Quote There used to be an option in group finder for planetary destinations, or whatever they called it. I don't think it ever did anything to match to any specific missions. I think it was just meant for getting together to explore a planet together. Of course, long before I started playing the game that option had already dropped to "nobody ever actually uses this and you could sit in queue all day without ever getting a group " status.



Of course now that we've got level sync, scaled rewards, and people running heroics at 60+ for credits and for Alliance boxes... The game is certainly in a very different place where planetary content is concerned.



The planetary group finder option would need to have level based availability like what they probably ought to have done for flashpoints instead of bolstering to level cap. (Flashpoints should have retained their original levels and kept their minimum level requirement. Only remove the maximum level limit so they're available to everybody from the starting level up to the level cap. Level sync the group down to the flashpoint's level. Hard modes as well should have stayed at 50/55/60 this same way.) A planet would become available to queue for at an appropriate minimum level (the planet's level) and it would remain available forever after that.... with the exception that a planet's availability probably ought to be disabled if you would be unable to pick up any missions because you've already completed them that week.



Group finder would match groups to a specific planet which all members of the group can pick up heroics for, and it needs to include some way of making it clear to the group which planet they were matched for...



Okay, here's an idea for that: When the group is formed, group finder should give them each a weekly mission telling them to do their selected planet's heroics. (A mission just like Voss's weekly.) This mission would not be available to pick up normally. It would be a group finder exclusive. (So Voss wouldn't have its weekly listed on the terminal anymore.) These "group finder weekly" missions would be what the planetary selection does instead of a group finder daily reward.



Hmmm... The problem is that there wouldn't be any room for replacing lost group members if someone leaves. It's all or nothing. Can't just bring someone in and magically have their weekly already credited with the missions that the rest of the group already completed. Also, anyone that leaves could still complete the missions solo later on to complete the weekly. Can't really enforce needing to stay with the group to complete it. And matching would probably get kind of rough for anybody that doesn't get around to it until later in the week, after a ton of people are already locked out of a bunch of the planets. Won't see a match if everybody else already did everything they wanted to do earlier in the week. Hey look, it's a referral link! Free stuff available if you want to click it. (Info page on referral program.)