof
name lvl prof
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Team 2 in West Athens: [join request]
name lvl prof
name lvl prof
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Then the team is automatically removed when full, or by team leader typeing a comming like /remove for instance or when the entire team has left the zone, great idea StarBob :P

[__________Wraith God]

This is a cool idea, but it needs to have all the features that people make use of. In particular, you will need options to indicate what profs the team is looking for, what sort of activity (hunting/missions) the team wants to do, maybe even specify a minimun time, so people don't leave half way through, indicate whether the team is restricted to twinks or experienced players, and finally have space for a descriptive text so people can add anything else they think is imporant.

[_Bonk_]

I like DAOCs method of looking for a group with their automated thing. I think Funcom should do something similar with their game. After all its supposed to be far, far in the future. They would have better ways to comunicate than just shouting. I would think they could use the grid(their version of the internet I guess) to link up with people for grouping

[_____________StarBob]

*bump*... yet another self bump I must do to keep my great ideas flowing.

[Blackwing]

Originally posted by Bonk
I like DAOCs method of looking for a group with their automated thing. I think Funcom should do something similar with their game. After all its supposed to be far, far in the future. They would have better ways to comunicate than just shouting. I would think they could use the grid(their version of the internet I guess) to link up with people for grouping

what does daoc do?

oh and btw i was always miffed that you could not access the lfg channels in the grid since that is the only place i do not crash alot in

i like the general idea but am against all the suggested bells and whistles.

a pop up window with currently searching groups would be nice but that is about all that is needed, else you only lead people to wait for the perfect group and leave the gimped professions out in the cold even more then nowadays.

consider the professions that have the brick walls to repeatadly bash into until they become decent to ok, nobody would pick them if you could log in and tell the lfgbot "assemble me a perfect team".

[Nival]

ack your asking to much funcom doesent like to re-code :P


im kidding its a great idea

[________________Enri]

Such a task would require the server to catalog all of the teams and the supplementary information, not to mention parse it every time someone requests a team, hence taxing the server more. Now its a pretty trivial load for the server, but they're not exactly working at 100% efficiency. It would be like holding a drowning baby's head underwater.

[_____________StarBob]

Originally posted by Enri
Such a task would require the server to catalog all of the teams and the supplementary information, not to mention parse it every time someone requests a team, hence taxing the server more. Now its a pretty trivial load for the server, but they're not exactly working at 100% efficiency. It would be like holding a drowning baby's head underwater.

While there is a possibility that this will slow the servers, you must also look at the positive side. Not only will this be a great idea but will decrease server lag. People will no longer have to congregate in places like tir and such and lag the servers there. By the way, most of the lag in the game doesn't come from the servers but from the load of textures it has to load for each individual person and the polygons, funcom said that themselves. That's why they're making the crowd control patch. I'm sure that the positive outcome would much outweigh the negative and people would sacrifice a few frames per second to be able to join a team in a couple minutes rather than 10 or 20.

[____________Edvieira]

Why not have the LFT bot post in ALL areas, like the omnibot does?

That way you can just turn it off when youre not lft, and turn it on when you are.

Please correct me if I'm wrong

[________________Enri]

Originally posted by StarBob


While there is a possibility that this will slow the servers, you must also look at the positive side. Not only will this be a great idea but will decrease server lag. People will no longer have to congregate in places like tir and such and lag the servers there. By the way, most of the lag in the game doesn't come from the servers but from the load of textures it has to load for each individual person and the polygons, funcom said that themselves. That's why they're making the crowd control patch. I'm sure that the positive outcome would much outweigh the negative and people would sacrifice a few frames per second to be able to join a team in a couple minutes rather than 10 or 20.

Don't get me wrong, it would be a good feature and probably control crowds, but try telling that to those LAZY programmers

[_____________StarBob]

Yeah but if the interface were better in this game it would make it much easier for new people to come to the game.

[_____________StarBob]

*bump*

[Whiteboog]

good idea
ive had an idea to do with the teams as well and rather than make a new thread it hink it would be better here.

How about there is a whole new team system. Where each member of the team is actually assigned a roll (mezzer healer tank puller) then each member of the team would get xp based on their roll (as well as normal xp) so if a puller pulls a mob then he gets a bit of extra xp and for every heal a docor does he also gets some. This would also make things a little easier because a marker could be placed on the head of whoever the puller is attacking (also an "/assist puller" button could be made). Im not really bothered about the little details but just the basic idea that each team member is given a role which they choose upon entering the team (if anyone ever played team fortress classic youll know what i mean).