"Classic" feeling shifting?

[fadetree]

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

It made it very easy to make money artificially through arbitrage.

Arbitrage is *actually* making money, there's nothing artificial about it.
But yeah, bazaar made it a lot easier for those of us without the patience for EC.

[Itap]

Some people aren't actually "lowballing" either, they are just extremely poor and are hoping to catch you on a good day. I've sold low level items for a fraction of its worth, just to hopefully help out a struggling new player.

[harnold]

Classic shoved down your throat? Get the hell out of here if you don't like it

[Mentathiel]

Technically, boats that go west out of Butcherblock Mountains is not classic, but we accept that fix. Maybe there is some room for changing some things without losing the classic feel...

[Bodybagger]

Luclin was always okay in my book minus Bazaar... I love EC Trading... bazaar was efficient as hell but man... I loved EC Trading. One of the most classic things about p99.

XP was so quick there though... honestly you could smash a character 1-30 without powerlevel or twinking in a day or two pretty easily by then... it got a bit absurd and rushed you through more than I cared for, but once you've experienced low end content dozens of times.... *shrug*

PoP was crazy with PoK wrecking port/spire/boat travel, the world got vastly smaller with PoK... once you bound there it was over. Nothing special about druid and wizard then as far as interactions go... that's sad. Missed the port service ads, the slight roleplaying that always goes along with hiring services of another class. The grind groups in planes were cool with new mobs and such and the gear got very good... level cap only up to 65 I think been so long... either way, not so bad.

When did berserkers come?

[Yumyums Inmahtumtums]

I hated EC trading with a passion because I played eq on basically a 486 and had to stare at the ground in order to get anywhere.

The bazaar also flooded the market with low level items. Something you don't see here.

[Itap]

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

The bazaar also flooded the market with low level items. Something you don't see here.

Perhaps you don't see them because people like myself just walk up the random new people and trade them items. Just gave away a green jade broadsword to a new barb warrior the other day in blackburrow. Id rather give it to someone who can use it than make the 100pp.

[Daldaen]

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

Perhaps you don't see them because people like myself just walk up the random new people and trade them items. Just gave away a green jade broadsword to a new barb warrior the other day in blackburrow. Id rather give it to someone who can use it than make the 100pp.

This is part of the equation yes.

The other part is that those types of items rot, get destroyed, given to pets or sold to vendors because they aren't worth spending 2 hours in EC to sell. My personal favorite since the latest patch is just trade them to a charmed NPC and leave the zone. Let them discover a Green Jade Broadsword on a decaying skeleton.

However if there were a bazaar maybe they'd be worth the bag space to list on your trader overnight. Then newbies would have the ability to work towards buying some of these items.

There would still be people who give them away as well.

[Itap]

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

This is part of the equation yes.

The other part is that those types of items rot, get destroyed, given to pets or sold to vendors because they aren't worth spending 2 hours in EC to sell. My personal favorite since the latest patch is just trade them to a charmed NPC and leave the zone. Let them discover a Green Jade Broadsword on a decaying skeleton.

However if there were a bazaar maybe they'd be worth the bag space to list on your trader overnight. Then newbies would have the ability to work towards buying some of these items.

There would still be people who give them away as well.

You're right, people might be more inclined to sell 50-100pp items if they didn't have to actively sell the items.

[Whirled]

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

I hated EC trading with a passion because I played eq on basically a 486 and had to stare at the ground in order to get anywhere.

The bazaar also flooded the market with low level items. Something you don't see here.

Yikes.. u brought back memories of CH'ing from F9 top view so the lag wasn't so bad, lol Thanks for the memory jogging!