auction tracker on wiki

[loramin]

Can I just state a few points?

1) EC traders are just people playing a game, like the rest of us. They are not any more or less evil than the rest of us (although I'm pretty sure Econ is going to hell for that Jew comment [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.])

2) Buyers and sellers in ANY market whatsoever benefit from having more information than their "opponent".

3) The people who spend the most time in EC will have better information than people who don't.

4) People who sell, by virtue of having to do that selling for extended periods of time in EC, spend more time there. Because of this and point #2, this means they will get better prices.

5) Any sort of price reference (ie. the wiki) has a mitigating effect on point #4, because it reduces the information disparity between people who spend different amounts of time in EC.

When you add all the above together there's one obvious conclusion to be made:

The wiki negates the advantage of people who spend time in EC.

Now you can totally argue:

A) That's a good thing, because Everquest is about using gear to adventure, so anything that makes it easier for people to get gear to adventure with is good

B) That's a bad thing, because Everquest is about whatever you want it to be, and for some people that's trading, so anything that makes spending more time in EC worthless is bad (how would you like it if someone could reduce the experience you get for spending X hours in EQ? well the wiki reduces the plat they can make from spending X hours).

It just comes down to whether you think an "EC sub-game" is a key part of Everquest. If you do then you probably want it to work like the rest of EQ (more time spent = you do better), and if you don't then you want everyone to get equal prices no matter how much time they spend.

There's nothing wrong with either opinion, so enough with the profanity and name-calling; no one is wrong, evil, or scamming anyone, we just have different ways of playing the same game.