Instead of a cross server LFG tool would it be possible to make a LFG tool that lets people form groups across alt's of their account, what I mean is a system where you can log into one account and join a queue for a group from any of your character's, when a group is ready to form and you've clicked your popup to join the action it automatically switches you over to the character you queued as and a magic shuttle takes you to the action, when the group is finished then another magic shuttle return's both character's to wherever they were before they joined the group and your free to carry on questing as you wish.
I think this would have several advantages over other LFG tool's, firstly the biggest delay in forming a group with any tool is finding a tank/healer, all the servers in the world isnt going to help if only 10% of the available players are tank's, allowing people to effectively queue up as 3 roles at the same time, albeit across several accounts at different levels could reduce queue time's more than simply allowing more people to wait for the same bottleneck of not enough available tank's
The second advantage is social, because of the Legacy system encouraging people to group across alt's would both re-ignite the leveling game experience and also over time you would begin to recognize good players by their legacy, while its hard to quantify how much of an effect this would have it would definately make people more accountable than any of the never meet again x-server LFG system's
And finally just fun, waiting around for a group is boring even if its only 20 minute's as a dps class, I'd much rather spend that time running around with a low level char killing durni's (where are the durni's anyway!) than twiddling my thumb's waiting for a popup
I can see faults with this, I'm sure it wouldn't be easy from a technical perspective and players turning up with damaged gear or unprepared could be a problem but that could be fixed by sending them to a orbital staging area with a bank/vender/mailbox before they actually jump in the shuttle down to the flashpoint.
Anyhow, I'd be interested to hear what anybody else thinks about this?