What is the point of a companion gift cooldown?

Would be great if you got a bonus sending them on a mission during the cool down. Kind of like a buff where you get extra results or crit chance if they start the mission while under the Companion Gift cool down buff.

Who cares about their immersion. On christmas you don't make little kids wait 30 seconds between each present, why should we wait between gifts?

Can you imagine how overpowered it would be without the cooldown?

My sith warrior would run around spamming gifts to Vette like a madman on Ilum, the cries for nerfs would be deafening.

That cooldown needs to go.

If someone wants to roleplay it, they're welcome to walk to the cantina, then wait 10 minutes between each gift.

Lol I don't think that's gonna happen.. The cooldown doesn't add any form of immersion.. In fact it takes away from it.. If I wanted to give someone 10 gifts at one time I could..

I wouldn't say "hey happy birthday Bob.. here's one present"... Then awkwardly stare at Bob for 30 seconds until I could give him another.. Another 30 seconds of awkward silence until I give him another present, and so on, and so on...

Would it harm Bob in any way if I overloaded him with presents? Why does he need a present blocking force field to protect him? Are they afraid he is going to get to excited if I give him too much at one time and have a heart attack?

Someone doesn't know the meaning of the words "time sink".. more like time waster. Remove it please. I don't see anyone else who would argue otherwise.

Actually, my family always took turns. So after 5 people opened gifts I got to open another. We still do it this way even after 24 years. My gf actually wants to try that with her family next year. So 1 minute is peanuts to me.

Also, why don't companion gifts stack? My inv is often overflowing with this junk

So you give your kids 5 gifts at once thereby not making them stop to actually acknowledge what the gift is and thank the person they got it from before tossing it aside tearing into the next one like all kids would? Christmas morning would last 5 mins at your house.

And if it was someones birthday and you shoved all 10 gifts to them and then run off to join a warzone how much affection would you actually get do ya think?

This forum broke my immersion.