Give me a legitimate reason to NOT have a LFD tool.

Im not positive, but im pretty sure the people that want the LFD system are mostly the griefers and social outcasts that wnat this game to be a solo player experience so they dont have to socialize in genre that is most known for its social community.

A cross-server LFG tool needs to have specific loot rules, and some sort of safe-guarding against griefing and other un-desirable behavior.

It took Blizzard something like 6 months and 3 iterations to get it to an acceptable level, still can be abused to some degree... Do players have faith in Bioware to be able to pull this off, considering how unfinished, unpolished or downright broken some things have seemed since release?

Free transfers won't solve what the cross server tool will solve. Including odd schedules- level bracket discrepancies -etc.
That is not a solid argument to deny a cross server tool.

my solid arguement was a page back.

Not to sound like a jerk here, but clearly you didn't play WoW before the LFG tool was put in. There was high accountability, often if you acted with the kind of attitude you're using in this post, your reputation as a player was ruined on that server and you never got into any kind of dungeon or raid as long as you stayed on it. Your only option was to start over fresh on a new server.

As for the master loot comment, there is no master loot option in flashpoints that i am aware of. i've never seen it used if there is, nor would people run with someone in a flashpoint if there were and the group leader turned it on.

If you are not for a "community element" game, then you're going to be in for a bit of a surprise. the community element is already built in, hence the social rank system. There are a lot of MMO veterans here and we enjoy having a friendly community on our servers. We like getting along with the other players on our server. If we wanted a bunch of people with a bad attitude, we'd stay on Warcraft. But we're not on warcraft. We're on ToR and we want it to be a good game with a friendly community, so more players will come join us and have fun.

What we don't like is the elitist and entitled attitude we see from younger players. We generally auto-ignore people like that who go on a rant over chat. We're here to have fun, we've been around for a long time. We know what works, and what doesn't.

A LFG tool would work, if it is restricted to only find people from our server.

I couldnt have said it better myself.

accountability, based on dungeon's? maybe even low-lvl dungeon? really?
not a raid progres?…

sorry what?

There are 2 main camps in the "anti-LFD" tool:

1) The "you must socialize" group. This is the smaller of the anti-lfd players. LFD tools are becoming the standard in MMOs.

2) The "no cross server" group. This is the main bulk and the biggest complaint. I recall Bioware stating that they were aware of this and were taking it into account. Most of the OP's arguments come from this group, and they aren't anti-LFD, they just want it limited to the same server.

We're getting cross-server PvP, so Bioware already has the capability. When the LFD/LFG tool comes, I'm sure it will come with same-server capabilities. Unfortunately, because of the low population on some servers & faction imbalance, Bioware may find itself being forced to implement cross-server LFD/LFG, but hopefully it will do so with useful tools. These are some ideas:

1) Cross-Server as an option

2) Creating groups of servers like the forums and having cross-server be limited to the pool of servers shared. Each large server can have 4-9 less active servers to share the pool of players.

3) Enforcing the player's ignore list when matchmaking. Because of the large pool of possible players and the fast speed of leveling, this would only be effective if the LFD ignore list ignored the account and not the character. It's not characters that get ignored, it's the player.

4) Replace the loot system with a barter system for LFD based instances. Instead of dropping a profession specific item, drop a token that can be traded for the item. This is less desirable since developers find it too easy to "increase the grind" by simply raising the cost of items, so that multiple runs are needed for a single item, but it does greatly help reduce the dispute on who can roll for what on loot.

5) Conversation should be an option in the LFD interface. Players doing it for the first time and wanting to read the conversation shouldn't be matched with players on their 10th run wanting to skip everything. To provide incentive for players, a bonus can be given to the social points if doing a flashpoint with unskippable conversations.

Just because WoW did it first doesn't mean they have to be copied exactly. IMO, there's no legitimate reason not to have a LFD tool, but there are many legitimate reasons against specific features of the tool which have reasonable alternative solutions than simply "no tool".

The only arguement the anti-lfders have is "It ruins the community!" It's a myth.

Bottomline is IT"S COMING! If players here don't want convenience, they should leave now and play a mmo where the developer doesn't care about making money.

Says who, you?

I have nothing against a LFD tool unless it's a cross server garbage.