Do You want cross server LFG tool?

No,

But I'd like a auto-queue FPs feature with filters, e.g. check boxes which FPs, hardmode/ normal, and classes you want to go along with.

I agree, but BioWare does not seem to agree with our logic, as they are going to have a cross server LFG tool for PVP, but only same server for PVE. And the points you bring up about your friend are a perfect example of why this game needs a Cross Server LFG tool, for the simple reason the que times to get a grp are going to be a lot less than it will be on the same server. Maybe some have tons of time to play and it is not a issue. But many donot not as RL comes first and they want to ability to login and do some end game or leveling group content without having to stay on for hours.

Love or loath the idea, the fact is those 'crap players' are the majority of the playerbase. Without them there will be no SWTOR and without some sort of LFG tool they won't hang around.

Not everyone will like it but the lack of an LFG tool is what's causing this game to slowly bleed to death. If you want this game to go the way of the dodo, by all means oppose the institution of such a tool.

P.S. It's not really surprising that the majority of the folks in this thread oppose an LFG tool because the people that tend to read and post in the forums are the same ones that don't have issues finding groups because they're in an active guild, have lots of friends that play the game etc. The 'crap players' referred to above are also the same people that tend to not read the forums or post here and they are the ones that want an LFG tool the most.

Exactly..esp number 3. WoW and Rift also tried same server first. That failed and they both went to a cross server one. Which no matter how much you hate it...has been very successful in doing what it is meant to do...get the casual players ( who pay the same sub fee ) into a lot of game content they otherwise would never experence.

As the represented player of all casuals in the world, we say yes.

We had a meeting, we all agree on this, thus rendering everyone else saying no obsolite by 10 000 to 1.

Can you offer an example of decline, up to now nobody has been able to offer an example.

Right now there are no runs to have bad behavior in so where is the problem? Player etiquette? Would you not have to get into a run "FIRST"? The problem is there is no possible way for the average player to get into a run, that must be addressed first before we start crying about bad behavior that is not even happening yet.
How about we stay in reality instead of spouting a lot of stuff any logical person knows will never happen or would do nothing to actually help the problem of no players available to group with.

In server tools can only look for players on that server, most servers do not have enough people on them to put groups together except for a couple hours of peak use in the evenings. BW will never agree to server merges.....period. Transfers are not a gurantee the new server you switch to will have players wanting to play when you play. Nothing you mention is logical or part of reality.


Again a complete lack of understanding the problem.

This is not a rare problem, we are not "occasionally" looking for people to play with. In my case we have started a guild trying to recruit during the day when some of us play but there is nobody on the server to recruit and no other guild with members who want to do endgame content during the day.

There is never enough players on my server (leveled enough or willing) to do an 8 man run during the day.

I'm goad you brought this up because I was there for both implementation of same server lfg, and it failed in both games miserably. I hope they don't go this way to "try" and see if it works, it won't. And you've lost more time for people to drop the game. Bioware in my mind has created some very good content, but if ppl don't have the chance to get into it.....this game won't survive, and that's sad because they have something good....but there are a few things the mmo player of 2012 won't do without.

Same server maybe, for the pve tool.

I was a pretty casual player in WoW, all things considered. Played a lot, but didn't get far content-wise. Ran a lot of 5 mans, never really did raids outside of 10 mans due to when I'd get off work. I played a tank and had quite a few people on my friend list just from running Heroics and noticing people that didn't suck (and this was on a low pop pvp server, too). Early Wrath was much the same way, even on non-tank alts. I even got a guild invite with a fresh 80 Warrior tank, when the group initially thought I was undergeared (think I was a few points off the defense cap, even), after showing I had a reasonable ability to play the class.

Post LFG tool? I don't think I added anyone to my friend's list and I certainly didn't add anyone to it during my time playing Cata beyond like... one guildmate's alt which doesn't really count. Made the game feel a bit more lonely... and I quit before Firelands - wasn't even around for the impact of LFR. Met some cool people in lfg, like some pally tank that aced all but one achievement in a single run.... but never saw the player again so it didn't really matter. If SWTOR uses a cross server lfg tool, I may as well just go play WoW - they've had longer to add little tidbits to their game world to make it more interesting to run around in. Well, more realistically I'd likely find something that's less of a wowclone.


Haven't pvp'd enough in MMOs to really say if cross server pvp is a good idea or not, though it's probably needed if they're going to split the pvp population with ranked wzs. I started doing 50 pvp on one of the most populated servers post 1.2 (waited for recruit gear) and I'm already recognizing many of the same people from day to day - both teammate and opposing team. Can only imagine what it's like on lower populated servers.

Cross Realm. No.
Server LFG. Yes.
Auto transport to FP through dungeon finder. Yes.
Realm transfer options and merging.. Yes.

Cross Realm ruined WoW for me. There is no accountability in a cross realm group.
Single Realm allows more of a chance to group with the same people again (build community relations) and use your ignore feature to avoid bad players.
The common complaint is that queues are slow on a single server. Typically they're slow cause there aren't enough healers and tanks. I'll tell you from my own experience that tanking in a cross realm dungeon can be intimidating if you're still learning or aren't a super geared phenom player. I think if everyone practiced a little more patience in dungeons and didn't assume that every run will be full throttle, hammer down, cake walk... maybe more players would try and learn the tank or healer role.

No.

Cross server WZ, yes.

Cross server FP/OP/LFG, no.

No control server by server of donkey-hattery.

Naturally this is not an issue in pvp /grin