Solutions
Here are my solutions:
Global chat might be needed because we still only have, as another poster pointed out, 350ish or less around during off hours.
If Kunark comes out, and it's up to say 400ish during off hours, that's still a lot of players spread over too many zones, and a lot more empty / dead places than live had with 2,000+ players during prime and at least 1000ish during off hours. So EQ could stlil feel like a ghost-town.
Solution is limit auction and OOC to once per 3-4 mins, or once per 5 mins. This way a newbie can ask a question and get help in tells. Or you can still auction something for sale without hiking across the world to sell it in a zone with players.
Solution 2 is put all new players in a "newbie guild" that you automatically join at char creation. Might be hard to script, but it would solve the problem.
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