Please consider opening cross-faction communication (RPers look here!)

As long as they don't open it up on any PVP server I don't care what you guys do on blue servers.

Definitely think this is a good idea, especially with an opt-in checkbox. Heck, I'd even be fine if just custom emotes could be seen cross-faction. Any harassment that can happen through custom emotes can also happen through /say, so having one but not the other is kind of silly and limiting.

With regards to the idea of this bringing along more griefers/harassers, I highly doubt it. People who want to be jerks will be jerks regardless of what options there are for cross-faction communication.

The OP outlined a pretty smooth and simple solution that definitely doesn't allow for a lot of griefing. I hope that BioWare takes notice and implements something like this in the future.

A simple solution to this is to give players the ability to toggle cross-faction communication on and off. If you don't want to hear 12 year olds trash talking, you can just turn it off.

Custom emotes should be visible to both factions. I'm so effing sick and tired of features being shut off because the PVP crowd can't handle wiping their collective rear ends without getting poop on their hands. Seriously, make it in opt-in feature if you must but for crying out loud, just ban the morons that can't handle not acting like a 4 year old who just dropped his ice cream cone. You can call it the "Grow the Fack Up" clause and add it to the EULA.

This is just another case of people never being satisfied with what they have.

Have to agree.

They should have cross faction chat at least on RP flagged servers, and/or friends list. That's just annoying. Just add a friend request accept feature.

The only games I've seen with no cross faction communication are:
- World of Warcraft

They only other that came close was Pirates of the Burning Sea, but you could get an ability to cross chat.

Every other MMORPG I've played has left it to the mature discretion of the player, rather than restricting it. It's just hard to feel adult when you're not allowed to talk to someone.

As for in character lore, the two factions are not at war they've signed a peace treaty.

QFS

Smuggler's gotta smuggle. How about a faction-neutral node generated by a class-ability that opens a market/trade window when clicked on by second parties? Credits go in. Epics come out!

Or scrap the joke of a two faction system and base PvP off of LS/DS while the Grays loot the corpses and sell to the highest bidder.

Barring those pipe dreams:

Cross-faction chat in it's own (optional and ignorable) channel wouldn't hurt a thing. I don't watch /pvp despite being on a PvP server. Why should it bother anyone to not watch the /rp channel?

Griefers on /rp interrupting the three-paragraph-long description of your jawa-sith-cyborg-toenail-fetish-ist? '/ignore' and spread the word. A troll is only as good as the tears you feed it.

I support the idea of have Cross faction communication allowed in player-created chat channels. I'd like chat bubbles to be tied to this, but only visible to those in the channel. This type of communication is vital to RP, as well as staying in OOC contacts with guildmates who are on alts that are part of the opposite faction.

I fully support this thread, and agree with everything said by the OP.

I support the OP big time. In the least, we need chat bubbles viewable by both sides.