Agreed. Almalexia's lantern helps a lot for me to loot small urns, especially in that necrom outlaws corridor. But I would very much prefer a standard lantern for more "not mage" toons.

Gabriel_H wrote: »

ApoAlaia wrote: »

There seems to be a serious disconnect here, where players not engaged in trading perceive those who are as some kind of 'parasites bleeding the game dry' where actual trading guilds have to rely on all sorts of 'fundraisers' (raffles etc) or the GMs and officers 'digging into their pockets' (or both in many cases) to keep the guilds going as the 'income' from sales tax and the much appreciated donations come nowhere near covering the cost of the weekly trader bids.

That is a problem trading guilds have created for themselves. It's not all their fault of course, the system ZOS has setup plays a part, but that is mainly down to the proximity of guild traders to a wayshrine/crafting area and limiting one guild per trader (they could have multiple guilds represented by one NPC).

The larger guilds have exploited that design flaw to their advantage. Pushing up the bid price so that only they can afford the prime real estate, and thereby creating a oligopoly that keeps the smaller and newer guilds down.

Player habit determines footfall.

The developers are the only ones that can - and do, there are systems upon systems in the game designed to influence player habit - meaningfully achieve this.

Footfall determines any given trader's desirability, and desirability determines bidding behaviour.

Trading guilds are just groups of players whose behaviour is determined by the systems in place.

What you infer is that we either operate outside the system's influence or that we have means to exert meaningful influence on the system. Or both.

I find this to be an illusion. The only way for this to be true would be to operate outside the permitted parameters of the system, which very few are prepared to do because of the very clear chance of negative consequences.

Pops_ND_Irish wrote: »

wolfie1.0. wrote: »

Pops_ND_Irish wrote: »

Guild bid info being shsred seems to have been the reason for Guild history being locked down till the 16th.
This would not be an issue if they removed guild traders and went to Market Boards

That's like destroying the house and rebuilding a new one because the water pipes broke.

Completely different.
Guild traders couldn't control the market anymore that's why they would complain.
A market board would be good for everyone

Guild traders do not 'control the market', competition between guild traders does, which is one of the reasons why prices have been substantially reduced (one of the most dramatic examples being White-Gold War Torte which went from being substantially profitable to selling really close to/below cost).

Furthermore trader bids have not gone down proportionally which means that we are engaged on a race to the bottom to see who runs out of gold first (many established guilds already have at least on PC/EU).

A market board would do what it has done in pretty much every MMO that has one (until or if the devs really get hands on with the matter): allow RMT - for which game accounts are just a consumable therefore can engage in questionable practices with little concern - to control the supply and pricing of every single desirable item (to their profit and in detriment of everyone else's experience).

There seems to be a serious disconnect here, where players not engaged in trading perceive those who are as some kind of 'parasites bleeding the game dry' where actual trading guilds have to rely on all sorts of 'fundraisers' (raffles etc) or the GMs and officers 'digging into their pockets' (or both in many cases) to keep the guilds going as the 'income' from sales tax and the much appreciated donations come nowhere near covering the cost of the weekly trader bids.

Xarc wrote: »

You know why ?

because MOST OF PEOPLE DONT CARE PVP and :
- RUIN every BG
- dont have any PVP skill, just here for daily, they die on one shot, litterally

Everytime this is the same scenario. PLEASE STOP .

Or change it to "WIN a BG", maybe that will motivate them to jump into the arena and play a little more seriously?

And yet we have PVP people in DLC vet dungeons, with bows doing less dps than my raid geared healer, or s&b who don't actually TAUNT and tank.

*MANY* PVP people are the most hypocritical ever - play PVE like utter tosh, and then have the *nerve* to complain having to handle the same consequence?

Also: I know more REALLY HIGH cp urn farmers than any others that high, and I was an active end game trial raider for YEARS.

No offence - but it is a game - roll with it and just carry them, or requeue; same as we have to when someone wrecks our pledges.

Before anything else I'd like to see the performance improved.

Anything and everything. Lots and lots to do

I like it but it seems we get light vs dark a lot now lately. It makes me kinda miss the Elsweyr chapter. There was some definitely cool stuff. Stoked about the houses but it’s a shame in your Livestreams now you just show a screenshot. That’s a money maker no? I miss the walkthrough on those except Skingrad Castle.
I’ll wait til it comes out. There was a magnificent shot from one of the delves. Real nice job there.