nice people

[Verdandi]

Just a small dose of good news on the pleasant people front: Last night I was getting spam from someone drinking a most impressive quantity of alcohol. I was in the midst of a very detailed conversation with a customer over prices and discounts and how he could get the most bang for his buck, so it didn't help that everything we said was scrolling off my screen. So I send a polite tell to the drinker explaining that the spam was making it hard to converse and asking him to take it somewhere more remote. He didn't reply other than his afk message, but the drinking stopped. After a few minutes passed and I had finished my conversation with the potential customer, without the drinking having ever resumed, I realized that someone had just actually accepted a request to stop spamming. Maybe I've been dealing with selfish casino operators too much, but that just struck me as a really wonderful thing. So I sent him a thank you, and got a smile in return. Yay!

There are still helpful, friendly, understanding people out there

[Cigarskunk]

Yup - you run across non-idiots on occasion.

Was doing 7th shawl last night and much to my surprise, someone was actually skilling at the Thurg brew barrel.

I hailed the gent (apparently much to his surprise) and made a polite request to bang out my two combines so I could keep moving through the process - much to my surprise and delight, he was more than happy to let me through.

Ahh, another feel good thread of non-idiot encounters is born.

[Lling]

It's the nice people who keep me playing. There are more nice people than there are idiots, I swear, but the idiots are just so much LOUDER!

There is a troll shaman on my server who is just the kindest person. He knew I was searching for drops of pure rain. He sent me a tell that he had 2. He refused to take so much as a copper piece. He refused to take ANYTHING. Every time he found a drop, I would get it. That kind of generoisty could not go unrewarded. My next pair of hurricane sleeves he was finally persuaded to accept. While I was handing him the sleeves, I noticed that - at 65th level - he still carried a sarnak battle shield. It took me two minutes to throw together a tae ew shield. He was happy. I felt wonderful. His kindness made him stronger and me happier.

It really doesn't take much to be nice to people: an unexpected drive-by buff, offering to drag a corpse that you see in a bad spot, answering a question, just *helping* with whatever it is you can do to enhance the experience of others.

Thanks for sharing your story. While it seems like a little thing, it showed the kind of courtesy toward other players than keeps us coming back to play.

[Woodeckt]

As for nice folks I had a great one the other night.

I have been offline for a few weeks due to RL

I poped online and had 4 tells from folks looking for me for some tailored toys and I started porting around getting my components together and poped into Rivervale my home and all around great place to use the brew barrel there are 2 now. I look at the first one there is a cute lil hobbit girl working there so I run inside and upstairs and there is a woodie there working so I go back outside and poke the lil hobbitess and politely ask if I can do two quick combines. She jumped and said ooohhh sorry I do not want to be a container hog sure go ahead. I thank her and do my 2 combines fast and smile at her and say thank you. Well while I was working she realized who I was and sent me a tell because she wanted some Cultural Armor and had been looking for me.

I got a nice sale and new friend was great. It was a good surprise to have someone let me sneak in and do my quick combines and turn out to be a customer too.

[OberonMiM]

he might have just gotten to the point where thegame wouldn't let you drink anymore and went afk to sober up.

You were interrupting him in his important powerskilling of alchohol tollerance!!!

[Lacries]

Lately I have begun doing my random acts of kindness....the other day I was in Shadowhaven doing a few combines to create geerloks and one of those combines requires a plane from the fletching vendor. The fletching geerlok is probably one of the easiest to make because the the fungal leathery belt that I need is a common sold component to the vendors around Shadowhaven. Needless to say I always have an excessive amount of fletching geerloks and they do not stack. Anyhow, I turn around after making these geerloks and there sits a person who is next to the arrow selling guy. I send him a tell asking if he was working on his fletching. He said he was. I asked him if he had a fletching geerlok. He said he didn't, he could not afford one. At that point I gave him one of the fletching geerloks I had just made. It was most rewarding because he was very thankful and he immediately equipped the geerlok. You can tell because he had a sword in each hand and they quickly disappeared...hehe When a person holds a geerlok, it looks like a piercer.

I love to tinker and I really don't like selling back to the vendors...I would rather give it away and hope the person I give it to will pass it on to someone else once they have finished. Pass forward is so neat when everyone does it.

[Cantatus]

You sure he didn't just pass out? :P

[Farnyr]

Its posts like this that cause people like us to log in every day. We go days, weeks and sometimes months just seeing the griefing, the whining, the begging and the all around bad attitude of so many others. But when we are reminded that there are nice people out there, it gives us new faith and reason to log in.

[Woodeckt]

Farnyr posted

when we are reminded that there are nice people out there, it gives us new faith and reason to log in.

That is so true it is little things like this that make me keep my account going.

[Pootle]

I was sitting in Bazaar one evening, trying to find a Kei seller (having to buy buffs does kinda annoy me, but i payout like the rest of us)..

...when a little gnome caster sends me a tell, asking very politely if she can buy some buffs.

So i am not doing anything and the only big mana cost buff i can cast on this gnome is POTG which is group, so it will refresh myself anyway. I say sure, and buff the hell out of this gnome with the best i can as a 61 Druid.

She says how much will that be.... now i have to admit, i did think that i could get my 50pp to use on a Kei here, but only for a second.

Its free little one, good hunting, i say....

The little bugger used the /split command to give me 30pp and then disbanded and ran off leaving a Thanks Miss, in my tell window.

I did Smile. 8)

[Suva]

What's really great is when someone went out of thier way to be nice and helpful to you then gets so that you can pay them back. When i first started my druid, a friend pl'd her, gave her some gear, bought her spells, and taught me some of the basics of playing a druid. They took a break from the game and recently came back and I felt great to now be able to go back and help them out. I had some extras of spells and put together 2 solstice earrings for them.

[Morani]

A couple of weeks ago, I was working on Pottery in Shadowhaven and had just stocked up on the clay and water I needed for about 200 lined vial combines and THEN actually paid attention to the fact that the Wheel was ocupied. I was rather encumbered at the time so I wasn't looking forward to running trough a laggy zone over-encumbered to get to another wheel. I sent a tell to the High Elf using it and asked if he was going to be a while. He told me he had about 10 minutes left but if I only had a few combines I could use the wheel. I told him I was about to do a skill-up run and he replied back that if I could wait, he'd make it worth my effort. So I waited and he finishes and camps out. I remembered his words of making it worth the wait and was a snorting to myself about it while starting my combines and get an invite to group. I turn to see who it is and get a tell; " told you I make it worth your wait…" So, I accept the invite and get a free KEI from his Enchanter alt who just happened to be camped right next to the wheel. I'd say that was WELL worth the wait.

I don't get a whole lot of people who go out of their way to be nice to me, but do see a my share of polite and generally nice people. I tend to be one of the ones running around giving buffs and assistance to the newbies or answering genaric questions when they come up ooc. I like to be helpful and it tends to make my day knowing that I've made someone else's.

[Cyrnan]

I get the biggest kick out of casting what buffs I can on folks passing by. As Cyrnan, I SoW like crazy if I'm not on my way somewhere important. On Stromm the other day, My Beastlord buffed every lowbie he could see, until his mana ran out. Unfortunately, my main is a tank, so he can't cast anything fun, but he has passed Ye Ol' Bottle o' th' Blood o' th' Wolf to those who couldn't find a lupine aura anywhere else.

It's all just payback-in-random for the help I've gotten since I restarted in October.