No Cross Realm LFG tool please!

Im all for cross server LFG and PvP, as well as server merges and/or transfers.

For those of you against it, roll a toon on a low pop server and try to run a flashpoint. After hours of spamming in fleet general chat that you are looking for a group, you will pull your hair out. You may get lucky and find someone who wants to run it too... Naturally you wont have a tank or a healer. Personally, I was never able to run a level appropriate flashpoint, until level 50.

Same goes for PvP. You can sit in the queue for hours. Ive waited as long as 6 before giving up. If you do get a match, you end up playing the same people over and over. On my server, there are almost no empire players. You can get lucky in the evenings, but the Republic tends to faceroll them and if you string a couple of wins in a row, they give up for a while. If you are lucky, you might get a bunch of same faction PvP, ie nonstop Huttball. Also, on low pop servers PvP matches end after 2 minutes if not enough people queue. You spend more time on loading screens than in the match. With the match ending early. it is almost always a loss for attackers on VS, a win for the first team to get the ball in HB, and a win for the team that has an extra player (or more) in ACW. And with that, you find some people win their 3 matches and stop queuing.

I can see no downside to cross server groups. People will actually get to run flashpoints. People will actually get to do PvP. Some people want to stay "same" server, well thats not going to be an issue as BW said same server players will be the priority.

lol person talking about psychology and quoting 4chan, your point isnt absurd, but there is no solution to the current problem other than implementing a cross realm LFG or adding an "online" cap for both sides which no one really wants and would cause more problems than it would solve, hence cross-realm lfg is the only real option, trying to defy the only solution to a problem is completly useless, so far no one presented a realistic alternative and neither have you, so lol please enlighten us why communities should be people confined to small guilds of friends, there are no "communities" rep side on any servers.

And dont come around with the bs that there are big rep guilds, please lol, thats laudable, guilds arent communities, in my server im on a guild that has about 20 persons online at peak hour and thats 1/3 of the population on rep side, but they are mostly alts swaping around etc, the population problem is real you cant just ignore it, its causing people to have trouble looking for group for flashpoints and heroics, its causing people to have to wait for pvp queving, and its preventing the formation of any type of community in the game since servers individually lack the ammount of republics to have a decent community rep side, and subsequently causing people to drop the game since its not functioning properly... game feels like playing an online multiplayer session of a single player rpg online (oblivion etc).

Wouldn't low pop server merges because Bioware had too many open for the first month fix the problems that everyone is complaining about on these servers?

I would like some low/standard pop merge/action for a beautiful lovechild.

Even on standard servers there is a lack of people questing and it is hard to party. Many people dont know about the LFG tool. Cross-Server LFG won't solve all the problems with a low pop server, just slow down the degradation.

Even on WoW's most popular servers, that had 20+ 25 man raiding guilds that were progressing through the top tiers, people couldn't find groups for leveling content

1) The player bubble moved past it

2) The requirements of fullfilling the trinity to do said content was slower then other alternatives

For the first time EVER with cross server people got to experience leveling content, anti-LFD often forget to mention that

THIS!

Who in their right mind wouldn't want to keep their community intact so as to build camaraderie amongst the PvP community?

Please, Bioware, if you must use cross-server WZ queuing to fill up where some servers lack PvP population, at least don't ruin the ones that don't need the help, like Jung Ma (PvP-RP).

Keep it on a need-only basis, like perhaps linking 3 PvE servers together, not to PvP servers with good populations.

yeah... so... if you aren't happy with the metrics you're getting, you should ask for them. But you'd probably be better off asking in a thread about that instead of this one


No, there are still problems in the low-mid levels (post esseles/BT and pre hard mode 50) flash points. And there are still probably off peak times. Cross server does a lot to fix both of those.
It fixes some of them; and since I'm in favor of cross server in general, that's definitely good by me.

Don't do it Bioware just make improvement to the current LFG don't add this system.

Players against making it easier to find groups always boggle my mind.

I for one want to see this implemented, What would you rather do, Get into a Flashpoint quickly or sit around the fleet for hours & hours asking if anyone wants to do a specific Flashpoint, I'd rather be questing & advancing my toon than just sitting around reading endless fleet chat hoping in vain that you'll see someone putting together a group for the Flashpoint your looking for.

I liked your post.

I thought about this but never knew how to really express it. Probably the only people who have problems finding groups are DEEPEESSSSS, as Tank or Healer you basically instantly find a group.
So it is not a LFG tool it is a LFSPWROOTBC-Tool (Looking for stupid person who rolled one of those boring classes - Tool)
Thats why i disliked LFG Tools Single or X-Server in any form.

As a Tank people expect you to be well geared for the content so you can sustain enough damage, as a Healer people expect you to have enought gear to keep everyone alive (even stupid DEEPEESSERS who stand in fire) and as DEEPEESSSS you basically have a white card.
With LFG Tools you get matched with random people and it often takes a +-30% more time to complete a dungeon because of undergeared underskilled people.

As someone already stated, the only real argument the Pro-X-Server-LFGers have is that they want to experience every content. It is a game and if you are not able to do reach all content it is like that. In Mario you also didnt get to see the last level if you didn't do the levels before. Its basic, its an effort-reward problem, people want to put in less possible effort with maximum possible reward.

Any player who plays in a proper and social manner shouldnt have problems finding a group. If you ignore the other players and solo your way trough the game, you cant expect other people to be ready when you want to do some content with you. It is so simple, play, make friends, form groups, or are you such jerks noone wants to socialize with you?