There are posts CONSISTENTLY made offering trips from here to there. If you cannot find someone to transfer a bag of items for you then you sincerely aren't looking very hard.
I'm not asking for a ride. I'm criticizing the lopsided access to a game mechanic that, by the assertion of yourself and many other cross-sharders, has become a fundamental part of the game. I am pointing out that this is problematic and increases the friction and hostilities between cross-sharders and home sharders.
And for the record, if I do want a ride, I know where to go. I just got some stuff moved a few days ago in fact.
Not the point. One chunk of the population shouldn't have to either spend a lot of money (whether it be real money or in game gold) or rely on the charity (and trustworthiness) of the other chunk of the population to access what the latter group keeps insisting is a fundamental part of the game now.
If it's not a big deal, why did everyone with shields blow a gasket when they changed them briefly a while back? It is absurd to insist that limited access for some people isn't a problem after everyone lost their minds when access was suddenly more limited for everyone.
Most of the cross shard players I have seen have been the most respectful people at the events. I see more complaining and pancakes from the shard locals than from anywhere else, and like I said I've got characters on most NAmerican Shards.
I don't know what events you've been going to, but that's hilariously inaccurate for my shard. I guess I need to start recording events and posting transcripts. I think that would be VERY telling, especially with a glossary of which character represented which Stratics poster.
...always shard vendors selling full transfer tokens for less than a good role play title in the government program set up in the game...
Again, not the point, and not a reasonable comparison. A title is a vanity item that you only have to buy once. By your own assertion, cross-shard travel is a basic part of gameplay, and the reality is that it is used quite frequently by those who can. A more apt comparison would be if only certain players could include their vendors on the vendor search. What, you could just get your friend to put your stuff on his vendor, right? There are plenty of great people who would happily run your vendor for you for free or maybe a small fee! It's not really that much of an advantage anyway! Heck, I know a guy who has seventeen vendors and never uses them!
I have found that the easiest route to getting something transferred for me is to simply be nice to people. Seems to work well for me. Sometimes I have to be willing to wait until the person is ready to xfer, but that's not a problem for me. I don't mind waiting for a free trip.
We are a big family. If you'd like to be a part of it you simply need speak up. I have shields on 2 accounts. I am always offering transfers to people. Want to be friends? My ICQ is 95129146. I don't bite unless you are very very good
This seeming offer of friendship rings a bit empty since I'm
already on your ICQ list and
I send you event reminder messages frequently... and in fact sent you one just a few hours before you posted your reply here to me.
I know you get them because you replied once... to complain about my shard EMs.
I mean, seriously? Is that your idea of being nice to people... completely forgetting they are in regular contact with you? (Unless they can move stuff for you, I guess.)
Yeah, not feeling very familial here.