<< And no, I don't care that you were going to give me a 'pile' of them. They're junk. Accept it.

Wow. Just...wow.

Arcelebor

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"Back off, man. I'm a scientist."
PSA - Sakhara's definition of RP (among other things) is erroneous
"I am a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar."

I appreciate the responses. You're contributing so much by making snide, childish remarks. Yet somehow I'm unsurprised.

Here's a little more background, then. He was wounded all over and bleeding. He was wearing expensive fluff. He was pulling the gems out of a Corik's end prize gem case for crying out loud.

It's insulting that someone would think saying "well I was going to give you a pile of them' rectifies the situation as well. It was the icing on the cupcake, so to speak. I suppose taking jabs at how I expressed my irritation is a great way of skirting around the actual issue though. Good show.

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Rev. Reene, player of a few

Reene: hey you should play this with me
Zairius: last time I fell for that line
Zairius: I ended up in DR

Only thing I saw you post was a temper tantrum, much like a child would have. Thus the need for a nap.


~Tykyra~

Gavyn spins around, frolicking like a beautiful pixie. Has he been in the samatak?

>give purehand blank check

Is that so hard?

~Purehand

>>It's insulting that someone would think saying "well I was going to give you a pile of them' rectifies the situation as well. It was the icing on the cupcake, so to speak. I suppose taking jabs at how I expressed my irritation is a great way of skirting around the actual issue though. Good show.

While once could possibly take issue with having to accept each gem one by one, I see no real reason to complain about getting a 2 plat tip in the form of quartzes, crystals, and the like versus actual platinum coins. Keep it in the game and just call it roleplay or something. If you are complaining about the tip value, then what kind of gems you are given should be wholly irrelevent.

J'Lo, experienced empath player

...I'll take the spoon, thanks.

2 plat (or really any plat) is also rather optimistic. Gem pouches don't hold enough gems for it (topazes range from 5-8 bronze, usually), and I doubt he was going to hand over enough to fill a pouch one at a time anyway.

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Rev. Reene, player of a few

Reene: hey you should play this with me
Zairius: last time I fell for that line
Zairius: I ended up in DR

Hey, at least they offered...instead of just walking off.

~Ahri

>>(topazes range from 5-8 bronze, usually),

You get a small clear topaz from inside your gem pouch.
>app topaz
You think it is likely that the clear topaz weighs about 1 stone.
You are certain that the clear topaz is worth exactly 112 kronars.

You get a small rock crystal from inside your gem pouch.
>app crys
You wonder if the rock crystal weighs about 1 stone.
You are certain that the rock crystal is worth exactly 122 kronars.

You get a small star diopside from inside your gem pouch.
>app diop
You are confident that the star diopside probably weighs a few stones.
You are certain that the star diopside is worth exactly 86 kronars.
Roundtime: 8 seconds.

Okay, so yeah, the diopsides are the cheap ones.
Personally, when I tip I try to give mediums or larger. If I'm short on gems from having unloaded them recently and haven't hunted much, I give smaller ones as available. More often than not I keep handing gemstones until the Empath refuses, although sometimes I'll push past that. YMMV, of course.

Killing you softly with his song,
- Stormsinger Shavay

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"We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams"
- Arthur O'Shaughnessy

http://www.mistletoebeltbuckle.com

I've had customers give me the whole pouch before. I was jaw-dropped...or is it drop-jawed? Eh.

I've also been given a 10 plat tip from a really good fella. In return, I missed his wedding, some friend I am, eh?

I know someone who got 40 plat as a tip....and someone else who got 175 plat as a tip...a single tip. So crazy.

How much appraisal do I need before I start getting weights on stuff?

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"Put your head up to my heart, hear me live and follow suit, this will all be over soon, it's gonna hurt a little." -Emberghost

heeh.. I actually received my worst tip ever.. today. West Crossing gob box, disarmed and popped, had 1 copper in it. It was a young player, and Im hoping that they were unaware of what the contents were.


Got Body Parts?

Puce dress is only worse in some people's eyes :O

Herbs are great tips, I love herbs. Herbs herbs herbs.

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-Clemency
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"Put your head up to my heart, hear me live and follow suit, this will all be over soon, it's gonna hurt a little." -Emberghost

"8 words = respect" -Davidovf

So quoteable! :)

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-Clemency
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"Put your head up to my heart, hear me live and follow suit, this will all be over soon, it's gonna hurt a little." -Emberghost

>> To accept a tip of gems one at a time has the potential to be very insulting. if they end up giving you one and leaving, you don't get the chance to tell them off. Not to mention, it's a pain to scroll accept, put gem in gem pouch 10 or 15 times.

This is the main problem with accepting cheap gems in the dim hope that the person plans on either handing you a LOT of them (which is still a pain to put away and either donate or carry around until they're sold) or handing you gems worth more after that. Besides, is it really that much of a problem to run to the gem seller and get a pouch for your gems? If it is, well, don't come to me for healing. I'm going out of my way to heal you, you can go a little out of your way for your tip. That's how I see it.

If they're in a pouch, I'll accept them and I won't say anything. I'll probably put the contents of the pouch on the shelf for others, but I'll accept. One at a time though? No. And someone who tries to rub my face in my loss of a 'pile' of topazes because I declined for personal reasons is just a huge ass in my book. Like I said in my first post, nod politely and shut up about it. They just made themselves look worse.

On the bright side, at least I had the backing of the other Empaths in the guild. That hasn't happened in a long time.

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Rev. Reene, player of a few

Reene: hey you should play this with me
Zairius: last time I fell for that line
Zairius: I ended up in DR

When playing on other chars than my empath, I usually tip 1 gold. Regardless if I've got one little scratch or many. Though if I was bleeding horribly I'd up the ammount.
I have been guilty of giving many small gems...though I think I'll use that gem pouch approach from now on.

My characters don't hunt anything past beisswurms...and I rarely have more than 10 plat at a time...if that. By tipping a gold...I usually spend more on the empath than what I make on the hunting trip. Which makes me wonder why I do it in the first place...hmm...

Concur with Purehand.

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Rev. Reene, player of a few

Reene: hey you should play this with me
Zairius: last time I fell for that line
Zairius: I ended up in DR

...Wow. When I go to a PC empath I usually tip at least 3-4 gold. I know others that tip at least a plat.

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Marksman Ahmir Nam'al

"That is why I have chosen DR and stayed with it for 2-6 years. Time is confusing to me." -Aiwix

Plat tippers get their own highlight color.


~Purehand

>>Yea, 1 gold is about right.

I think I'd prefer a scale based on number or type of wounds. For instance, maybe taking an arm/leg/hand/tail would have a base cost of 5 bronze (that's, what, roughly a crystal, quartz, or diopside?) to 1 silver. Taking a useless stump might provide a multiplier of, say, x8, for a grand total of 4 silver to 8 silver; taking an insignificant wound might have a multiplier of %50 for a grand total of 25 copper to 5 bronze.

Scar versus wound, internal versus external, that doesn't really mean much except to novices between 1st and 5th circles.

Numbers would have to be hashed out more specificly, but I'd find it preferable to letting our patients just guess where the baseline would be.

J'Lo, no that other one

I thought it would be humorous to attribute a quantitative value to each wound's quality. You could touch someone, sort it out via a script which would show that person's injuries in copper kronar value. Then see whether or not their tip made the whole ordeal worth it.

But there's more useful things to do with coding :p

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"Put your head up to my heart, hear me live and follow suit, this will all be over soon, it's gonna hurt a little." -Emberghost

>I thought it would be humorous to attribute a quantitative value to each wound's quality. You could touch someone, sort it out via a script which would show that person's injuries in copper kronar value. Then see whether or not their tip made the whole ordeal worth it.

I know that was a planned feature for the Crutch. I think it even got to an alpha version, but since all development on it has stopped I guess that's a dead end.