No Cross Realm LFG tool please!

But a tool that matches players from all over a server, where there aren't that many people to begin with on low population servers, would mean that the likelihood that it will be effective diminishes considerably, does it not? At least for anything pre-50. Leveling fp's will be non-existent and only players at lvl 50 will use it (effectively? No one will know yet).

In my experience post cross server LFG in WoW, I experienced content long dead in Outlands and Iceland, and even Deadmines and other lower level dungeons while leveling alts. Loved it! Could never have done that without it.

I play tank, so my ques pop instantly in Rift's x-server system. I log on, I put myself in a que, I get an instance. It's just that fast. As DPS it can take 15-30 minutes. But most people just want to sit back and pew pew, so that makes sense.

-nods-

I know the reasons why people want the x-server version. I do not believe it's healthy for the game though. My experience leads me to believe the opposite. Which is why I like the way it is now.

I quit before the queues went cross server. I was talking about when they were same server. Good info though.

When they were same server the que was longer for everybody, I would agree with that. I am not sure how it worked out that dps ques actually went down along with everyone else, but somehow they did.

What is "healthy for the game"?

There can be only one answer: BioWare's answer, which is the business answer, which is the answer that results in the highest subscription numbers.

If people want to spend their time playing Flashpoints, but they are instead bored and frustrated by standing around spamming Fleet looking for a group or waiting in a server-filtered LFG tool for a long time, why would they keep subscribing? They won't.

On the flip side, how many will cancel their accounts simply because X-Server LFG gets implemented?

Which is the bigger number? Cancellations due to boredom, or cancellations because a feature was added?

Seems simple...

According to the guild summit they're gonna implement a "single server" dungeon tool first, because community bla bla bla nonsense.

All that means is that low pop server will still be screwed and not benefit from it the way they could if it was cross server, that queues will still be long, especially at weird hours, and that i and everyone i know, will have to wait even further before resubbing.

Going for the "single server" step first, for something that should have been there since launch, is a huge mistake and waste of precious time (time in which more people quit).

I actually don't agree that numbers equal health.

I have a view of what I think is good for the game, in which I express my opinion about. Bioware has it's view as well, and sometimes I hope to convince them that my view is the same is theirs. Not that it matters much, but it makes me feel important.

It's not a black or white issue, and people are well within their rights to express what they believe is best, let Bioware sort it out. In the end, I am in line with most of what they have decided to do on this issue.

That's just because only a FRACTION of the playerbase is currently actually running instances on a regular and consistent basis, and the majority of that fraction only plays with people they already know so they can arrange drops the way they want.

When dungeon tool hits, people will actually be playing with randoms, so of course there will be some whines, but at least they will be able to play the gosh darned instances rather than sitting at the fleet for 10 hours. Afkers and annoying people are nothing that a proper votekick system can't fix, while as for botters, haven't seen any in pve instances, ever, not even on wow.

I understand you and the Devs point of view, but not for SWTOR, they do not make sense according to the number of people I see online at prime time.

To my experience a Standart populated server is a server with something like: 9 ppl on Hoth, 15 on Taris, 40 on Station, etc (Imperial side, a little less on Republic), but let's be optimistic, 70 on station, 20 on each planet.

The majority of European Servers are standart population servers, what will the tool do for this servers? The tool will always be a better tool than the non-tool we have now, you can put yourself in queue and do other things while you wait. But how long will this people have to wait on this servers?

The proposed tool is great for HEAVY/FULL servers, which are what? 1% of all servers or something? The majority of servers are Standart servers.

Now what? Reroll? Really? That's the solution? Do everything again with all your chars on another server, choose a VERY HEAVY one and maybe, maybe everything will be alright.

And only in 1.3? That means June? July?
Despite legacy being awesome or not, is legacy really more important than a semi usefull tool to find groups on this standart populated servers?

HINT: You know the devs/designers that took care of the smuggler tier2 armor set? Maybe they know how to code a nice LFG tool, because they surelly don't know how to design a good looking armor.