Please Bioware: Add some incentive to get people to queue for Flashpoints.

Some medium gear with cunning have Defense Rating/Shield Rating.

Add MVP Votes to FP.

Add Good Tank & Good Heal Comms.

You get 1 per MVP Vote + 2 for completion. (of random queue with maximum of 2 players (one friend should be good for morale)

You can trade these at 10 Tankcomms or 10 Healcomms => 1 day of Subscription Status.

Hmm, perhaps it would be possible instead to award good dps? Maybe X amount of MVP votes would be able to translate into Commendations that you could use to purchase an item that would move you to the top of the queue with say, a 5-6 hour cooldown only usable when queuing solo? That would be incentive for dps to stop being so derpy I would think. It would also ensure that at some point you get to join a FP that day. Perhaps also make it so that if you queue in a group, you cannot vote for the players you queue with?

I'd be curious to know everyone's thoughts on this.

Well I'd imagine the system would encourage players to learn their class. But alas I may just be an idealist with too much faith in the common player.

You are probably not going to attract more hardcore players to GF regardless of ANY incentive.

As I am sure you all know, there is an extremely long wait time to get into non-tactical flashpoints (for dps) while leveling ever since Kuat Drive Yards (KDY) was added. I would like to preface the rest of my post by saying: There is nothing wrong with the addition of tactical flashpoints like KDY, in fact I think it's a great way to earn experience points!

I am bringing this up, as I am sure many have done before me my concern that due to the nature of KDY (group composition and minimal conversation with NPCs) many players who would have otherwise queued for classic style flashpoints have opted instead to queue for KDY. This presents a problem particularly for dps characters (though I have even seen some healers complaining about wait times) that causes extremely long wait times when queuing for normals.

I would like to propose an incentive to encourage players to queue for, and finish normal flashpoints.
A few suggestions:

1. Increase experience gained by some substantial percent when players queue alone for normal mode flashpoints. This would increase the number of both tanks and healers queuing and perhaps provide a small decrease in wait time.

2. Implement cross server play for normal flashpoints, again increasing the pool of players available for flashpoints as well.

3. Remove roles from normal flashpoints and adjust each one accordingly. Similarly to KDY flashpoints would no longer require a tank or healer, allowing groups of four dps to tackle a flashpoint without a very long wait time, in fact wait times may even be similar to that of KDY.

4. Add more tactical flashpoints to the game while leveling. Sometimes repeatedly running the same flashpoint can become extremely tedious, this option would allow for a more diverse pool of instances for players to choose from, reducing this problem greatly.

I apologize if others have posted similar threads, I felt this issue was not exactly one that many post about.