Dancer Archive

So, I'm standing outside Theed Starport, just playing my mando for kicks...when I hear "Tips help buy me new cute clothes ". I, of course, did a /gag at her.

She's a noob and says that the tutorial told her to beg for credits. I gave her some advice and hopefully she'll take it. Of course, the way so many n00bs have been lately, I doubt it.

Bah. I hate being so cynical.

How do you handle these types of things? Are you just so tire of it you ignore them? Or do you still, after 2 years for some of you, continue to guide and help the new people?

Argh, that's so frustrating. Lately, I'm a meanie, and just add any spammers to ignore. If there is in fact something in the tutorial that suggests begging, that should be rectified immediately. Any volunteers to create a char and run through the tutorial?

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Gothywench wrote:
So, I'm standing outside Theed Starport, just playing my mando for kicks...when I hear "Tips help buy me new cute clothes ". I, of course, did a /gag at her.

She's a noob and says that the tutorial told her to beg for credits. I gave her some advice and hopefully she'll take it. Of course, the way so many n00bs have been lately, I doubt it.

Bah. I hate being so cynical.

How do you handle these types of things? Are you just so tire of it you ignore them? Or do you still, after 2 years for some of you, continue to guide and help the new people?

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AG-941 wrote:

I still keep my helper tag up. I usually offer to help out new folks. I generally offer only advice and not credits. /pointat Mission Terminal.

If I determine that they won't listen, I usually walk away and/or ignore them.

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ditto

I made a character on Bloodfin, but I skipped the tutorial. I'll run through it and report back tonight!

I also saw a starport spambot the other day. Bleeech!!! In spite of my helper tag, I put her on ignore. I just didn't feel like dealing with it at that time.

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AG-941 wrote:

I generally offer only advice and not credits. /pointat Mission Terminal.

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The only problem with this, is have they fixed the problem with the destroy/delivery mission terminals and low CL characters? I experienced this myself as a starting out character once not too long ago where I had very little money and I wanted to earn just a few thousand credits. I wanted to do some quick delivery missions, but all the terminal offered me was in-town deliveries for like 50-90 credits or so, and even then one at a time. I ended up going over to the Entertainer mission terminals to get some decent 1k payouts for a mission.

I need to get back to my Bfin characters soon..they've been ignored the past 2 weeks It's been a while since I've gone through the player tutorial but I've heard no one else report that it suggests spamming for tips as a means of income for entertainers. Haven't time to check it out right now..off to work. (hating this 2nd shift stuff)

I don't get why so many people hit the galaxy begging. I've started 2 new characters in the past month, and both of them started out with 75,000 credits in the bank. Maybe I'm showing my age here, but when I started my first character, I don't recall starting with any cash, and especially not with 75,000 credits. I remember running 2500cr gnort missions, 2500m each way from Theed, without the benefit of a mount or vehicle, to save up to buy my first pistol better than a scout blaster. I was at least a month into the game before I saw 75k sitting in my bank account.

Seriously, if you can't hit the ground running with a 75k gift from the Empire, you've got some big problems. My ignore list is starting to get pretty long these days, and the galaxy is getting a lot quieter.

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Gothywench wrote:
So, I'm standing outside Theed Starport, just playing my mando for kicks...when I hear "Tips help buy me new cute clothes ". ...
How do you handle these types of things?

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I usually try to assist if someone is asking for help or information, but if someone new is just begging fortips repeatedly and refuses to run missions or learn about the game, I have been caught offering "Go beg in (remote NPC city I never visit)" as a tip.

I used to offer credits as a reward to new players in return for them doing something, like entertaining me such that I laugh, finding the waypoint of a vendor selling a certain article of clothing, or finding the price range of something, but most of them didn't want to do anything forcredits and just wanted handouts.

Probably not the nicest nor most helpful tips to offer, and probably not the sort of tips they were looking for. Oh well.

I have my helper tag on too, but I have no problem throwing anyone that's spamming into my ignore list. I don't give financial help to those that ask because they're wasting both their time and my time, although on a good day I'll go to eisley and pass out free sets of clothing when they beg, I just say no. if they then whine, I give them a piece of my mind and ignore them if they're spamming. if they ask nicely without mentioning money, I have no problem giving them help

I started a new char a while ago, and I don't think the tutorial mentioned anything about begging. I had no problem getting delivery missions across cities, although it takes me a while to find 2 that start/end in the same city. of course, I also know where to get items fast that sells on the bazaar for 20k apiece

I just ignore anything that has a recursive spam... it's really mean, and I've even ignored people who would usually shop from me, but I just can't stand the spam anymore. Espeeeecciially ontop of that stupid NPC stormtrooper who comes into the cantina and insults all the dancers... even the imperial ones.

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psycocat wrote:

Have you tried Expolerer missions? Those might have you running all over the planet scoping out possibly dangerous situations or just run to point A and get paid. However these missions do pay 1k to 3k from what I remember. Also these missions give Scout exp.

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I think the last time I tried an explorer mission was back at the beginning of the game. The last time I needed some credits I didn't have a lot of time to play and didn't want to do anything that would take me into unsafe areas so I decided the Entertainer mission would be the next best since I couldn't get a decent delivery mission. I think the only skills I had were Master Dancer and a little bit of unarmed so I just had a very low CL, and I'd spent all my credits on training. I think this was before they started all the newbies off with all the novice skills.

There was only one time I ever begged for credits, and it was a one time thing where I was training up to Master ID in one night, and I had to get almost all of my training from the NPC trainers (it was probably the same character I was running the Ent missions on). I asked very nicely in the ent channel if anyone could spare about 40k credits for me for training so I could finish up that night, and someone did. I was very gracious about it, and I still plan to pay him back when I have some more time to play on that server.