Now do not get me wrong, I ADORE tradeskilling.
I loves the ups and downs, the farming, the research, the surreal amount of help EQTC gives us. I love the "wow" moments when I hand a guy a piece of upgrade gear. I love the skillups, I love the trophies, I love the titles, I love tradeskilling.
However...it is hard sometimes to deal with the inanities of the un-informed, the scammers or the just plain rude. Ergo:
The Tradeskillers Declaration of Independence
1) If you do not have your materials do not expect me to farm them while you go and EXP.
2) Do not insult me over prices. I don't gouge. I know how hard it was to get to this skill level and to get these materials. I parse the /bazaar, I know what's a fair price.
3) Don't tell me you SoW'd me back in 1999 and expect me to give you a 20k item.
4) Do not expect me to remember the name of your alt_08. I deal with 100s of questions and combines per week.
5) I will not gate from a raid, hunt, Shadowhaven-swim-athon because I am a gnome and can not get out of the pool to make metal bits for you.
6) Please and thank you really do work in real life and in EQ. You would be amazed.
7) Do not swear at me. I don't want to fizzle your combine any more than you want it fizzled.
8) Do not expect me to know every recipe, combine, drop. If I know the information I will tell you. If I refer you to EQTC do not tell me I am being "dismissive" or "uppity".
9) If I make you an item and you tip me 50pp then it shows up in /bazaar for 150k, you might as well go fishing with Fredo in the dingy 'cause you are dead to me.
10) Do not tell me "gimme that for free j/k".
11) I don't take Paypal, Visa or MC.
12) Words like BAH, WTF, PC PLZ DUDEZ do not constitute a friendly hello.
13) I do not run casinos, buy/sell plats or want your Golden Ticket.
14) I do actually hunt. I exp, loot, kill, die, fizzle, mez myself, root myself and get in way over my head. If I am not at your leisure I apologize.
15) If I am naked at bind it is a bad time to ask me to do GM cultural combine. (Incidentally, binding outside Nest instanced is also a bad idea, no matter how many MDS you give me I doubt I'll make anything except more of my own corpses.)
16) Do not ask for a price check then undercut my price or overcharge me for materials.
17) Do not spam me for prices or combine requests. Sometimes I am talking to others or negotiating for supplies. Also: AFK means I am Away From The Keyboard or just declining comment.
18) Do not Levitate, SoE, FoE or DMF me. I get airsick, it lags my system and I know you are looking up my skirt.
19) "Wow you must be rich! Everyone knows tradeskillers have tons of plat! Can I have 10k?" No, no & no.
20) I can not affect Sony's Nerf-Stick. I will never knowingly sell you an item that I know will ne nerfed negatively in the next patch but I can not predict what will happen to an item I make for you down the road.
21) Do not mock, tease, /emote, hassle or tap on the aquariam glass. A tradeskiller is like a nest of angry hornets and I think your med-alert bareclet says you are allergic to stings.
22) I started playing a long time ago, probably before you did. There were no books, spires, very few porters, no nexus, no PoK, no in-game maps. I sold stuff at the first torch in the tunnel in East Commons on the weekends. If you can not travel 2 zones to meet me you are unlikely to evoke sympathy and admiration.
23) We live and die by the RNG. Sometimes we are up, sometiems we are down. In the end it evens out. If we seem cranky, the RNG has been to visit and it rained on my parade.
24) "Someone told me..", "I heard that you....", "A friend of a friend said that..." is likely to be innaccurate. Ask me, I'll tell you what you need to know.
25) I don't know how they do it on "other servers". I've been on this one forever.
26) I have a real life. I am not sitting in front of the screen 24/7 waiting for your tell. If you miss me and get my /afk from the bazaar do not "Bah!" me. I am not pale, pasty and chubby. I enjoy being outside and doing things other than EQ. Every customer *is* important to me and I always try to follow up a missed tell.
27) Do not offer me plats to make something for you on commission then come back a day later and say "I found it somewhere else cheaper" or "I got someone else it for me." If you do, I will make a voodoo doll of you and poke you in your naughty bits.
28) Even trivial items sometimes fizzle. It happens, trust me. Hate the sin, love the sinner.
And Finally: TEAM: Together everyone achieves more. We must all hang together or we will most certainly hang separately.
I loves the ups and downs, the farming, the research, the surreal amount of help EQTC gives us. I love the "wow" moments when I hand a guy a piece of upgrade gear. I love the skillups, I love the trophies, I love the titles, I love tradeskilling.
However...it is hard sometimes to deal with the inanities of the un-informed, the scammers or the just plain rude. Ergo:
The Tradeskillers Declaration of Independence
1) If you do not have your materials do not expect me to farm them while you go and EXP.
2) Do not insult me over prices. I don't gouge. I know how hard it was to get to this skill level and to get these materials. I parse the /bazaar, I know what's a fair price.
3) Don't tell me you SoW'd me back in 1999 and expect me to give you a 20k item.
4) Do not expect me to remember the name of your alt_08. I deal with 100s of questions and combines per week.
5) I will not gate from a raid, hunt, Shadowhaven-swim-athon because I am a gnome and can not get out of the pool to make metal bits for you.
6) Please and thank you really do work in real life and in EQ. You would be amazed.
7) Do not swear at me. I don't want to fizzle your combine any more than you want it fizzled.
8) Do not expect me to know every recipe, combine, drop. If I know the information I will tell you. If I refer you to EQTC do not tell me I am being "dismissive" or "uppity".
9) If I make you an item and you tip me 50pp then it shows up in /bazaar for 150k, you might as well go fishing with Fredo in the dingy 'cause you are dead to me.
10) Do not tell me "gimme that for free j/k".
11) I don't take Paypal, Visa or MC.
12) Words like BAH, WTF, PC PLZ DUDEZ do not constitute a friendly hello.
13) I do not run casinos, buy/sell plats or want your Golden Ticket.
14) I do actually hunt. I exp, loot, kill, die, fizzle, mez myself, root myself and get in way over my head. If I am not at your leisure I apologize.
15) If I am naked at bind it is a bad time to ask me to do GM cultural combine. (Incidentally, binding outside Nest instanced is also a bad idea, no matter how many MDS you give me I doubt I'll make anything except more of my own corpses.)
16) Do not ask for a price check then undercut my price or overcharge me for materials.
17) Do not spam me for prices or combine requests. Sometimes I am talking to others or negotiating for supplies. Also: AFK means I am Away From The Keyboard or just declining comment.
18) Do not Levitate, SoE, FoE or DMF me. I get airsick, it lags my system and I know you are looking up my skirt.
19) "Wow you must be rich! Everyone knows tradeskillers have tons of plat! Can I have 10k?" No, no & no.
20) I can not affect Sony's Nerf-Stick. I will never knowingly sell you an item that I know will ne nerfed negatively in the next patch but I can not predict what will happen to an item I make for you down the road.
21) Do not mock, tease, /emote, hassle or tap on the aquariam glass. A tradeskiller is like a nest of angry hornets and I think your med-alert bareclet says you are allergic to stings.
22) I started playing a long time ago, probably before you did. There were no books, spires, very few porters, no nexus, no PoK, no in-game maps. I sold stuff at the first torch in the tunnel in East Commons on the weekends. If you can not travel 2 zones to meet me you are unlikely to evoke sympathy and admiration.
23) We live and die by the RNG. Sometimes we are up, sometiems we are down. In the end it evens out. If we seem cranky, the RNG has been to visit and it rained on my parade.
24) "Someone told me..", "I heard that you....", "A friend of a friend said that..." is likely to be innaccurate. Ask me, I'll tell you what you need to know.
25) I don't know how they do it on "other servers". I've been on this one forever.
26) I have a real life. I am not sitting in front of the screen 24/7 waiting for your tell. If you miss me and get my /afk from the bazaar do not "Bah!" me. I am not pale, pasty and chubby. I enjoy being outside and doing things other than EQ. Every customer *is* important to me and I always try to follow up a missed tell.
27) Do not offer me plats to make something for you on commission then come back a day later and say "I found it somewhere else cheaper" or "I got someone else it for me." If you do, I will make a voodoo doll of you and poke you in your naughty bits.
28) Even trivial items sometimes fizzle. It happens, trust me. Hate the sin, love the sinner.
And Finally: TEAM: Together everyone achieves more. We must all hang together or we will most certainly hang separately.
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