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Old 10-14-2005, 08:21 AM   #3 (permalink)
Neatton
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Re: What do you think about regional item searches?

I know that alot of people really miss the EC tunnel. WIth that being said however I remember trying to actually buy and sell in the tunnel being a chore. I would save lots of things up for months before making myself actually go out and try to sell it. If there are vendors that I can put my goods on that will be better however without some type of search function you are talking about a whole lot of time that I cannot play while I wait for someone to stumble along.

Unless you can have a vendor up and play on another toon at the same time I think people are going to soon realize that if I want my junk sold I am going to have to give up playing for days at a time waiting for people to stumble onto my vendor. You will then have ppl crowding a small area like the bazzar by the nexus bank to try and get ppl to come to them first. I think at least a regional search tool would be of benefit just like a local paper has classified ads there should be a way to find what you are looking for. I agree the the Bazaar zone is not necassery but then again if there is not one zone for this then it is going to take much more coding to make this search tool available all over the world or in every town. The system of no way to search would only be good for people who spend there entire time online buying low and selling high. I am not one of those ppl I simply want to offload my goods and I dont want to have to set my vendor up for days on end hoping it all sells or shouting selling everything in my bag at tent 2. I really hope that the ppl who remember trying to sell goods at torch 1 remember how tedious this was.

edit: Also remember ppl are going to crowd to one area to sell. It may begin that ppl set up in random areas to sell in towns but after just a few short months one area is going to stick out as the prodominent area to sell your items. IE: EC tunnel. This will happen so why make it even tougher by having to sit there and wait for someone to shout out what they have or randomly run around clicking on ppl hoping they have this tradeskill item or this sword you want. Just think of this from the tradeskill side. You need to buy item X so you can make the uber item...Do you want to stumble around the world for hrs looking for that item?

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