New Marketplace Items: Qeynos versus Freeport Prestige Homes

[Dexella]

<p>In addition to the items made by Norrath’s amazing and friendly crafters (available through trades and the in-game broker), you can purchase an assortment of services, items, and features with Station Cash from the EQII in-game Marketplace, 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 as well as some special featured items to help you show your allegiance to Antonia or your loyalty to Lucan. Will you choose Freeport or Qeynos?</p> <p align="”center”"><strong>Tower of Knowledge Deed of Ownership (New Item - <a href="http://youtu.be/wCjkZfHQWDw" target="_blank">Click here for video!</a>)</strong></p> <p align="”center”"><strong>Arcane Academy Deed of Ownership (Featured Item - <a href="http://youtu.be/k1_BzDXETqA" target="_blank">Click here for video!</a>)</strong></p> <p>At the end of a long adventure or death-defying battle, everyone needs a place to hang their helm and admire their surroundings. But where you make your home is just as important as what you place inside it, so choose wisely! Will you select the Qeynos Prestige Home, the Tower of Knowledge? Or is the Arcane Academy, Freeport’s Prestige Home, more to your liking?</p>

[Tyrus Dracofire]

<p>when do the "Court of the Master" get available? it been in "tour-mode" since March/april.</p><p>no one still know what or how to get one, it not in LoN's loot cards or drop from the mobs.</p>

[Leinna]

<p>I don't want to come off as rude but I thought that SoE was going to be targeting less of the market place and more on in game items, as per the video update several months ago by the developers.</p><p>There is no reason that these homes being in the major cities should not be purchasable by someone willing to spend the plat or status.</p><p>Just my two copper.</p>

[apwyork]

<p>Huge mage towers do not make a house.  It's just like you kicked the mages out and they have noplace to study.  How about offering the large Qeynos and Freeport homes, with the ability to customize the walls and floors as prestige homes?  I would buy those in a heartbeat. I think they are probably the best in-game houses available. They look like houses, the ceilings aren't hundreds of feet high and the rooms aren't as big as football fields.</p><p>I have several but rarely bother with using them as every time I want to go there, the rent/status is due.  Sure, the cost is trivial, but the inconvenience of not being able to portal to it from another house if it hasn't been paid got old fast.</p><p>They actually look and feel right. Bigger is better does not apply in all situations and right now, the trend to ever larger and larger prestige houses just makes them that much less attractive.</p>

[Tyrus Dracofire]

<p>that mage tower got 800 items, geez, where do i place it? it just so small for desks.</p><p>i can see why they still avoiding answering about Court of the Master, i feel it is rude to be ignore for months about this "Shimmering Citadel". it been asked several times by players.</p><p>Oracle Tower seem to be a better choice since it can have player-built floors to add in it, but Tower of Knowledge? too tiny.</p><p>so what happen to Kromzek Hall?</p>

[Brigh]

<p><cite>Tyrus@Butcherblock wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>that mage tower got 800 items, geez, where do i place it? it just so small for desks.</p><p>i can see why they still avoiding answering about Court of the Master, i feel it is rude to be ignore for months about this "Shimmering Citadel". it been asked several times by players.</p><p>Oracle Tower seem to be a better choice since it can have player-built floors to add in it, but Tower of Knowledge? too tiny.</p><p>so what happen to Kromzek Hall?</p></blockquote><p>The giant home is supposed to be a drop.</p>

[Tyrus Dracofire]

<p>Didnt you know that Kromzek deeds got taken out of loot drops months ago? no wonder why no one has it yet.</p>

[Didi]

<p>Update edit: aha!  You have to click the teleport pads to use them - unlike the normal ones which you just walk into.  Unexpected but it seems to work...</p>

[Cyliena]

<p><cite>Didi wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Dexella, you might want to point out to the dev team that they forgot to hook up the teleport portals in the tower... meaning you can't get off the entry floor level?  /facepalm.</p></blockquote><p>This is probably why the teleport pads will be available from city festivals... so people can use them in this house. Just my thought, at least.</p><p>I'd pay for something that would convert my expensive Qeynos house to a rent-free status. <img src="/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>

[Katz]

<p>You can teleport in them.   You have to hover your cursor around until  the hand appears and then click on them.   At least thats how it works when you access them from the freeport portal.</p><p>Edited for typo.</p>

[Cyliena]

<p><cite>Katz wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>You can teleport in them.   You have to hover your cursor around until you the hand appears and then click on them.   At least thats how it works when you access them from the freeport portal.</p></blockquote><p>Ah, okay. I honestly haven't checked out this particular house at all yet. That wasn't the first comment I had seen about the teleporters not working, so maybe it's more an issues of the teleporters not working the way people are conditioned to expect those particular ones to work. <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>

[Katz]

<p>Probably.  I spent a bit of time running back and forth over them trying to get them to port me and noticed someone else touring disappear at one of them so stopped and experimented till I found how to teleport.   </p>

[quiarrah]

<p>Way off topic here but not sure where to respond to the European SC card situation. . . .What if you are a US customer on a EURO SERVER?? Can I sill use SC cards or am I restricted on them too now because I am on a Euro server (SPLITPAW)?</p>

[Calthine]

<p><cite>quiarrah wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Way off topic here but not sure where to respond to the European SC card situation. . . .What if you are a US customer on a EURO SERVER?? Can I sill use SC cards or am I restricted on them too now because I am on a Euro server (SPLITPAW)?</p></blockquote><p>Since you can redeem them on your SOE account in a non-game specific way, and you're in the US, I betcha a dollar you can use them just fine.</p>

[Dexella]

<p><cite>Calthine wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>quiarrah wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Way off topic here but not sure where to respond to the European SC card situation. . . .What if you are a US customer on a EURO SERVER?? Can I sill use SC cards or am I restricted on them too now because I am on a Euro server (SPLITPAW)?</p></blockquote><p>Since you can redeem them on your SOE account in a non-game specific way, and you're in the US, I betcha a dollar you can use them just fine.</p></blockquote><p>Calthine is correct. The server you play on has no effect; as a US customer, you can still use SC cards. </p>

[Calthine]

<p><cite>Dexella wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Calthine is correct. The server you play on has no effect; as a US customer, you can still use SC cards. </p></blockquote><p>Hey, I was right!  Cyliena will never believe it.</p>

[General_Info]

<p><cite>Calthine wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Dexella wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Calthine is correct. The server you play on has no effect; as a US customer, you can still use SC cards. </p></blockquote><p>Hey, I was right!  Cyliena will never believe it.</p></blockquote><p>aren't women always right? (even when they are wrong?).</p><p>sorry could not resist.</p>

[Cherri]

<p><cite>Dexella wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Calthine wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>quiarrah wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Way off topic here but not sure where to respond to the European SC card situation. . . .What if you are a US customer on a EURO SERVER?? Can I sill use SC cards or am I restricted on them too now because I am on a Euro server (SPLITPAW)?</p></blockquote><p>Since you can redeem them on your SOE account in a non-game specific way, and you're in the US, I betcha a dollar you can use them just fine.</p></blockquote><p>Calthine is correct. The server you play on has no effect; as a US customer, you can still use SC cards. </p></blockquote><p>What happens if your an Australian customer that plays on a US server. I am having difficulties with redeeming my SC Cards since the EU/US split.</p>

[Calthine]

<p><cite>Cuddlewards@Unrest_old wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>What happens if your an Australian customer that plays on a US server. I am having difficulties with redeeming my SC Cards since the EU/US split.</p></blockquote><p>Dunno; contact customer service.</p>

[SisterTheresa]

<p><cite>apwyork wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Huge mage towers do not make a house.  It's just like you kicked the mages out and they have noplace to study.  How about offering the large Qeynos and Freeport homes, with the ability to customize the walls and floors as prestige homes?  I would buy those in a heartbeat. I think they are probably the best in-game houses available. They look like houses, the ceilings aren't hundreds of feet high and the rooms aren't as big as football fields.</p></blockquote><p>Totally agreed.  Where is the imagination anymore SoE?  You're just taking readymade skins of places and saying it's a house.  It isn't.</p><p>What was the last imaginative house made that WASN'T already a place in EQ2 to see?  The TT island?</p>