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Posted: Sep 23rd 2009 11:48AM Dranaerys said

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6. If you are on a popular server, set up an afk shop isntead of loging unless you look forward to 6h queues next day. :P
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Posted: Sep 23rd 2009 1:31PM (Unverified) said

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Don't do this. I'd like to repeat: DON'T DO THIS! This is an extremely jerk move to do. You're basically saying to everyone who sees you 'my online time is more valuable than your online time.' This is not going to win you any friends, especially for someone who just had to wait a half hour to get in because you were to much of a jerk to log off when you were done playing. And this is the sort of thing people will remember later on in the game when looking for group members. People have long memories for when someone's been a jerk.

Oh, and those long queue lines? They get shorter whenever people log out. That's how it works. So every person you find who is AFK for a half hour, an hour or eight hours is just making the queue times that much longer. When you're done, log the heck out. Suck it up for queue times, it's better in both the short and long run for everyone involved, including you.

I'd like to see the AFK stores removed entirely from the game actually. Not only are people abusing them like this, they're also annoying, rarely worth buying from, annoying, get plopped down in the most inconvenient areas, annoying, tend to slow frame rates when you get a bunch of them in an area.. oh and did I mention they're ANNOYING? Seriously. We have an auction house. Use it.
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Posted: Sep 23rd 2009 4:29PM myr said

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Personal stores have more legit uses than you're giving them credit for. Setting up a shop with crafting materials right in the crafting hall will generally net you more money than selling stuff on the broker, where people have to teleport back and forth to go between (in sanctum anyway, I think Pandaemonium's were closer). Same thing with sellable quest items. Also, with a limit of 8 or 10 items on the broker, and 8 characters across your entire account, it's very easy to run out of selling space if you're a power seller like myself.

Granted, I generally have one 999m item in my store as well. I don't mean any offense to any particular player by doing this, I'm just calling out NC's poor server management.
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Posted: Sep 23rd 2009 7:51PM (Unverified) said

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If your name starts with any of the first 5 letters of the Alphabet, let your friends know your going invisible and use the /anon feature to avoid almost constant farmer spams and tells, since theres no method to report or block the account this will keep you moderately sane.

I'd love to be more social but widecap proxy kills the game chat which for the earlier levels isnt too bad, considering its more like barrens chat from what i've seen, and i cant particularly say i miss it, i know at higher levels im going to want to fix it though.
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