Dawnmeadow wrote:
I live in Australia and play on the AB server. I have never, in my several years of playing, even seen a guide, let alone gotten the chance to participate in a guide event. Yes, some of the rewards are tradable, but I don't feel that I should have to pay 55plat for the aforementioned skeleton or over 100p for the mistletoe (the prices when I saw each one - ONCE ever). The 10p I had to pay for my Robe of Loving Tidings was ridiculous enough - but since these are the first nice looking robes to ever get put into game, I felt I had little choice. To hear that anyone on the Exchange servers will be able to get the items at will (and some of the quests will be repeatable too!) just makes me want to weep! 
Fwiw, prior to being hired, I was a guide. And I lived in Australia. And gave out guide quests in Australian time zones. I also did encounter some guide events on my play server while living in Australia. So, the events are out there, even for those down under.
What you can do of course, is encourage everyone you know in your time zone to
apply to the guide program!
I also find that eavesdropping in channels like the 1-9 chat and crafting channels can sometimes help with guide-spotting, people may mention if they happen to see a guide offering quests.
The guide quests are out there on servers that have guides, will keep on being offered, are not going away, and hopefully will be becoming more frequent too as more people join the program.
Let's not begrudge the exchange server folks for being able to obtain some of the same quests also, they still don't have the actual pleasure of interacting with the real guides, having spontaneous events, or any events that require guide involvement all through.
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