Hydlaa Marketplace

[Aturon]

Dear Planeshift players,

its a pity that the plaza isn't used as what it should be used, namely as a meeting and market place. Therefore I urge you all to come to the plaza at every first sunday of the month and to roleplay a market. Offer your crafted weapons, glyphs, food and armor. Or look out for the other offering. Help that the plaza gets it attention it deserves!

It is not about having a auction day, actually the goal should be to have a dense atmosphere. Your character is an artist or a musician? You are a cook? Offer all you can, make a dwarven beer garden, roleplay some klyros fish snack bar, do gamblings, make the plaza the center of yliakum.

We plan to make this happen on sunday, 6th of april. Any feedback is welcome. Post your ideas here!

Regards,

Aturon Assu

[Zwenze]

The way of the hammer heard that call and is preparing goods to offer. I hope other guilds and players will follow too.

[Taniquetil]

definitely a good idea

will this be an all-day event? if not, what is the rough start/end time?

look forward to seeing you there

[Zwenze]

due to different time zones i think a time frame would not help that much, but i think you should head for the peak hours, thats imho around 1800 gmt

[Aturon]

well, my snackbar will open at 1900 gmt.

Hey zwenze. good to see that you and the hammers are going to be a part of that event. i hope we will have as much fun as possible

[Zwenze]

/my faces turns green: "A klyros fish bar? "

Suddenly Zwenze runs holding his hand before his mouth

[Deprah]

This sounds pretty much like what we hosted two months ago.
Big market, a scheduled time and loads of people, plus attractions, entertainment and whatnot (the only reason why Call of Destiny didn't host more is that some of the big blocks are having internet issues).
So for a start, I of course agree with your views and support the idea emphatically ^_^'

Now, as it seems like we've gone through something alike maybe if I share our experience it will help in some way.

The starting time: We scheduled for a saturday at 17 GMT ourselves. Before we could have everything ready (that was like 5 minutes late or so), the place was already really crowded and the people was rushing to ask for wares. I have no doubt that starting it earlier than 19 GMT, considering it's on sunday when there are more players in-game, wouldn't mean a lack of customers.
The sales: We had three shops of our own plus the other shops/entertainment, and surely more people around than we could have expected. We had our ware lists resting at either shopkeeper's side but it became a hell to attend everybody as the question spamming was plain vile. Having lists for long inventaries is a need but I ponder if it wouldn't be a good idea to hand them to customers one by one..
The placement: Having everybody run around the whole plaza seeking for the next merchant won't amuse them and will keep people split, turning into some auction/shout spamming nonsense instead of encouraging the RP in the main tab. Somewhere more specific than "the plaza" may help gather everybody together and create a warmer ambience. Also, certain forms of entertainment may interfere with the sales and create some hassle.. you don't want that merchant's new shiny leather armor spoiled with beer ;)
Some idea to deal with the billions of Someones in such an event like this wouldn't be bad either...
Also, I would recommend posting an IC announcement here.

Finally, is there going to be any kind of organization or is it just a drop-your-stuff-wherever-and-sell thing?

Anyway.. I will do my best to not miss it, thumbs up! ^_^

[Izzabella]

* Izzabella coughs

are there going to be guards at this event?



KIDDING!

[Luzino]

Thanks for the warning ahead, I'll stay out of the area. Too many players just stall my PC. No chance to do anything myself as my computer only barely manages to calculate what everyone else is doing. The plaza is a huge lag for me with just a few players around - with a whole market? O_o
Much fun to everyone with better computers!

[Velh Krome]

Great initiative, Aturon!

I remember the Call of Destiny market and it was providing lots of interesting situations and atmosphere, with all the furniture displaying the market stands, dwarves gambling and auctions.
It attracted many people not only for the sake of buying a decent weapon or glyph but also for "only" supporting the whole event with presence.
Take Deprah's advices into serious consideration, she did hell of a job there. For the more detailed location you may think of the "fountain", "around the temple" etc. - looking forward o/

Cheers=P

*Velh narrows his eyes watching the guards sharply, hanging up plenties of wanted-posters showing Izzy's face*
Perhaps shaving all the fur would help? xD

PS: Reclaim Hydlaa!

[Izzabella]

* Izzabella sneaks in grumbles and  then scribbles mustaches, glasses and blacks out a few teeth on all the posters 

no really I was kidding I think this is a great idea! I and I hope I can participate in some way or another! (positively)

[potatoehead64]

It's a great idea, however, I always seem to get lag in that area and in Hydlaa in general, so I only go there if I absolutely have to.
Does anyone else get this?
BTW. this is not a complaint. I'm just interested to know if anyone else has the same problem.

Marty

[Meredee]

Great idea, I was missing something like this too! Too bad, that I have a family feast on Sunday But I'll come at the evening, I hope.

[saladasalad]

It's a great idea, however, I always seem to get lag in that area and in Hydlaa in general, so I only go there if I absolutely have to.
Does anyone else get this?
BTW. this is not a complaint. I'm just interested to know if anyone else has the same problem.

Marty

I also get uberlag in the plaza. Great idea, hope it works out. I doubt I'll be there because I'm GMT+11 though. Good luck!

[Under the moon]

How bad is the lag in a guildhouse?