Zarathustra,Nov 15 2005, 01:09 PM Wrote:Not only will they take care of the ghost city syndrome, they should clear up a small bit of imbalance among the races.Actually, by your logic, this change should increase imbalance for Alliance - as currently Night Elf is the most popular race (on average across all servers - data from http://www.warcraftrealms.com/census.php ) :)
Right now, it's not easy to visit an Auction House as a Night Elf or Tauren starting up. Granted, with some friends to give you a port or what not, this is no problem. But I remember firing up the game in December and eventually (in the high teens) seeing someone in Darkshore saying they were gathering a party to head to Ironforge. The overwhelming response? "Where's that?"
However, I don't think that auction access plays significant role in race selection anyway. For most low level toons who head to IF/SW from the Teldrassil, the major reason not AH (they don't have much money or things to sell anyway), but their friends who choosed different race, or - more often - weapon trainer. Or, as it was a case for my hunter, some particular pet to tame ;).
EDIT: After re-reading your post, I realized that by "imbalance" your actually meant different things from what I thought, sorry. However, I decided to keep my post, as the main point remains the same - I don't think AH plays big role on early levels of new character (at least, it didn't for me).
On the other hand, I would probably miss the quiet atmosphere of the current Teldrassil. As a matter of fact, when I even went to quest in Teldrassil with my baby Dwarf warrior (as soon as he hit level 5) - just to quest a bit away from crowds :D.
-Epi.