115525-illium-auction-comparison-population-misconception

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I feel super silly right now. I've been playing since launch but having leveled from 10 to 30 PVPing with some friends, I only ever discovered the PVP vendor auction house. Some time in July I heard there was an alternate somewhere in the city, but I didn't think much of it and just kept doing my thing. Fast-foward to October 8th...
 
This is what I've been looking at for the last six weeks or so.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
This is the auction house on the western side of Illium that I just found today with the help of a friend:
 
 
 
 
 
 
There are people running around outside of the picture, but you can see almost twenty players in the shot. Also, this is a way nicer place to hang out, it's got nice trees and containers and machines and flight pads, and a super mysterious portal...
 
Has anyone else missed this? I mean, I kinda failed hard on not ever being interested enough to cross the city and fully explore, but what a difference. I spend a lot of time hanging at the AH between building sessions, I wonder if something like this could be contributing to the perception of Wildstar's active population?	
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			Of course it does. There are actually three AH/CX locations in each capital, so I never give credit to someone who posts a 'my server is dead' image with one of them, since they can just find the one which happens to be empty (which one gets used more tends to happen pretty organically on each server).	
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			That's a shame really. I can understand the desire to create a sense of epicness, they are capitals after all. But I've always preferred more condensed places like Dalaran back in the day.	
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			They added more than one because having just one was cramped as hell on busy days, and left the rest of the city feeling dead. The solution hasn't fully solved either problem, but at least there are options available the way things are now.	
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