Trade chat doesn't seem to be used

When you say trade chat which one do you mean exactly? which one were you looking at?

Most people on Calypso use #calytrade I think and that doesn't depend on which tp you at, its universal. Like the other trade channels.

 

I can see why they added it... but don't think it's seen a lot of use. I think i've seen it use at Twin but probably folks just went back to using local chat there as Twin Peaks is at least historically THE trading area.

 

Hmm... that surprises me... maybe the days of half a dozen or more folks posting buying and selling then a list of ores and percentages at Twin on repeat are gone... it used to be you could barely read them all because there were so many people doing it.

 

Most trading spam these days are done in Player owned custom chat channels.
When in game type:

/join #calytrade
/join #trade

for the ones most commonly used on Calypso.

These player owned custom chat channels can be seen universe wide.
The EU standard Local & Trade chat channels can only be seen from the town or area you are in.

 

 

You need to meet up in game

 

yeh no such thing as separated trade. Only option is to sell on the auction or a shop, or to put an order in on the auction. Back when everything was local chat at Twin it was dead easy, people would all hang in one place and it was easy enough to find traders as they'd add @ boxes or @ TP or @balcony or @TT or whatever to their trade message so then it was just a case of spotting them and running over. I guess if people are not frequenting Twin for this now and just using a global chat then there's more "where are you" going on. I guess that's a double edge sword as people can do other things and go other places rather than just standing in one place all the time but of course that looses the other party the convenience of being able to show up at twin and find traders near a TP. You also loose that sense of community or market buzz.