Where was your live EC tunnel

[August]

I played Quellious during pre-Bazaar times, and it was EC Tunnel.

I remember the first time I went there. I was a 13 year old kid and I had been looting gnome guards for their FS weps and shields from a necro who was exping. He let me loot them because he couldn't be bothered. He told me I should go to 'the bazaar' in EC with my pp to see what I could get.

It was a Sunday, and I made it there and thought 'what the fuck is going on here'. Just unreal how many people were there. I thought for sure that it was an event - not an every day thing, and spent many hours there haggling - I ended up taking the 500pp I had looted and turned it into 1200pp at the end of the day. Thus my addiction to the tunnel had started.

When I logged back on next, probably mid-week, I was astonished that people were still there at 'the bazaar' (and I actually called it 'the bazaar' for the entirety of my EQ experience - I was a little shocked when they zone they created was called 'the bazaar').

I never got past level 34 my first go thru. The lure of the tunnel was too strong.

[Gaffin 7.0]

rallos zek - gfay

[Peekae]

Emarr was EC

[myriverse]

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

Solusek Ro: Gfay


EC tunnel is a pretty stupid place to trade, honestly. Someone in this thread mentioned that it's "two zones away from a good bank and an evil bank and one zone away from ports" and all that is true, except have you ever made the trip from EC tunnel to NFP or Neriak on an overencumbered character? It is so fucking far. Gfay made even less sense, so I'm not saying we were doing it right, just that EC is pretty bad.

"Evil" folks really traveled there to do business?

I think Toxx would be a better place to trade. It's smaller so it's easier to run across to get to good/evil cities, and the ports are completely right there.

Still, who the heck wants to go to Toxx... unless you're Erudite?

[Kekephee]

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

"Evil" folks really traveled there to do business?


Still, who the heck wants to go to Toxx... unless you're Erudite?

Yeah, it was insane. All these ogres and trolls cowering in the Gfay spires begging all of their friends to transfer their new Wurmslayer from the wood elf trader mule they'd made over to their main. Sad. Lots of invises gone wrong near the city, guards training all over the place.


And yeah, no one wants to go to Toxx. I happen to love that awful yellow haze that makes it hard to see anything even in the daytime!

[Duckwalk]

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

Ive banked multiple times in NFP running from EC on Evil and good toons while encumbered. It's called fake trade trick and strafe running. But when i do this i usually ask the person why they dont just have a mule in EC to hold all their stuff and they can't ever give a good answer lol. keep 500-1k in your bank for CR's, recharges and leave the rest on a Mule in EC.

Using mules really only works of you have a trusted RL friend to help to transfer plat and equipment...unless you're two boxing.

Tox is too remote for anyone not porting. FP is centrally located, near popular lowbie zones, all guildmasters and has non-port access to the majority of game zones without much trouble.

All good and evil have no trouble banking and selling.

[Kekephee]

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

Ive banked multiple times in NFP running from EC on Evil and good toons while encumbered. It's called fake trade trick and strafe running. But when i do this i usually ask the person why they dont just have a mule in EC to hold all their stuff and they can't ever give a good answer lol. keep 500-1k in your bank for CR's, recharges and leave the rest on a Mule in EC.

Mule is a good idea, but it's such a pain in the ass sometimes to do all of that extra transferring and then they get encumbered and can't move. I've grown to hate my EC trader because every time I try to get something done on him it's always that terrible moment of dread where you send the other person a tell informing them you're weighed down and can't move and they have to come to you, and it's 50/50 if they're going to respond that they, too, are an encumbered mule who can't move and you've got a problem here

[Ravager]

Shady Swashbuckler should start a bank in the tunnel. He'd probably do quite well for himself.

[Kekephee]

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

Using mules really only works of you have a trusted RL friend to help to transfer plat and equipment...unless you're two boxing.

Tox is too remote for anyone not porting. FP is centrally located, near popular lowbie zones, all guildmasters and has non-port access to the majority of game zones without much trouble.

All good and evil have no trouble banking and selling.

Why do you need guild masters in a trading zone? Obviously EC is a better place to be levelling up and such, in a million different ways, but if we're talking purely about trade, most of that stuff is irrelevant. Easy to make an erudite for transfers, doesn't matter if there are real newbies leveling there if you're just trading items and plat. As far as no-port access, I disagree pretty strongly. Without ports you can get to Freeport by taking a boat or running half an hour from the Karanas through Highpass. Neither one of these is any more sensible than however the hell you get to Toxx. Ports needed either way.

[Duckwalk]

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

Why do you need guild masters in a trading zone? Obviously EC is a better place to be levelling up and such, in a million different ways, but if we're talking purely about trade, most of that stuff is irrelevant. Easy to make an erudite for transfers, doesn't matter if there are real newbies leveling there if you're just trading items and plat. As far as no-port access, I disagree pretty strongly. Without ports you can get to Freeport by taking a boat or running half an hour from the Karanas through Highpass. Neither one of these is any more sensible than however the hell you get to Toxx. Ports needed either way.

Guildmasters for all classes just reinforce it as a area of high traffic.

Relying on mules is always a hassle unless you're two boxing.

Erudite and Qeynos have always seemed remote to be vast majority of popular content (mostly because of the absurd size of the Karanas). In vanilla, solb, najena, hhk,guk and CT always seemed be to a reasonable run from FP.

FP always seemed the most centrally located with banking for good and evil, and both porting and non-porting traveling options.