Make official price for tipping

[larsbars]

I avoid tipping for ports. I just ask if they’d like to port for x plat. Most of the time they say yes even if it’s far under 1pp per level. This way I can get my lvl 10 ported and don’t have to deal with people’s opinions about what I can/should afford and where I’m allowed to go!

[Dural_Levant]

So I got tipped for a SoW and a Levitate for the first time last night. I was blown away, 5 PP just for casting two spells! Woot!

However, by the sound of this thread, the tips get bigger as you level up?

[N0tClassic]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-qV9wVGb38

[Veeshan31]

i tip a max of 5gp per level. All you guys tipping 1pp per level are doing it wrong.

[douglas1999]

I remember on povar the standard tip was 10p accross all levels. So an untwinked level 1 really had to earn his way into being able to ask for ports, it felt like a privilege when you finally had enough spare plat to quickly get accross the world even just one time. Level 50s would also tip 10p, which seems cheap, but they would also ask for ports constantly because they could afford to, so you'd still end up making bank from lvl 50s because of the sheer frequency of their port requests. This system also eliminated any tomfoolery where a rich twink pretends to be poor and offers you 2p for a port even though they have like 10k in the bank. It was just 10p, at all times, for all players.

[Veeshan31]

Originally Posted by douglas1999 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I remember on povar the standard tip was 10p accross all levels. So an untwinked level 1 really had to earn his way into being able to ask for ports, it felt like a privilege when you finally had enough spare plat to quickly get accross the world even just one time. Level 50s would also tip 10p, which seems cheap, but they would also ask for ports constantly because they could afford to, so you'd still end up making bank from lvl 50s because of the sheer frequency of their port requests. This system also eliminated any tomfoolery where a rich twink pretends to be poor and offers you 2p for a port even though they have like 10k in the bank. It was just 10p, at all times, for all players.

now thats reasonable. Tipping 50pp is just insane

[TheRusty]

Originally Posted by Veeshan31 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

now thats reasonable. Tipping 50pp is just insane

Well, gotta adjust for inflation. We're better-able to generate coin in 2020 than we were in 2000.

i constantly struggled with cash on my shaman in the pre-kunark era. Getting Totemic Armor was a huge chunk of money for me. The suit of banded, plus the cost of dufrenite was the big hurdle for me, not the other quest items. We're looking at a couple hundred platinum! That, plus the cost of spells, made the late 20's and early 30's an extremely cash-strapped time for me.

Of course, today, I know that exactly five feet south of those dufrenite-smashing ogres is a bandit camp that can generate a good amount of plat in coin drops, bronze weapons and bronze-exchangable sashes. It's not much i guess but it's honest farmin'. Had i known about that, i woulda had my full suit of totemic in a day or two, and my spells just a few hours after that.

Right now my main is 21 enchanter on green, almost fully geared for pre-planes, and with several hundred plat just sitting there. if I want to go somewhere, 30-50pp isn't out of the question because, well i only really need money for spells, and money is just a consequence of leveling now, not the huge hurdle it was in 2001.

[drackgon]

@Sabin, imo summoned items are like buffs. Personally If a mage summons me a stack of water/food i hand em 10pp(but im 50 and good amount of bank). But I can still see someone at least tipping a mage a few pp for food/water. Now on my monk when I ask for bandages/thrown wps I tip at least peridot if their taking time and summoning me a crap ton(usually like i'm about to go PL a player and im stuck in paw).

Buffs are weird, just like summon stuff. 49 druid buffs can still cost them 1/3-1/2 their whole mana bar. Heck my 44 druid SLDiamond is 200mana, thorns 100 mana, regen 100 mana, sow 40 mana. 440 mana to buff someone out of what my 1600 mana pool.

So tip what you can. Like I posted usually 5pp-30pp depending what I am getting and doing. On my new wizard I kept tipping enchanters around me like 20pp just for crack, just bc I could ask them again and they'be be super happy to tip me.

[douglas1999]

You get some nice tips porting people out from seafury island. Somebody hands me a sapphire and I'm like right on, then I cross them off my "people to kill" list like steve buscemi in billy madison

[Grimstrike]

You know why you work for tips? Because nobody wants to stick the whole thing inside...