Attilious Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 Im sure its been said before but we need an LFG tool one that groups you with people automatically who are also in the queue essentially just copy wow's or rift i dont care. No one uses the LFG channel and if they do there just lfg no comment on what they want etc. I didnt pay 80 dollars to go back to the days of EQ1 dungeons and shouting in chat for a group that system is old and outdated. do it for the love of the sith please put in a LFG tool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ndru Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 I've formed a group within seconds, there are enough people playing..finding a group is not an issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronnypp Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 just go into general chat and you should be good to go. I've always just used that and found a group within minutes. And yes, it's been stated. They've said that they want people to make their own groups for now but will eventually add in a group finder when things settle down a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ganhob Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 just go into general chat and you should be good to go. I've always just used that and found a group within minutes. And yes, it's been stated. They've said that they want people to make their own groups for now but will eventually add in a group finder when things settle down a bit. ^This Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lolkin Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 yeah its the year 2011 /2012 lfg tool would be great its there for pvp why not pve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kemiho Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 I've formed a group within seconds, there are enough people playing..finding a group is not an issue. This! What I really like about the game is the amount of helpful players . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xioix Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 There is one in the game but ppl don't even notice it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xioix Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 Also, what's funny is sometimes a player will go "tank LFG HS" and then someone else will say: "need a tank for HS then g2g" and this will go back and forth for minutes at a time and neither one wants to make the first move to msg the other. ppl are weird. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turando Posted December 19, 2011 Share Posted December 19, 2011 No. No. No. LFG helped people ruin their own communities and turned players into self-entitled, lazy, and rude players. There is such a thing as too much convenience. The only thing I would favor is automatic transportation to the entrance once it's been discovered already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nylyan Posted December 19, 2011 Share Posted December 19, 2011 (edited) Noticed a similar thing today, alot of people were going back and forth about LFG for Mandalorian raiders, <insert roles here> So obviously I just said, LFM for Mandalorian raiders, need all. Boom, 10 whispers at once. Edited December 19, 2011 by Nylyan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thundermace Posted December 19, 2011 Share Posted December 19, 2011 Im sure its been said before but we need an LFG tool one that groups you with people automatically who are also in the queue essentially just copy wow's or rift i dont care. No one uses the LFG channel and if they do there just lfg no comment on what they want etc. I didnt pay 80 dollars to go back to the days of EQ1 dungeons and shouting in chat for a group that system is old and outdated. do it for the love of the sith please put in a LFG tool Yes! It's not 2005 anymore, and a "Flashpoint Finder" tool would be nice. Saying that it ruins communities is ridiculous, of course. People who won't talk to each other when an LFD tool is released won't talk to each other now, so nothing is lost. In any case, here's the deal: Bioware is going to release a version of WoW's LFD tool at some point (because people want it and it's useful); you know it, and I know it, and all of the crying in the world isn't going to stop it. So let's just put it out now and be done with it. People won't leave over the addition of the LFD tool (no, you won't), but people might leave over the absence of it. And when I say "leave," I don't mean that they'll quit in a fit of anger; I mean that they'll simply just return to the games that are more polished and complete. To all of you people who are saying "good riddance": I'm sorry, but you need those people; your own subscription is not enough to keep the game in business. There is no patience out there to allow a new game time to develop. There is no patience, because there is no NEED for patience; there is already a game out there that has all of these tools that are now perceived to be "basic." WoW is like your spouse of 25 years: you're not blown away by them anymore, but you are comfortable with them. You may have an affair once in a while, but how many people actually make it 25 years with their spouse, and then dump them for someone new? Not many. Everybody gets one month of free play time, so Bioware has exactly one month to convince people to give up the game that they know, the characters that they have had for years, the friends that they have made, etc. and persuade them to move to SWTOR. And yes, so sorry, a Looking For Flashpoint tool is a requirement for that. So are UI-customizing mods, but that's a subject for a different thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ilerii Posted December 19, 2011 Share Posted December 19, 2011 Please , Do NOT! add this tool, it sucks. after that anything u see in the world is people running from point a @ capital city to point B which is auction house Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaoticheart Posted December 19, 2011 Share Posted December 19, 2011 Adding a dungeon finder would be a sign of the end. Look at WoW now and compare it to back in BC and before. The game is a social wasteland. You can run dungeons and even raids without a word being spoken. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tavarish Posted December 19, 2011 Share Posted December 19, 2011 Adding a dungeon finder would be a sign of the end. Look at WoW now and compare it to back in BC and before. The game is a social wasteland. You can run dungeons and even raids without a word being spoken. Just like instances in SWTOR are currently run... so... what was point again? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ohnoto Posted December 19, 2011 Share Posted December 19, 2011 If you are referring to a LFG tool as in the Dungeon Finder system, there is already a long thread about this topic. Dungeon Finder System Eventually If you are referring to a LFG tool as in a global Looking for Group channel when you have to be queued up to chat in that channel, then ignore my link from above. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lone-gunman Posted December 19, 2011 Share Posted December 19, 2011 If unable to group with friends or forming a flashpoint group, I have used general chat . No LFG tool is needed. It does add to game-play or community. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strumpan_SWE Posted December 19, 2011 Share Posted December 19, 2011 Create a chat channel on your server, I know I will when I get on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dris Posted December 19, 2011 Share Posted December 19, 2011 No. No. No. LFG helped people ruin their own communities and turned players into self-entitled, lazy, and rude players. There is such a thing as too much convenience. This, BW are trying to encourage social connections within the game, and LFG tool destroys that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeweledleah Posted December 19, 2011 Share Posted December 19, 2011 global lfg channel - yes please. porting to instances once the group is formed - I can live with that. automatic matching tool? please, god, no. automatic cross server matching tool? subscription canceled. LFD killed my enjoyment of WoW. i didn't leave WoW for SWTOR, I left WoW and all the characters i had for years, becasue I couldn't stand it anymore. tried resubbing few months ago, was feeling nostalgic. few days and multiple pugs later... I was done. for good. automatic matching tool is like printing money to solve bad economy. it works beautifully for a short term but in a long run, it makes the situation even worse then before you implemented it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Navaris Posted December 19, 2011 Share Posted December 19, 2011 (edited) I'd rather not fall to my death in the fleet center from the bare lag of 500 people sitting there waiting on their queues... Edited December 19, 2011 by Navaris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamuraiCrazy Posted December 19, 2011 Share Posted December 19, 2011 Im sure its been said before but we need an LFG tool one that groups you with people automatically who are also in the queue essentially just copy wow's or rift i dont care. No one uses the LFG channel and if they do there just lfg no comment on what they want etc. I didnt pay 80 dollars to go back to the days of EQ1 dungeons and shouting in chat for a group that system is old and outdated. do it for the love of the sith please put in a LFG tool right? talking to people is so outdated..... the game hasnt even officially launched yet. till then you can /who and mark yourself lfg with a comment or /1 LFG X quest/dungeon. but that doesnt work you can get over it. heroics give good loot yes, but they dont give you anything if you really think ppl to lazy to form a group can work as one.......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mavery Posted December 19, 2011 Share Posted December 19, 2011 Wow. Some of the opinions here are absolutely ridiculous. So "creating social connections" or "chatting" is spamming chat channels with LFM for XXX PST and then responding with I'll go is the former or the latter? Get real. Including an LFG tool does away with the nonsense of such an archaic way of forming groups. Creating social connections and chatting is done INSIDE the group. The reason it did not work in WoW is because it was cross-server. If you include a single server LFG tool then you don't run into this problem. Don't hate what you clearly don't understand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ecint Posted December 19, 2011 Share Posted December 19, 2011 The tool is not the problem. Sure, the /who list is limited in several ways (e.g. no way to do multi-filtered searches, i.e. a search for players of a particular level range AND in a particular place). Yes, the flashpoints are located in a very inorganic place (having them on the "fleets" removes them from the normal play areas and thus the majority of the pve players). But, the social panel <cough> does have the lfg comment function. You can invite (or /whisper) directly from the panel. When I am looking for a group for a particular heroic or flash the social who tab is the first place I look. I'm not sure how long I will do that, since result by that method are non-existent. Anyhow. The problem is not the existing tools. The problem is that people don't seem willing or able (lack of knowledge?) to use the perfectly useful existing tools. I certainly can't justify asking Bioware to put a bunch of time into developing nmore lfg type tools if people already don't use the handy existing ones. How hard is it to use the existing tools? Not very. It is very easy. Much easier, in fact, than filtering through ridiculous amounts of /general chat spam (already?!) to find teammates. Sad. That being said, I thing a predesignated lfg chat channel (/4?) would be helpful, and remove some of the spam from general. Assuming, of course, that people actually used it, that being the main likely problem (based on a few other games I've seen where there was a mostly unused /lfg). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eldisper Posted December 19, 2011 Share Posted December 19, 2011 No to lfg automation please Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oteraign Posted December 19, 2011 Share Posted December 19, 2011 I would like a LFG tool but not one that add with other player right one, for me the best tool would be a instance-info of the current tool we have, like : X player joined LF Y quest was Z role, and then the we look in the list, but people don't use the tool so... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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