Bank in EC tunnel.

Why not put one in there? then it would REALLY be a hub zone!

Just put an early entrance to Bazaar there and call it a day.

Bazaar from launch would be awesome.

Banker in tunnel would be great. Bazaar at launch would be horrible.

Just push the bazaar then add a clickie item from a start quest in each home city.
Buy X from general merchant
Buy X from armor
Buy X from weapon.

Quest complete
Reward: McQuads bag of Blunders
Teleports you to bazaar.

All those poor farmer would have to actually play their toon

Or could just make an AA available when origin is /shrug not as fun though.

EC Tunnel should just be made its own zone, with a bank and Bazaar functionality as well as it being a "passive" zone where buffs do not lose duration. Add some other NPCs like the Augment vendor, reagent vendor, food/drink vendor for convenience.

The amount of people I've come across who say they absolutely will not deal with auction spam is quite high. Many of the people who are into it are actually using automated software to post their auctions continually so they don't even need to be at the computer, and can receive alerts via mobile when they get a tell.

Commonlands needs to be flagged for pvp. We'll resolve trade disputes the old fashion way.

I believe it is fine as it is. It is one of those classic experiences you get to experience. And its done during the trilogy era where there's not a terrible amount of options to the point where it is bewildering.

By the way, the Commonlands tunnel is a player construct. A hub created by the players themselves. If it is too inconvenient, then move it.

I would LOVE the bazaar in classic, add a translocator in the tunnel and another in the bazaar to port you back to shady.

Short of that, a banker on neutral faction would be great.

It is inconvenient to have to stay logged in to sell stuff, the off line trader for the bazaar is a quality of life thing and allows players to actually play rather than hang around trying to sell their wares.

And yet they added a parcel vendor there.

Isn't that just due to the nobles vendors being parcel vendors and being at all LDoN camps?

Why would there be a bank in the desert?

Everyone should probably setup up their traders in the middle of West Karana. We need a more remote spot to do trading.

By all means, put traders in the middle of a zone full of bandits. Makes perfect sense lore-wise.

That very few people want. People do it because they basically have to. It's an old outdated function that no longer exists in ANY game because it's a time sink, when compared to the updated alternative. Same reason corpse runs no longer exist, tons of rare spawns have had their spawn timers reduced, parceling, class EXP penalties being removed, coin having no weight, and many more. Because the game is better for it.

I don't really mind tunnelquest, but I'm curious why you think bazaar at launch would be horrible?

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EC tunnel is the worst part about TLP servers. Just make the bazaar part of the base game and move on. If you wanna play the nostalgia card, use the Bazaar 1.0 until luclin drops, then switch it over to 2.0

There's money in them deserts.

You don't know that. You can't prove that. The EC tunnel is absolutely part of the nostalgia for classic. I think the parcel NPCs are an acceptable compromise, and I feel the same about adding a banker, but adding Bazaar on day one goes too far. The game already favors professional farmers too much as it is. A bazaar is just laying out the welcome mat for them.