I cannot imagine anything outperforming preprocessed A* pathing: www.eqcprices.com/SebPull.avi (requires XViD codec). It is definitely the way to go and is not that costly if you design it properly (an extra 5MB per zone to store all the pathing data).
Your work looks fantastic. If you should ever decide to Open Source your pathing code for EQC, it would certainly be welcome here
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