Cross-server Flashpoint finder -- Still very badly needed

My personal rule for picking servers at launch time. ALWAYS pick the most populated server and as subs decrease after the first month at least you still have a good chunk of people to play with.

I honestly believe there is some truth to this, however it would not change the fact that there would still have been the other non early-game access servers up that would still have smaller populations.

For players on these servers, I assume especially on Republic side, their potential pool of people available for end game content or flashpoints are way smaller.

These are social games, you need to reach out and make friends. Instead of smashing a button to be conveyor belted into another heavily nerfed instance with random strangers.

WoW has had to dumb down its content to accommodate unorganized pugs, sometimes pugs that don't even speak the same language.

LFD dumbs down the community, it dumbs down the game, it dumbs down the challenge.

Cross Server group finder has some unfortunate side effects. Many people that play WOW will know what I'm talking about here (and maybe other games, WOW is my only experience with this).

There are essentially no consequences to your actions in a cross server group. You're not likely to encounter any of these players again. This basically removes all consequences to poor group etiquette. Most players follow the basic rules when grouping and one of the reasons is the good old fashioned golden rule. I know that if I get a reputation on my server for bailing after the first boss doesn't drop the loot I want eventually less people will be willing to group with me. When you take that away people quickly turn into complete jerks. Some problems you'll encounter are:

1) People, tanks and healers most notably, bailing on a group because of a single wipe or a bad pull
2) People rolling need on items for off spec, companions, or RP use whether or not someone can actually use the item
3) People bailing on groups once they kill a boss because the item they want didn't drop
4) People coming to group drastically under geared, contributing little if anything to the group, and then rolling on every piece of gear dropped

SWTOR will even have some other issues that WOW doesn't have such as:

a) people bailing because one or more others aren't flying through the cut screens
b) people rolling on gear they can't or won't use just so they can pull out the mods

I would prefer to start small, with just a server wide LFG channel. Give that a few months and see how it does. If finding groups is still terrible then maybe the LFG tool, but not cross server.

BW have already said some kind of dungeon finder will be put in, but not cross server.

cross server gives ppl a licence to act like a jerk, you don't need to worry about how you act you don't need to worry about getting a bad reputation coz you will never see these ppl again, Blizzard found this out and BW are learning from Blizzards mistakes

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