Still no cross-faction-communication?

From the RP point of view, why would the Empire or the Republic support holochannels with the war enemies?

From the practical standpoint of someone with 20k+ player kills, many of them outdoor... No. There is a moment of frustration just after you die. Since it takes some minutes to log over an alt on the opposite faction, most people don't bother - or cool down by the time they log over. If people can whisper right after their death, they are very likely to speak in the heat of the moment, before they can cool down. The amount of harassment would skyrocket.

From the RP point of view, why would the Empire or the Republic support holochannels with the war enemies?

From the practical standpoint of someone with 20k+ player kills, many of them outdoor... No. There is a moment of frustration just after you die. Since it takes some minutes to log over an alt on the opposite faction, most people don't bother - or cool down by the time they log over. If people can whisper right after their death, they are very likely to speak in the heat of the moment, before they can cool down. The amount of harassment would skyrocket.

This is the 3rd time that someone has asked, in one form or another, why RPrs need xfac communications. This shows me two things.

1: people are far more unimaginative than I thought, if they can't understand why communication would be a GOOD thing.

2: they aren't actually reading posts. The reasons we need it, has been stated, repeatedly, in terms so simple, that they can't be made any more simple without the use of pictures. Instead of addressing these issues, people ask "why" over and over again, so let me make it simple.

There are a number of "in character" reasons why RPrs would speak to each other.
-Smugglers and Bounty Hunters making deals.
-Prisoner Exchange
-Sith and Jedi wishing to engage in never ending circular arguments which irritate everyone around them.
-Diplomatic channels
-Characters wishing to play spies
-Characters wishing to play a "Romeo and Juliet" style romance

These are just a few ideas that have come off the top of my head without putting any real thought into it. If there was NO RP justification at all, I'd STILL advocate for it for the following reasons.

-Organising open world PvP events
-Communication with guild members on their opposed faction alts
-Organising duel faction RP events (ok, our people are in spot. Your people can begin the ambush)

Furthermore, your objection based on the "heat of the moment harassment" situation has been addressed several times. Everyone agrees that a PvP timer would be completely acceptable.

The bottom line is this. The benefits far outweigh the drawbacks. If someone harasses you, /ignore works great. If you shy away from things just because people will abuse them, then just uninstall every MMO you play, because there's no aspect that can't be exploited and abused.

No pretty much every supporter agrees to limiting xfac communication to tells, emotes, and custom channels. Preventing it WZs and adding PvP flag restrictions. I've given reasons why it would help people.

I think we're done justifying why we want it. Now it's your turn to justify why you don't.

This is the 3rd time that someone has asked, in one form or another, why RPrs need xfac communications.

There are a number of "in character" reasons why RPrs would speak to each other.
-Smugglers and Bounty Hunters making deals.
-Prisoner Exchange
-Sith and Jedi wishing to engage in never ending circular arguments which irritate everyone around them.
-Diplomatic channels
-Characters wishing to play spies
-Characters wishing to play a "Romeo and Juliet" style romance

-Organising open world PvP events
-Communication with guild members on their opposed faction alts
-Organising duel faction RP events (ok, our people are in spot. Your people can begin the ambush)

If there were no cross-faction /say, there never would have been any win trading on Ilum, and the original PvP there never would have been removed.

I asked no such thing.

why would the Empire or the Republic support holochannels with the war enemies?

Uhh no. Ilum just sucked and would have been removed regardless.

To OP. Claiming that cross-faction communication is required to have a decent RP experience, one with "depth" is total BS. Look at other MMO without any direct cross-faction communication in other games. All have had amazing PvP RP experiences through forum/vent organization.

You're over-thinking this. There's no need to over complicate things. There's no need for toggles, or secret handshakes.

Tells, Emotes, Custom Chat channels. That's all we want.

When you compare games with such an arbitrary and useless wall, to games that didn't have such limitations (SWG, Age of Conan, City of Heroes, Fallen Earth etc...etc...) I think you'll see that they had far richer and more flourishing RP communities, across the board.