No Cross Realm LFG tool please!

I will try to stomach through the other 50 pages.

How so? In my estimation there wouldn't be much additional cost.

You'd prob need dedicated servers for chat but the rest of things would operate similar to cross server flashpoints and warzones. Players would temporarily hop over to a server as one would a flashpoint/warzone. Players from various servers would share the general chat with everyone else in that flashpoint/warzone. The biggest hurdle I can see is the GTN and future guild banks.

Note the original characters would still reside on the server it was created on.

When you realise it's actually 91 pages, you may find your task a little harder

I obviously missed that number didn't I

I apologize for posting and not reading all 50 pages of this thread. I may say things that have already been said, or... I might say things that will incur a flame... My only intent was to say what I feel about the topic of the original concept of the thread with my flare of the dramatic and sometimes obsolete ramblings.

To start with, I want to say I like SWTOR as a game... or maybe better stated is that I want to like it as a game, I just find it very incomplete in many different aspects (IE: User Interface Customization, Guild System, Support Ticket System, Crafting System, and Looking for Group to just name a few). Yes, yes… I know some of these things are coming, but I why are we having to wait?

With the number of MMO games released over the last decade, I feel that SWTOR is behind the times in many of the little things that make a game successful somewhat... fulfilling. I want to stay positive with this thread though, but it feels like no one in development paid any attention to other MMO games that have been created (successful or failures), or perhaps this game was being developed before the concepts of guild banks, customized user interfaces, looking for group features, and so forth. I have played many of these games (EverQuest , EverQuest II, Lineage II, Star Wars Galaxies, World of Warcraft, City of Heroes, Age of Conan, Lord of the Rings, Rift, Anarchy Online, EVE, Vanguard… to name a few too many) and yes, they all had growing pains… bugs… incompleteness. I just feel that SWTOR has delivered just enough to generate interest but not enough to be a complete system. I am not trying to make a comparison to a specific game, but perhaps the need of a MMO game for today’s market in general.

I now have 8 characters in SWTOR on one server, all but one is in the high 30’s and I am running out of options and patients. Perhaps I am on an unpopulated server (Kath Hound), but I find it near impossible to get into Flashpoints, or even to run Heroics on any planets without waiting (actually praying), pleading, begging, and offering a pile of credits and yet it still takes several hours to do one. About the only flashpoint I see not needing a LFG for is the first one (Republic or Empire), seems to be plenty of people looking for that one on the fleet. This general chat LFG wasn’t so bad when the game was first released, there were a ton of people on, but now I see less than 50 people on the fleet at peak times. Usually 20 to 25 and on some planets less than 4 people… not even enough to make a group for a heroic 4. Yeah, I know you can use companions… but that is not the point being made. MMO count doesn’t include companions, so perhaps the easy fix here is to take one of the M’s out of MMO.

So, I guess in conclusion I just find it somewhat sloppy to a release a MMO game and not have some of the most fundamental features that have become a necessity today… as in a real Looking For Group feature, but that is perhaps just my opinion. If a real LFG is coming, I applaud that. I would prefer a cross-server LFG system myself, at least for Flashpoints and Warzones. Heroics could be just server side, where you queue and wait. I know that introducing new content is a good thing; it just isn’t very exciting when I am unable to use the old content.

Regardless, if you read my post, thank you… I will try to stomach through the other 50 pages.

Well the cost of buying the new equipment for setting it all up, not to mention the staff hours.

There are some great posts on how the LFD tool could help and how they could take the model designed by other games and then make it better. Unfortunately you gotta get through a whole lot of crying and ranting from people who got upset over in another game...

When you realise it's actually 91 pages, you may find your task a little harder