How much money in general can a porter make a day on average?

[Alawen]

Strongly agree with Ravager. If you want to make money, camp something. Porting is more about meeting folks and helping people out than it is about cash. Half the people you port will be naked.

[Hollywood]

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

Strongly agree with Ravager. If you want to make money, camp something. Porting is more about meeting folks and helping people out than it is about cash. Half the people you port will be naked.

Agreed - with a few exceptions based on locale.

I rarely pay for ports; instead I give them a useful buff. I also remember whom the person is and then recommend them any time I see someone asking for a ride somewhere.

Word of mouth does wonders.

[Brocktree]

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

Agreed - with a few exceptions based on locale.

I rarely pay for ports; instead I give them a useful buff.
Word of mouth does wonders.

Pet peeve, I don't mind porting people for free especially if others riding along or if they are a new player but just stiff me and admit to yourself you are ok taking advantage of people's generosity. Unless it's clarity I'm not interested in buffs. HP buff does no good if you are just porting people around.

[Ravager]

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

Pet peeve, I don't mind porting people for free especially if others riding along or if they are a new player but just stiff me and admit to yourself you are ok taking advantage of people's generosity. Unless it's clarity I'm not interested in buffs. HP buff does no good if you are just porting people around.

It's pretty arrogant, imo, when you don't pay someone for a port. You're telling them that your time is more important than theirs.

Average group port for a 30ish druid is about 10 minutes, whether they're medding or waiting around for people to show up. That's 10 minutes of their time to save you an hour or more of running.

[Quineloe]

Meeting people? I don't remember the last time someone sent me a group invite because I ported him one day.

[bomaroast]

150pp for a DL port + evac seems fair to me. If a power leveling druid is worth 2k-3k an hour, how is someone porting you to DL, running with you to karnors, porting to EJ, and medding for 10 minutes afterwards only worth 150? That's 20-30 minutes of dicking around to help your needy ass out.

You're cheap and inconsiderate.

Also, just get a port to DL, run to karnors and find another porter. Christ, you're needy.

[Tankdan]

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

150pp for a DL port + evac seems fair to me

You're cheap and inconsiderate.

Also, just get a port to DL, run to karnors and find another porter. Christ, you're needy.

Well, that escalated quickly.

bipolar?

When you have ~2k to your name like a lot of level 30s 40s, dishing out 150p for that port is a little tough. And other druids will do it for half the price. If you don't want to port for that price then don't... it's not about being greedy bro.

[Kekephee]

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

how is someone porting you to DL, running with you to karnors, porting to EJ, and medding for 10 minutes afterwards only worth 150? That's 20-30 minutes of dicking around to help your needy ass out.

It probably has something to do with the fact that you can port more than one person at a time and when you get to Karnor's you're likely to fall into another four people desperate to get evac'd. That's 600pp on top of the original 150 right there, and all you had to do was exactly the thing you were doing anyway.



And I don't get why people keep comparing porting to PL. They're two very different things. Good luck PLing by sitting there watching TV at the rings, occasionally mashing an OOC spam button to let people know you're in the zone, then pushing the "teleport to fucking DL" or "teleport to fucking Steamfont" button, waiting 10 seconds to cast, another 10 seconds to trade, and then clicking the "accept trade" button to take the money you just worked so hard to earn that you're in a position to be a prick if you decide it's not as much as you deserve.

Oh, but running to Karnor's is so hard, you have to cast levitate and invis and it takes 3 minutes to autorun across the zone, OPPORTUNITY COST

Incidentally, if I'm not in a hurry I usually try to offer mana song to my porters, because even though "I have to med for 10 minutes" is a stupid reason for this guy to be ranting and raving about people paying him less than 150p for what amounts to 10 minutes of his time, he is right about that being some shit


And one more thing: As far as "waiting around for the person" goes, I don't speak for everyone, but when I'm running across a zone it's not an uncommon thing for the druid who's waiting on me to tell me he's going to port someone else while I run. I spend more time waiting for druids to get back from porting other people than I do making them wait for me. So I don't think that aspect of your argument is really a thing.

[MaksimMazor]

If it takes a Druid 30 minutes to port you to DL then evac you to EJ, you're doing it wrong.

[Swish]

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

If it takes a Druid 30 minutes to port you to DL then evac you to EJ, you're doing it wrong.

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