Just to play devils advocate, Sergeant Slate will aggro some races/classes and the tunnel zone is often the closest way out.
Not that I agree with intentional training of course, but I would hate to see someone get banned because they picked up Slate aggro 20 steps from the tunnel and headed that way to zone. Zoning aggros is a perfectly legitimate use of a zoneline....Hindering normal play in a zone because 200 people have designated that zone the marketplace is technically, in live terms, zone disruption. Not the other way around. EC doesn't cease to be an adventure zone with everything that goes with that just because the server decided to hold auctions there. And when you sit next to a zoneline, or in the pathing to/from a zoneline, you run the distinct risk of catching a train to and from that zoneline....It doesn't mean someone necessarily intentionally trained you. I've run into this claim while simply pulling for groups....People just sit their asses down in hallways, doorways, etc and think they now have some personal no-fly zone or something simply because they sat there. Doesn't work that way.
I was all for getting rid of global chat. The server really feels like EQ now, for me at least, and EC is where I like to do my trading, short of the bazaar. But as others have said, you wanted EC, deal with the realities of EC or move the trading to someplace that doesn't have roaming guards that aggro a significant portion of the playerbase. You can't have it both ways and I think the GMs should tread lightly in this area. No one has held a gun to anyone's head and made them do their trading in any particular zone, any particular part of a zone, or made them go afk in said part of zone or while logged into a level 1 trader mule that happens to be kos to some of the things that could be trained to a nearby zone during legitimate gameplay in that zone.
All of that said, as long as people aren't getting screwed by knee-jerk bannings when they are genuinely needing to zone an aggro, go ahead and nip the asshattery in the bud. It can't be that hard to tell who is doing it intentionally.
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