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Originally posted by Sanna
My friend down the hall plays on the server next door, and is trying to organize an item/plat transfer so he can give me something for my birthday last week. ^_^. So sweet of him. So he has me monitoring my server's trade channel, and periodically dropping a line about the desired transaction. It's a lot shorter to be able to say '[message here] PST vallon.[charname]' than 'if interested, please sent a tell to vallon.[charname]'. Less on screen to have to process.
My friend down the hall plays on the server next door, and is trying to organize an item/plat transfer so he can give me something for my birthday last week. ^_^. So sweet of him. So he has me monitoring my server's trade channel, and periodically dropping a line about the desired transaction. It's a lot shorter to be able to say '[message here] PST vallon.[charname]' than 'if interested, please sent a tell to vallon.[charname]'. Less on screen to have to process.
Originally posted by Sanna
Personally, I never saw it as 'insulting', tho I do agree with the redundancy label. However, redundancy is generally good. ^_^. And yes, sometimes people will ask in /ooc how much, or what have you, because it's shorter. And, if you are in pok and advertising an item/service without a price, /ooc how much also prompts you to reply in /ooc, thus educating the whole zone. In a sense, you 'should' have said your price to the zone as a whole in the first place, and since you did not, you need a nudging to do so.
Personally, I never saw it as 'insulting', tho I do agree with the redundancy label. However, redundancy is generally good. ^_^. And yes, sometimes people will ask in /ooc how much, or what have you, because it's shorter. And, if you are in pok and advertising an item/service without a price, /ooc how much also prompts you to reply in /ooc, thus educating the whole zone. In a sense, you 'should' have said your price to the zone as a whole in the first place, and since you did not, you need a nudging to do so.
Digression:
Someone on the SK boards suggested using DBAM instead of PST, that is, "Don't Be A Moron". Let's face it, if someone doesn't have the knowledge of EQ the know to send a tell because lots of people have various channels turned off, are they really going to know what PST means? Thus, I consider PST a redundant waste of typing time. Certainly it's not a significant amount of time, but nonetheless.
Again, consider the following:
/auc WTB KEI PST
-hotkey- /ooc KEI AT PoT stone for donations
Now, are you really not going to take KEI because the enchanter didn't send you a personal tell to inform you he was selling. Really? If you mosey over to the PoT stone and get KEI after seeing that macro, then WHY THE HELL DID YOU PUT PST THERE? Habit? All the cool people use PST?
Originally posted by Sanna
Also, 'PST' can be seen as that final reminder of 'who is in charge here'. IE, the Seller has the item/service, and it is the Customer's half of the bargan to come TO the Seller. "WTS smithing service, 250 skill, PST." I have what you want, so you come to me.
Also, 'PST' can be seen as that final reminder of 'who is in charge here'. IE, the Seller has the item/service, and it is the Customer's half of the bargan to come TO the Seller. "WTS smithing service, 250 skill, PST." I have what you want, so you come to me.
Fortunately, a quick glance on the bazaar spam shows me that PST is dying a peaceful, or not so peaceful, who can say, death on stormhammer at any rate.
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