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Lots hated the spires and easier transportation, too. I guess a 30 minutes round trip is too easy. I've never had any meaningful social interaction with a porter either. I'm polite and friendly and i tip decently considering my meager financial means, but i've never had a real conversation with someone that ported me.
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On live I almost never got ported anywhere, I was way too poor for that, which I might add is a problem foreign to this server due to timeline. I did play a Bard so it cut down on my travel time some, but I would pretty often spend a good two hours or more going from GFay (Sol Ro server trade hub), out to perma where me and a few buds in my noobish guild would farm items that really weren't worth all that much looking back. On the way I'd often grab people running around BB, the Commons, or Karanas and take them where they were going, wasting even more time on pointless shit and not getting anything really done. I was a noob for sure, but the world felt so massive and real that I couldn't avoid getting sucked into the life like that. Sure if I actually do play nowadays I'll get ports wherever I go, and it's just a plat transaction like you say, but I understand that if I hadn't built up a bank or a rep here then I really might not have that convenience.
I had quit EQ by the time Luclin came out, so most of the hate people give it I don't really understand and avoid commenting on, but the Nexus fucks something that fundamentally makes this game impressive to me.