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Thread: Thanking people for tips and heals
Hi 
This is probably a silly question but I couldn't find a"tip"or "bank credit" category in the chat options tochange the color for.
Can you explainit a bit more please.
"As far as sending someone a tell after they leave the cantina to thank them for a tip or a heal goes... If I'm not POSITIVE they heard me thank them, I definately shoot them a tell. "
After I got one or two people saying "I heard you the first time" I stopped sending tells. To some players I guessit seems like you're expecting something more from them.
I still see the problem that at a full cantina you hardly can see the tips all the time. I use the text highlighting and the system messages in a seperate window but still i wonder sometimes when i log off and check my inventory from whom i got the tips...
Like I said before it would be wonderfull not only to higlight special words, but to filter them into another chat window. This isnt really hard to code and it would help alot...
It's sad to me that one cannot be friendly and thankful and express it freely without others thinking poorly of them.
/tell customer Not sure if it got lost in the confusion, but, thank you!
Perhaps my phrasing keeps them from thinking I want more from them.
". So I just thank them now and if they need credits for materials to make items to heal me then they can always ask me nicely, but they are sweeties, they just walk in start healing me then give me a tip as well
Beery wrote:
Ipractice all of the above ideas, but as a dancer/musician, the biggest problem I find with thanking people for tips is that as soon as they tip they run out of the cantina. It takes me at least 5 seconds for my typing finger to frenziedlytype "Thanks for the tip" as they're racing for the door,so by the time I send the messagethey may miss my thanks and assume I didn't thank them. Then I'm afraid of sending a tell in case they DID hear it, and assume I'm wanting more. I could simply /tell them the first time, but that wouldn't get the message out to the non-tippers that tipping is happening.
I quite agree.
Try '/thank <name>'. It usually gets to them even if they get pretty far away.
hi all. i use the seprate window/color combo. i like it and it works great for me.
I have neveryelled out thanks for the tip. a few reasons why: i fell in my heart every one in the place knows the tipping system, (and if they are new and not sure they will ask) and they do not need me reminding them about it. i aslo feel that any out loud conversation about tips is rude, and just askes for trouble, who knows what sort of off responce you will get from the other dancers in the room. I do not think it is anyones bussiness who tip who and how much. same goes for how oftenanyone getstiped. with that being said, i like to /smile at them. (if i can because as said above-they do sometimesdart out the door fast) and then i /tell name thank you for the tip. the only problem i have with this iswhen they all come in at once and tip at once. when this happens it is a bit hard to /greet the newfolks comming in, but i have l just decided that its ok not to get all worked up about that. perhaps at that time its someone elses turn to welcome the new wounded player, and for me to learn how to type faster. 
That is what i do and it has worked well for me. (made some great friends/customers this way)
Just my style of play, thought i would share.
"i aslo feel that any out loud conversation about tips is rude, and just askes for trouble, who knows what sort of off responce you will get from the other dancers in the room."
They should thank you. Saying thanks for the tip is not only good manners, it reminds others in a non-threatening way that tips are appreciated. It's certainly not spamming to thank audibly for a tip.
"I do not think it is anyones bussiness who tip who and how much."
It's my 'business' (in every sense of the word) to make it clear that I (unlike AFKers) respect the customer and appreciate the tips they give.
Beery wrote:
"i aslo feel that any out loud conversation about tips is rude, and just askes for trouble, who knows what sort of off responce you will get from the other dancers in the room."
They should thank you. Saying thanks for the tip is not only good manners, it reminds others in a non-threatening way that tips are appreciated. It's certainly not spamming to thank audibly for a tip.
Thanking people for tips IS good manners, I just choose to do it in a /tell instead of out loud. Nothing personal about they way you play your game. just a diffrent way of doing it.
"I do not think it is anyones bussiness who tip who and how much."
It's my 'business' (in every sense of the word) to make it clear that I (unlike AFKers) respect the customer and appreciate the tips they give.
Yes Berry it is YOUR business to do so. I just do not think it is the rest of the cantinas business who tips ME I like to keep that between myself and the customer who tipped me, it is just a difrent way to show my respect for them. As far as AFKers not respecting the customer.. i would know nothing about that. Perhaps they do perhaps they don't. But any one that has watched me danceknowsI am behind PC.I do not have to yell out thanks for the tip for themto see that.
this is the reason i do not post much. 
I was just offering my style of play to other people. was not intended to tell you the way you play is wrong. It just differs from the way I do. And this play style has worked out well for ME.
I must say I agree with Denisa's post, I usually try to offer the medics some aid in what they are doing, normally I offer to cover their expenses, so that they do not go flat broke on healing us starving entertainers, but then again, many medics simply refuse me too :/ though I do my best to offer it, out of the kindness of my heart, but there are some who are also relieved in hearing it, and tell me thanks for the offer, but I am doing ok financially(not exact phrasing, kind interpreting it myself a bit *grin* )
Also would like to agree with Kyree, she is right, if you phrase it correctly, your customer does not get offended, I too have had some rather "interesting" conversations with some customers, who saw I took the time to make sure I had thanked them.
Also, thanks for making me see that you can color code the text's normally I check with small intervals my inventory to check for increases, if a increase has happend, I check my text, but sometimes so much has happnd that it does not stand there any longer, and to not look rude I normally just do a normal say, saying "Who ever tipped me thank you, I could not see it due to spam" And what has surprised me alot is, that people actually are honest and actually do not take the credit of someone elses tipping, in the start I was shocked, but I am ok with it now
Sincerely
Powi Hollebis
Novice Dancer
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