New Marketplace Items: Researcher’s Sanctum, Aquarium, and Battlerager’s Helm!

[Piestro]

<p>In addition to the items made by Norrath's amazing and friendly crafters (available through trades and the in-game broker), the EQII in-game Marketplace is an integrated store where you can purchase an assortment of services, items, and features with Station Cash, to enhance your gameplay experience. Appearance armor, mounts, prestige homes, and server transfer tokens are just some of the items available.</p> <p>New items are added to the Marketplace weekly. Here's a look at the latest additions:</p> <p align="center">Researcher’s Sanctum</p> <p align="center"><a href="http://www.everquest2.com/images/en/features/2012/03/marketplace/sanctum.jpg"><img src="http://www.everquest2.com/images/en/features/2012/03/marketplace/sanctum_th.jpg" /></a></p> <p align="center">Scholars of Norrath rejoice! The Researcher’s Sanctum is a submarine paradise for the bibliophile inside all of us. Set amidst the blue waters of the vasty deep, the Researcher’s Sanctum provides the perfect getaway when you just want to relax with a cozy book. Or several thousand cozy books, as the case may be!</p> <p align="center">Deepwater Aquarium</p> <p align="center"><a href="http://www.everquest2.com/images/en/features/2012/03/marketplace/aquarium.jpg"><img src="http://www.everquest2.com/images/en/features/2012/03/marketplace/aquarium_th.jpg" /></a></p> <p align="center">Aquaculture has long been known as a way for one to relax and center one’s self. If the adventuring life is leaving you a bit too stressed, perhaps caring for this tiny aquatic realm will leave you in a calmer frame of mind. Set in an ornate wooden enclosure, the Deepwater Aquarium oozes refinement and class.</p> <p align="center">Battlerager’s Helm</p> <p align="center"><a href="http://www.everquest2.com/images/en/features/2012/03/marketplace/br.jpg"><img src="http://www.everquest2.com/images/en/features/2012/03/marketplace/br_th.jpg" /></a></p> <p align="center">Capable of making even the most diminutive of the Arasai look fearsome, the Battlerager’s Helm clearly indicates you are one tough hombre. With a sweep of spikes resembling a fauxhawk, the Battlerager’s Helm is perfect for every adventurer looking to up their intimidation factor.</p>

[Senya]

<p>Love the house and aquarium.  I have only one request.  Can the item limit please be included for prestige houses in the description in the marketplace window, and maybe here in the announcement too? </p>

[Sinnous]

<p>Need Moar content....less fluff...</p>

[Cloudrat]

<p>I swore I wasn't going to buy anymore houses, sigh... <img src="http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii240/Aeryal/Aquarium-1.png" width="618" height="702" /></p><p>Just had to do it<img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> A built in teleporter to the lower floor too!  </p>

[Cloudrat]

<p><cite>Senya wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Love the house and aquarium.  I have only one request.  Can the item limit please be included for prestige houses in the description in the marketplace window, and maybe here in the announcement too? </p></blockquote><p>Omg yes they need to do that  aaaargh  I just looked and it's 400  noooo someone need to rethink this please.  I was all set to fill up all those neat shelves with the myriad of knick knacks I have accumulated over the years  noooo .</p>

[Absyntheea]

<p><cite>Cloudrat wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Senya wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Love the house and aquarium.  I have only one request.  Can the item limit please be included for prestige houses in the description in the marketplace window, and maybe here in the announcement too? </p></blockquote><p>Omg yes they need to do that  aaaargh  I just looked and it's 400  noooo someone need to rethink this please.  I was all set to fill up all those neat shelves with the myriad of knick knacks I have accumulated over the years  noooo .</p></blockquote><p>Only 400??? That means at it's top it can be 750??? We have this huge place and can't really do anything much with it, that's way too low..</p><p>I was so very excited about that place too. :-/</p>

[Rijacki]

<p><cite>Senya wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Love the house and aquarium.  I have only one request.  Can the item limit please be included for prestige houses in the description in the marketplace window, and maybe here in the announcement too? </p></blockquote><p>OH YES!! That would be stupendous!</p><p><cite>Cloudrat wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>I swore I wasn't going to buy anymore houses, sigh... </p><p>Just had to do it<img src="../images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" /> A built in teleporter to the lower floor too!  </p></blockquote><p>Yeah.... I know what I am getting tonight and I havent finished with other ones I've gotten yet either *whimper*</p>

[Piestro]

<p>I just talked to the Dev team and they are looking into the issues raised in this thread regarding the Researcher's Sanctum.</p><p>Thanks,</p>

[Zeedlana]

<p>Who came up with the bright idea of only 400 spots for that place? My little OCD Fae archivist has been waiting and waiting for this place since the first teasing images were brought to his attention. Thankfully it's only going to be his private library off his main TT house...but still....</p><p>And yay for aquarium!</p><p>But um...maybe if we're nice we can get just the unframed glass in the future? Purdy purdy pweese? Oh, and more fishies - not all of which need to be carnivorous.</p>

[Cloudrat]

<p><cite>Piestro wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>I just talked to the Dev team and they are looking into the issues raised in this thread regarding the Researcher's Sanctum.</p><p>Thanks,</p></blockquote><p>Thanks for the rapid response<img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>

[Warpax]

<p>Dont raise the base Item limit on this house, just add higher level expanders to the marketplace(not craftable). I know you guys need the revenue badly.</p><p>Also How about a prestige house that looks like an actual house instead of a stripped down zone replica? you know, something with actual livable room layouts and not with 50ft ceilings etc </p><p>not all of us have the time, talent or patience to build these glorious, grand works of art some of these guys do using that 3rd party editor. {asked one such talented person if i could pay for them to decroate a house like that for me and was told it would cost 500-1000 dollars. yes RL money}  yikes</p>

[Bhael]

<p><cite>Piestro wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>I just talked to the Dev team and they are looking into the issues raised in this thread regarding the Researcher's Sanctum.</p><p>Thanks,</p></blockquote><p>This is the same problem we have with the Everfrost Summer Home. The item limit is WAY to low for the size of the house. They both need to be raised.I like the other suggestion to add higher level expanders too. Or at least let us use multiples of them, not just stack the two different ones.Please address the item limit in BOTH of these houses in SOME way.</p>

[Senya]

<p><cite>Bhael@Oasis wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>This is the same problem we have with the Everfrost Summer Home. The item limit is WAY to low for the size of the house. They both need to be raised.</p></blockquote><p>Agreed.  Everfrost Summer Home was way too low. </p><p>I thought the Thurgadin House was entirely too low as well.  You almost need a mount to run across that place, it falls into the massive category, and yet it has less item count than my 5 room Halas house.</p>

[Amuli]

<p>That house looks like someone loves Bioshock 2.</p>

[Whilhelmina]

<p><cite>Senya wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Bhael@Oasis wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>This is the same problem we have with the Everfrost Summer Home. The item limit is WAY to low for the size of the house. They both need to be raised.</p></blockquote><p>Agreed.  Everfrost Summer Home was way too low. </p><p>I thought the Thurgadin House was entirely too low as well.  You almost need a mount to run across that place, it falls into the massive category, and yet it has less item count than my 5 room Halas house.</p></blockquote><p>Oh yeah, I had massive problems decorating that place and it looks empty.</p>

[Tyrus Dracofire]

<p>fishtank look nice but too small for all those "water plushies' to put in, scaling dont look right with portion size texture.</p><p>man, still stuck with homemade fishtank.</p><p>my questions for devs....</p><p>how much longer do i have to wait for "hat rack" shelves for hats and helms, and a "real" armor stands "storages"?</p>

[duranvaer]

<p><span style="font-size: x-small;">Wish list item: </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">Haraakat the Seer plushies and floating books to place in the Researcher’s Sanctum hehe.</span></p>

[Necrotherian]

<p><cite>duranvaer wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-size: x-small;">Wish list item: </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">Haraakat the Seer plushies and <strong><em>floating books</em></strong> to place in the Researcher’s Sanctum hehe.</span></p></blockquote><p>Sort of like the house pets that just randomly walk around?  Except with the open book graphic?</p><p>************************************************** ***************************************</p><p>Another thing I'd like to see, if they are going to continue to give us expansive houses (which I really don't mind at all), is a pack of teleport pads available on the Marketplace, or perhaps more of the events (such as the Moonlight Enchantment or the City Festival events) having them available.  Maybe they could re-texture them to match the City Festival theme for a each month.</p><p>Another thing.  Since these are prestige homes, they should probably increase the teleport pad limit.  For regular homes, they could stay at 4, for prestige homes they could increase it to 6, and for guild halls 8, 9, and 10 for the T1, T2, and T3 halls, respectively.</p><p>Just my 2cp worth.</p><p>Rotherian Facepalmer</p>

[duranvaer]

<p><cite>Rotherian@Unrest_old wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>duranvaer wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-size: x-small;">Wish list item: </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">Haraakat the Seer plushies and <strong><em>floating books</em></strong> to place in the Researcher’s Sanctum hehe.</span></p></blockquote><p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Sort of like the house pets that just randomly walk around?  Except with the open book graphic?</span></strong></p><p>************************************************** ***************************************</p><p>Another thing I'd like to see, if they are going to continue to give us expansive houses (which I really don't mind at all), is a pack of teleport pads available on the Marketplace, or perhaps more of the events (such as the Moonlight Enchantment or the City Festival events) having them available.  Maybe they could re-texture them to match the City Festival theme for a each month.</p><p>Another thing.  Since these are prestige homes, they should probably increase the teleport pad limit.  For regular homes, they could stay at 4, for prestige homes they could increase it to 6, and for guild halls 8, 9, and 10 for the T1, T2, and T3 halls, respectively.</p><p>Just my 2cp worth.</p><p>Rotherian Facepalmer</p></blockquote><p>From the bold/underlined above, that is exactly what I mean, I always thought they were pretty cool mobs.</p>

[Stuez]

<p>just LoL at the sheer speed of red name response to requests for fluff changes</p>

[TheGeneral]

<p>Mm Bioshock.  How I miss that game.</p>

[Cloudrat]

<p>I see in the test update notes they have upped the item count on the Researcher's Sanctum some, but it really isn't enough or equitable  with the sc cost of the place . I  made a list of the SC prestige housing and see there are some things that seem wonky and maybe there could be a balancing act of them while you are at it?</p><p>.........................................Item count--SCprice</p><p><img src="http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii240/Aeryal/Alist.png" width="750" height="527" /></p>

[gourdon]

<p><cite>Viscaria@Antonia Bayle wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>That house looks like someone loves Bioshock 2.</p></blockquote><p>That zone was released as content in Feb 2010 concurrently with Bioshock 2.  I'm pretty sure Vasty Deep: The Abandoned Labs was available on release and doubt their inspiration comes from Bioshock 2.</p>

[gourdon]

<p>There might be some concerns about how this zone and others like it will render when filled with too many items.  I would guess that is more of the concern than wanting to arbitrarily limit how many items players can put in there.</p>

[Dawnstrike]

<p><cite>Cloudrat wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>I see in the test update notes they have upped the item count on the Researcher's Sanctum some, but it really isn't enough or equitable  with the sc cost of the place . I  made a list of the SC prestige housing and see there are some things that seem wonky and maybe there could be a balancing act of them while you are at it?</p><p>.........................................Item count--SCprice</p><p><img src="http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii240/Aeryal/Alist.png" width="750" height="527" /></p></blockquote><p>I totally agree Cloudrat.  I thought they'd raise that Researcher's one from 400-800; not to 600.  They just don't get it. And they are still releasing every grey toned zone they can find in the game with every new house.</p>

[Rijacki]

<p><cite>gourdon wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>There might be some concerns about how this zone and others like it will render when filled with too many items.  I would guess that is more of the concern than wanting to arbitrarily limit how many items players can put in there.</p></blockquote><p>I'm sure this has a lot to do with it. There are some zones which handle more objects better than others because of their own zone art.</p><p><cite>Dawnstrike wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>I totally agree Cloudrat.  I thought they'd raise that Researcher's one from 400-800; not to 600.  They just don't get it. And they are still releasing every grey toned zone they can find in the game with every new house.</p></blockquote><p>What do you mean by "grey-toned zone"?</p>

[Cloudrat]

<p><cite>gourdon wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>There might be some concerns about how this zone and others like it will render when filled with too many items.  I would guess that is more of the concern than wanting to arbitrarily limit how many items players can put in there.</p></blockquote><p>Yeah like the 2000 count dungeons?</p><p>Then they should lower the price.</p>

[Senya]

<p>I totally agree, Cloudrat.  I wouldn't have dreamed that when they upped the count on the new house it would have been even less than the 700 that regular non-prestige houses have.</p>