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Well..

I’ve been reading this forum for a long time and while I have my views on some of the things being said, I’ve never posted them. However, I think now is a good time – as I have nothing better to do..

Firstly, I better introduce myself. I’ve been a master doctor for some time now – 3 months I think – and more often or not, I’ll be buffing in random places or in a medical centre either helping medics or doctors that are grinding, or healing those with wounds.

The first thing I plan on discussing; are rude customers…

When I was grinding Doctor, I read this forum daily and there was at least 2 topics to do with bad experiences, during the duration I’ve been a Doctor, I’ve only had 1 person be rude to me because I refused to buff him unless he tipped first. In the end he decided I wasn’t going to get my grubby hands on his money yet he sent me a tell a few minutes later saying that he’ll tip before I buff him – I’m guessing there were no other Doctors about.

Other then that, I’ve never come across rude customers and I find it weird that so many say that you have – yes, I’m aware I’m on different servers to some of you.
Excluding the one bad apple, everyone else I’ve buffed has been polite. Sometimes if I’m not buffing – I always run about with my title on – I’ll receive a tell asking for a buff, surprisingly, in a majority of these tells the person would be overly polite – “Is there by any chance you could buff me please sir?” – If I’m not buffing and I’m busy doing something, I’ll normally reply to the person saying so and most of the time the person will thank me anyway.
Occasionally I receive a few, “Can u buff me plz?” And although they write in abbreviations, they still say please and if I’m not buffing, I often get a “k thanx”. (Or however they spell thanks).

So what exactly do you lot class as ‘rude customers’, those who don’t say please and thank you? Or people who are actually rude and (verbally) abusive?

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Over the pass few days I’ve noticed an increasing amount of complaints on this forum about a whole load of topics. As it’s the most recent one, I’ll comment on the whole, “Only allow Master Doctors to Buff” idea.

Before I begin, I’m only posting this in an individual topic, as I want to touch on a few other subjects. Anyway, it’s not the idea itself that I want to focus on – I personally disagree with it as most of the Buff Bots are Master Docs anyway – but the fact many of you were talking about separating the ‘Real’ Doctors from the Money grabbing ones.

If I’m buffing in a city and I have a big queue, am I a bad doctor for not getting up and healing the odd person with a disease? Why is healing people more important than buffing people? If I get up to heal someone with a disease, then I risk upsetting a few customers who can easily wander off and get buffs else where, does it make me greedy for not wanting this to happen? Let’s be honest, you won’t make nearly as much money healing wounds in coronet as you do buffing. If someone in my queue has wounds, then before/after I buff them, I’ll heal their wounds. Does it make me a bad doctor for not healing the wounds of people who aren’t in my queue?

I don’t have a disease pack on me all the time, or loads of rez packs, does that make me a bad doctor? If I’m not buffing, I’ve always got a lot of wound packs on me to heal people with wounds, yet I can’t heal people with diseases as I hardly ever have disease packs, once again, does that make me a bad doctor?

Like I said earlier, I’m often in Medical centers helping new doctors and medics, I give them wound packs (you’ll be surprised with how many continuously use /tendwound rather than packs), stim packs and advice for free, in the other thread – I might be mistake – I haven’t seen anyone mention this as part of the duties of a ‘real’ doctor, so am being a good doctor or a bad one?

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Heh, I’m sure I’m beginning to bore you now, but I want to comment on a few other posts.

There was recently a post about buffing people for free, while I don’t want to go into it too much, I normally buy my buffs for 12k a stat, for argument sake, let’s say each buff has 24 uses. Each use would cost 500 credits; to give someone a full buff would cost only 3k credits. If you don’t want to lose out on 3k then fine, tell whoever it is it costs you 3k to buff them – or however much it is for you – so you’d like that much in return.

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Buffing TEF’s, it’s up to you whether you want to do it or not. But if you want to get up and heal someone who was killed by a member from another faction and then in turn are killed, please don’t act surprised. By now you should know what you’re getting yourself in for. There’s no point coming here and complaining about it, you get involved in the GCW and you’re doing just that, getting involved, you can’t just jump in and then jump out again and continue buffing, things don’t work like that.

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Nerf Buffs! Nerf Buffs! Nerf Buffs!

Erm, no, how about Nerf’ing complaining. While I totally agree that buffs need to be toned down – yes, we can blame the armour as well, but we’re adding fuel to the unbalancing fire, aren’t we?

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Artisans want heavy harvesters all for their self and some doctors complained about it… Personally, I think it’s just fair. You need to be a scout to harvest, so why don’t you need to be an Artisan – that survey’s – to place harvesters?

I don’t know who and if I did, I wouldn’t point out who it was, but someone made the connection between harvesters and houses, saying next you’ll have to be an architect to place houses. Personally I think that connection is silly, if we want to get technical, in the real world it would take someone with the right qualifications to work a ‘heavy harvester’, so it makes sense if Artisan’s are the only ones able to place heavies.

You need to be a medic to heal, a weapon smith to make weapons, etc… The only reason there was a bit of complaining about this is because some doctors are only looking out for themselves.

This is the same situation with the whole “Doctors being left out when it comes to Vendors.” The beautiful thing about SWG is that if you’re willing to, you can get together with other people and work together. You should have to be a merchant to have a vendor – not someone who became a merchant and dropped it – this will increase social interaction between people, which is what I expect in a MMORPG.

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Well, that’s me done, heh, at the time of writing it’s just coming up to midnight over here in England and I’m extremely tired for some reason, so my deepest apology if I began to babble.

That’s everything from me now; hopefully I made at least 1 valid point.

Mythiachos

Artisan already has plenty of unique abilities that no other profession has: crafting, placing a vendor and surveying. They don't need to be the sole gate-keepers of the entire economy as well. The survey line allows artisans to---survey! Surveying, in-and-of itself,is a huge advantage for running harvestors. Use harvestors is something all professions get to do--artisans have an advantage because they can survey.

Otherwise, Ipretty much agree with what you said.

Slim Vargo, Corbantis