Ghost Cities

Canasta

Below is the ghost city of Dune, just north east of the busy city of Rawl,kha
It's permanently completely empty of players, because there is nothing you can do here that you can't do in Rawl,kha
I find that a bit sad, because the pattern is repeated all over Tamriel.

It would be nice to have particular functions that are unique to a certain city, to bring some life to these places.

For example, a resource that is only found in the area around the city, and can only be processed by specialist NPC vendors in the city
Think of the cities in the USA that started as the result of a particular nearby resource like Gold

Docmandu

There's always going to be places that are empty... especially since each DLC just adds more and more landmass.. soon the game will have a map per player :P

Vipstaakki

Deshaan is pretty much empty. Except for Mournhold. It's a hotbed of players.

ParaNostram

There will always be cities that are just more convenient even if it's by margins. Remember hanging out in the Night Elf, Draenei, or Tauren capitols in WoW? Of course not, because nobody ever did!

Lokey0024

ParaNostram wrote: »

There will always be cities that are just more convenient even if it's by margins. Remember hanging out in the Night Elf, Draenei, or Tauren capitols in WoW? Of course not, because nobody ever did!

Hey i did my time in Darnassus, recruiting enough Chinese gold farmers to form a guild name. Was fun trolling area, same as Barrens chat.

Functionality and relevance to current quest zones keeps "butts in the seats" in zones, not nostalgia.

AlnilamE

Well, Dune is locked by a quest and it also doesn't have a bank.

Sakiri

ParaNostram wrote: »

There will always be cities that are just more convenient even if it's by margins. Remember hanging out in the Night Elf, Draenei, or Tauren capitols in WoW? Of course not, because nobody ever did!

Thunder Bluff was prime PvP, get it straight.

Legoless

AlnilamE wrote: »

Well, Dune is locked by a quest and it also doesn't have a bank.

This. There's no reason to go to Dune after the quest.

AcadianPaladin

Heh, I generally avoid Rawl'kha precisely because it is crowded. I figure it is crowded because of its convenient layout for retrofitting between quests.

I carry my own banker and have completed all horse training so I look for places that are fairly convenient but lack at least one of those so they are less crowded. Ebonheart, for example has a pretty good layout but lacks a bank which keeps it less crowded.

Canasta

Legoless wrote: »

AlnilamE wrote: »

Well, Dune is locked by a quest and it also doesn't have a bank.

This. There's no reason to go to Dune after the quest.

The whole point of the thread was about giving people a reason to go there, and to all the other empty cities.

akl77

I still prefer the one stop shop or town instead of going into each ghost town for that one item, I hate looking at loading screens.

Korah_Eaglecry

Its empty because you have to do quests to unlock it. Not everyone is interested in running the content just for the chance to use a vendor or a crafting station. Why waste that time when you can just go to Rawl'kha?

ArchMikem

They need to overhaul Dune badly, kts supposed to be a large city in the area. Give it a Bank, give it a full crafting area, give it Guild Traders. Id love to move the place i park all my characters over to Dune.