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I tried to jump in the sarlac pit once. i was bummed i couldn't do it.

/cry

I made Master Shipwright on Chimaera about four days after JTL was release in Europe. Boy was THAT a big mistake. Hardly anyone had any clue about what the quality of JTL ships and components should be like (and that includes the shipwrights) so naturally everyone just assumed they were the experts. And then the tells started. I didn't advertise because I intended to just produce stock for my guild, but word soon got around. On any given day I could count on getting at least a tell every two minutes, despite any AFK messages I set up telling people that dogfighting A-Wings in Kessel didn't leave me much room to type replies to their questions asking if I could drop everything and rush to Lok/Dant/Tat to reverse engineer their new engine for them. And then find out they didn't have a clue how reverse engineering worked and needed another 6 engines to get it done. Aaaargh!!

So I dropped Shipwright as soon as I made my Firesprays and haven't regretted it for a second. The money was amazing but it just wasn't worth the /tell hell. Now with Weaponsmith I get a different class of dumbass customers. I actually don't mind their questions after living through the hell that was Shipwright. My favourite example was...

Customer - Hi, I've got a Beserker Rifle schematic, can you make me a Beserker Rifle with it?
Me - Sure, but I've already got one damage sliced in stock at my vendor. Why don't you check it out and i'll do you a discount if you trade in your schematic?
Customer - No, I want you to make me one with MY schematic.
Me - Words fail me.

More amusing than annoying, really. If that's the worst I have to put up with I'll be a happy Weaponsmith.

This was a recent ID customer, but it's relevant here.

A customer of mine who had gotten some work done before was on the way to my shop. He had been a bit borderline offensive before, but I attributed it to a misunderstanding. On the way to the shop we were having a conversation about a party we had both gone to, at which we had both been made to feel uncomfortable by the overly suggestive emotes of certain entertainers. However, this customer started telling me that because I didn't immediately leave the party, that I "liked it." I started becoming annoyed and told him to think what he wanted.

So he gets to my house with his in-game wife and starts being increasingly rude, at which point I sent him a tell "why are you being so rude" and he responds "because I am an a**hole." And I said "excuse me?" and he responded "because. I. am. an. a**hole."

"That's too bad" I said, and banned him from my shop, before I had done any ID work on him. He started cursing when he realized what had happened. I turned to his wife and apologized for making her come all the way to my shop for nothing. "I suggest a divorce" I said. "Don't tempt me," she responded.

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DocSavag wrote:

Now on the other hand I once met a wookie in Mos Entha and he was admiring my back pack. I told him I could make him one and named a price. He said reluctantly that he had to pass because he was just off the shuttle from the spacestation and he didn't have much money. But he would look me up some other time. For some reason I decided to give him a backpack. He thanked me and offered to trade me some newbie item or two for it. I declined and said to him that if he should ever see a down an out twi'lek merchant in the street of Mos Entha in the future he should offer him shuttle fare home. He laughed and said he would. Two weeks later in Anchorhead in walks the wookie still wearing his backpack, Thanking me for it and paying me the price I had quoted two weeks earlier. (Unfortunately a server crash ended our chat and I haven't seen him since but THAT was a nice experience)

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I remember that wookiee. That was Coacah. I was there, when it happened.