I lived in the EC tunnel on live, and quit with the introduction of the Bazaar.
There was no outside influence for pricing as strong as the auction tracker. Doing PC's, asking friends, asking your guild was all very normal.
Allakhazam was not accurate at all, and no one checked it for item prices; I don't know what game you played, but I never once heard "Allakhazam says its worth X" in my 3 years of tunneling...not one single time.
All the arguments being made for the auction tracker is that it saves you guys time, and you are paranoid of being ripped of.
If you want to kill a raid boss, you track it. If you want to get top dollar and become an auction hero, you track item prices. This is just how the game was, and should be replicated as such.
If you want to trivialize the EC tunnel for convience, then where does it stop? Why not put a mob spawn tracker on the wiki, and track the last time each mob was last killed so I do not need to compete with trackers/more dedicated people?
EverQuest is an unforgiving game that you need to invest countless hours to achieve what you want. EC tunnel was no different on live and should be no different here. If you do not have the dedication to learn the market, why do you feel you deserve to be handed the information?
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