GLOBAL ooc/auction. Poll time.

[doacleric]

In Feb of this year, I recommended that when we reach 750 max players, we should finally turn off Global channels. Back then we were hitting 350 max players, and it seemed like a long ways away. But it looks like that time has finally come.

There are now more than enough players to allow for "help" for new players, even if ooc is limited to zone only. And hell, sometimes you just gotta let those newbies experiment and figure stuff out on their own. Who here doesn't remember the first time they started typing to an NPC, forgot to hit ENTER, and got whacked in 1/2 a second when they hit the 'a' key?

Even during low times, there are more than enough players. The LFG ability is there for a reason - to help players find groups. I play on P1999 and I use it, and it does work. And i'm betting once global channels are gone, its going to be used even more.

The bottom line is - global channels will have to eventually go away, like it or not. As the population continues to grow, so will the amount of spam. We don't want it to have to get to the point where players turn OOC off completely, because well that doesn't help anyone either.