Smuggler Archive
Thread: A chuckle for the smuggler
Daermoth
Tue Jul 06, 2004 2:15 pm
#963
LMAO, that reminds me of Bad Santa.
"I want 50 percent"
"How bout 25"
"No, 50''
''Okay, how bout 30''
''50''
''35''
''50''
''40''
''......50''
''43 percent''
takes a sip of wine ''50''
''45, cmon now''
''50''
''47 percent''
''50''
''How about 49 percent''
''How about 50''
''Way to negotiate''
''Shut up''
WayneInAustin
Tue Jul 06, 2004 2:54 pm
#964
The other night I was in the bank in CC when I recieved a tell from someone asking if I "could slice things, ya know... make em better?". I replied "Yes, I do that - I am in the bank."
A few moments later I see the person approach and they are wearing basic clothes. I say "Hi" and open a trade window. Finally a CDEF pistol shows up in the window. I smiled to myself and accepted it. I asked him if he understood how slicing worked. At first he said "Yeah, I think so." but soon followed that up with "Not really.".
Though I am not a teacher, I have always had the heart of a teacher (I get that from my Mom who taught math for 45 years). So I chat with him about what slicing is and how it works. I told him I would do his CDEF for free. He said "wow, thanks" and I proceeded to give him a 22% speed slice. He seemed genuinely happy to get it.
Now this post isn't hilarious or surprising, but for some reason lately I've been remembering all the feelings I had as a newb at this game almost one year ago exactly, and I always have been a soft touch for the brand new players. Of all the slices I did in the last few days, that is the one of the few that I remember.
Here's to being a Smuggler!
A few moments later I see the person approach and they are wearing basic clothes. I say "Hi" and open a trade window. Finally a CDEF pistol shows up in the window. I smiled to myself and accepted it. I asked him if he understood how slicing worked. At first he said "Yeah, I think so." but soon followed that up with "Not really.".
Though I am not a teacher, I have always had the heart of a teacher (I get that from my Mom who taught math for 45 years). So I chat with him about what slicing is and how it works. I told him I would do his CDEF for free. He said "wow, thanks" and I proceeded to give him a 22% speed slice. He seemed genuinely happy to get it.
Now this post isn't hilarious or surprising, but for some reason lately I've been remembering all the feelings I had as a newb at this game almost one year ago exactly, and I always have been a soft touch for the brand new players. Of all the slices I did in the last few days, that is the one of the few that I remember.
Here's to being a Smuggler!
JTGAlpha
Tue Jul 06, 2004 3:36 pm
#965
hey hey hey. No warm an fuzzies here. Only morons for mocking!
Good story.
WayneInAustin
Tue Jul 06, 2004 3:42 pm
#966
JTGAlpha wrote:hey hey hey. No warm an fuzzies here. Only morons for mocking!Good story.
How's this addition, then, JTGAlpha?
...Then I shot him!
LOL!
baslisks
Tue Jul 06, 2004 5:04 pm
#967
Its sad when some of these noobs are out damaging me. Grinding up rifles for BH pistol line. Smuggler will never die though. Never.
Weedo
Wed Jul 07, 2004 7:30 pm
#970
no so funny just a happy story
I was just logging in to check email and I logged out at the smuggler's outpost on Endor
Immediately I get 2 tells to slice stuff.
The 1st guy gives me some comp gloves, I tell him 5k for the slice
13% encum - as a master sheesh
I told him no charge since it was a bad slice.
He tipped my 1k anyway - very cool
The next guy has 2 comp chest plates
I forgot to tell him my pricing
44% encum and 22% effect - Much better slices
I gave the armor back and said "Since I forgot to mention my regular 5k a slice price just pay me what u feel is fair"
Cust - "Check you email"
10k bank tip - nice
Then he said "Thanks for the great slices"
5k bank tip - very nice
16k for checking email.
I logged off, figured anything else was down hill that night
These are the customers that make business great!
Weedo
Master Smuggler - Rodian - Ahazi
"beep beep tweet bop teet" - Artwo Deetwo
JTGAlpha
Wed Jul 07, 2004 7:44 pm
#971
Heh. Nice. One guy tipped me 1k credits for something the other day, I forget what. Something dumb. I just sorta looked at it and was like..."Gee. Thanks. Now I can buy that AV-21." I almost gave it back! Almost.
<---is greedy
RussStryker
Thu Jul 08, 2004 1:42 am
#972
I was sitting waiting for someone in coronet starport, i had just sliced one container for someone when someone elses asks me to slice his.
person: hey can you slice containers ?
me : yes but with out a 100% chance only a 50/50
person: k just don't look inside
so i slice itand screw up
person hey is it done\
me yup but sorry i broke it
person : did you look inside
me : i broke it so i couldn't
person : k can i have it back
me : sure
i give it back
him : thanks for not looking
about 5 minutes later
Person : hey i can't open it
me : i told you i broke it
person : i want my money back
quickly check my inventory to check for a tip
me : you didn't pay me anything
person : so pay me for the container
/ingnore
Shady84
Thu Jul 08, 2004 5:34 am
#973
I was grinding Smuggler (great diverse prof. wish i could keep it =( ) and I was on Slicing II. I had run out of locked containers andstarted slicing the Coronet starport mission terminal to the left of the front door of the starport. Between those 2 minutes downtime i was crafting spices to be productive. Randomguy comes over to the terminals (wearing noob marksman clothes and sportin a cdef rifle after a closer look). I came back from gettin something from the bank 100m from there and come back to the terminals to see that randomguy did /duel on me. OK...so I thought he might have wanted to examine me (heck I don't know why I was just wearin a specops duster and some black boots, pants, and shirt.)
Me: Did you challenge by mistake <randomguy>?
randomguy: No.
....It was an hour before server reset, i was just grindin so i had no buffs and after targetting him i saw he had none either....so im thinkin of blastin this fool but I decide not to.
Me: I'm sorry I'm not dueling now. Trying to level smuggler.
randomguy: How do I ride a bike?
Me: You have to buy one.
randomguy: Where do I buy a bike?
Me: At vendors. I don't have any exact waypoints, you'll just have to look around for the spam in coronet to see a waypoint to a vehicle vendor.
randomguy: Where do I find the rebel information officer?
(Here I'm sittin thinkin of playin with this guy...still keepin in mind that he didnt /endduel from earlier *evilsmirk*)
Me: I'm the rebel information officer.
(randomguy was neutral or rebel since he wasnt purple to me. I'm a member of a well known imperial guild on Ahazi with about 150-160 members).
randomguy: cool
(I slice a terminal and do some more crafting)
randomguy: What do I do now?
(1 minute passes)
randomguy: You're not the rebel information officer?
Me: I am.
Well I am sort of a rebelophobe so sometimes I do whatever I can to not help rebs out. This guy was obviously a wannabe reb so I might aswell cripple his start heh. Ok so i swtich to my dx2, Ive got about a 6th wounds on all my HAM. I /duel the guy and blast him in 5-10 seconds.
I leave him laying there on the floor and DB him.
Hehe...not nice I know but I had fun. *evilsmirks*
Geevo
Thu Jul 08, 2004 1:48 pm
#974
Shady84 wrote:
I was grinding Smuggler (great diverse prof. wish i could keep it =( ) and I was on Slicing II. I had run out of locked containers andstarted slicing the Coronet starport mission terminal to the left of the front door of the starport. Between those 2 minutes downtime i was crafting spices to be productive. Randomguy comes over to the terminals (wearing noob marksman clothes and sportin a cdef rifle after a closer look). I came back from gettin something from the bank 100m from there and come back to the terminals to see that randomguy did /duel on me. OK...so I thought he might have wanted to examine me (heck I don't know why I was just wearin a specops duster and some black boots, pants, and shirt.)
Me: Did you challenge by mistake ?
randomguy: No.
....It was an hour before server reset, i was just grindin so i had no buffs and after targetting him i saw he had none either....so im thinkin of blastin this fool but I decide not to.
Me: I'm sorry I'm not dueling now. Trying to level smuggler.
randomguy: How do I ride a bike?
Me: You have to buy one.
randomguy: Where do I buy a bike?
Me: At vendors. I don't have any exact waypoints, you'll just have to look around for the spam in coronet to see a waypoint to a vehicle vendor.
randomguy: Where do I find the rebel information officer?
(Here I'm sittin thinkin of playin with this guy...still keepin in mind that he didnt /endduel from earlier *evilsmirk*)
Me: I'm the rebel information officer.
(randomguy was neutral or rebel since he wasnt purple to me. I'm a member of a well known imperial guild on Ahazi with about 150-160 members).
randomguy: cool
(I slice a terminal and do some more crafting)
randomguy: What do I do now?
(1 minute passes)
randomguy: You're not the rebel information officer?
Me: I am.
Well I am sort of a rebelophobe so sometimes I do whatever I can to not help rebs out. This guy was obviously a wannabe reb so I might aswell cripple his start heh. Ok so i swtich to my dx2, Ive got about a 6th wounds on all my HAM. I /duel the guy and blast him in 5-10 seconds.
I leave him laying there on the floor and DB him.
Hehe...not nice I know but I had fun. *evilsmirks*
(Glad you aren't keeping Smuggler) ... bad to pick on noobs.
JTGAlpha
Thu Jul 08, 2004 2:13 pm
#975
So today...this isn't a smuggler story, necessarily, but..today, I'm hanging out at the starport and I spy a Bothan. Now a friend of mine is shooting an ingame movie and wanted a Bothan for the scene. It's easy work. You stand there and do what he says. Doesn't take more than an hour, and you get to be in a movie. He indicates he wants compensation, cuz, "i'm poor."
I chuckle to myself, and, loving to barter, I low-ball him.
"20k."
He scoffs and says he can make more doing missions.
I respond that this is less work. You stand there. It doesn't take long. It's easy money. And you're in a movie. 30k.
This is where it gets interesting. He intimates to me that 20k is crap. 30k. 40k. 50k. Crap. This is my favorite. ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND CREDITS IS CRAP. I laugh and say "Well you're obviously not that poor, and there are lots of bothans out there. I don't need you to do much. Sorry to bother you. Bye."
I mean how greedy are you? 100k is crap? To do something cool? That's EASY? I'm not asking him to slay a rancor. Hell I buy force crystals at 100k! (okay and I resell them at 500k but that's a different matter). What a shmuck!