Oh you were serious when you said they gave you a direct number? Haha!

Beats me. For bonus heroics it seems pretty clear that not nearly enough people ever come back to a planet they've already finished to do the bonus missions.

So stuff you'll be waiting 3 hours for a group to do... gonna take more than that.

There's nothing interesting in 1.1... why are you so impressed?

There's almost nothing interesting in that patch.

Regarding this point, I'd say it makes people skip group content altogether because it takes too long to get into it. I'm that close to reading a book or playing a console game while I wait for someone to answer my LFG request because I could easily fit an entire session of Uncharted into the amount of time it takes to find a group in SWTOR. I spent 2 hours finding one other person to do Taral V this morning. It's a good thing that flashpoint is super easy and we could duo it. We need a server wide tool that lets you search for group members or groups to join by content/role/level pronto. It doesn't even have to be automated to start. Just give us a billboard or classifieds type tool with filters; as long as it's intuitive and people like using it.

Again, anecdotal evidence. I never noticed any such change on my server (pre-cross server tool days). Using the cross server tool as your evidence is out of scope.

Yes, it's not currently in the game. That is a fact. Your first post argues that the cons outweight the pros of an LFD tool. That is not a fact. There is no objective metric to guage the effects of a LFD tool on quality of player interactions in any game. It's all anecdotal evidence, and therefore entirely subjective. The only objective metric you can observe is whether the tool is increasing the amount of grouping going on (if that is its purpose).

What kind of argument is that? It doesn't have to be in the game for it to be opinion. There is no objective measure to guage the effects of a LFD tool on quality of players in any game. It's all anecdotal evidence, and therefore entirely subjective.

What do you think we're doing now?! We're doing nothing but sitting in the fleet spamming LFG in chat all day long A LFD tool (not cross server) allows you to put yourself in a lobby while actually doing something else while waiting for a group to pop up. It doesn't need to port you, all it needs to do is help you find a group based on content ou want to do.

No, it's not hard plain fact. It's entirely subjective opinion.

None of that has a single shred of anything to do with the tool. People who want to level doing dungeons will do it whether there is a tool or not; they just join any dungeon group advertised. Also, without a decent LFG tool, you're sitting in fleet spamming general anyways, not questing. Rolls based off greed will be rolls based off greed regardless of how your group is assembled. Oh I get it, your real gripe is a cross server tool that adds a layer of anonymity to the player. All we need is a server wide tool.

Just skip all the heroic quests. You should have no problem levelling up without them.

I doubt they would ever allow a faction wide chat channel. A server wide LFG tool that works is what we need.

Not exagerrating at all. Took me 3 hours at prime time last night to find one other person to do Mandalorian Terror and Trash to Treasure on Balmorra. Both are Heroic 4's. Now I'm coming up to 1 hour looking for a Taral V or Looted Secrets group. Still haven't found a single person, both spamming chat, and the awful LFG flag.

In the meantime I'm spending 3 hours looking for groups for heroic 4 quests.

I'm more likely to put people who whisper me when I'm not LFG on ignore, particularly if it starts happening a lot.

Explain how you could really get to know people after the Dungeon ended before LFD? Please. I'd love to hear this, because I've never in my 10 years of playing MMOs have noticed any difference between random people from LFG chat, and random people from LFD. I've been with the same guild for 7 years now, and I still can't really say I know everybody really well because guess what, it's still an online interaction. Despite gaming together, the relationship with most people is still one dimensional, and limited to the game you're playing.

The only argument that can be made is that cross-server tools of any kind destroy server communities, nothing more. There is no rational argument against LFG/LFD tools that are server restricted. The tool doesn't need to port you either, it just needs to help you get a group. I played WoW from launch day until just before TOR. It got a respectable LFG tool well in its first year, and I'd say the best version it ever had was during TBC.

I spent 3 consecutive hours today looking for a group for The Mandalorian Terror and Trash to Treasure on Balmorra. Both Heroic 4s. I found one person after 3 hours who wanted to do them. I was monitoring the wholist LFG the entire time as well as periodically advertising in chat. The list never grew past 20, and never once did it contain 2 people looking for the same content.

In the Search Terms: box, replace the name of the planet (or fleet) you're on with LFG. Hit enter.

WOW had a LFG tool by TBC launch.

So everyone on your server:P

I've known that you can query LFG server wide for a long time now. There are a total of 16 people on my server flagged for LFG (including me), which is a sad sad pool to pick from. There are not 2 on that list that are looking to do the same thing.

The FLG finder needs to do the following: Let you specify what role(s) you can fill. Let you filter search criteria or advertise yourself by flashpoint or quest (multiple simultaneously). Be server wide. The big point here is that it needs to have filters to search for people or groups by content.