What's the deal with all the "Donating" for ports?

[jilena]

There are quite a few people on here who love to hang out and help people and that is awesome for them. Ninik, Wiggles, Rosalyn, etc all do donation free resing and ports on a pretty regular basis because that is what they like to do. I applaud them for this. I think they are all ridiculously nice people and if you ever manage to get them into a group I think you should ninja /split them some coin.

That said, I don't log on to do these things. If I am on one of my characters there is about a 95% chance I have something I intend to accomplish. Be it selling items in EC, farming something, helping a friend level, whatever. If I am already doing something, the chances I am going to stop what I am doing and go rez you are slim to none. It's not just "a little mana" and it doesn't cost me "nothing". It is a shitload of mana, it sets me behind in whatever it is that I am doing, and it costs me time. My time is valuable to me and I would prefer to use it doing what *I* want to do, and that doesn't usually include making your life easier because you are bad at Everquest.

Also, please keep in mind, you lose exp when you die as motivation to suck less. If I return all of that exp to you, you don't have as much motivation. Think of me not helping in the short term as me helping you out long term!

[Shannacore]

Originally Posted by jilena [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Be it selling items in EC, farming something, helping a friend level, whatever.

Where were the levels at last night [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Ihealyou]

Donations for rezzes are nice, but if I'm giving you a rez I don't demand them, or even expect to be offered any. If I'm rezzing you, it means that I'm not busy and don't mind going out of my way to rez. If you bring the corpse to me pretty much the only time I won't rez is if I'm in a group and we're fighting, and even then I'll probably eventually do it once its safe to. If I say no to a rez, it means that I'm busy. You would have to offer a pretty large amount of plat to get me to leave what I'm doing and rez you.

I don't expect to be compensated for rezzes since I rez people when its not a hassle for me to. My gear is crap and I could certainly use the money, but I think its kind of ridiculous to expect people to pay when I'm just sitting around doing nothing. I'm not wasting time, since I'm not doing anything. I'm not wasting mana, since I'm not casting anything. I would rather help people out then have a million plat to buy GEBS and a manastone. I'll even turn down donations if its an obvious noob or a death from someone training Slate or something dumb like that.

That being said, if you offered me GEBS and a manastone I'd gladly take them [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[xorbier]

Donations are whatever the person feels is fair and can afford. Remember, you are using the porters time and to not tip is simply being cheap.

[jilena]

Originally Posted by Shannacore [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Where were the levels at last night [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Probably in the same place your invis kept going all the times you died. Well that and where your corpse went when you full looted it lolololol.

[Engraverwilliam]

On my Live druid, I used to say "Porting to all druid locations for donation - Corpse runs and newbies free - charter flights available 10p per jump. (quests runs)"

I usually got at least - 5-10p donated for routine ports from X to X as donations. Multi-questers would use my charter flights to get them around faster and I would travel with them or wait at the rings for their next jump. Sometimes fitting in a quick port while I waited for them to run their errand. i would promptly return to take them to the next location.

I met a lot of very generous and nice folks this way. I was on A LOT of friends' lists.

Sometimes I would be handed 20 gold. i hit accept without complaint. Sometimes folks would ask "How much" after a port. I had a hot key to say /say Pay whatever the flight was worth to you :-)"

[Messianic]

Originally Posted by Engraverwilliam [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

On my Live druid, I used to say "Porting to all druid locations for donation - Corpse runs and newbies free - charter flights available 10p per jump. (quests runs)"

I usually got at least - 5-10p donated for routine ports from X to X as donations. Multi-questers would use my charter flights to get them around faster and I would travel with them or wait at the rings for their next jump. Sometimes fitting in a quick port while I waited for them to run their errand. i would promptly return to take them to the next location.

I met a lot of very generous and nice folks this way. I was on A LOT of friends' lists.

Sometimes I would be handed 20 gold. i hit accept without complaint. Sometimes folks would ask "How much" after a port. I had a hot key to say /say Pay whatever the flight was worth to you :-)"

FORUM NECRO EXTRAORDINAIRE NECROS AGAIN

[Engraverwilliam]

On my Live Cleric ( my p99 cleric is only lvl 11) I would gladly port to any location and rez you. But this service came with a price. If i were in the same dungeon as you, bring me the corpse and I would rez it for free once i had the mana to spare once my group was safe. (Group first always). Guild members were free. If I was in a dungeon group exp'ing on a role or helping someone I would /anon. If I would be traveling someplace and saw a fully geared corpse, I would send a /tell to see if they were on-line and offer up a rez if I got a response.

[Engraverwilliam]

Originally Posted by Messianic [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

FORUM NECRO EXTRAORDINAIRE NECROS AGAIN

DAMMIT!!!! LOL oops! not on purpose I SWEAR!!!
at least I'm on topic though!

[Torqumada286]

/ooc melee character: "Will beat the carp out of stuff trying to kill you for donations."

Torqumada