What attitudes and philosophies do you hate in P1999?

[Mentathiel]

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

Another attitude I hate is people just flat out ignoring a tell, it's a social game, why play if you don't want to talk to other peeps?

The afk function is there, use it!

Sometimes, you can't help it; cats vomit randomly, kids fall down stairs and typing /afk is not the first thing that occurs to you. If I am playing a caster and waiting for my mana to come back, I will often go away to grab a drink and maybe even use the bathroom without feeling that I am truly AFK enough to advertise the fact.

At other times, a random unsolicited message from an unknown player can be intimidating. I mean, if I just wrote a /LFG message, I might expect to get a couple of tells and I'll reply even if all I am saying is that I already have a group. But when I am running through a zone full of dangerous mobs and get a message saying 'Hey' then I am often going to wait for the rest of the message before replying.

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

In the majority of cases I do not list prices for items I am selling and Tomtee has already discussed some of my own reasons.

And what about people who have no idea what the items should cost? I might look up an item on the wiki if I really want it, but there have been times when I have ignored an item because I didn't realise it was in my price-range until later. Please, won't someone think of the noobs?

[kaev]

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

And what about people who have no idea what the items should cost? I might look up an item on the wiki if I really want it, but there have been times when I have ignored an item because I didn't realise it was in my price-range until later. Please, won't someone think of the noobs?

Oh, I assure you that the tunnel fatrats who list items for 25% to 50% over the going price are thinking of the noobs constantly.

[edit]To be fair, so are the people who take the time to sell noob gear for reasonable prices, rather than just vendoring it so they can get back to camping sooner. Nobody's getting rich listing items for 30 to 100pp.[/edit]

[CreamyCowboy]

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

Sometimes, you can't help it; cats vomit randomly, kids fall down stairs and typing /afk is not the first thing that occurs to you.

Lol, this couldn't be more real.

Shit happens and taking care of it is a lot more important than trying to explain what just happened.

[Pent Magick]

What kills me is I often do a mix of listing a price on one set of items and then not listing a price on a 2nd set of items. I do this purposefully for a variety of reasons, but a lot of it has to do with there being wiggle room on my price and I'd like tells to talk about it. Also people saying I'm gouging them drives me a bit over the top. I often buy items when people are in a hurry and then still sell them below normal price because I'm making my margin on them. I'm not trying to maximize profits I'm trying to have liquid plat flow. Many 50-100pp profitable transactions is more fun and interesting to me than 1 500pp profitable transaction. I spend a lot of time in the tunnel buying and selling, because I enjoy doing it and it's a great break in my studies. I often do transfers for people or give away items that are inexpensive to new people who clearly don't have the coin for low cost items.

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[Swish]

Has anyone encountered the 1-2 polite fat cats? I had an Atramentous Shield a couple of weeks back... some nerd said "hey, i know its a low offer but if you just want to get rid of it for 2k i'll buy it, i notice you're asking more than the going rate for it"

Respectfully... fuck off [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Wargrade]

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

Has anyone encountered the 1-2 polite fat cats? I had an Atramentous Shield a couple of weeks back... some nerd said "hey, i know its a low offer but if you just want to get rid of it for 2k i'll buy it, i notice you're asking more than the going rate for it"

Respectfully... fuck off [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

He politely wants to fleece you.

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[Deadlyfury]

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

Sometimes, you can't help it; cats vomit randomly, kids fall down stairs and typing /afk is not the first thing that occurs to you. If I am playing a caster and waiting for my mana to come back, I will often go away to grab a drink and maybe even use the bathroom without feeling that I am truly AFK enough to advertise the fact.

At other times, a random unsolicited message from an unknown player can be intimidating. I mean, if I just wrote a /LFG message, I might expect to get a couple of tells and I'll reply even if all I am saying is that I already have a group. But when I am running through a zone full of dangerous mobs and get a message saying 'Hey' then I am often going to wait for the rest of the message before replying.


And what about people who have no idea what the items should cost? I might look up an item on the wiki if I really want it, but there have been times when I have ignored an item because I didn't realise it was in my price-range until later. Please, won't someone think of the noobs?

But I'm sure you reply eventually, and when I send a tell I'm always the nicest guy you could get one from.

For e.g "hey mate! You done with this camp yet? If not all good could you just shoot me a tell when you are finished?"

Or "really hate to bother you but I am in need of a rez! Happy to donate please let me know [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]"

"Really want this item but I only got 800pp and I know your asking 1k, any chance you would part with it?"

These are the types of tells I get ignored on... It's bullshit!

I totally agree about the price thing, put your price if it is a lower end item (e.g 200pp or even up to 1k!) or at least give a little spiel like perfect for low lvl druid! The noob will come running with tells.

the only people who don't give prices are real estate agents, and nobody likes them! (p.s my dad is a real estate agent)

[August]

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

And what about people who have no idea what the items should cost? I might look up an item on the wiki if I really want it, but there have been times when I have ignored an item because I didn't realise it was in my price-range until later. Please, won't someone think of the noobs?

I get people who message me all the time for the items i'm selling because they don't know what the price is. They often say something like, 'oh my! way out of my price range didn't realize, thanks for replying!'. I've been known to throw those people free jewelry anyways, just because it's fun to make people's day. It's actually one of the best ways to find ACTUAL noobs and lavish gifts upon them, rather than shouting in the tunnel and getting a million level 1s 'BankerAltNumbaThree' pretending to be noobs who need your crap gear. So, win/win for me.