why is EC the auction zone? [Archive]

Ennoia

07-30-2011, 04:36 AM

Whatever happened to gfay? There's not even a bank in ec it doesn't make any sense.

Gfay doesn't work as well. Evils can't bank there, or really anywhere on Faydwer. In EC at least they can run to Neriak. GFay is also a bit of a run from the Druid port, whereas the Wizard and Druid port are both right there in WC, very close to the zoneline. Plus, it's the fuckin' TUNNEL!!

EvilMallet

07-30-2011, 05:08 AM

bitches love tunnels

superapan

07-30-2011, 07:35 AM

On Mith Marr it was in NFP. Clearly a superior server.

Athosblack

07-30-2011, 08:26 AM

lol from what I remember on RZ Gfay was always lively with /acu

deneauth

07-30-2011, 08:30 AM

Veeshan it was NFP too. Easy for darkies to raise faction with FP murder some DF orcs.

Huddaan

07-30-2011, 08:52 AM

On Saryrn it was also NFP. It was so much more convenient then the tunnel.

Nedala

07-30-2011, 08:57 AM

i miss gfay soo much, it was so much better than ec :(

Aadill

07-30-2011, 08:58 AM

NFP on Drinal. Loved it. EC is second choice.

Ektar

07-30-2011, 08:58 AM

I miss porting into gfay and instantly bolting before someone could land an ice comet on you :P

Athosblack

07-30-2011, 09:41 AM

I miss porting into gfay and instantly bolting before someone could land an ice comet on you :P

Classic! Wizards waiting at the top of the spires for port ins, people porting in buffin before a port and bolting once they loaded. lol

Doors

07-30-2011, 10:00 AM

What ass backwards server would use gfay when evils can't bank anywhere near the area.

Arkanjil

07-30-2011, 10:17 AM

EC was always the place on Fennin Ro

Nedala

07-30-2011, 10:45 AM

What ass backwards server would use gfay when evils can't bank anywhere near the area.

just the server with the highest population.

Evils just made mules or faction.

Tiggles

07-30-2011, 11:00 AM

just the server with the highest population.

Evils just made mules or faction.

Fett

Tiggles

07-30-2011, 11:01 AM

On my server we always had 3 different trade zones.

Nuets had RV
Evils had EC/FP
Goods had Gfay

Atmas

07-30-2011, 11:09 AM

I miss porting into gfay and instantly bolting before someone could land an ice comet on you :P

I miss being that someone

Bubbles

07-30-2011, 11:18 AM

What ass backwards server would use gfay when evils can't bank anywhere near the area.

Because, you know... everyone carried their 100k platinum pieces on their evil main toon and hang out in the tunnel.

They don't all just stand in the tunnel on level 1-5 alts, making the fact that it's EC or Toxx forest irrelevant.

oh wait.

Yeah, at least if it was Gfay, you could find one of the 10 wizards online at any given time and port directly there. Although Felwithe would probably be the more desirable banking location -- quicker to zone over than to click the stupid lift 3 times.

Dantes

07-30-2011, 11:29 AM

On my server, we traded in Everfrost. And we liked it.

Phallax

07-30-2011, 11:30 AM

Tunare was gfay also, and evils could bank there...wolf form! thats not till velious tho right? shared form?

Nerfbat

07-30-2011, 11:37 AM

Tunare was gfay also, and evils could bank there...wolf form! thats not till velious tho right? shared form?

Nope, shared wolf form is in right now. lvl 39 druid spell (iksars use this for OT outpost)

orsk

07-30-2011, 11:58 AM

Derkinn

07-30-2011, 12:02 PM

Yeah, Classic for me on mith marr server was running around that corner to bank in nfp and lagging like a bitch.. was definitely better.

PurelyElf

07-30-2011, 12:52 PM

What ass backwards server would use gfay when evils can't bank anywhere near the area.

Why would you want to trade with the bad guys?

Anger

07-30-2011, 01:01 PM

On Mith Marr it was in NFP. Clearly a superior server.

WTS 4 bags of stuff behind Jade!

Nytewind TP

07-30-2011, 01:07 PM

It was always EC Tunnel for me. I did like the first Bazaar in Luclin, HATED the upgraded confusing crap they did after the fact. I didn't mind the lag :)

dusk883

07-30-2011, 01:14 PM

TZ didnt have anything so far as I remember. It was all blackmarket

Galanteer

07-30-2011, 01:46 PM

On Mith Marr it was in NFP. Clearly a superior server.

Yup, I remember taking the boat over the first time as a newbie just to go to the Saturday market. Probably had my life savings of 100pp. Then I figured out the stein quest and made 10k fast and worked the JC market every Saturday!

Samoht

07-30-2011, 01:50 PM

I didn't mind the lag :)

Just look at the floor!

Aesop

07-30-2011, 01:57 PM

TZ didnt have anything so far as I remember. It was all blackmarket

I don't remember any specific trading zone either

Knuckle

07-30-2011, 02:01 PM

I don't remember any specific trading zone either

that's because its a pvp server derp

Aesop

07-30-2011, 02:29 PM

Right, someone was claiming gfay was the trading zone a couple posts back derp derp

Aprio

07-30-2011, 03:03 PM

On Mith Marr it was in NFP. Clearly a superior server.

/shout Banker to sewers!

I miss my Mith Marr days :D

Slave

07-30-2011, 03:32 PM

I was Coyotess on Zebuxoruk server around 2000-2001. I probably spent about 4-6 months at level 34 just doing jewelery out of the tunnel. Heady days.

I'm sorry everyone, but EC tunnel is classic location for the market, and it is certainly the most centralized and logical area to hold it. That's why, 12 years later, there it is in EC. Kind of hard to argue against that.

PurelyElf

07-30-2011, 03:34 PM

I played in 2000, and gfay was the auction zone. Pretty sure you guys on other servers did it wrong.

Slave

07-30-2011, 03:50 PM

I played in 2000, and gfay was the auction zone. Pretty sure you guys on other servers did it wrong.

P99 is the ultimate expression of Everquest. Are you saying P99 is wrong, sir? You're out of order. Your whole server is out of order.

Felwithemagi

07-30-2011, 05:31 PM

EC was always the place on Fennin Ro

GFay had a healthy auction crowd as well. It can again on this server. I guarantee if you come to gfay with items we can use you will make some sales. Crushbone belts and pads are always being traded. Low end gear for casters, druids and pallys would go over well.

JenJen

07-30-2011, 06:28 PM

i seem to remember ec tunnel being derelict on tunare server

Xanthias

07-30-2011, 07:02 PM

Was always EC on Morelle Thule

Sinadyen

07-30-2011, 07:34 PM

EC on Rodcet Nife as well.

Vermicelli

07-30-2011, 08:08 PM

As has been mentioned a few other times in this thread, EC is a central location of the world that is close to both a good bank and an evil bank. The EC tunnel is a large identifiable landmark with many different, easily identifiable sections (entrance, T1, T2, T3, Shady) that has no good-aligned guards or mobs patrolling. How the heck can you still recommend Gfay (good-only bank, good-only guards, roaming faeries) over EC? Jeeze people, think of others' needs for once in your loveless lives!

What I would actually like to add to this discussion however is that traveling merchants profit highly from trying to sell twink items in the Qeynos and Faydwer zones simply because most of the /auction action is centralized in EC, leaving the markets in other zones without competition =)

PurelyElf

07-30-2011, 08:18 PM

Let's all auction in gfay from now on. It's time we went back to classic EQ.

Alex

07-30-2011, 09:06 PM

Let's all auction in gfay from now on. It's time we went back to classic EQ.

I'm up for this! Doubt it would work though

greatdane

07-30-2011, 09:29 PM

As has been mentioned a few other times in this thread, EC is a central location of the world that is close to both a good bank and an evil bank. The EC tunnel is a large identifiable landmark with many different, easily identifiable sections (entrance, T1, T2, T3, Shady) that has no good-aligned guards or mobs patrolling. How the heck can you still recommend Gfay (good-only bank, good-only guards, roaming faeries) over EC? Jeeze people, think of others' needs for once in your loveless lives!

That and it was close to the most popular zones in the game: Oasis, Guk, SolA/B, Highpass/keep. Gfay is a bitch to get to without a port while fully half of the game's races start within a 10-minute run of EC and none of the evil races can even physically travel to Gfay, let alone bank there, and most people ran on two frames per second back then which is a bad combination with platforms high in the air while heavily encumbered. Gfay made absolutely no sense as the primary trade zone except on PvP servers.

Xxtayce

07-30-2011, 09:37 PM

It was EC on Fennin. I wonder if TMO being recreated here has something to do with why it's the EC tunnel on P99 also?

Reppy

07-30-2011, 09:38 PM

seemed like Povar had 2 trade zones which was Gfay and Ec which both was always over populated. EC seems like the right choice easy for everyone to bank at

Felwithemagi

07-30-2011, 11:06 PM

Don't over think it. You can auction in any zone. GFay had plenty of action on Fennin. Fact. So did other zones. Most of you are smart enough to know where the best zone is to auction your wares. So let's not be elitist and guide everyone to EC for everything. Some of us are starting out nekkid and building slowly with no outside help.

San

07-31-2011, 12:54 AM

Was EC on Karana. Wouldn't seem right without Shady.

nymphloa

07-31-2011, 06:51 AM

It was always the EC tunnel on the Rathe server back in the day! simple and classic for all the reason already mentioned!

Nytewind TP

07-31-2011, 09:27 AM

This whole post is a headache. Just have the Devs open the Bazaar with bankers somewhere easy for everyone ;)

Mirakk82

07-31-2011, 11:12 AM

It was EC on E'ci, Ayonae Ro, Povar, and Innorruk. I believe it might've been Gfay on Luclin.

Clearly Gfay is inferior. And I never heard of NFP until now. It defies all logic

toddfx

07-31-2011, 01:31 PM

I'd be down with a NFP auction zone strictly for the purpose of chilling in Tassel's Tavern.

Everybody would be held up in bars and Inns and stores which would be pretty neat.

Plus one could easily tradeskill while sitting around.

Eyeke

07-31-2011, 01:39 PM

Was always EC on Tarew Marr

I'd support a move to NFP like Toddfx said. I'd definitely look to open a Trade Federation bar.
:)

Slave

07-31-2011, 01:48 PM

Just have the Devs open the Bazaar with bankers somewhere easy for everyone ;)

As much as I love this server for being Classic, that is one thing that I miss. Instead of sitting at the damn tunnel ALL DAY for an item I want, I could stroll in and look for it for 30 seconds, then get on with my life.

Zuranthium

07-31-2011, 04:12 PM

NFP has a bank and crafting materials, it's actually quite logical.

I also remember a lot of auctioning in Gfay, but then that's just because there were so many people in the zone at all times. There were many players who started the game in Faydwer and simply never left that continent.

I don't really care where auction central is, the sad thing to me is how the gaming area is rather dead anywhere west of High Hold Keep. The Karanas, Qeynos, Blackburrow, and Everfrost used to all be full to the brim.

Ektar

07-31-2011, 04:13 PM

As much as I love this server for being Classic, that is one thing that I miss. Instead of sitting at the damn tunnel ALL DAY for an item I want, I could stroll in and look for it for 30 seconds, then get on with my life.

why not open poknowledge so everyone can port around the world more easily too amirite

and allow people the set level gm command (whatever it is) so they can level up as they want and not have to grind ALL DAY and just do it in 30 seconds.

Tasslehofp99

07-31-2011, 04:29 PM

On prexus it was NFP, Gfay, EC. All three zones had tons of folks auctioning, course our server population hovered at 2k just about 24 hours a day.

vinx

07-31-2011, 04:39 PM

why not open poknowledge so everyone can port around the world more easily too amirite

and allow people the set level gm command (whatever it is) so they can level up as they want and not have to grind ALL DAY and just do it in 30 seconds.

ya why not?? whats the worst that can happen?
more poopsocking bodies? lolol

srsly, nexus err the spires wouldnt be to bad. if they were one way.. (up)
then lowbies could find a ride or take spires.. bank their new gear and ranger gate back.. others can port or find rides
bazaar wouldnt = pok

just an idea, personally idc where the wares are being sold
but a bazaar would mean alot less waiting around when you need to pick something up and go!

vinx

07-31-2011, 04:42 PM

Tallon Zek was Gfay, great music, occasional gang rape,mostly bards running around with banker chasing them while people wait for a GM to show up. Then there is those bored Ahole barbarians who sit in the doorway and block access.

haha people would run around with the bankers because of the barbarians!
if nobody could pull out the banker everyone would be at that little side window tryin to bank

Slave

07-31-2011, 05:07 PM

why not open poknowledge so everyone can port around the world more easily too amirite

and allow people the set level gm command (whatever it is) so they can level up as they want and not have to grind ALL DAY and just do it in 30 seconds.

I was just talking about the system in general; imo the Shady area of EC could be the part that you could turn yourself into a trader in. Even the trader guys are there for the itemization and profit mostly and not so much the 'interaction' ("offer") that goes on. There would still be that aspect of the game.

Just my opinion obviously and I don't care to passive agressively attack people simply over their personal preference when everybody knows we'll never, ever get it anyway.

Damn what am I talking about? Of course I care to do that. :)

Drem

07-31-2011, 07:36 PM

hahahahahah

citizen1080

08-01-2011, 01:59 AM

It was EC on E'ci, Ayonae Ro, Povar, and Innorruk. I believe it might've been Gfay on Luclin.

Clearly Gfay is inferior. And I never heard of NFP until now. It defies all logic

Was EC on Luclin, FV and I believe Test was EC as well...

baub

08-01-2011, 02:07 AM

i can't imagine how screwed up of a person I would be if I played live with GFay as the auction zone......

SupaflyIRL

08-01-2011, 02:36 AM

Nope, shared wolf form is in right now. lvl 39 druid spell (iksars use this for OT outpost)

call of bones works too

Messianic

08-01-2011, 08:13 AM

This thread should be changed to make NFP the new trade zone.

runcs

08-01-2011, 08:43 AM

Was always used to EC so it is plenty classical for me.
E'ci > Zeb > AB

Striiker

08-01-2011, 11:52 AM

I think the EC area makes some sense in that there are places relatively close by that evil and good races / classes can go to bank, ports are close by, boat's close, somewhat central, etc. There are more zones to adventurwein therefore there will be more players on the continent and in the area. It's a part of the original world so it had momentum prior to Kunark, and Velius. Beyond that, I'm not sure how it was that it became the de facto auctioning point on live back in the day. There were variations with places like Greater Fay being the place to go but generally it was East Commons.

Raavak

08-01-2011, 12:16 PM

EC on E`ci and I hated the run from Neriak bank to the tunnel encumbered with plat.

I think a bazaar would ruin the classic feel, sorry. When we got channels there was a server-wide auction channel. Maybe this would be more doable.

I personally think Gfay would suck, sorry. NFP would be cool, but good luck making it happen.