Just watched as three jewelers competed on market, one of whom used a two tell alias 4 times in 10 minutes.

Anyway an endurance or willpower drain (a steep one, like shouts) can be put in for market?

How about instead of willpower/endurance, you can only speak on market every 10 minutes or so? Also can't speak, say, more then three lines worth (however many characters that is). So if you want to discuss something said on market, you *have* to take it up in tells. Or discuss... very... very... slowly.

How about go the whole way and have larger willpower/endurance drains for the more that you say on market/shout, bigger breaths and all.

This market channel, compared to Aetolia, does not let you put in as much text. I would guess that is the case because They didn't want you being a spamming moron. So, to bypass the text limit, everyone does two market tells. Which if you know, takes more space than one long one.

Make an ad.

Uh huh.

Market spamming is ridiculous, 'specially as 95%+ of people aren't going to think "ooh, those diamonds are cheap, so i'll buy them, even though I don't currently need them and won't be using them for any trade skill I possess." The people who need gems or whatever will be looking for jewelers, not waiting for one to come to them!

I think the 'ADS FOR ' function should be changed and improved. Currently it searches the full title of an ad, I believe, but this is useless when people name their ads 'Gems!!!' or '-< forging >-' or 'cheap alchemy for you' - you'd have to use the exact search criteria (eg. 'ADS FOR -< forging >-')to come up with a match. If people could select a category for their ad, perhaps have a list of things to select when you create it, along the lines of... "What is your advertisement for? Select from: Shops, jewelry, forging, tailoring, poisons, herbs, alchemy, enchantment, arts, other." Then when people wanted to search through ads, they could simply check 'ads for jewelry', 'ads for shops' or 'ads for other' to see lists (then browse those lists themselves).

To me, the market channel should be for INFREQUENTLY advertising a detailed ad, or shop - which wouldn't be neccessary if the ad lists were more specific - asking for a certain service, eg. 'seeking bulk sparkleberries' or 'looking for a guide skilled in Planar', and selling something you wouldn't normally sell, eg. 'selling two dozen dead parasites to any interested poison masters'. Anything else probably won't, or simply shouldn't, come up often.

PS - what do people with the Poisons tradeskill call themselves? 'Apothecary' is a cool term, if there isn't currently a different popular one

Actually, you can use the * as a wildcard, so you can search ADS FOR *JEWEL*. It also searches in the body of the ad, so it'll get any ad mentioning "jewel" or "jewelry", etc., anywhere in the ad.

I actually don't mind the market channel. If you don't want to buy things don't have it on?

Well, I have to have it on, for the odd people that just ask for refills on market, rather than coming to me directly. You lose business if you have it off.

Ditto. I advertise, but not every 2 minutes.