I've never played a game that limited cross-faction communication before, and I absolutely HATE having it limited like this. I've always been able to chat with my friends and plot /oocly with my enemies and it's been wonderful. A lot of my friends want to play Republic and sure, I'll have an alt there eventually, but not right now and to not even be able to send a /tell to my friend asking where they want to hang out is not fun. That I would have to alt-tab out of the game to talk to a friend is ridiculous. I'd like to at least have mutual friends-list tells, cross-faction player-created channels, and emotes freely open. That would solve a number of my current problems. Cross-server communication would be excellent as well if you are talking about friends-lists and player-created channels... that was a massive boon to planning in my last game.