EC Tunnel, Bring it back yes or no?

[karsten]

removing item links will result in more spam, btw, not less. cuz every person selling a savants cap will, rather than just linking it, will now /auc selling savants cap, +3win +3 int head slot all/all or wtfever

now imagine that times ten, for each person that has ten things to sell.

just throwing that out there

[Nocte]

The benefits of EC is that there are two banks within a 1-2 zone radius, one good, one evil. Any player can get into at least one of the banks, unless they have screwed up their faction in some obscure way.

There are two druid rings and two wizard spires (three, if you count the N Ro evac) within a 1-2 zone radius. There are no guards or annoying decaying skeletons that attack AFK folks in the EC tunnel, and its got its own merchants that will sell to anyone.

It's a safe place for lower levels to shop, and when Kunark/Velious release, the boats to take higher levels to those continents are 1-2 zones away, as well.

It's on Antonica, which is the starting continent for most of the playable races, and not far from the TL to Faydwer, the close second in population and player activity. Odus sucks. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

GFay and NFP cannot offer the same amount of equally accessable benefits to players of any race/class.

[Ceridain]

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

The benefits of EC is that there are two banks within a 1-2 zone radius, one good, one evil. Any player can get into at least one of the banks, unless they have screwed up their faction in some obscure way.

There are two druid rings and two wizard spires (three, if you count the N Ro evac) within a 1-2 zone radius. There are no guards or annoying decaying skeletons that attack AFK folks in the EC tunnel, and its got its own merchants that will sell to anyone.

It's a safe place for lower levels to shop, and when Kunark/Velious release, the boats to take higher levels to those continents are 1-2 zones away, as well.

It's on Antonica, which is the starting continent for most of the playable races, and not far from the TL to Faydwer, the close second in population and player activity. Odus sucks. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

GFay and NFP cannot offer the same amount of equally accessable benefits to players of any race/class.

Wow. Great facts, thanks for compiling and wording them so well!

Just more reasons to make the move to EC, especially if global chat is turned off soon [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[twizztid]

BRING EC BACK

I loved EC, always brought people together as a hang out spot. It's beside an evil city, and a good city. The current trading post, NFP, is dumb. Evil chars have to faction or invis, which is stupid.

A trade post in EC is best imo. Is equal to all.

[eqdruid76]

The common trade zone differed from server to server, however the big 3 were east commonlands tunnel, north freeport, and greater faydark. While I agree whole-heartedly that there should be a common zone for this purpose, I'm not strongly opinioned on where. North Freeport is more convenient for good races, the tunnel is a compromise, and GFay...../shrug never really understood how that one became a trade zone.

Anyway, is seems that North Freeport has already been established as a common zone, of sorts, even with serverwide /auction. Although there are a few folks who are setting up their mules at T1 and T2, and that's appreciated. Although if chat channels are implemented, and serverwide /ooc and /auction aren't eliminated, there will never be a common zone for socialization on P99. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[eqdruid76]

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

The benefits of EC is that there are two banks within a 1-2 zone radius, one good, one evil. Any player can get into at least one of the banks, unless they have screwed up their faction in some obscure way.

There are two druid rings and two wizard spires (three, if you count the N Ro evac) within a 1-2 zone radius. There are no guards or annoying decaying skeletons that attack AFK folks in the EC tunnel, and its got its own merchants that will sell to anyone.

It's a safe place for lower levels to shop, and when Kunark/Velious release, the boats to take higher levels to those continents are 1-2 zones away, as well.

It's on Antonica, which is the starting continent for most of the playable races, and not far from the TL to Faydwer, the close second in population and player activity. Odus sucks. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]



GFay and NFP cannot offer the same amount of equally accessable benefits to players of any race/class.

EC isn't as safe to go AFK as you're making it out to be. There's good old Seargent Slate, who has terrorized many an evil PC, and the griffon, which has terrorized EVERYONE. And you can bet your sweet bippy that they'll both be trained to the tunnel at every conceivable opportunity by the plethora of chodes who play on this server.

Don't kid yourselves into thinking that a common trade zone will be all flower petals and rainbows. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. Basically all the asshattishness from serverwide /ooc will be found there.....contained in one zone. But that's how it was on live before The Bazaar. It's very much a part of the classic Everquest experience, and that's why we want it.

[Winston]

if ec becomes active like it once was then their wont be a problem handling someone trying to pull in a mob or two. There are more polite and generally knowledgeable players then there are 'wretched hives of scum', unfortunantly they are just louder.

[Nocte]

Originally Posted by eqdruid76 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

EC isn't as safe to go AFK as you're making it out to be. There's good old Seargent Slate, who has terrorized many an evil PC, and the griffon, which has terrorized EVERYONE. And you can bet your sweet bippy that they'll both be trained to the tunnel at every conceivable opportunity by the plethora of chodes who play on this server.

Neither of those mobs path near enough to the tunnel to cause problems, unless they are trained there. The griffon is a terrible example, however, since it's killed as soon as it pops most of the time, and it's a rare spawn in the first place. If they ARE trained there, there's an issue where account action can be taken since there are tons of witnesses.

...and yes, all the asshattery from global /ooc will be contained to one zone. That doesn't somehow concentrate it to be more powerful and super MEGA IMMATURE, it'll be the same amount of text that we see in /ooc now(probably less, since people will have to be IN East Commonlands). When I zone out of EC, though, all of it left behind and my /ooc returns to working like it was originally designed. Just like classic.

[Arkanjil]

Bring back the EC tunnel...even with server wide OOC/Auction, I always sell at EC tunnel and make people in NFP run to me.

Toodles!

[Bodeanicus]

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

my server's trade zone was kelethin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] SCREW YOUR EC I RAISE YOU A GFAY SPIRE GANK

I'd prefer that. Why the fuck did it have to be North Freeport?