Image Designer Archive
Thread: Things to do while Migrating Stats.
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TibbitRabbit
Sun Oct 17, 2004 9:45 pm
#1
Okay, we all know it - Stat Migration is boring. Generally you have some untalkitive customer waiting on the other end who goes afk for the 10 long minutes. Now, I'm sitting here bored, at this minute, giving a stat migration. I want to read what you all do to make this time a little less painful. Games you play, articles you read, anything (within reason, of course), I just want to hear how you get through it without going absolutely mad. There's only so many times I can play Badger Racing 
Help!
Xibi
Sun Oct 17, 2004 10:35 pm
#2
Hmm. I don't do stat migrations very often - with my MID getting close to Master Fencer, I'm usually off doing that instead of being anywhere near a tent. Ido IDs on the fly if someoneasks.
However, if I am doing one, I rarely have had the customer go AFK on me. I don't give them much of a chance to because I engage them in conversation before I enter the ID session and I do not shutup, not once. Heh. I intersperse all the business transaction talk with idle chit chat about things like how'd they come up with their name or do they know what's the best current harvest, where is it, what drops it, would they like emotes, your eyes would look awesome in blue-green with that hair color, got your stats set where you want? Etc. By the time they are done answering all my questions, the stat mig is done and I've hit commit. 
I am sneaky.
I am sneaky.But anyway... on those occasions I get atrue AFK on my hands, I watch whatever is on Cartoon Network, chat in tells, read my mail, browse the forums on my laptop, go do the dishes, let the dog out, tell my 8 year old to go clean his room, check the area for the latest incident of cat yak...
And hit commit 10 minutes later. And then Irun away. One AFKer is enough to bore me right out of the tent and back into the hills of Dantooine stabbing holes into Pikets.
Chibi-Tux
Sun Oct 17, 2004 11:42 pm
#3
One thing thats fun is if the customer is wearing full armor, make some changes to their hair and leave a little "surprise" for them.
Of course, I've only done this once, and that was when the customer fully deserved it (really rude). They thought it was funny and I changed them back, of course.
Of course, I've only done this once, and that was when the customer fully deserved it (really rude). They thought it was funny and I changed them back, of course.
casinotomm
Mon Oct 18, 2004 6:18 am
#4
As a "once again MID" I have found that if I examine them right fast, and see if they have done a lot of professions, or seen a lot of poi's, or hardly nothing at all thats my que. If they have done a lot I ask them " wow you have done a lot of stuff are you glowie" most will say yes and talk about the village, most of the time I get ask back am I glowie, I have a bio a mile long of 28 professions, I have to say "No I got my Jedi back in may", but then we talk about how to stay off the terminals, the best way to grind Jedi, crystals vurs pearls and stuff like that, then I tell them drop me a mail if they ever have questions, by then the timer is up and I get a very nice tip for a lot of information. I have even been told I'm excellent MID and he was the leader of a guild. He then sent a mail to his guild and I now have a lots of people in tells and a very long list of clients now.
Myobi
Mon Oct 18, 2004 8:22 am
#6
Talking to the person is good.
But if they don't talk, or they just seem... oh.. I dunno... stupid?
I grind stuff, sometimes. I've been working on getting a couple of architect levels, so I've set up four furnature crafters in one of my command bars, that way I can just hit F1 or whatever to bring up the crafter while that *!@#*@ screen covers everything else. I also have a e-book reader on my computer and a 9m30sec timer on my watch. ^.^ Baen.com has a free e-library if you like sci-fi fantasy books. Alt+tab will switch you between screens in windows. Downside to this is that someone has to send you a tell before you realize they are talking to you.
TibbitRabbit
Wed Oct 20, 2004 6:31 pm
#8
Chibi-Tux wrote:
One thing thats fun is if the customer is wearing full armor, make some changes to their hair and leave a little "surprise" for them.
Of course, I've only done this once, and that was when the customer fully deserved it (really rude). They thought it was funny and I changed them back, of course.
lol, too funny. Now it's too tempting I tried it out on one of my unsuspecting guildmates who needed a stat migration for a new toon. It was great 
I don't think I would do it to anyone I didn't know though... unless they were really rude >.<
On another note, geeze the ID forum is slow
Wain_Eljua
Thu Oct 21, 2004 4:55 am
#9
The last few times I've been in the salon (I try to avoid it like the plague, and only do ID stuff that doesn't need that place) there has been a wookie in their who I have fights with. Not duels of course, but fights, with text. So he'll go /slap wain, then i'll /cry, then /punch back. Then this goes on for the whole of the ten minutes and at least another 40 minutes, during which I've :shaved the wookies fur off. Stopped me from being bored. Don't know about the clients and the wookie.
Finduilas
Sun Oct 24, 2004 7:46 am
#10
The other day I was making the new hooded cloaks while stat migrating and then selling them on the Bazaar behind the Salon. The cloaks would sell faster than I could make them, and all the while I was making them I got payed for my time by the stat migration. Jumping between Salon and Bazaar all night I made a nice little profit...
Stat migrations can also be great excuses to practise your music. Get enough IDs doing that at the same time and you get the best tipped band in town!
Mittandra
Stat migrations can also be great excuses to practise your music. Get enough IDs doing that at the same time and you get the best tipped band in town!
Mittandra
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