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Does anybody else think it isn't a coincidence that this post is in the Doctor forum?

Hardly any other professions in this game has the kind of loyal core we do. For every holo grinding docthere is, we have a great dedicated one - a true healer.

Most dedicated healersI know have a mentor that started them off correctly. Bat Avner on Naboo, Bria was mine.

I think the best thing we can do is to find an apprentice and help them to help others. "Each one, teach one."

Dr. Nivik Exis, MD/HS

I enjoyed reading all of your responses. This post has been read 400+ times. Surely SOME of you have GOOD stories to tell?

We've all seen the 10 worst questions to ask a doc, or the Why being a buffbot sux, or any number of funny posts that aren't quite as uplifting.

I'll just bump this one more time, to encourage some of you who weren't here Easter weekend to contribute, then I'll let it fall off the active threads list.

Thanks to those of you who responded.

I was passing though coronet one day when I see this shouting about being thiefed from...

Now having suffered this myself (CAME INTRAKAMA you goit)

anyway. Hes saying that he was buying armour from this guy he paid for it and it turned out to be zero condition. He was saying that it cost him 50k and he was now skink.

So I gave him 50k and warned him to be more careful.

couple of weeks later he tracks me down to my local cantina (bestine) and tips me 50k back with a thanks.

thats happened about 3 times now

I remember receiving 3000 credits as a newbie from my PA leader. At that time it was a lot of money to me. I wisely spent it on new clothes on the bazaar.

Most of my random acts of kindness relate to explaining things about the game to beginners I've met in the med center, cantina or on the hunting grounds. I never really was at a point where I could've really made a difference by helping someone financially until a few weeks ago though, apart from utter newbies.

One act stuck with me, though at some point I also regretted doing it. It was a damsel in distress, getting attacked by a pack of voritors as we were hunting with a group on Dantooine. She called for me by name as she was getting massacred, and everyone in the group was busy fending off other voritors (ye gods, those lair-attackers, you know..). Well I promptly ran to her assistance, healed herand pulled two of the voritors on me, leaving her with just one. Mind you, I was a beginning swordsman at that time and couldn't take on two voritors without buffs. So I bought her and my group some time by dying.

The decaying of my brand new composite armour I carried in a backpack (couldn't wear it without buffs - please don't ask why I wasn't buffed) along with other items made me regret what I'd done for a moment. But it was worth it...no amount of money can compare to a good friend.

Yes indeed this post makes me feel good too.

My personal experiance as a newbie. I had just gotten the game installed and was eager to get going. After the priliminary work in setting things up, I quickly logged ni and waited the 30 mins to DL all pateches. Now when I got to create charecter I decided Marksman was a safe bet as a an old pen and paper player I figured that a warrior type char cant be all bad. Knowing nothing about the game or the fact thatI could adjust my abillyties. When the game recomended me a server Lowca was as the top with a "flashing" sign saying recomended.

Eagerly to get started I chose it. Playing the tutorial was fun but not very informative and my ineptness at MMO's clearly had me confused. I was over whelmed and busy reading all the info I could when it was presented. After have followed the tut to the end I got to choosing a starting planet. Feeling I would like a star wars game I naturaly chose Tatooine. Ending up in Mos Eisly and running around remembering the instrutions from the Tut I knew how to take missions and make a living. But still pretty much a newbie. I often ran into the cantina and was so shy that I hardly spoke to anyone, and not knowing then that a (helper) really was there to help persons like me. Finnaly on my second day I gathered up the nerves to ask if someone knew how to reduce the lag I had, I learned that the hard way this was a very big system hog of a game, but my little out burst paid off and I got talking to a master marksman, as his title said. He asked me what I wanted to be and he explained to me about the different classes and what each could do, I told him I would wanted to be a medic and he showed me to the medic trainer in the area gave me general crafting tool, still coonfused as ever when I got it he told me how to craft items and how to use the crafted goods. He told me to add me to my friends list and then we parted our ways for the day.

Over the next days I walked around trying to heal with my oh so good stim a's thinking I was excelent at healing, I had been taught how to harvest critters to and had recived a little amount of metal. When ever I saw his name online I was on the horn with new'b questions, how he put up with me I will never understand but I am glad he did, he finnaly invited my to his house some 3km from anchor head, and that was long we are talking premounts/vehicles here, I was scared every step off the way out to his house. When I met him on the 4th day he was a novice bounty hunter, I nearly dropped to my knees the first time I saw him fire that LLC and Scatter pistols, I had only used a low grade Scout blaster at that time, and I had been killed by several noob mob's on several missions and here he was killing them left and right with ease. Well he later took pity on me and showed me how to make huge profits by dabling in the resource market he gave me a free wind generator and showed me how to place and use it.

After many weeks and I was feeling much more at home with the game dynamics we often hunted together and I often helped him on his BH missions. I had changed my heart and wanted to be a BH too, I was inlove with the LLC, my friend in the mean time had joined an rebel guild, but one day when we ran across an imperial PC patrol and one of them had his AT-ST out, we decided right then and there that we both would be imperials. Now me being a wookiee was a big hinderance to getting my and AT-ST. But as time went on I became a Novice bh too and my imperial ranks steadaly incresed, I had made several friends in other guilds and werent yet guilded myself, then one day I found one and recrutied my friend to it aswell. Now we were on our way to spread chaos in the galaxy called Lowca. Some time after the player citys were included I found out that the european servers where soon to go live. I explained weakly that I might change servers when they came online, seeing they would be most active when I was. And when that happed I did indeed chage to Chimera where I now play faithfullly, I ocassionaly logged in to Lowca just to talk to my friend and guild matesm but it started to dwindle as chimera was a new place where everyone was even, not many masters around at the time I joined it, I had decided to be a little bothan TKA then and am still to this day mast TKA and working on Doc now, I like to help other players. Around the time holo's where released I revisted Lowca and went hunting holocrons witha small group of guildies, had some fun but I felt I had completely lost touch with them that was the last time in a long while when I was on Lowca.

Then came the dreadfull X-Mas holo's. After X-mas and new year had passed and word started to surfacce that some players had gotten two(2) holo's I visited Lowca again and to my amazement my wokkie BH had gotten two holo's, I decided asa parting gift to my oldest friend to give him my two holo's, yes it was generous but I couldnt transfer them to my new server, so I wrote him a mail and we arrenged a time to exchange final words and saying our goodbyes.

In conclusion, I will never forget the help I got as a new player and I hope the my mentor from Lowca dont feel that I have forgotten him. He got most of my good's, including a krayt made scatter gun and several other good including the 2 holocrons. I wish him all the best. And to this I try to help everyone that asks for my help be they newbies or oldies.

This is an awesome thread. Last night I was leveling combat medic and found out that my buffs give 1206 med xp every pop. So what I did was sit in anchorhead and buff people for free. I made sure no other master docs were in town. The gratitude alone was worth it so after I finished leveling everything in short order I had so many grateful people that I decided to give a few more out. I gave a couple of new guys some cash and healed them up too. It was really a lot of fun.

One funny story. I kid was standing there he must have been brand spanking new. I ran out of only health, so I buffed everything else. He started calling me names for messing up his stats. He said I broke him an he would have to log or talk to a CSR. LOL. Said I broke his health because it was so low. I put a 2407 buff on all his other stats. Everyone was laughing their buts off telling him how evil I was for breaking him. In the mean time I made another health buff and said to him ok I will fix you. Finally, I buffed hishealth and told him he was "fixed". Someday he will realize the gift he was given..

Thought you guys might enjoy a good laugh.. It was really fun..

BTW, I will never forget when I was a medic and a novice sword being stuck on dath. I had to ask someone for 1500 to get out of the god forsaken place. I sure appreciated the help..

Message Edited by Morath360 on 04-14-2004 06:56 AM

I remember standing in the med center selling buffs when a new medic came up to me. He asked me how to heal people. I told him, "Wait right here."

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I remember standing in the med center selling buffs when a new medic came up to me. He asked me how to heal people. I told him, "Wait right here."

I head to the crafting station next to the hospital and proceed to craft. I made him some pretty good wound pack B's. He thanked me profusely because he was getting on average 100-200 exp from each use.

I then went to the bazaar and bought him a shirt. I also gave him an extra set of pants and boots so he wouldn't look new. I didn't have much money to give him, so I gave him what I could.

The world would be a lot better if people were a little nicer. I know, for one, I felt better about myself by helping him. I told him to remember what I'd done for him and for him to do the same to an up and coming medic when he became a master doctor.

Aopik(Starsider)

Master Doc/ Aspiring CM