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.

[Ceridain]

^ wise words! =]

[Hilolas]

I haven't seen this mentioned...

What about when people need ports, rezzes, etc... Now all the druids, wizzies and clerics are gonna get even more tells asking for their services, instead of people just using ooc and auction to get services.

-Hilolas

[Zephys]

And what's wrong with that?

/who all cleric is classic!

[jilena]

Voted "no". EQ is boring when you are the only person in the zone. It wasn't fun in classic and I see that happening a lot more here. I guess there is no way to please everyone and obviously the classic "purists" have an easy advantage in this argument. I will miss the feeling of community the global channels created though. *shrug*

[ryuut1]

/anonymous or /role for them

let's get back to how we restore my old rogue gear for a more "classic" feel.

cof, rbb, full woven shadow.

[Nedala]

I vote for a testrun for about 1 week and then another poll [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Shannacore]

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

who are these brand new newbies who have no idea how to play eq? i find it hard to believe many people (or anyone) is playing this that hasn't played eq before. and if they are, then it's because they have a friend or family member who introduced them to it.

WROOOONG

[Malrubius]

The more I think about it the more hopeful I am about /AUCTION being per-zone.

/OOC seems like a no-brainer to me. Its usefulness is near nil right now.

/AUCTION can survive this way for awhile longer I suppose. But I don't see a reason to wait. Once we all gravitate to the EC tunnel, I think the popularity of the server will grow much faster.

Exciting times.

[Aprio]

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

WROOOONG

Why?