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Originally Posted by thufir
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Sure. Make it a 2-5 minute wait with an outside chance it won't come at all. Then have the guy charge you a random amount before they start the port. 1-2% of the time the port should put you somewhere else in the world (to represent sulky or pranky porters). Increase that chance drastically if you "undertip".
Some of the "porters" can even exchange pleasantries with you. Maybe if you don't say the right things it gives you a chance for the porter to drop you from group without porting you, or port you again to somewhere random. Then it can be a 10-30 minute wait before you can get another port (as they "blacklist" you). Fail too many times and you get blacklisted permanently - no porting!
I actually kinda like this idea now that we're talking about it.
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2-5 min wait with chance it won't come at all - Fair
The rest of the stuff you said has basically never happened to me. Never been refused a port if I didn't pay up front. Never been prank ported to the wrong spot and left there. Never been "blacklisted" and had to wait longer than like 10 min for a port ever. Unless playing at super off-peak hours and even then most of the time ports are easy to come by. I get a lot of ports and I play a lot of Everquest. I feel like the stuff you're talking about is exceptionally rare. About the worst that's ever happened is certain porters feel like they're getting ripped off if you don't pay them like 200pp to push a button and they'll whine that you didn't tip enough. People tend to assume if you're a 60 Shaman that you just carry thousands of pp around on you at all times. But to be fair that's happened like 2 times out of hundreds of ports over several years. Statistically insignificant.
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Originally Posted by Evia
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still obvious you do not get it.
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