Porting is a privilege, not a right...

[Expediency]

Originally Posted by Spyder73 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

People see porting as an easy way to accumulate wealth... they are not doing it for the good of the community, they are prostituting themselves out to the highest bidders in order to get rich while doing nothing/very little.

Im sure Tupakk is going to chime in - let me ask you this - how much money have you made porting in a day? I know people who say they have made 5k porting for an afternoon, so please stop the QQ session.

LOL what makes you think porters are porting "for the good of the community?" We're porting to make money. It takes time to port people and my time is valuable to me. No shame in my game. I love to help the community and routinely help organize events to do so, but porting characters level 50+ for peanuts isnt how I do it.

And I have never made anywhere close to 5k in an afternoon, whoever told you that got a 4500 tip from someone and 500 from the rest of the customers combined

You're like a person who goes into a restaurant and tips $1 for a meal and acts like they are doing the server a favor, when in actuality you're taking advantage of the rest of society keeping the waitress in business.

Originally Posted by Spyder73 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I tip 15pp to almost everyone I feel thats more than fair. On occasion a lucky porter might get a ruby or other gem, but 15pp is the price otherwise. Price goes up for certain things like traveling multiple zones ect, but I don't see greedy Druids/Wizards offering me discounted rates for having to pull for hours on end in every XP group.

But I forgot the DaP narrative that only Druids/wizards time is important... Maybe I should unionize the monks and we start charging an hourly rate for pulls.

#GetOverYourSelves

This is a stupid example and someone who has been on the server as long as you should know better.

Nobody expects a druid or wiz to charge for an evac when they are grouped with someone. Nobody expects a cleric to charge a group member for a rez when they die And nobody expects a monk to charge for pulls. Those things are part of being in an exp group. When you hire a port, you're hiring a service from someone who has no obligation to give it to you and is not benefiting in any way other than making the money. 15pp from a person with multiple level 55+ characters is a criminally low amount of pp, its flat out not worth my time.