Cross Faction Communication

a few days ago some reps helps us kill a world boss. they gained nothing for it, obviously, except our respect. and we had fun chatting in say. but how am I supposed to remember that those were nice people? (because obviously they could become people I'd want to talk to on a regular basis)

why is this game determining who I can become friends with 'in reality'?

this isn't just about role-playing purpose


and before someone says that stuff about 'how many games do you know bla bla bla'

I normally don't play games with different factions, this being one of the main reasons.

Voice chat should solve your problems.

Typing is so 1995

dear bioware

we are not enemy irl, we are just playing a game, allow cross facion comm

Make a character on the opposite faction and friend them.

Those of us that have played a lot of faction MMOs know only too well why there's no x-realm communication.

APB: Reloaded allows cross-faction communication through general chat and whispers. I kept getting hackusations and death threats.

**** was comedy

I can see how it works for that game, but we will have to wait till we get the proper LFG tool for SWTOR before having cross-faction general chat. It would be a huge mess with people from the opposite sides looking for a group.

Damn there is some hostility towards griefing in /say...

Word of warning to people who "Don't like the bad man saying nasty things about me"

Stay the fu*k away from EvE... even if you get your head round the learning curve, you will shed sweet tears of pain as people Warp Scram you, then nearly destroy you, before toying with you in "System Chat" then ransoming you "Saying give us 50mil Isk or you die" before waiting til you send it, destroying your ship anyway then podding you.

Is this nice? No. Is it a part of the game? Yes. Do people "Bi*ch to high heaven about it? Yes!!!

I'm all up for full on Cross Faction Comms but just give us the ability to /ignore opposing faction members and simple.

If not full then at least let us friend people of the opposing faction.

I completely agree that we should be able to communiucate cross factions. My biggest reason for this is that the game is kinda of geared towards the idea of you playing multiple characters. This sucks when you try to go play one of your sith toons and all your friends play on the alliance side.

I think the communication division for this game is just a bad concept that is only put in because of previous games.

Revolution! or in this case Devolution...

Besides if they do a mandalorian faction for an expansion (OMG a 3rd faction!) this will cause just as much havoc.


BTW... Luke I am your father... LUKE... crap he can't hear me...

they were lvl 50 chars. what do you expect me to do? write down all their names?

I don't .care. what other faction MMOs do. did you not read where I said .this. is the reason why I normally don't play them? someone won't be my enemy just because they are on the other faction (I play both factions anyway!)

I personally help Imp's out all the time if I see them in need. The whole Jedi code thing i guess lol jk. It would be nice to whisper them or be able to receive but at least /say works.

They'd probably do it in EvE if they could.

Most MMOs do it to cut down on CSR costs, and fair enough, they don't want their CSR 100% filled with "X killed me" and "Y called me a nasty name for killing him" etc. etc. rather than real issues.