Vote kick for story?

The solution is clear: EA/BW should disable the spacebar as a means of skipping convos. Doing so would remove one of the two most frequent complaints about PUGs (to eliminate the other complaint, EA/BW should remove Master Loot from the game). It's either rants about players not spacebarring or rants about players demanding someone spacebar. I see this as a net time savings for most players: minutes lost in convos are recouped in time not spent scribing your forum rant.

I also favor a "leash" effect. All characters in FPs are bound to each other by an invisible leash, which prevents the characters from moving too far away from the group. That will prevent "run-aheads".

I'd also like to see any non-Tank who draws first aggro on a set of mobs as getting smitten by insta-death. That would, one hopes, have a chilling effect on such behavior.

Until EA/BW implements my FP Reform Package, I'll just continue to boycott Group Finder.

I still don't understand the run to the next set of bad guys without a full power bar/health bar. That happens in 3 out of 5 FP's I join. Seriously, I don't have unlimited healing power! Nor do I care to keep up with you getting attacked by 10 people simultaneously, when you start at 50% health.

You don't have to skip anything if you don't want to. Tell them to eat it quite honestly.

Exactly.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't solo mode the solution? People who want to watch the cutscene can do so using Super Droid and not hold up the line for the other 3 people. People who want to group can do so without having someone who wants to see all the dialogue options slow them down.

If your time is just too precious to spend a minute on a cutscene then maybe it's you that should be running the solo flashpoints.

Exactly so. Someone playing a computer game is already indicating that their time is really not all that valuable. If it were, they would be engaging in that other, more valuable activity.