It stops all trading, of which guild I belong to. It's the only thing that really ticks me off! It's not like I can hunt/fight, not likely! It seems unfair for other guilds to have such a big impact, and yet only one guild can not work, during the war.

Regards,

Sortny

Actually, I remember traders who got rich during both of the last wars harvesting enemy armor and weapons and selling them at the pawn shops. There were so many ways the traders could help then, but now with the new mechanics there are many more things a trader can do to be an important role playing part too.

Naturn, sharpens his arrowheads and ponders upcoming war with a fierce gleam in his eye..

<<All I can say is, after reading how rich and involving the GSIII Ware of Nations seems to be, I'm jealous. We need another massive-scale event.>>

I can't help thinking there's more to this than just the amount of work involved behind the scenes. I remember my own experience with the Sorrow war, it was very nearly enough to make me give up DR altogether. I came to the realms, within two weeks had persuaded three friends from another game to join me ... only two of us made it past the Sorrow war, the other two quit in sheer frustration and never returned. It was confusing and completely disrupted the game for true newbies.

It's nice to have a change in the routine, fun to have new dangers imposed upon experienced players and I personally have elaborate fantasies involving the destruction of the new temple in Crossing, but anything that so totally prevents playing the basic game is bound to lose at least some new customers for Simutronics. When you also consider staff has been busy rewritting and updating so many systems, I suspect that kind of massive event isn't a high priority right now.

Gizella