Yeah, then people don't group at all as it is difficult to PUG it. Let's be honest, I have a clique of friends that I run with. I don't run any FP's unless my friends are on to make a full group. I'd run more FP's if a LFG system was put in with gear & level requirements. I could group with 2 of my friends and PUG the 4th with relative certainty that the 4th was at least somewhat qualified to go. I have a limited play window @ night. Being able to queue and get in a FP in under 10 minutes would be awesome. You'd never get that on my server spamming the fleet.

Flashpoints with QT to the FP (like warzones). That way more players would want to do FP's without a major interruption to their leveling/etc. Vote to kick, rage quit = timer to requeue, etc. Ability to queue for a FP would be based on minimum gear ratings & level. You wouldn't want to group up with a new 50 to try and run HM Lost Island... Cross server queuing would also be optimal. That way less populated servers/factions could enjoy the FP content as well without waiting in a queue all night. Create a friends list which spanned servers. This could help facilitate cross-server queuing with your friends from other servers.

I am in complete agreement with this. Our group was full columni/rakata raiders that have cleared HM EV/KP. We enjoyed the challenge very much. However, tionese + columni drops for that difficulty does not add up.

I highly doubt this is "as designed". That's simply not fun and SWTOR is a game and should be fun. There's nothing more upsetting than to spend 2 hours of your night clearing a FP only to get to the climactic event of killing and looting the final boss ... only to die, not get credit for the kill, and not being able to enter the phase and loot. If your group persists and kills the boss, you should be able to enter the instance and loot. You should get credit for the kill/completion even if you released. I have bugged this situation twice now. Once for The False Emperor and once for Taral V. If you do the same thing for a boss mid-FP you can enter and loot... why would it be any different for the final boss?

Just Tweeted: I'm in a 45 min queue. I certainly hope this gets resolved. I have a 1-2 hour play window each night and this is unacceptable.