I agree with your assessment that most twinked players
can't play for squat. The reason is that they leveld
too fast and did not get to learn the intricacies of
their new class.

At level 34 with my enchanter I took a break to play a
druid. Of course I dressed that druid very well and
hit level 20 within a couple of weeks, playing solo
all the while. Around level 20 you hit the point
where you need to group to make adequate progress. I
did not know how to play in a group as a healer, so I
went back to my enchanter. I'm at level 45 now with
the enchanter and doubt that I will go back to that
twinked druid.

Even still, I don't consider twinking to be cheating.
I earned all of that equipment. Now players buying
stuff on EBAY... that's a different issue.

Q
--- Paul Jesernig <pwj@...> wrote:

> Twink: To give items or cash to a player of a level
> who would have
> absolutely no chance of getting them at that level.
>
> I personnally have never looked at twinking as
> cheating, more just of
> shortcutting. I do tend to avoid playing with
> twinked people as I have found
> that most of them can't play for squat. They tend to
> consider themselves
> invulnerable, as most monsters near their level are
> quite easy to kill. At
> some point (Brad has said this and I have seen it in
> action), the monsters
> you are fighting catch up to whatever gear you have,
> and then you must rely
> on teamwork and play skill to survive. And if the
> twinkees (generally) had
> that to begin with, they could go out and get level
> appropriate gear and
> survive. <gets down off his soapbox and awaits the
> flames while waiting for
> an on topic thread to start>.
>
> So now that the lifetap spells of necro's are
> resistable, are people finding
> it even easier to find a group?
> >
> > Message: 3
> > Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1999 19:37:33 -0900
> > From: Brian Pifer <bpifer@...>
> > Subject: RE: Twinking / was : Welcome to
> eqenchanters@oneli st.com
> >
> > Twinking is having one of your high level
> characters gain
> > equipment/items/money and then transfer it to one
> of your lower level
> > characters. One method of doing this is to "drop"
> the items on the
> ground,
> > log out, log in with your other character and
> "find" them.
> >
> > Another method is to pay another player to hold
> the items while you log
> out
> > and back in with your other character.
> >
> > Many regard twinking as cheating as far as "that
> character" did not earn
> > those items.
> >
> >
>
>
>

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