What the heck?! (questions)Follow

Wow, went back to EQ2 today.

Couple things I noticed, I've been gone a while so please fill me in.

What's this plague thing? If I get it what does it do, and how can you get rid of it?

How do I sell while I'm offline? Does it do it automatically?

Where is everyone???? The server was like...empty today. No one in the scale yard at all, it was weird. (on Lucan D'Lere) did I pick a bad time or has it really de-populated that much? There's almost no newbie gear to be found :P ouch.

On innothule I've noticed that the popluation has migrated fairly quickly to the upper end of the game. Antonica regularly has 2 instances...

This afternoon Thundering steepes had two as well.

however, oakmyst forest - which used to be up to 4+ is usually 1

Once you are inside your house, double click on the door, then select house vault (bottom right I believe).

Its two slots. Put two boxes or bags in there and fill them up with items.

Then when you click on your market bulletin board, you will have a tab for vault merchandise and can set prices. Anything in the vault will remain for sale for 24 hours.

As far as population, even I have to admit that people are quitting in droves. My guild went from about 20 friends, to about 5. Everyone of the people knows someone else in the guild in real life, but when one quit, and then 2 more, a whole bunch quit over the last week or so.

Yes, the population is getting higher in level, but I've never seen 2 zeks or 2 ELs, so I'm not really buying that theory. There's still rarely a 2nd TS, but that used to be very common and is now rare.

So if its just an "aging" population, you'd expect there to be two of the higher instances, and that's just not so.

I really like this game, and can't figure out what people's issue is. I love the quests and such, but my friends that have quit hated them. Oh well.

I forgot. Also Prices in general seem to be on the rise on lots and lots of servers. For everything too, from basic harvested stuff, to armor and weapons, to LORE (which is almost never on sale), to almost everything. I know this may just be an odd time for the market, but rarity is also sometimes related to population.

Actually SOE carried over the code from EQ1 which hides the number of people. A /who all will never yield more than 100 people. I doubt that any server, except in the first few minutes after server up, had 50 people.

You probably got 100 and thought that's all that there was.

If you do a /who all cleric 40 and get 98 people, then there's actually 98 of them. If you get 100, then there's probably more than 100 but its cut off.

SOE doesn't like people knowing how many are playing for whatever reasons.

/who all dosent work in eq, if you just typed /who all you got probably the people in your zone alone.

EQ1 one remved the /who all count, at the same time they removed the numeric indication on their server pages.

Yes - but I hear the Herpes Mob will be introduced soon! So be sure to wrap your monkies boys!

I don't know, I kind of a get a chuckle out of the plague. The power and control I can weild over others. When I have I just walk up to NPCs and PCs and wait a while. Soon I have them all puking in their shoes and shivering. I think the itchies are the best though.