Tipping for Ports: Apparently I've Been Doing It Wrong

[bolobaby]

Let me start by saying that I'm returning to the game after 17 years - I haven't been playing on Blue or anything like that. That means I'm working off my memory from 17 years back.

Anyway...

I like to move around, but I play a Ranger. So that means I'm always wanting SoWs and Ports. Up until about level 15, I was paying 1-2pp per port. More recently, my earning potential is up, so I've been going 2-5pp, but 5pp has been more of a outlier for when I've really needed the port, or it was clear the porter was going out of their way to port me.

This aligns with what I remember from back in the day. My girlfriend at the time played a druid, and she'd always get only a few plat per port. Later, after we earned our first 1,000pp and were walking around with 1k+, we amped up our donations and started paying 10pp-20pp per port. Whenever she ported and got a few people paying 10-20pp, she would gloat about the "easy money."

Wellllllll...

I needed a port today for a corpse run, so a guildie of mine tagged along to help pay the cost of the port. She rarely ports so she had no idea what the going rate was. I didn't want to put her out since she was covering for me, so I was like, "I dunno - toss her a few plat."

This is when I learned the error of my ways. The porter explained that people are typically tipping 15-50pp per port. Naturally, my first reaction was, "Whaaaaaaat? That's outrageous!" But, I asked around my guild and some of the people who have been playing on Blue confirm that - yeah - that's the expectation.

Well, sh!t.

So - if I've stiffed you by being a cheapskate in the past, I apologize. 15-50pp is not at all how my memory serves me for a level 17 like myself. I assure you that I wasn't knowingly being chintzy. I sort of feel bad, but also recognize that - based on the number of ports I've done - I could never make up for my underpayments any time in the near term.

In the same vein, it sure seems like I'll be stuck running everywhere for a while. With the amount of traveling I do, I can't possibly fund porting anymore.

Finally, I can't help but wonder if I've been blowing it with SoWs. For those, I've only been going 1-2pp...

Sigh.

Alendarr

[Zeboim]

Rule of thumb is .5pp per level imo.

[randal.flagg]

Rule of thumb is .5pp per level imo.

lulz. so you want me to pay 250p @ lvl 50? no thanks.

It should be relative to what you have and the inconvenience it puts the porter through. I've NEVER mandated a fee when I have ported hundreds of times on blue. I *DO*, however, remember the good tippers. So just keep that in mind. If you dont really tip well you wont really get a lot of ports.

I've been paying 10-15p per port and will amp that up as i make more plat.

[Bazia]

lulz. so you want me to pay 250p @ lvl 50? no thanks.

It should be relative to what you have and the inconvenience it puts the porter through. I've NEVER mandated a fee when I have ported hundreds of times on blue. I *DO*, however, remember the good tippers. So just keep that in mind. If you dont really tip well you wont really get a lot of ports.

I've been paying 10-15p per port and will amp that up as i make more plat.

it would be 25pp at 50

[Naxy]

.5 pp probably means 0.5 pp, so 25 pp at lvl 50?

[Graahle]

lulz. so you want me to pay 250p @ lvl 50? no thanks.

It should be relative to what you have and the inconvenience it puts the porter through. I've NEVER mandated a fee when I have ported hundreds of times on blue. I *DO*, however, remember the good tippers. So just keep that in mind. If you dont really tip well you wont really get a lot of ports.

I've been paying 10-15p per port and will amp that up as i make more plat.

Math hardest game YiKes

[Madbad]

OP is a poor

[Cen]

On blue 1pp per level is the norm.

Psycho raiders late for a raid would give me like 200pp sometimes lol

[Zeboim]

lulz. so you want me to pay 250p @ lvl 50? no thanks.


Get you some glasses bruh

[Tethler]

1 plat per level was a fairly common rate on blue where there is an absolute flood of plat sitting in the economy, and it isnt rare to get a 100p port tip there. Green and teal don't have anywhere near as much money floating around since the servers just started. Nobody will expect you to pay 50p for a port on green/teal.

[Isey]

1 plat per level, up to about 50plat at the top end.

Heck, I get tips of items worth 100s of plat sometimes. People are generous.

I also refuse tips on CRs and other tough times for people, do swaps for free, even port when I am anon.

I've never been mad with any tip - especially for newer people to the server or people under level 20.

Appreciate it when people apprecaite that by porting them I am missing out on XP or doing other things ;)

[flacidpenguin]

I usually tip 30pp, though I have tipped a lot more. Figure they could probably make close to that if they were just killing giants and not porting.

[M.J.]

I might be an exception, but I tip based on the level of the person porting. So a 29 - 40 person would be 30-45pp, because thats double what they can earn off just about any mob with a single spell cast, and higher level porters would get 45-60, or a few pp higher depending on if I needed extra buffs on a character (like levitate / invis in DL prior to evacs working outside of dungeons) or was myself in a rush.

Generally anything that involves moving any distance away from a ring / spire by a porter would up the amount I plan to tip - if I could.

Regardless the fact that people aren't telling others up front what they're willing to tip should be a massive red flag for any porter. I hardly think it would be rude to set a price if someone sent you a tell unsolicited (like I often do to Dial a druids I recognize and spot not actively killing something in EC/WC/any ring).

Here is an example of how to best bother a druid when poor and low level:

"Hey there nature fren / masochistic explodey person, I've only got (x amount of plat) I can tip as I also need to tip for a bind after (establishes you're not a commie and plan to reimburse people for their time which you believe has value, whether level 12/14 or 50). Any chance you can help me out with a port from (ring/spire you are already at and ready for a pick up from) to (place you would like to go but that you would gladly take a port to some adjacent zone were it more convenient for the porter). No worries if you can't, I'll keep asking around!" (I'm not a lazy piece of shit so eventually things will work out for me don't feel guilty for having your own pixel-quest needs, plus the sooner you tell me to fuck off the sooner I become someone elses problem as I'm actively courting a non-affirmative response to my request for aid which I know will be a greater inconvenience to the person providing a service whose worth is far in excess of what I have offered up front)

My guess is OP either sent tells similar to the above or engaged his porters in a non psychotic non neckbeard way so they were happy to give out a helping hand to a lowly hybrid. Also a non trivial amount of druids feel about rangers the way most everyone feels about gnome warriors, which is they are adorable morons that require all the help in the world so that one might someday group with them and relieve some of the boredom of doing a popular and profitable camp for the thousandth time.

[bolobaby]

No, sadly, I didn't solicit with clever tells. Usually I'd hang out near a Druid Circle or wait until someone announced they were doing ports.

The worst part is that I'd drop the coins after port, say "thanks!", and run off thinking it was satisfactory transaction. Little did I know I was leaving a wake of disappointed porters in my wake.

If I didn't feel bad, I wouldn't have posted, that's for sure. I'll probably just spend the next 10 levels running everywhere as penance.

[solleks]

happy hanukkkah

[Neverwinter27]

What is the standard tipping rate on Green and Teal?

[bwe]

Porters should advertise prices instead of this vague tipping thing

[Baler]

1 plat per character level
level 50 = 50p

Special ports: 100p+
Pick ups from none ring/spire locations.
Multiple people pickups (this covers the group)
long distance item transfers

Kunark Era: 1-2p per level
Evac from a kunark dungeon
I bet a lot of people have forgotten about this one ;)
DL-> KC -> EJ / SF

Velious Era: 1-2p per level
Evac scross SG

[Teflondon75]

Meanwhile on my shammy @Mangler TLP I had literally hundreds of people begging for SoW's or discounts on SoW pots, full body buffs and even full buffs + their pet and not a single tip not once ever. Hilarious lol. I do tip :P Just think it's funny AF I could hit 20 buttons for zero and another can hit 1 for tons. Yes, I was jealous lol.

[Brut]

We're not at blue amount of plat yet, so I wouldn't go by those standards. 50p is a lot of money at this point when most of server can't kill a hill giant yet.

[arh555]

Speaking as a porter on Green:

There are too many people taking advantage of old fashioned EQ community goodwill and its pushing me to be more transactional about the service. I'm talking about the elite guild member, 10+ levels above you, wearing JBoots and Guise, who pull "all I got is 11 gold on me, we good bro?" after the port.

I really want to keep the EQ magic alive especially for lower level players but this is pretty rampant.

[M.J.]

We're not at blue amount of plat yet, so I wouldn't go by those standards. 50p is a lot of money at this point when most of server can't kill a hill giant yet.

I'd say there are two things that make me still tip in the 20-40 range for just about any porters time:

first, there are no Clarity spells besides bard songs. When I'm in a rush or the druid went OOM porting in, I have had to let druids click my manastone to get on the way in under 5 mins (the lower level they are the more time it takes them to med), and I wouldn't offer to a wizard unless I had time to bandaid them up some, as they have no regen / health back to help them top off.

second, there are more than a few camps and quests that put out decent plat from 9-15. and there are plenty of desirable items from zones like black burrow and crushbone that you can offer in trade for ports as druids have alts too - including things like cb belts / df belts / cb pads / cuttthroat rings.

Things that don't have much value on blue, have value here and are in demand. I'd also say that early on there were plenty of exp focused druids that weren't making money hand over fist and plenty of slower levelers like myself that prioritized platinum / research word camps had plat to throw around that people hunting animals / cheapskate mobs didn't. So it was a trade off. Which still doesn't help the poor that need ports, but shopping around for a druid in the mood to help, while not being a terrible human being, will resolve that. As will running while soliciting tells everytime you approach a druid / wizzy port in.

[AgentEpilot]

Green at level 19ish I tipped 10 plat, but if I needed more of them that would be pricey, blue it is usually 50 plat at this point with a 58 chanter piggy bank

[zodium]

i usually tip 15-20-25pp depending on what level port spell I need

[Natewest1987]

I think the tipping culture here is a little weird. I tend to approach it like, “hey, would you do xyz for x plat?”. I don’t like it being open ended and I don’t think it’s fair to either party. Obviously some people are ok with it and cool with them, but I don’t want anyone to feel stiffed, or to feel weird about however much I tipped, so I just lay it out up front. Then, if by some chance they do something extra for me, then I’ll throw them something extra afterwards. But I always, always, always, pay above market rate for things like that, and in the event that I couldn’t, I’d be cool with walking.

Another tip actually, ask people how much would it cost for xyz? They’ll let you know their expectations right then, usually.

[Invalid_Bard]

It's a tip, that's it. Tip what you think is fair. If people want 50pp for porting, they should advertise that.

[skorge]

There's like double the amount of druids vs any other class in the game now. Friend one of them. Free ports for life yo.

[GinnasP99]

Why do I gotta be Mr. Pink ?

[Evia]

I’m probably doing it wrong myself....but this is my donation rules for BLUE.

Sow and a basic buff or two thrown on me - tip 0. I never get paid for these and I never expect to be paid for them. The only exception here is maybe breeze, clarity or a mega hp buff and I might tip 20-50 for these.

Ports - 1pp per my lvl up to 50pp max. I’ll pay 50 extra if the Druid or Wizard need to run or spend time waiting. I’ll also tip 50 extra if they evacuate me as well since I view that as two ports.

Rezzes - 100 minimum and that’s if they’re in zone or 1 zone away and body is brought to them. If the cleric has to get my body or goes out of their way to Rez me I’ll pay 300-500 minimum.

Corpse Drags - 50p minimum but usually around 100.

Corpse Summon - regent cost + 50-500 depending on how much of the Necro or SKs time I use.

On GREEN/TEAL I’d still do 1pp per lvl for ports and whatever I could afford on the rest. I’d be straight up with the person beforehand so they could back out if it wasn’t worth it to them to help me.

[DMN]

I think 20-25PP should be a pretty fair range right now on green, assuming the druid/wizard was actually advertising for ports and didn't have "somewhere else they'd rather be". At least double if not.

[Xruptor]

On Green/Teal I must be playing the wrong game. I've always been told by the folks in my guild and even by some of the teleporters that 4pp or 5pp would suffice as a tip. I've never heard of this 1pp per character level. I didn't even think people wanted that much money for a port. Wow all this time I must have been tipping wrong if that's the expectation. These porters should just PUT the amount they want instead of saying "FOR TIPS".

[AgentEpilot]

The one plat a level thing is a blue ritual not green.

[Nitsude]

I would say 0.5p per level is a good minimum standard at this point in the game. If you are feeling more generous that's great.

You can certainly pay less if you're so inclined, but you also risk being ignored on future port requests if that becomes your reputation.

[Firepuff]

I think 5-10 pp would be fair, if the porter isn't busy, not everyone is rich. Corpse-runs are free.

Of course if there are reagents involved, like plane of hate and such, I expect the customer to provide those as well.

If the porter is busy, then I wouldn't expect ports from him at all...unless he was a guildie/friend and the customer did all the legwork.

[Ingosoff]

You get it all wrong. It is port energy related: 1pp per weight unit. So monks port for 15 and well an ogre warrior 100+

[aaezil]

On green/teal 5-20pp per port depending how far along you are monetarily. On blue 30-50pp cause 10 years of mudflation.

[Firepuff]

On blue 30-50pp cause 10 years of mudflation.

Using mudfation as an argument, is not fair to new players who are just starting on an old server imo. Players don't start with thousands of plat at level 1 if they are new...

[aaezil]

Using mudfation as an argument, is not fair to new players who are just starting on an old server imo. Players don't start with thousands of plat at level 1 if they are new...

99% of the new players are on green/teal are they not?

[Firepuff]

99% of the new players are on green/teal are they not?

Yes, now.
But I remember a few years back when I played on blue with a fresh account, How I just gave up on trading with other players because everyone just assumed I had lots of plat. :(

Letting mudflation dictate prices is not good for the server, If you want new players to feel like they have a chance.

[aaezil]

Yes, now.
But I remember a few years back when I played on blue with a fresh account, How I just gave up on trading with other players because everyone just assumed I had lots of plat. :(

Letting mudflation dictate prices is not good for the server, If you want new players to feel like they have a chance.

Whats done is done though. You cant just ignore that lots of players have multiple lvl 60s and thousands of disposable plat.

[DMN]

New players should recognize avenues of fast plat on an inflated server, like collecting exp quest turn in items. New players also don't "need" ports.

[Firepuff]

True, I was ranting more about mudflation in general, I didn't need ports as a new player, sorry for the off-topic rant.

I just hope that green will fare better than blue in that aspect. :)

[Nagoya]

As a druid, here is my advice:

Tip what the fuck ever you want to tip.

I just click on "Accept" without even looking.
1pp is good with me. 200pp is good with me.
I don't care.
It's only mana, ergo my time to med it back.
Nobody's coercing me into porting. If I port it is my choice.
And if I didn't take time to ask for a specific price, then I implicitly agreed to whatever price you offer.

Ignore the dumbasses who feel entitled to whatever level*Xpp.
You click on one button sitting on your big butt then you go AFK 1 min to get your mana back while taking a piss.

Come on.

Tip what you want man.

Or ask "how much?" before leaving if you are so insecure.
If the druid says "any donation is fine" then give any donation.
If the druid says "10pp please" then you know what to give.

this shouldn't be difficult.

everyone should play a druid to lvl 29+ to realize how dumb and easy it is to port people around. this doesn't deserve all your savings lol.

stupid druid mafia.

[DMN]

Well, my druid can make 400+ plat with 8 full bars of mana. So port, gate(or port 2), camo, SoW mana alone is close to worth 20PP and accounts for zero travel time/load times.

[Siege]

happy hanukkkah

*rubs hands*

[Siege]

Asking for donations is retarded. Bitching when the person donating didn't read your mind is even more retarded.

When I hated myself enough to play Druid, I would name my price and collect it before porting anyone. This was before the druid mafia formed so I had the freedom to not be a price-gouging prick. These days, when I'm not playing a Druid, which is 100% of the time, I just take the boat to avoid these assholes.

[Videri]

Well, my druid can make 400+ plat with 8 full bars of mana. So port, gate(or port 2), camo, SoW mana alone is close to worth 20PP and accounts for zero travel time/load times.

Good analysis. I had not thought of estimating the value of ports/buffs by measuring the amount of plat you could make with X number of full mana bars. Clever. And the result seems reasonable: on Blue, I believe the average tip I received (as a wizard) was over 20pp. And I’ll bet the average tip on Teal/Green will also exceed 20pp eventually, but perhaps not roght away, since there’s not as much plat flowing around as on Blue.

[Bazia]

my standard is at least 15pp sometimes if they beat me to ring and run to meet me somewhere i go 40pp

[Frug]

As a DaP'er on blue, we had our own individual rules. I never asked for a specific amount, but we are a service not a charity, so if I got "stiffed" I'd politely let the portee know that. MOST of the time, they had no idea, and sometimes would come back and pay something. Sometimes not, and apologize. Both are fine. Sometimes they'd say nothing or say something condescending or nasty. Those got on my /ignore list.

I never asked for money for CR's. I would /ignore people that would try to "cheat" by asking for CR when they didn't need it, or try to strip down to appear to need it.

[Bardp1999]

You get 10pp for porting me and you should be lucky you are even getting that

[DMN]

You get 10pp for porting me and you should be lucky you are even getting that

You have entered toxxulia forest.

[Frug]

You get 10pp for porting me and you should be lucky you are even getting that

What's your in game name so I can just /ignore you preemptively?

[Zeboim]

Its literally in his sig

[Frug]

Its literally in his sig

Thanks, which I've literally turned off for everyone.

https://i.imgur.com/zACabyJ.png

While I'm at it, what's yours? LOL

[uygi]

I think the bigger problem here is your need/appetite for ports. By the time people were selling ports, I had the cash to pay 20+pp per. I was also in my mid-30s before I was taking multiple ports per day.

I think 20pp is a very fair price. Consider that a worthwhile port (across an ocean or continent) probably saves you at least 30 minutes, possibly an hour or more, and the value of the items/cash/XP that time should have. If you’re calling up DAP to get from WC to SRo, at lvl 17, at this stage in server (with no main to fund you), I think you’re doing it wrong.

Expecting more cash from higher levels is very fair. Expecting 5pp from a lvl 10... I don’t think so. Lvls 10s have very little business being ported as a general rule.

[cd288]

Thanks, which I've literally turned off for everyone.

https://i.imgur.com/zACabyJ.png

While I'm at it, what's yours? LOL

No need to be snarky about no one knowing you have that feature turned off

[Frug]

No need to be snarky ...

Welcome to www.project1999.com/forums.

[Canelek]

Holy crap you people are cheap.

Walk.

[DromalPhrenia]

I usually tell people that I won't do it for less than a certain amount of plat, and they get to decide if the price is worth it. Some pay more, some pay exactly, and some flip out and accuse me of greed. I play EQ to have fun and being able to port myself and friends/groupmates around is part of that fun. Working as a taxi like it's my job is NOT fun, so the port has to be worth my while - I have no plans to go zone-to-zone advertising teleports.

Mana regen is impossible to come by right now, but that's just one factor at play. The request for a teleport is basically saying "sacrifice some of your (the druid/wizard) time to save me a lot of my time". If saving you that time isn't worth double-digit platinum at the very least, then I don't think you need a port.

[Jimjam]

I usually tell people that I won't do it for less than a certain amount of plat, and they get to decide if the price is worth it. Some pay more, some pay exactly, and some flip out and accuse me of greed. I play EQ to have fun and being able to port myself and friends/groupmates around is part of that fun. Working as a taxi like it's my job is NOT fun, so the port has to be worth my while - I have no plans to go zone-to-zone advertising teleports.

Mana regen is impossible to come by right now, but that's just one factor at play. The request for a teleport is basically saying "sacrifice some of your (the druid/wizard) time to save me a lot of my time". If saving you that time isn't worth double-digit platinum at the very least, then I don't think you need a port.

The funniest thing when you do ports for a fixed or minimum price is the number of people who claim they "would have paid way more", guess what, I've ported you before and know you don't.

[Teflondon75]

I usually tell people that I won't do it for less than a certain amount of plat, and they get to decide if the price is worth it. Some pay more, some pay exactly, and some flip out and accuse me of greed. I play EQ to have fun and being able to port myself and friends/groupmates around is part of that fun. Working as a taxi like it's my job is NOT fun, so the port has to be worth my while - I have no plans to go zone-to-zone advertising teleports.

Mana regen is impossible to come by right now, but that's just one factor at play. The request for a teleport is basically saying "sacrifice some of your (the druid/wizard) time to save me a lot of my time". If saving you that time isn't worth double-digit platinum at the very least, then I don't think you need a port.


Not really as any counter to anything you've said but just talking really. I've seen through guild, on stream, talk in the wild lots of wizzies/druids talking about making "Mad Stacks" of cash from porting lol. Sounds to me like over the course of any given day they are payed plenty well for their time? @shrugs@

I'd love to make Mad Stacks of cash, whatever that is lol. I shoulda rolled a druid first as well like everybody else.

[PabloEdvardo]

20-25pp, offered up front, has generally always gotten me ports with no complaints

[Rhyltran]

This thread, as a new player, is very helpful to me. Thanks!

[Roth]

Here's what people in this thread don't get... you can go to hhk and kill ONE level 25 guard and get 10 plat off just that kill. Kill 4-5 guards at level 40 over 2 mins and you have 50 plat. Therefore it's reasonable when the game gives ways to farm 50 plat in less than 5 minutes that you can tip that much.

[Asteria]

Here's what people in this thread don't get... you can go to hhk and kill ONE level 25 guard and get 10 plat off just that kill. Kill 4-5 guards at level 40 over 2 mins and you have 50 plat. Therefore it's reasonable when the game gives ways to farm 50 plat in less than 5 minutes that you can tip that much.

BUT some of us have our reputation to worry about and must always remain honourable in the face of temptation.

[Preacher85]

I tip on average 10-15p a port. Ive never had a mad druid. If Ive got less than 10 on me on a new alt I tell them. Its not like theres a shared bank right now so it takes time sometimes to move plat to an alt. Even then, my "main" is 28. Spells are research only with stupid material costs. I feel like 10-15 is fair. If I have to call a druid to meet me or pick me up I usually pay double.

[bolobaby]

Here's what people in this thread don't get... you can go to hhk and kill ONE level 25 guard and get 10 plat off just that kill. Kill 4-5 guards at level 40 over 2 mins and you have 50 plat. Therefore it's reasonable when the game gives ways to farm 50 plat in less than 5 minutes that you can tip that much.

I mean... I suppose.

Or, you could go to HH like I did yesterday, spend 20 minutes helping someone I've never met do a lore Shield transfer in Rivervale for a mule and refuse plat because I just want to be helpful.

Or, you could also spend 40 minutes and 50 plat trying to get a level 7 SK across the continent because you felt guilty about accidentally getting him killed.

I mean - if earning potential is everything, then - yeah - you're right. But I get the point and have adjusted my tactics. After all, I paid 50pp to get that level 7 ported from Qeynos to WC after he died.

(Edit: And I'm still level 19, so that 50pp represented a huge chunk of change for me.)

[lowner411]

As Evia said, it helps to be straight up about what you are willing to tip when asking for the port. That way, there are no misunderstandings.

[Monara]

Blue server I do /split 80 before port.

Teal server I am poor so I offered 6pp for my monk to be ported at 14 from WC to BB, I sent the tell with the offered amount as I felt it was low.

I do find using /split saves everyone time as long as it's just the two of you in group.

[Fammaden]

Always gotta mention you used /split, even on blue there were tons of newer DaP's who didn't know it existed or notice the green text.

[chaos1990]

For two nukes I make 5-10pp off guards per guard. If I'm in the correct zone that's also optimal experience. Why would I want to go 100% Mana to 30%/0% to move you for 4pp, wait for an awfully slow non clarified Mana regen then return to my camp? Lvl 40 which is one level above all ports being available

That being said because plat is so easy to acquire I don't charge for ports on green ever and will never

Even if you're making sub optimal plat income it's not unreasonable to pay 1pp per level because you'll make that back in ten minutes at any reasonable camp

[Tethler]

Even if you're making sub optimal plat income it's not unreasonable to pay 1pp per level because you'll make that back in ten minutes at any reasonable camp

This is only true if you're not in the lower half of levels and if you're playing a soloing class. But seeing as how like 50% of the green/teal population is druid/necro/shaman, I can see why you'd think that way.

As for me personally, on Teal I've only gotten like 3 ports, and two of them were from guildies just offering ports in guild chat. If I don't have a bare minimum of 10-15p to give, I just take the boat. I'm pretty sure the FP to BB boat has a groove in the deck from my ass by now.

[Asteria]

As a druid, here is my advice:

I just click on "Accept" without even looking.
1pp is good with me. 200pp is good with me.
I don't care.
It's only mana, ergo my time to med it back.
Nobody's coercing me into porting. If I port it is my choice.
And if I didn't take time to ask for a specific price, then I implicitly agreed to whatever price you offer.

Ignore the dumbasses who feel entitled to whatever level*Xpp.
You click on one button sitting on your big butt then you go AFK 1 min to get your mana back while taking a piss.

Come on.

Tip what you want man.

Or ask "how much?" before leaving if you are so insecure.
If the druid says "any donation is fine" then give any donation.
If the druid says "10pp please" then you know what to give.

this shouldn't be difficult.

everyone should play a druid to lvl 29+ to realize how dumb and easy it is to port people around. this doesn't deserve all your savings lol.

stupid druid mafia.

[Frug]

Always gotta mention you used /split, even on blue there were tons of newer DaP's who didn't know it existed or notice the green text.

[Evets]

It's called tipping for a reason... like when you go to a restaurant you usually tip for how well the server served you usually starting at 15% of the bill. That being said if its a standard port nothing special 15 plat should be plenty but it's totally up to you what you tip (unless the porter is charging a flat rate of course then you pay what they tell you to up front lol).

If your new no one will bash you for giving 1 or 2 plat when you only have 20 plat to rub together I'd hope.

[YatilGoldenborn]

I'm lvl 11, I tip 5p because that's what I remember about 15 years ago, too lol...I will definitely tip more after my levels increase (and plat income increases).

[DisbeAsos]

Im in a similar scenario. Just came back 6 weeks ago after 10 years away. Ive paid 2-5pp for ports up to lvl 20 or so. My main is a 21 Wiz and ive paid 5-10pp for the few ports ive needed this last week. When im porting others I hope for an average of 10p per port but will never dictate a price and if someone pays nothing or 1-2pp ill be ok with that. But like Randal, ill also remember who is worth dropping everything for and who is not...

[Kohedron]

lulz. so you want me to pay 250p @ lvl 50? no thanks.

It should be relative to what you have and the inconvenience it puts the porter through. I've NEVER mandated a fee when I have ported hundreds of times on blue. I *DO*, however, remember the good tippers. So just keep that in mind. If you dont really tip well you wont really get a lot of ports.

I've been paying 10-15p per port and will amp that up as i make more plat.

Got a regular Bill Gates math wiz over here

[bum3]

I been giving .5pp per level or 30 plat for my wife and I duo port somewhere. We are not rich and we are only lvl 29. I also give 1pp for a SoW. I R not rich. But I'm glad Dial-A-port is there. Had 1 druid tell me 50 plat each when I was lvl 15... I was like bro.. he was like i'm soloing sisters and that is my fee. I said... wait.. you a elf druid soloing sisters? I dont want a port from you anyway.