rather than teams, to address the problem you have abacab.. just auto-guild ppl when they start out. every level 1 gets auto-guilded into either a regional, race, deity, whatever kind of team i dont care. it can be just 1 guild across the entire server even for all i care.
that way ppl can make friends and start out with pre-made "friends" if they are new. and find other ppl they want to group with across the land by just typing "/gu hey guys anyone want a level 8 warrior?"
if you don't like your "team" (guild) then leave. these guilds might just remain newb guilds where players can meet eachother, or i could also even see some ppl staying in their original team guild and trying to make it a raid force.
but give ppl freedom, not forced "friends"
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EDIT: i take back the part about these pre-made guilds raiding. it is possible, but then they may have spies within their guild that they cannot boot out, because in this type of a guild there would be no guild officer/leader to kick them out. they would be un-killable till they left of their own choice. not good.
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