No Cross Realm LFG tool please!

They didn't help in RIFT; if you want to peruse their forums, you'll see that on several servers people were reporting extremely long queues, including a guy who spent multiple 12 hour sessions queued (including one 16 hour stretch) where he gave up without finding a group. I don't know if the screenshots are still there or not.

Mathematically it's easy to show the advantage: on a low pop server, there are <4 people logged into the server that are available to run certain flashpoints at certain times of the day; that means that they will never get a queue pop. This simply does not happen in a cross server system. That's why WoW has ~5 minute queues for low level dungeons, when Rift had 2-6 hour queues single server.

Yeah. It's colossally complicated, tough to understand. Do you think people just CHOOSE not to group, the numbers are there, they just refuse to group without a same server tool? It's almost too apparent to explain.

I'll try.

No cross-server LFG tool. A group consists of one tank, one healer and two dps. Now let's just say there are one tank, three healers, and seven dps looking for a group. On a single server lfg, good news, a group just got formed. Four of eleven people are no longer sitting in fleet lfg for hours. Unfortunately, seven of them still are. Four people are now happy.

Cross server lfg, same people. Drawing from more populated servers with perhaps more tanks available at this moment, anywhere from three to eleven groups are formed. Anywhere from twelve to forty-four people are now happy.

Tough to wrap your brain around that math stuff, Conrad. Keep at it!

/facepalm.

ROFLMAO that's one of the dumbest thing I have ever read and that's saying something coming from a General Discussion thread. If you honestly believe that the people who make the game don't play it then there simply is no arguing intelligently beyond that point.

TBH neither would cross server LFG. It would not address the fundamental issues of both server population or faction imbalance on a server.

This is why I've been advocating for a virtual server which is made up of multiple servers. Players would be able to interact with players on other servers for more than just flashpoints & warzones.

Which, incidentally, is what you see in tor now.

Same in rift: the top defiant raid guild on my server was well known for ninjaing items in pugs. It's not like it stopped them, nor did they ever get kicked from their guild (the GL didn't care), nor did it affect their ability to find groups in any way.

Coming from the guy who just said LFD kills communities? That's rich.

And also, this is a game where the developers had no idea there wasn't even a Readycheck ability in it.

You're telling me that you don't have at least 4 level 50s during prime time? What are you still doing there?

A low population server is having difficult getting players together not because there are only 3 of you. There are heaps of level 50s on Dalborra, I just asked for a healer to do a flashpoint. I spammed in general chat. No replies. Then, I messaged someone from my friends list who is a healer, and who is also on the republic fleet. He didn't see my general chat message, maybe he missed it, maybe he was at the GTN, maybe he was afk. There are also heaps of 50s doing their own thing like dailies, PvP.

Single-server will be enough because it will eliminate all the problems of manual grouping that I listed above.

If there really are only 3 of you on your server, what in the world are you still doing there? The economy must be terrible with only 3 of you trading stuff.

It is more logical to assume, that your server is still somewhat alive to somehow keep you playing there and arguing hotly in here. If it is somewhat alive, that means there must be quite a few level 50s around. If there are quite a few level 50s, then a single-server dungeon finder would be enough.

It makes those issues irrelevant... since people can pvp regardless of faction imbalance, and can pve regardless of server population.

I wasn't aware that you could create a level 50 character. All of mine have been level 1 to start with...