Tip your Porter

[Farquis]

While I pay for my ports, I hate when porters say "porting for donations". It's not a donation if you're forcing somebody to pay for a port. It's a paid service.

[Tarathiel]

i always just offer 100pp for ports, seems to work just fine, except in the case of last night when i offered someone 100pp for a port but i needed them to pick someone up in wc, when we get to wc they say they dont have time to wait for my friend but that "50pp should cover their time" smh

[Brimacombe]

The donation thing came from those renfest people. Many of them on the streets would not get a business liscence, so would get around it by doing it for "Donation". Naturally, every earth mother out there played a druid, so it became popular enough to stick.

-Brimacombe

[kaev]

Funny thread.

Personally I've despised the "for donations" line since I fist saw it in 1999. Donations is what you ask for at a junior high school band concert. If you're porting for a fee than post your fee schedule. If your porting for tips, then say porting for tips. The word "donation" never did you any harm, why do you abuse it so? please stop. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I'm with the guy who never advertises that he's porting. When I'm on my Druid I never offer ports in the public channels, although I will sometimes respond to players who are ooc'ing for ports. When I get a tell asking for a port I never mention payment. Now, if somebody takes up 45 mins of my time and then gives me nothing or a tiny amount they go on the short list of those who I'll ignore later. But when somebody claims poverty for a quick port it's not worth the trouble of remembering them. The only time I ever accepted pp for a CR it involved about 25 mins of bouncing around with a Cleric giving him multiple 96% rezzes (if he cares that much about his time he can care about mine too, dammit.) And if some noob I met earlier in the day asks me to port him and a few friends to BBM I not only won't be expecting a tip I'll make sure somebody in the group can bind everybody or I'll take care of it myself.

@Glorindale: Scavrefamn's posting is pretty transparent really, unlike many who are accused of trolling on the board he actually is one, and much better at it than most. Oh, and while there are some similarities, "troll" is not spelled "tool".

[Glorindale]

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

"troll" is not spelled "tool".

noted...

[Heavydrop]

When I was a lower level and just got my ports it was a great way to make money so I did it.
Tipping or paying for a port is just part of the way things are and unless you want to be put on a "no port" list somewhere (yes, I do have such a list) it is in people's best interest to offer something reasonable as compensation.
Now that I'm higher level I don't need the money from ports so much but once in awhile I'll do it. My rule of thumb, as has been mentioned, is that if I am non /anon and you can see my class/level etc. then that means I am open for business for porting. I am available for ports. If I am /role then it means I am busy soloing/grouping/camping something and I don't have the time or interest in porting. If you know me in game and I can come help I will but most of the time I'm not up for it.
Tipping and tipping well is logical if you can afford it. I port those in need as well I just might not feel as inclined, but I will still do it

[Grumble]

Wow. Some of you are really demanding. "I won't port anyone for less than 100pp." I'm sorry. I've been playing only a couple of weeks and all my characters are low level. None of them have as much as 20pp much less 100pp. As it is, only one of them has asked for a port. They had to ask for days ooc if anyone was porting for donations, until they found someone, and they donated what they could, but they didn't have 100pp.

[magus678]

As someone who has spent quite a bit of time porting out of the tunnel, I appreciate the sentiment of the thread.

However, there seems to be some confusion about the purpose of "donations."

Donations are so that you can scale the cost of a port to your individual level of wealth, not so porters can be sneaky or make more money (although I do suspect it will make more money).

Charging a flat fee of 30pp for example, excludes large segments of population, the very same segment that we get a fair bit of joy out of helping

[Snagglepuss]

I think early on tipping 1pp per level is acceptable. When I started out, I would follow that rule, and more often than not, people would say don't worry about.

We've all been poor newbs at some point.

Not tipping as a higher level character is despicable.

[magus678]

I generally don't take any tips under 20 plat. My assumption is that if someone has that little money, they probably need it more than I do. I'll just do it for free in that case.