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Message ID: 2013
Date: Sat Nov 6 04:20:52 GMT 1999
Author: Alex Kutsenok
Subject: Re: Digest Number 166


I was wondering if an enchanter-specific website was out there.


-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Jesernig <pwj@...>
To: eqenchanters@onelist.com <eqenchanters@onelist.com>
Date: Friday, November 05, 1999 11:00 AM
Subject: Re: [eqenchanters] Digest Number 166


>From: "Paul Jesernig" <pwj@...>
>
>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.
>>
>>
>
>>