Give me a legitimate reason to NOT have a LFD tool.

I agree and I think Bioware would be even better served by taking a page from Rift and allowing free server transfers for the community.

The only problem I have with this would be server stress being hightened (not a problem for light servers I guess) What with servers having to ping eachoter to see who's friends on another server where on.

But its been years sense my last computer class so maybe tech has advanced enough that its not too bad

Because its value on low population servers would be pretty small and it would do nothing to even poorly alleviate their fundamental problem of being low population, mostly.

Server merging basically isn't an option in any practical consideration. To merge servers this early in a game's lifespan would be tantamount unto calling in sick on your third day of work.

A bad sign in a big way, in short, and not the sort of message Bioware or EA would be well served to send.

In that respect, the actual best answer is prevented by politics and public relations; fricken tragic, innit?

LFD on high pop servers would probably work just fine though; no dispute there. Unfortunately, again, low pop servers would still be left straggling, folks would still have a lot of cause to complain on those servers and queue times, even on high pop servers, would probably be pretty long.

An LFD tool of this variety is most optimally employed where the largest number of players can benefit by being able to use it, hence why some of us push for cross-server.

We know there are issues of accelerated and heightened exposure of individuals to a greater number of people (and thus a greater number of crappy people in that number) in a shorter amount of time; we know that this readily leads some to think that LFD makes there be more crappy people because, again, you can be exposed to more of them more quickly and more regularly than in any other circumstance.

We also know that crappy people can get away with being crappy for longer spans of time because its harder for a given server population to get all social-darwin on them; not impossible, just harder.

Some of us determine that the value of the system; the benefits of it to everyone across all the servers; justify the unpleasant incidentals that come along with it.

Some very much do not.

Seem to remember Bioware assigning Servers. I don't care what server the players in LFG come from. But ask any more asinine questions you have rattling around in there.

This game doesn't have a cross server LFG. We have what we want.

There are other games that have what you want.

Why are you trying to change the game into your want at the expense of ours?

That's a foolish reason not to do it though. Again giving pain medication to a cancer patient doesn't cure the cancer. I'm not sure why we should accept a band aid solution to real problems. Going forward if they follow this mentality then they may as well be Blizzard 2.0. Don't address the core issue, implement a system to alleviate the symptons instead.

Where did they say they are adding a cross server lfg and when did they say they are going to do it?

Those servers would likely contain the best/most progessed players/guilds. It'd only be a matter of time before they were full.

your really arrogant thinking that you speak for anyone but yourself(via your "we have what we want" comment)

The devs on a few recent podcasts that you are welcome to look up have stated they have been looking to update the lfg tools and while originally they did not like the idea of LFG so much that they have warmed to it and will likely implement it - no timetable given.

I don't think that's necessarily the case. Even the most progressed players and guilds need a pool to recruit from. The top end raiding guilds would essentially be poaching off one and other for the first little bit and you'd have very little in terms of a base to train new raiders and such.