Bio Engineer Archive
Thread: rude BE's?
1) Players don't comprehend that there are 3 kinds of BEs, pet specialists, tissue specialists, and the people that do both. So when they ask a BE "I'm looking for a good CL35 pair for my MCH" and they get the reply "I don't make pets", they figure "why be a BE then dork" and write the BE off as rude. This is very similar to the weaponsmith's problem of ranged weapon WSs vs melee weapon WSs. Not much you can do short of explaining the difficulties of maintaining a full bore tissue vendor and still having time for sampling/assembling DNA to them and even then they are unlikely to get it. Best bet in my humble opinion is to be able to refer people to someone who is the opposite kind of BE to yourself "Sorry I don't make pets, but send a tell to Georgie, he's a pet specialist".
2) MCHs with no clue (I was one of these). "Hey Mr BE I'd like to order 3 CL23 gurrecks with light armor 60% kinetic and energy resist 100% heat resist and 25% to the other resists. They should also have dizzy and intimidate as thie specials. Can I pick them up tonight"
Not much you can do to educate these folks, they just have to make a BE and see how the recipes work for themselves.
I can't recall having a customer ever complain to me about other BE's on my server in terms of rudeness. In fact, Bria is (or was) crawling with BE's and we've had some pretty nice folks there (a lot of whom are active in this forum). But we have to accept that this game is dominated by early teens, and early teens, as a whole, are a pretty self-centered, inconsiderate bunch. That's not a knock on them, that just goes with the territory. But if I were to characterize the players that I've corresponded with in-game, I'd have to say that the BE's I've known (and I've probably gotten to know a dozen or more) tend to be more mature, more well spoken, and quite frankly more of the kind of people I enjoy hanging out with and chatting with in-game. Perhaps it is that difference in maturity level that causes the perceived "rudeness" on both sides. Dunno, but that is a possible explanation.
Now let's talk other groups. It never ceases to amaze me the difference in clientele between tailor and BE. The typical greeting from a BE customer is:
"I need..." (pet/free schematic)
or worse
"what's the best..." (occasionally there is some qualification like CL or a certain skin or whatnot, but just as often there is no qualification)
in which case (should I even choose to respond to that "demand" disguised as a greeting) the conversation quickly degenerates into a combination of l33t and badly broken english as if they guy on the other end of the keyboard had just recently received a very serious blow to the head. Andtypically this exchange is going to lead to some outrageous demands consisting of requests for exploited products and demands for the "best pet you've ever made" types of requests. 75% of the time when I receive such a "greeting" I leave it unanswered. Some may consider that "rude", I consider it pre-empting what will very likelybe an extremelyfrustrating exchange. Do I lose business? Yep, of course. But it's the only way I can retain my sanity and it's why I've been able to stay a BE for over 12 months now. Being selective in the customers you choose to serve is a very important thing to do. This is a game, it's supposed to be fun, and serving rude/inconsiderate people, regardless of how many credits are in your bank account when you log out for the night, is not a fun thing to do.
When the tailor tag is up though, it's amazing how differently you are treated. A typical greeting will be:
"hello there"
or
"hi, can you spare a minute?"
I dunno, call me crazy, but just that subtle difference right there makes a world of difference, and generally the conversation afterwards reflects that difference in a pretty extreme way as well.
Message Edited by ArthurDentOnBria on 10-07-2004 10:19 AM
Lloyd Pickering
Master Bio-Engineer
Chimaera
6276, 1923 Sapphire Lake, Naboo
236, -5619 Coronet, Corellia
cos you just know its gonna be a LONG night when a tell starts out like that.
I thought "DOH!" Why, Why did I do that. Again the Brandy kicked in and I said "so is that 4 or 8 total. (Like I was going to do it either way.)
And he responds back 8! (mind you we are still e-mailing back and forth instead of tells.)
So I send back, I don't make custome pets, but I am planning to make a DNA run soon, I can try for that. And let you know if I can pull it off or give you first pick of the pets.
Response: No I need 8 lvl 35 rancors I am in no rush I could wait until tomorrow.
Sorry dude, my play time is limited with my wife having Cancer (No I did not make that up to get ride of him, I know most of you wouldn't put it past me) so it would probably take a weeks to get the specials and to pull off 8 lvl 35 rancors that you would actually want.
... 2 min. later.
Tell? no he emails again.. My friend is a BE and he said it shouldn't take that long, can you have them by tomorrow.
And that was the end for me.
Or was it... Tuesday night I log in in Cornet and low and behold I am smack dab in the middle of a buff line ( actually second from end) When I come through there is bone head pukeing on me telling me I cut in front of his friend.
Yup, Puking on me.
I tried to explain the... obvious? and they wouldn't have it, so I felt the appropriate action was to /ignore and /ban from the shop... I no longer have a vendor, but someday I may again.
GMANHNC wrote:
I thought "DOH!" Why, Why did I do that. Again the Brandy kicked in and I said "so is that 4 or 8 total. (Like I was going to do it either way.)
Message Edited by Zadokk on 10-07-2004 11:50 PM
Paradisio wrote:
Or people try to "test me" or fake knowledge. Like "make me a non ch kimogila." And then I say "Kimo has a minimum level of 40" and then they say "I just wanted to make sure you knew what you were doing." It's even worse when they don't even order anything afterwards.
oh god yes! i have suffered that when someone asked me to make them a cl10 ancient krayt dragon, i rolled off an automated macroed response (they're your best friends! use them!) and then i got a reply saying that he used to be a BE and he just wanted to tease me...
*grumble*