After perusing the other crafting forums, I noticed a large number of posts in threads letting folks vent on stupid questions and customers, so I thought I would begin a thread here for the same thing.
I mostly craft on TC when a Frog is available, since I don't have the patience to store resources when you actually have to harvest them
and I bet that's made my experiences a bit more exaggerated, since all the testers are just looking to blue frog their way into fun.
Customer: "Hey, can you make me a Firespray?"
Gotta love this question. I started with "No," and an explanatory reply. I eventually had to move to "Yes, if you'll loot 10,000 pieces of level 1 space loot for me to RE." One person told me I had a really stupid pricing scheme.
Customer: "What's the best ship for (space profession here)?"
Luckily, this has some sort of answer if they can answer "PVE or PVP?" and shut up after that, because you can just shove a pack of components that you've already cooked up in their faces and they won't whine about "uberness."
Customer: "Can u make me 2 decimators and a TIE Oppressor?"
For the love of crap... okay, it's a test server; I get free resources. Yes, but it will take an hour. BUT WHY TWO??? It's a multi-player ship! "One for me and one for my friend."SWITCH SEATS!
Customer: "Can I get a TIE Oppressor with all mark IV components?"
Yes, you can. And because I hate how you will suck up 200k of resources in one ship instead of buying one of 8 Dunelizards off my vendor, I will make it exactly how you wanted it and leave you with 50k spare mass I would have used for better parts.
Customer: "Do you make components with those ships?"
No, the only reason I sell ships in backpacks that have 12-16 items in them is because I give you that many chassis. I also assumed that you would be moving them around with the power of your mind and spitting at your enemies. Or perhaps peeing on them, depending on how leet you are. Also, don't let the components sitting on the floor of my shop fool you. They're made of plastic.
Customer: "Can you make me a ship?" when I'm firing on something, dead, or in space at any time.
No.
Customer: "I like the TIE Interceptor better than the TIE Advanced. Instead of one of the 8 TIE Advanced on your vendor that will last maybe 5 more minutes before they're gone, can I get a TIE Interceptor?"
Now, this is a test server gripe... Because I do a lot of ships in a short time, and I have a short attention span,I write down point-by-point recipes for experimenting on components and subcomps for ships. It takes me about 6 hours to get everything right for a set of resources on A-Wing, B-Wing, Dune, Krayt, TIE-Adv and TIE-Opp, and that's ALL I'm going to make, thank you. I'm not getting paid for this! Just buy a damn ship! You're lucky I didn't make only TIE Fighters, Y-Wings and Dunelizards all with Mark II components like everyone else, since I HAD TO MAKE MY OWN PRIVATE CRAFTING STATION!
Customer: "How much do you charge for your ships?"
Now, Live SWs will say "Check my vendor," but a temp-TC shipwright has a special response for this: What do you care??? The frog gives you free money! But it's only 1k regardless. If you REALLY want to pay me something, my character and server names are floating above my head. You can do something nice for me. "I can roll a character there and help you hunt or tumble or something." Tumbling is gone. My characters are maxed anyway. I don't need a CDEF Pistol, and that newbie melon doesn't have 3 uses, so I'm not interested.
Thank goodness nobody ever complained to me about the crafted capacitors and engines... So how do all you Shipwrights on live deal with annoying customers?
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