Personally, I think buying and selling is much less of a hassle. Sometimes I play prime time hours and sometimes I play very off peak hours. Has anything changed pre/post chat changes overall? Not much... people buy and sell more often during the prime time hours and its rough during the other parts of the day. At least right now there is an agreed upon location to make transactions. Now I don't have to deal with a situation like the one below...
Quote:
them: /auction WTS blah blah blah
me: How much are you looking for?
them: xxx plat.
me: Sounds good, where do you want to meet?
them: I am in a group Lguk atm. I can meet you in NFP in a couple hours?
me: yeah.... never mind.
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In terms of finding a group... It is not that hard. When I was leveling in in my early levels I hung around Crushbone. Sometimes times were spent ungrouped and I would assist other groups from the outside and eventually get invited. After more time, most of the general "crushbone population" knew me and group invites got a lot faster. After that, I did the same thing in Unrest, Highkeep, Oggok, Solb... ect. Sometimes I put up a LFG tag (it helps when you don't roll with an anon tag on either) and I would eventually get a tell from someone I knew, or did not know, for a group. I occasional used the global chat as a means of finding a group, but it was my least effective means. I applied my general knowledge from finding groups from EQ and it worked pretty good for me.
I am glad the zones feel a bit more empty. It helps give a more spacial realness to the game. One that has been lost in current titles. I welcome the incentive to make efforts to communicate with other players in a non "everyones connected" way.