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Thread: Attn: What NOT to ask a doctor....

Kayan_h21
Mon Apr 19, 2004 2:27 pm
#1

Well, I noticed one of these in the weaponsmith forums, so I decided to make one for the doctor forums. However, this will not only be humorous, but it will alsobe a note to players of what really, REALLY pisses us doctors off. Now, besides "r u buffing", these are some of the most hated tells and questions I get:


1. "hey can u rez me?i forgot to clone" I usually get one of these while on an advanced planet (although occasionally on tatooine), and most of the time I'm either in the middle of killing a large mob of enemies, or in a dungeon. Usually when I forget to turn off my master surgeon tag, which I like to wear causeitsjust cool. I usually just reply with a flat "no", but if I'm feeling generous I say "give me your coordinates and I'll see what I can do, just let me finish this mob". This is usually followed by them giving coords that are 7k+ meters away. This is when it gets ugly. I say "sorry, that's too far away", and they usually reply with a "**edit** you". Now, what are we supposed to do, drop everything we're doing and travel 7k meters to rez someone who you don't know andprobably won't be very grateful anyway? I think not... TIP: Cloning. It helps. Nowadays there is a city near almost every POI anyway. I understand that every now and then you will forget to clone (hell I do it too), and if this is the case, please politely ask the doctor if they are near your location, and if they aren't, then you're just going to have to take some wounds. It doesn't hurt to give them a tip for rezzing you either. Resuscitationkits don't grow on trees ya know (well, most of them don't).


2. "hey" This is all they say. I usually never reply to these, which ends up in them giving me another tell, saying "hey" again. I ignore this also, and eventually I get a tell saying "HEY ARE YOU THERE OR NOT?!?!". This is about the time I /addignore the person.TIP: Don't give someone who you don't know/have never seen before that you want a service from a tell that just says "hey", they probably won't respond.


3. "do u have medic skills" I get this question several times a week, and every time I check to see if I'm wearing my master surgeon tag just to be sure I'm not crazy. Last time I told the guy "No, I don't have medic skills, I'm really a chef, this master surgeon tag I'm wearing is for operating on food. Give that canape four of ativan! Charge to 200! Clear!" The guy then said "o, ok, bye". I'm not kidding.


Feel free to post anything funny you have experienced as a doctor here, or anything you want people who may visit the doctor boards to know.



Kayan Airsan
The Trader's Guild
Trader's Town Location: -2171 -6220 on Tatooine
Trader's Guild shopping center, filled daily with items from masters of all professions
Iporz
Mon Apr 19, 2004 2:47 pm
#2

I get, can you heal my wounds? They have like 3 or 4 in every stat and i have a line of people 12 deep for buffs. Thats always fun.


I get do you wanna buy avian meat. The answer is always yes, but then they have like 60 units and want 500cpu or something crazy like that.


Another one is, Are you buffing? I have a macro shouting master doc buffing 10k lasts blah blah...


Just a few of the ones that really bug me.



Iporz on sunrunner
TKM
Master Heavy Swordsman
4-0-0-4 Rifleman
Nowem Ona on Tarq
Master Doctor
4004 Cm
0030 TK
Iporz
Mon Apr 19, 2004 3:41 pm
#3

I get, can you heal my wounds? They have like 3 or 4 in every stat and i have a line of people 12 deep for buffs. Thats always fun.


I get do you wanna buy avian meat. The answer is always yes, but then they have like 60 units and want 500cpu or something crazy like that.


Another one is, Are you buffing? I have a macro shouting master doc buffing 10k lasts blah blah...


Just a few of the ones that really bug me.



Iporz on sunrunner
TKM
Master Heavy Swordsman
4-0-0-4 Rifleman
Nowem Ona on Tarq
Master Doctor
4004 Cm
0030 TK
Roustabout
Mon Apr 19, 2004 3:55 pm
#4

One that always perplexes me is when I get a request for buffing while I'm sitting around the starport when there are tons of other doctors advertising for buffing. I just wonder why they chose to take the time to do a search instead of just stopping by the starport entrance.


The one that really gets me riled up is "train me." I have no problem and in fact need the ap usually but people who just flat out demand get nowhere fast.


Maximum_Overload
Mon Apr 19, 2004 5:15 pm
#5

Here's my nightmate conversation, cobbled together from my favorite hapless techno-weenie clients:

Client: R U Buffing?
Me: Can You Spell?
Client: how good r your buffs?
Me: Better than not very good.
Client: how long r they?
Me: Longer than my attention span.
Client: how much
Me: as much as you'll pay me for them.
Client: U take bank tips?
Me: In God We Trust, All Else Pay Cash.
Client: Ur buff suck. I want some of my money back.
Me: Whine to Ralph Nader, I'm busy.

Seriously, though with all the scamming going on, I hate hate "Will you accept a bank tip?". I mean, if you're informed enough to ask, why aren't you carrying cash for services.



WTB: Rug In A TrashCan
xrayallen
Mon Apr 19, 2004 6:29 pm
#6






I get, can you heal my wounds? They have like 3 or 4 in every stat



I just think that is cause they are n00b. I remember when I had wounds I thought, "Oh man, I better get these taken care of!" Then one day a doctor explained to me that they were to small to waste meds on and that they would go away soon, and most importantly that they are so smal that they wont have an impact on my hunting. I apologised, felt like an idiot for buggin all those docs before her, and thanked her for the information. How else will people learn?


I know it gets old telling peeps the same thing all the time, but new players join all the time and many may just not know.


"...and knowing is half the battle. GI JOOOOOOoooeeeeeee!" (Those PSA's are so funny)

WarFerret
Mon Apr 19, 2004 7:14 pm
#7

I have all the time in the world for polite players, regardless of how little they might know, I remember being completely confused when I first started the game as well, the manual is a joke, it's either innacurate, obsolete or positively apocryphal, the holocron in game isn't that much better, sometimes you really do need to just ask the stupid questions.



---
Ississ - FarStar - Master Doctor/Master Heavy Swordsman.

"If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands." - Douglas Adams
headsupsevenup
Mon Apr 19, 2004 7:18 pm
#8

yeah, i get the "plz heal my woundz i hav lotz", then i go look and they have less than 10 in a few stats. i make a point not to respond to people who dont spell out words properly anyways. also, i made an afk response that flat-out refuses and requests for buffs, buff packs, or free wound healing. comes in handy, except when i get those guys who repeatedly respond to my afk response, they just get a nice /addignore. those kids make me laugh.



Orralikerri
Rebel Warrant Officer I
SilverMoon Monk of Valor
Silverfist Brigade
Teras Kasi Master / Novice Commando
HULK SMASH!
Khronos-
Mon Apr 19, 2004 8:02 pm
#9

i get the..."ill pay you 12k if you can buff me now".....when theres a line 10+ strong



-Louren Thrand


Wanderhome
Master Doc
Member of Black Avatar
Resedent of Carkoon City
13B
Mon Apr 19, 2004 8:41 pm
#10

This is more of an event then it is a question. I'm at a player city and nota doc in sight...well besides myself. There are a lot of people hunting, and they wanted me tot ake time out of my hunting to buff them. *Mind you I wasnt even wearing my Master Doc tag or any medical tag for that matter* So I charged them 12k for 2.3 buffs that last 3 hours seeing as I had to take time out of my hunting. So they complained that I was overcharging them. Ok does it not make sense to inflate your price a little since I am pulling 99 level missions to solo, getting 30k a mission and in the time it takes me to buff 1 person I could have completed a mission. Not to mention I seemed to be the only Doc in the entire area.


That just bugged me, as well as everything you guys have said so far.


But the worst is "can you buff" my reply is always "If I couldnt then I wouldnt waste my time being a Master Doc"



Phillio64
Tue Apr 20, 2004 3:41 am
#11

Throw them off a... err.... I mean /addignore them .


Whenever someone asks me to heal their wounds and they're all below 10, I just say "I'm sorry, but you have no significant wounds." they usually say "ok" and move on.


Whenever I buff, its almost always on Coronet. The question that bugs me the most are these two:


"Are you buffing?" No, I'm just sitting in front of the starport, with a surgical droid, with a 10+ person line so they can all look at my pretty droid! Not only that, but there are also TWO other docs buffing - art thou blindeth?


"Where are you?" The place docs always buff all the time, THE STARPORT!


This one gets me too:


"If I pay you 25k, will you let me in the front of the line?" No, for several reasons. When I'm in the starport, it's usually a bit hectic... spam, other doctors' lines and customers talking, etc... and I already have like a 10+ person line. So it'd be a pain for me to have to accept the money, explain to everyone that he paid me to get forward... and if I let him do it, others may ask and it'd just be one big mess - not only that but those who'ved waited at the end may be cut off if I had limited buffs.




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Iporz
Tue Apr 20, 2004 3:46 am
#12

Heres another fun one. Explaining that I can't rez you when you're 6km+ out, causyou will run out of time. You always get tells saying, well at least try. You could at least come to the cloning center and heal my wounds. To which my respose is, "Healing minor wounds is a medic's job. Go help one out with some xp."



Iporz on sunrunner
TKM
Master Heavy Swordsman
4-0-0-4 Rifleman
Nowem Ona on Tarq
Master Doctor
4004 Cm
0030 TK
Gitana
Tue Apr 20, 2004 3:49 am
#13



more fast just carry crap action/stamina for free buff entertainers, if u are a real doc u do it.


if one guy want a wound heal, i do it.


if one guy want a rez and me nearby and can do on moderate risk i do it.


i can seea lot docs atm no carryng cures (disease, posion, dizzye, etc) no woundpacks, no rezpacks. Atm is to many doc-bot buffers, only carryng buff packs for make money.


Yes the flood tells in populated areas is hell, thats is cause U ARE A SUPPORT class, and ppl want u. If can manage that just move on. The support class role its not for u.


I love that things, yes i love when ppl ask for wound-heals on a 15 ppl line for buffs, i love when one entertainer get close just to get a action buff, i love when other doc invite u for train, i love when ppl try scam u on a banktip, i love when noob ask for a cure disease, i love when ppl not understand why need heal BF under 250 after get a buff, etc...


I love all of those things, is fun


PS: sorry my crap english





Gitana Master Doctor / Master Carabinier

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