Medic Archive

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vortexala wrote:

No, he's a healer. There's a difference.

Back in the day, people who took medic, doctor and combat medic did it to heal people. Myself and several others, at the start of the game, used to man the hospitals all the time to heal people. It was a way to help people and have fun at the same time.

Nowadays, people who take medic, doctor or combat medic do so to add something to their combat template or to sell buffs. Is that bad? No. Is it wrong? No. It's simply a different way of playing the game.

Just because someone is a healer and plays the profs as a healer doesn't make them a 'nub', it makes their playstyle different.

Now calling someone a 'nub' because their playstyle is different...yeah, that pretty much fits the word correctly.

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Marzuk147 wrote:
I healed tumblers exclusively to master doctor the second time around. Its no different than a crafter doing the crafting in practice mode because their product isnt worth any money. As healing wounds has never made much in the way of credits and is slow, there was no point in doing it.

You may say well, credits are not important ect, but I tell you what, lack of credits is just a sign of a larger issue - lack of appriciation.

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I fully agree. When I was a medic the afk tumbler phenomenon wasnt around yet. And the people that would walk in and demand (yes DEMAND) healing blew me away. As a noob grinding i did it for the xp, and 9 times out of ten, I either didnt get tipped or got tipped 200-500 credits. I remember picking up marksman and getting killed by nunas and womp rats so i could harvest crappy resources for even crappier packs.(My biggest tip as a medicwas 10k from a jacka$$ that told me to 'buy better medicine')Which I then used to heal my wounds outside of the cloning center for no xp.

Before I mastered medic I started asking to trade resources of any quality for heals, and people were much better about that than credits. When the tumblers showed up in the middle of my doc training, I didnt even stay in the med center, I was in my house with a friend running my own heal macro. Let thewhining over no medics/docs in the med center begin!

Now that Im a master doc, I can honestly say im for the tumbler healers. If someone wants a heal they should send a /tell and make it worthYOUR while. It makes more sense to pay a tumbler 5k and get 20,000+ xp in an hour than it does to spend 6k on a woundpack B to use on some bossy black-barred wannabe pilot that thinks all you aspire to do in the game is heal him for no compensation. Their failure to pilot/pvp/pvecompetently is not your emergency!!!!!

I'm typically buffing people or going out with hunting groups now (bad-a$$ nuna-slayer that I am) so I'm rarely in the med center. But if I go in with my TKM tag on and someone heals me just a little, they get tipped fat because I've been there. Medics should be appreciated for the service they provide, no other professions grind has the potential to help everyone as much, and people should respect that. Even If for no other reason than todays medic is tomorrow's 2500+ stat buffer, heh. K, thats my rant, and its only because I have much love for medics.

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Kyodor wrote:
It's not just one way. I've seen too often, a newbie: often a Novice Medic, spend a long time healing someone's 500 wounds with Woundpack A's, and then the person just runs off - No "Thank you" or anything.

Im sorry, and I hate tumblers, but I won't heal someone's wounds if my work isn't going to be appreciated.

You don't go to a Doctor in RL and say "Gimme a operation! NOW!" then run off, don't pay him, don't say thank you.

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What you have to understand is that *most* people will let you heal them regardless how long it takes. Others will just run off after you get some/most of it healed. I had people run away from me a lot, but you really can't let it bother you.

Tipping is a constant problem with Healers in this game, it's been that way since the start. And nothing much has changed. On my server, I got tipped about 1:5. And the good thing is even 500 credits is better then nothing; heck the satasfaction of them sending a tell saying "Oh wow thanks" is good for me.I would have some people tip me 10k-15k for healing very *very* minimal wounds. So even if you don't get the "appreciation" your looking for. Most people are thankfull even if they don't say anything.

On the other hand, most people don't even notice Random heals. A year ago people would goto the Medcenter to get healed, now the starports are a common place to find Medics/NDocs that are trying to get XP legitimately. Most people don't even know you heal them unless you stick them exactly when they come out of loading and they see the System Message.

Long post short. You really can't take it personally. People will use Tumplers and Rez kits to cheat the system and in my opinion hurt the profession. It's hard to get back in the publics good graces after so many people looking for heals have been ignored by so many Macro trainers, Tumble monkeys, and Rez jukies. Take it in stride, move to the next person, and you will earn much more respect for your server community.

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CanyonVR wrote:

My question would be....What level were these medics???

Maybe they didn't have the the medpacks made up??

But maybe they were just rude punks looking out for themselves and no one else.

I've been away for a WHILE (just got back because of JTL but it turns out I miss the ground game MUCH more than I realized!!!). At the moment I just need someone to teach me Master Medic.

I was shocked to see these "Tumbling Idiots" "AFK" in the Med Centers. At first I honestly had NO Idea what they were doing there. After I realized, I did use them a bit...BUT never when a "Real" Player was waiting.

That's simply rude and out of gaming context.

It reminds me of way back when I started there would be these higher level medic and doctor snobs that would never "complete" the heals. "A waste of their high level meds" they would tell me when I would complain. Simply rude.

When I run out of med packs, I let everyone know why I'm not healing them (usually I'm right there making them!!)...or I try to get the attention of another healer.

I don't look down on those that use the Tumblers...In fact I see them as a good use of slow times. But I do believe the "Real" patients come first.

EDIT: Oops...I thought I was answering a post in "A small Complaint". Sorry about the redundancy.

Message Edited by CanyonVR on 11-19-2004 05:06 PM

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