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You mentioned favoratism. Have you noticed all the nice new signs that say Shops, the maps on the walls, arrows showing the way to various sections and exits in the area under New Oxford?
None of this was there at first and now there's a lot of signage to and throughout the underground area. How come they get it and we dont especially if you've been asking for it for awhile?
The mall on CND is as much / more of a maze than that area. Imagine what happened to me: Go to CND to shop with a friend - took the flight up specifically to shop, had ped in hand. Get up there, can't even find a TP to any 'mall' although we know one is there somplace. Finally, someone in the cr told up to use the N or S teleport, we enter, head the wrong way down a hallway. 50:50 chance of going to mall dome area or hallway to apartments or pilot area. We 'finally' found the mall. Entered a few of the shops from the outside, most were empty or blocked. Eventually we discovered the inner hallway and the 'windows'. Went into several stores until coming across one that had an arrow pointing to a yet undiscovered downstairs area. Finally figured out we could buy most of the things we were looking at as we'd been looking for shopkeepers too. We finally gave up in total frustation. The fun of it was gone. We left, ped still in our pockets.
I consider myself to be pretty familier with 3d VR worlds and navigation and the like since I used to design them. Again, this is the most un-intuitive space I've ever been in. *Wishes that MA would let me re-design the mall or be a part of a total overhaul of the area - will provide references :-)*
If I had such a hard time I can only imagine what happens to other people. I just hope after this discussion we can take a few minutes here and there to help people learn to shop and use the area as is for now.
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