The NPC Economy

NPCs (Non Player Characters) are essentially robots which are programmed to do some action such as sell goods, "train" players in a skill, or provide services such as healing.

Player Vendor Search Disabled

The shopping and "digging" is part of the process of making a good economy.  You have to interact with other players and put time and effort in to get the best objects.  The list/market search has never worked on any shard.  You just click a menu and get what you want, not very fun...and the economy collapses.  We do it this way on purpose:)

Players love to shop, so we have gates to vendor malls, player malls, museums, shops, vendor stones etc to make the exploration part of the fun!

Here is a direct quote from a player:
"I've never seen a shard...even production shards with so many active, successful player run malls"