These are just the people to receive special gifts. Those otherwise
nice items with negative modifiers. I just overlook or destroy most
of those, but I may just save one for a special gift.
Barto
--- In EverQuest@y..., "mail.swbell.net" <tcomegys@s...> wrote:
>
> Truly excellent stuff, Su. Thank you for sharing the link.
>
> The sad thing is, you can just sit in GFay and watch the /ooc
and /shout
> channel and see a lot of the stuff that Lowtax describes humorously
in his
> "newbie guide"
>
> Example from my own experience on Tarew Marr server.
>
> The other night I was playing my level 13 scratch (totally non-
twinked) Wood
> Elf Ranger. A level 1 HE enchanter started spamming GFay for 5pp to
buy her
> level 1 spells. Another person and I finally replied back in /ooc
that you
> could buy just about all the useful level 1 spells for a platinum
or so. She
> then changed her spam to asking for 2pp.
>
> Someone else jumped in and chided us for "being harsh" so I decided
to give
> the beggar 2pp just to see what happened. I tracked her down near
Felwithe,
> hailed her, and gave her 2pp. The VERY next thing she says to me
is "you got
> any caster stuff?" Not "Thank You", not even "ty" or "thx",
just "you got
> any caster stuff". I just said "No, I am a Ranger, sorry" and
turned and
> left.
>
> A few minutes later this same person was back spamming the zone for
tiny
> daggers (ingredient to cast pet) because she "looked everywhere in
Felwithe"
> and "couldn't find them anywhere". I have played a HE enchanter, so
I KNOW
> you can buy them for 1sp each from one of the 4 merchants in the
room where
> the Enchanter Guildmaster is, so I repeated that information
in /ooc. She
> then asks for money to buy them because she didn't have any. I told
her in
> /ooc "An enchanter can get 1 sp for a wasp wing, and that happens
to be how
> much a tiny dagger costs. Start killing stuff and stop begging."
>
> When I finally deleted my Enchanter at level 10 (I had also played
him
> without any help from my higher level characters) he had nearly all
his
> level 1, 4, and 8 spells, full (some looted, some bought) cloth
armor, as
> well as 50pp in the bank, from just killing and looting everything
he was
> able to, and selling it to merchants, so I know it can be done.
Sure, he did
> a lot of corpse runs (this was before the patch that eliminated
corpse runs
> under level 10), but 1sp per wasp wing, 4sp per royal jelly, 3gp
per wasp
> poison sac, 1pp per cracked staff, etc.at the merchants adds up
fairly
> quickly.
>
> I guess maybe I was a litte harsh to that newbie chanter, yes, but
I have
> used my Druid's bank account to equip numerous new druids and
rangers in
> that zone with full leather armor, a half-way decent newbie weapon,
and a
> little buffing (skin like diamond, sow, strength of stone, thorns,
regen),
> but not because they begged. I did it because they seemed to be
players that
> wanted to have fun and to play the game right, but needed a little
boost,
> and I enjoy helping people. I don't enjoy beggars, though.
>
> Anyone else have thoughts to share on players who spam the newbie
zones
> asking to be given free money or items? I would be interested to
see how the
> others on this mailing list feel about the subject.
>
> =)
>
> Froondor, 41 Wood Elf Druid on Tarew Marr
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Su" <suceress@k...>
> To: <EverQuest@y...>
> Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2002 1:26 AM
> Subject: [EverQuest] Something Awful.com pokes fun at EQ
>
>
> > I just found this link from one of the weirdest sources...
> > Anyways, I found it amusing and figured I'd share it.
> > http://www.somethingawful.com/eq/
> > Keep in mind it's all for laughs.
> > luv,
> > -Su
> >
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