/oldvoice on "Why... back in my daaaayyyy!"

[Ysall]

I remember using tradeskill containors as inventory bags, and accidentally hitting 'Combine' and poofing everthing inside.

[Itek]

Hehe, I was actually sad when they removed that "feature."

I would carry around fletching kits (before the 5th coldain shawl, I didn't do ANY fletching) because they were the best commonly available bags. Lowest weight, biggest capacity size/number-wise. And cheap. You just had to know where to find them as a dark elf.

Then I would put my stuff in my inventory and garabge loots in the last kit. If I started running out of room... -=-click-=- more room.

Yes I was too lazy to just "destroy" them. Destroy takes two clicks per item. (Fast destroy = the DeBiL.) The old way I could trash several items all at once with one click.

Two bags open. Check.
Open tradeskill book. Check.
Slider bar... I waited till after they cut that out.
Gnome sacrifices before tradeskill runs... to this day.

(Much harder to sacrifice gnomes with my Hobbit Cleric, but there are ways...)

[Grolyn]

I remember back when the defination of "twink" was wearing brass armor part before level 20.

Or how you had to be at keyboard to run bazaar, usually at EC tunnel.

If you were riding the ship and ever heard a mysterious "ding" it's the ship that got leveled up after losing certain number of unfortunate riders. Any reason the ship is still "broken" and drydocked for so long? People might actually want a 3 hours like ship ride.

Before PoK and Luclin expansion went live you either needed a druid or you had a really long run. Ever try going from Halas to Felwithe to Thurgaden? the ship rides alone would add quite a few hours there. Add to that another long run if you got owned by mobs along the way due to forgotten or dropped invis.

[Glidelph]

Yes, I remember the 'good old days' and pray they NEVER come back. I may be psycotic but I'm not insane.

The new TS containers and recipies that show each needed ingrediant which pop up when you search them are a blessing, beats the old way of having it written down or printed out in a thick ring binder, one for each skill. Then having to MANUALLY do the combines, ick.

I also remember having three ringbinder's for maps printed from EQAtlas, still didn't stop me from 'exploring', when I got lost, and both my dru and ranger were world explorers that never could quite figure out how to get from point A to point B without taking little 'detours'. Boatrides were long affairs of sitting and waiting, and sometimes swimming if you 'fell' off durring a zone.

Ya, there were moments back in the 'good old days' that I'll treasure forever but don't hold it against me if I start kicking and screaming if you try to drag me back there.

PS... My favorite spot to 'drop' swap was above the merchants just by the bank in WFP. If you went to the back of their shop, to the left of the second 'hidden merchant', there was a staircase that led to a small platform above them. I still have bad memories of the time I was shifting bags full of HQ Cat pelts and going LD. When LoY came out I was very pleased that I could shift plat and items and not have to worry anymore.

[aanalin]

If you were riding the ship and ever heard a mysterious "ding" it's the ship that got leveled up after losing certain number of unfortunate riders.

Huh? you pulling my leg ?
(I never dropped offship tho)

I dont miss those old days, and wont miss it if i ever have to say 'in the old day you had to wait week for your target to pop amd hope no one see it before you" or "kill hundred of same mobs to get a single drop you are looking for"

or 'In the old days, you have to sell your work at lost to vendor' (dont talk me about exploit if id make 1cp per combine, I make more wiping newbie zone..only in those virtual wolrd tradeskill cost you. or use bazaar, vendor sell to make a profit . .after the artisan made it cut already. ) (macroer are other issue)

hope to see these comment someday...

he he.. make a list of what you'd want to be old memories
a negative wishlist, not what you want in, but what you want out

Aanalin

[burnttoastv]

I never used it as a swap spot but I used to forget my smithing hammer in the hidden forge above the entrance to the Felwith bank. One time I clicked up on it to do a combine after having to buy another smithing hammer *again* and found where I had lost the last one.

When I would do combines for people in Felwith I'd do thier combine in the seeable forge, then take them outside the bank and position them under it, then tell them to look straight up and click the sky. Was the best gag ever.