Gbay
 

Way back on live I played on Tunare and for some reason we all did our trading in Gfay aka Gbay. The concept of the EC tunnel was basically a joke. Was this the case anywhere else? Or did your server do any weird shit like this?

My server (Solusek Ro) also had its trading go on in Gfay.

Heard some servers had North Freeport as their trading zone, which seems even weirder to me.

My server (Tribunal) was EC tunnel but it was in the market area where Shady is, not the entrance.

I grew up on a North Freeport bank area server, so transitioning to the tunnel was odd to me. But I think whatever you were used to just seems "normal".

I get the impression that the tunnel was the most common, followed by Gfay (always heard it as Faymart not Gbay), and NFP was the rarity.

But Gfay makes the least sense. At least Freeport has infrastructure designed for evil races. Gfay/Faydwer is by far the least centralized and convenient. Even in classic/vanilla there's nothing going on out there after level 40 or so except for Phinny, and its totally hostile towards any evil race.

On my server Oggok was trade central.

I dont get this. What do you do if you're a troll/ogre/iksar?

I used to play on a server with 2 trading zones.

The main one was EC tunnel, like p99.

But they also had Gfay too. Which, in some ways, is the case with p99 too.

At least it used to be that way in the early days.

But yeah, no idea how NFP would work, but it makes more sense than GFay.

GFay is out of the way for everyone, pretty much.

I remember when my server was young it wasn't a constant presence at the tunnel, but there'd be organised "market days" through the official server forum. It then eventually became just the go to place until Luclin.

North Freeport on Drinal. Stare at the ground and feel your way around.

You would hit a giant wall of lag passing through the entrance to the bank area, go afk while your PC chugged along frozen and come back when you could move again.