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Community Debate - Would you charge?

    • 1456 posts
    March 18, 2019 2:11 PM PDT

    I find it interesting that in topics about player ports one of the big complaints is that "in early EQ players got rich selling ports" and yet I started playing EQ in about July of 1999 (4 months after launch) and never charged for a port, I knew several other Wizards and Druids and they also never charged, and then I see threads like this that show not only weren't we alone, but it appears the majority.

    Could "players got rich selling ports" be a few isolated incedents on a few isolated servers that a vocal minority used to damage a piece of the MMORPG genre?

    Not wanting to derail the topic here... just stating an observation.

    • 1921 posts
    March 18, 2019 2:50 PM PDT

    If I have a porter?  I don't charge guildmates or people I group with often, but I advertise "Porting for donations to..." and charge the general public/strangers. 
    I don't port the general public for free, unless it's for a naked noob corpse run accross continents.
    If I don't have a porter, I'm happy to donate the expected average amount for the level I am.
    I also keep a list of non-payers, and don't offer them ports.
    I typically tell people "open a trade window when you're ready to depart".
    If people don't open a trade window within 30 seconds of me and they being in the same spot, and I have other customers waiting, I /tell them "I have other customers waiting" and leave if they don't respond immediately.  I'll come back for them, no problem, but I don't make other people wait because they are slow.

    As two boxing is approved (and by extension expected and encouraged) I expect to have a porting alt in Pantheon.
    If all porting in Pantheon consumes an expensive consumable?  Then I suspect everyone would charge and be expected to pay, without exception, including guildmates.

    • 668 posts
    March 18, 2019 3:32 PM PDT

    I would do it mostly free to help anyone out...  Only way I would make it a business is if I took a rare angle that took a LOT of work to obtain the perk, I may provide a service.  Otherwise, I am about helping the fellow player out.

    • 146 posts
    March 19, 2019 1:27 AM PDT

    I remember in everquest on my shaman,Iwould always give buffs  for free, but ask for tips if they wanted to. I made way more money that way to my thinking

    • 178 posts
    March 19, 2019 3:08 AM PDT

    free buffs for free, 
    buffs that cost reagent, for cash.

    same with ressurections. 

    • 10 posts
    March 19, 2019 4:25 AM PDT

    When I played a Druid in EQ I would always buff for free, But would ask for a donation if I ported people. Needed to make some money for gear and spell upgrades.

    • 305 posts
    March 19, 2019 5:11 AM PDT

    Free or price of reagents if any are required. In my experience people tend to tip even if I don't ask them to.

    EDIT: spelling


    This post was edited by Spluffen at March 19, 2019 5:11 AM PDT
    • 206 posts
    March 19, 2019 5:39 AM PDT

    vjek said:

     

    If all porting in Pantheon consumes an expensive consumable?  Then I suspect everyone would charge and be expected to pay, without exception, including guildmates.

    I agree, or at least let me use mats from gbank

    • 318 posts
    March 19, 2019 6:24 AM PDT

    I believe in giving people options. There would be two choices...

     

    1) Tell me a joke and the ride is free

    or

    2) Pay a fixed amount

     

    The fixed amount would have to be on the high side to encourage people to tell me a joke. I'd rather hear the joke, but you'd be surprised how most people find it easier to pay. :(