Original style trade skill combines now enforced?

[stormlord]

Originally Posted by jamsen [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

There doesn't seem to be a message in the patch notes, but I was kind of curious as to why this was removed - I know it's not classic but there are a lot of items that aren't classic in this game; such as global ooc and auction channels, and the item lins; that people use all the time.

As someone who enjoys trade skills and who suffers RSI, I'm kind of annoyed that this was fixed, and didn't even rank a courtesy of a mention in the patch notes.

Items links are a good point, btw. I missed that in my first reply. In the backwards days, you had to say things like "Epic Sword 9/17 10str 6.5wt 15k".

I'm surprised live eq doesn't allow you to link a bag and have everything in the bag auto-linked kind of like a webpage. You need to keep in mind that one of hte reasons they added item linking was that items were getting very complex. Many stats were listed with an item and that made it impractical to list the stats manually. For example, instead of saying "Epic Sword 9/17 10str 6.5wt 15k" you would say "Epic Sword 9/17 4ac 10str 5dex 3sta 5mr 10dr 50dd stun 6.5wt 15k." That's not a great example, but the more stats there're, the more impractical it becomes. It might actually save more time in this kind of circumstance for people to meet in person and exchange the items so they can see them directly. Doing it manually also eats up lines in the chat window. And I'm not sure how much bandwidth that's, but I bet it would add up.

Sidenote: I actually am keeping a list of items in social hotkeys because I don't want to carry the items around with me when I adventure. This allows me to /shout my wares without encumbering me. I imagine that this method of doing it would become impractical in modern eq because items can have dozens of stats.