Why mara?

Lagon

Why specifically did everyone choose mara.?

**zeroone506**

Think it was one of the main hanging out locations in Beta. Camon C and Tabor W are said to be similiarly popular on specific servers.

smokeydemon1

U used to start there in beta, i think (when u first mad ur char )

and before the re-flow it was one of the random h/l`s u used to start at aswell

renegat123

Because mara is the god of illusion, he who attempted to stop the buddha from reaching enlightenment.. thus mara, the person, and the place.. distracts us from the path to enlightenment.. and leads us on a path of destruction and blindness through violence.

or maybe not.

ruthless! SMILEY

**Zeac**

im always asking the same question... lol if its because of that illusion nonsense i find it funny theres a church right there.. but i think it was a good place to go with the vendors there and all but now that everyones lvl 50 now pretty much atleast from way back then i think it'd be cool to find a better location.. yesterday was kind of cool on vector there was a rather large pvp battle between the mervs and zionites that moved around it started around edgewater and moved to furihata and a few other places

Hymirwolf

It was the very very first hardline ever created. People don't like change

**Othinn1**

I remember that, back in beta, Stamos Northwest was popular as well. But crowds stopped hanging out there after the game was released.

**Grace of Darkness**

I was told that Mara was the area that all the events took place around. So people would just hang there waiting for the next exciting thing to happen. Now ofcourse it can happen anywhere, I guess people just decided to make Mara the hot spot. Doesn't really matter to me, I shall not be a Mara bum much longer.

00Zero

Ironically I was just talking about this with a friend today, and what's funny is in the fiction it states that mara is one of the most violent districts in the mega city and has become a 'free fire zone" since the truce was instated and another quote I find funny "Mara is a place best avoided if possible."

**zeroone506**

Wasn't that Uriah? :smileyindifferent:

**Stack**

It really wasn't the players who designated Mara as "the" hangout place, it was more the devs. Apparently, they used to hang out there in early Beta, and it was also the place that they used to show off the game for the first time at E3 a few years back (or so I heard). I can't remember if it was Walrus or Rarebit, but one of the devs said that they thought it was probably the most well-designed area of the entire game.

**Tiango**

Lagon wrote:
Why specifically did everyone choose mara.?

Why not

**TonyJaa**

i think mara is more like a habbit.....most of the time u go there and just stand....

Lagon

TheTomoBelieves wrote:

Lagon wrote:
Why specifically did everyone choose mara.?

Why not

I'm trying to discuss here :smileytongue:

**Zeac**

well mara is area that connects west view and downtown to richland... but maybe it the terrain i mean its got the high street right there for snipers a fence or the lower street or bach by the weapon vendor so spys can sneak up a building to drop in from well before uriah it was one of the best places to shop at a lower lvl has a club right there a church all you really need ever a few data taps close by if anyone really wanted 300 info and 50 xp