Creature Handler Archive
Thread: Is it right to charge players to mount their pets
As in RL you went to the trouble to learn how to make a living and one of the ways is to train a mount. (there are many even if you are not a CH.) It also takes some ammount of your time to do the training. It is not the time it is the knoledge/ability you are asking payment for.-Indene- (havent trained a mount since vehicles came out
I approached a Master CH and asked him if he would mount three mountain dewbacks for me which he did and I tipped him 10K which seemed fair enough, since I tamed them myself and could double my money selling them. I am not going to though since I will give them to other PA members for free.
Charging 3k sounds entirely resonable.
Considering the time it takes to get up the 4th tree in CH, 3k is a bargain.
This whole thing about "Well you get xp, why should I pay you", is totally bole crap. The only player that I dont feel should be tippedfortheir time isthe AFK dancers in Coronet city. The only time I would say "Well you get xp" is when training for apprentice xp. People are usually spaming "Will teach for free", I dont worry about tipping them. However if I search someone out specificly, yes I will tip them for their time.
Ok, I think I'm missing something..
..you guys train other peoples pets as mount and whatever else without having them transfered to you?
The elitle professions take us ch, medic, dancer for granted. I hope theswg team sort the problems out soonThis is something that if your a MCH imo its not worth charging for.
I often train peoples pets for them or mount them, I never ask for creds in return, but I have yet to not be tipped something for it. If people ask 'how much' I always tell them to donate as they think is fair.
After all, its not like it costs us anything other than a couple of minutes of our time (a far cry from what it costs a MA to make 80% composite)
but then thats just my stance on it.
I don't get asked to train mounts all that much and have never charged. No one ever asks to buy a mount from me so I don't even bother taking the time to tame/train/sell - I just use my pets to help out on missions and stuff and that works fine for me and makes me a lot more credits...
I do, however, get many people trying to get free pets from me - if I mention wanting money for them they lose interest - basically I guess because they can get better ones from BE's anyway.
Drachan wrote:
Ok, I think I'm missing something..
..you guys train other peoples pets as mount and whatever else without having them transfered to you?
Yes Drachen, we can trade them from our datapad. I never really understood teh Transfer command being for CH only anyway. I guess it bypasses the secure trade window.
I see no problem with charging people for your services. Everyone else does it. Tell them to go without or to go get a vehicle that won't fight for them and may get permanently disabled. (I couldn't /taunt a rotting decay mite guard off my speederbike. Luckily I killed it before it killed my bike.) I have no idea where to go for prices though. The pet market altogether seems pretty nonexistant.
Ok, I think I'm missing something..
..you guys train other peoples pets as mount and whatever else without having them transfered to you?
If you are talking about the transfer command, you do not need it for non-ch pets. You can trade them via the trade window. You will also see ch pets, usually BE ones that were transfer trained by MCH when they were called from the deed or trained and the wild pet was tamed. The first MCH could not mount train them at that time because they were not big enough. These can be trade, via the window, or transferred.
TuskenJedi wrote:
Drachan wrote:
Ok, I think I'm missing something..
..you guys train other peoples pets as mount and whatever else without having them transfered to you?
Yes Drachen, we can trade them from our datapad. I never really understood teh Transfer command being for CH only anyway. I guess it bypasses the secure trade window.
I see no problem with charging people for your services. Everyone else does it. Tell them to go without or to go get a vehicle that won't fight for them and may get permanently disabled. (I couldn't /taunt a rotting decay mite guard off my speederbike. Luckily I killed it before it killed my bike.) I have no idea where to go for prices though. The pet market altogether seems pretty nonexistant.
So how exactly does it work. Do I need to drag the pet from datapad into the trade window or over the player?
I ask cause I only have a pre-patch Kaadu with 800HAM as mount and would love to have my Dewback as mount, but I'm still 3 boxes away from mount command (went for more stored pets first)..