Its not about the money. (for me anyways) I bind people for 5 gold, unless they are very generous... sometimes they'll give me a plat. (one occasion, a high level Ogre gave me 10 plat to bind him at HighHold) But its the roleplaying. I've had lots of times where a low level character will asked to be bound... I tell him that I will not bind him unless he can pay. He says that he has 20 copper.. and offers 6 or 7 of it. ..and even though, at level 16.. a few copper is trivial. I'll accept it, and bind him.
Here's something that I did the other day at West Gate...
I was sitting there, medding. My clan was having a guildwar with another clan at the time, and I had little time between skirmishes. Someone pleaded for a bind. I offered my services, if they were a paying customer. He said that he had a few gold.. but he was trying to save up to buy himself a weapon. I checked his level... (thank you everyone who plays with anon off) ...and found out that he was a level 3 monk. My guild had been saving up pelts for our tailors/smiths in outfitting the entire clan with an extra set of armor. So I asked the monk if he would be willing to perform a task for me... in exchange for the bind. He was very excited about it. (for some reason.. people like quests. heh) So I told him to get me 2 wolf pelts. He said ok.. I grouped with him, and went ahead and bound him. then I ran off and continued my war. Later on.. maybe 30 min later.. I was back at west gate medding. He came up to me and handed me 2 pelts. It was a cool roleplayi!
ng experience. So.. it doesn't take much. But I think the main reason to charge for binding is to roleplay.
Of course.. if you dont like roleplaying.. then you dont charge anyway.
Just MHO.
Drev
> ----------
> From: Marziani, Michael D.[SMTP:Michael.Marziani@...]
> Reply To: eq_wizards@onelist.com
> Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 1999 1:16 PM
> To: 'eq_wizards@onelist.com'
> Subject: Re: [eq_wizards] Charging for Services
>
> From: "Marziani, Michael D." <Michael.Marziani@...>
>
> Disclaimer: this is only my opinion so no flames please. I am only hoping
> to elicit some other opinions on this subject as well.
>
> I don't know why but it has never made sense to me to charge for services
> such as binding, invis, and language training. Perhaps it is just the
> personality of my character that he enjoys helping others and gets full
> satisfaction out of the good deed itself, not needing any sort of physical
> compensation.
>
> I realize that I will be able to make make up to a plat or more each per
> bind and a plat or more for invis (depending on how bad they want it) but
> that just seems unkind. I remember when I was level 8 just travelling over
> to freeport. I only had a couple of my new 3rd circle spells because they
> were so expensive and I was flat broke. I saw people auctioning: "Binding
> at S. Gate, 15gp", and there was no way i could afford that without selling
> the few pieces of cloth armor i had left. I was lucky to find a kind druid
> that bound me and asked for nothing in return, but I just wonder why so many
> seek to earn a profit from their abilities rather than just use them to help
> others and take joy in that.
>
> I guess it is just based on your roleplaying style, but even if I have no
> money and still have spells to buy, I would not ask for or accept any sort
> of payment for using my talents. Does anyone else agree with me or do you
> all think that you SHOULD rightfully earn a profit from using your skills?
>
> -Solric
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ken Morris [mailto:kmorris2@...]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 1999 2:30 PM
> To: EQ Wizards
> Subject: [eq_wizards] Languages
>
>
> I am excellent in Dragon, Combine, Old Eurdian, Elder Elvish, and am working
> on Elder Tier'Dal today. I will be happy to teach Dragon and Combine for 6>
> runes each. The rest, I will teach for 3 runes or 5 plat each. I am
> located on the Tarew Marr server. I am firm on the Dragon and Combine btw.
> I won't accept money but only runes for those languages.
>
> Talarin Kal'Amon, High Elven Wizard
>
>
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