bmnoble wrote: »

I heard some stuff about Rawl'kha in various zone chats, didn't really pay it much mind. After hearing what's happened I don't consider them heroes at all, just a stupid stunt.

All I can say is those who have bought the trader locations better be selling something at fair prices, if not then they are just annoying the customers of those guilds and further reducing customer choice.

I will have a look there tomorrow, if those traders have next to nothing listed, I will just ignore the location, until next week when the normal guilds get there spots back.


You know what will happen if they try to keep this stunt going, for more than one week, denying those guilds the trade stall those guilds use normally?

Those big guilds that have been displaced will, outbid locations from smaller and medium guilds, the loss of a guild location for a smaller guild can often prevent them from getting one for quite some time, especially when the main sellers leave to find guilds with traders, forcing those guilds to rely on the generosity of members to raise gold for a trader bid.

If a small or medium trade guild lose their trader for 3 weeks in a row, that can often be the death of the guild.

But that likely won't happen, the guilds that lost their spots will likely save like crazy and bid twice as much as they normally do for the trader and this group that have temporarily taken the traders will either waste their gold on the bid and lose or move on to another location or go back to saving for the next time they pull this stunt somewhere else.




As for the other stuff in OP

Don't see that fixing anything to be honest a lot of the bigger guilds, have either sister guilds/allied guilds often with the same big sellers in them, the GM's will just swap locations each week.

The sellers will be the same, prices the same, just the convenience of knowing where guild X is that sells certain items at a good price, that you regularly visit will be gone. You will have to search just to find out where the guilds you regularly shop has relocated to.


If the price in a guild store is too high, simple walk over and look at the next stall, if they are all too expensive in a zone, browse another one, looking for something specific use the TTC website. No one is forcing you to pay their set prices.



Those big guilds you call monopolies, are the ones providing the most reliable stock of various items that players want and are prepared to pay gold for, if the prices are too expensive, then your not the target customer.

Some of those big guilds have been around since launch, there members work hard to raise the gold for the trader bids, you want a location, raise the funds, not just once to buy the trader any guild can do that, with enough time, but every week almost without fail, then I will consider what these people did in Rawl'kha an accomplishment.



One of the bigger guilds I am in has total guild sales of over 100+ Million a week. A lot of richer members donate large amounts of gold each week to ensure they keep the trader location.

I am not talking about 10K which is often the min dues for big trade guilds each week, talking about anywhere from 150K in extra donations(eg raffle tickets) to millions spent in guild auctions every week to maintain traders(that's not in total either single bids in the millions for individual lots).


I personally donate about 215K a week spread between the 5 trade guilds I am in, that is before taking sales tax into account. Last week in one of the medium sized trade guilds I spent about 1.4 million in the guilds first auction, all that goes towards the trader bids. I know guild mates who donate considerably more than me each week.

If I were to donate just the minimums dues each week, I would probably only donate about 20K a week and the rest would easily be covered by sales tax. I donate extra along with other rich players to make sure we keep our traders.


that's my 2 cents.

Saucy_Jack wrote: »

I'll never understand this misplaced, ill-informed feeling of "they force us to pay their terrible prices". You have the internet, yes? Of course you do; you're playing the game. So if you don't like the prices in Rawl, for goodness' sake bookmark the TTC search page and find whatever it is for a lower price.

"But I don't *want* to have to look around!" <--- Literally no one cares if this is your attitude. Stop crying and shop around like a normal person.