"please give me money"

I think I've only got one beg in CoH the whole time I've played (27 months now).
It was the fastest /ignore I've ever done

I've got a pet theory about beggers. They're little kids who, in real life, get their money from begging their parents. So when they go into the virtual world, it's no different - you get money from begging. They've got no concept of "work and you'll get paid".
"But I want my allowance NOW!"

And, of course, some of them are just lazy. But that's why the game has the ignore function.

I don't understand why to beg anyway. Now when the prices have gone all goofy (at least on Defiant server), it's very easy to get 1-2 mil with alts in their teens. More than enough to keep you DO'd and SO'd.

I had just started a new alt on a new server a while back. I've now made lowbie alts across the board so I can play when different servers are having issues.

I was in Cap AE on this server when a Lvl 50 asks in local if anyone needed any inf. Thinking it may be a couple-20k and enough to set this lowbie I spoke up.

"You have traded nothing for 48,000,000"

Now, for all of the idiots who can't s33m 2 gr4sp tek K0nSept of 3ngrl15H, I have plenty of room on my ignore lists for your gimme monies nao hides.

What's really fun is when I'm bored and I drag it out by playing dumb. I'll waste a good 30 minutes of their day and frustrate them till I can hear their braincell pop from here.

PRIVATE BUSINESS PROPOSAL.
Gen. K Onjob
Heroesway House
Grandville
Rogue Isles - c/o Nigeria

25th August, 2009.

Salutations Mr Tow!

First I must solicit your confidence in this transaction.This is by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential and top secret.

I am top hero of the Federal Government Contract Review Panel who are interested in importation of advanced rikti-fight weapons into our country with funds which are presently trapped in Nigeria. In order to commence this business we solicit your assistance to enable us RECIEVE the said trapped funds ABROAD.

The source of this fund is as follows : During the regime of our past beloved leader, President Marchand, the government officials set up companies and awarded themselves contracts which were grossly over-invoiced in various Ministries. The NEW Arachnos Government set up a Contract Review Advisory Panel (C.R.A.P) and we have identified a lot of inflated contract funds which are presently floating in the Central Bank of Arachnos-Nigeria (C.B.A.N).

However, due to our position as terrible ebil villains, I mean civil servants and members of this panel, we cannot acquire this money in our names. I have therefore, been delegated as a matter of trust by my colleagues of the panel to look for an Overseas partner whose ACCOUNT CAN ASSIST the sum of INF 1,900,000,000.00 (One Billion and Nine Hundred Million INF) to be moved via the CONSIGNMENT HOUSES. Hence we are writing you this letter.

We have agreed to share the money thus:
60% for us (the officials)
30% for the FOREIGN PARTNER (you)
10% to be used in settling taxation and all local and foreign expenses, including but not limited to Wentworths/Black Market fees.

Sadly due to the tight restrictions upon our resources we are needing half of the 10% CONSIGNMENT HOUSE FEES in advance from an external source in order to commit all the transactions. This means we need 5% (INF 95,000,00.00) to enable us to move our funds and pay you back INF 665,000,000.00 (35%) WITHIN 10 DAYS.

It is from this 60% that we wish to commence the importation business.
Please note that this transaction is 100% safe and we hope THAT THE FUNDS CAN ARRIVE YOUR ACCOUNT in latest ten (10) banking days from the date of reciept of the following information by PM/TELL: GENERAL K.ONJOB and TRADE INF 95,000,000.00 TO THE SAME ACCOUNT (GENERAL K.ONJOB) and then we can perform the CONSIGNMENT HOUSE TRANSACTIONS and subsequently INF 665,000,000.00 WILL BE PAID TO YOUR ACCOUNT BY TELEGRAPHIC TRANSFER.
A SUITABLE NAME AND GLOBAL ACCOUNT INTO WHICH THE FUNDS CAN BE PAID. PLEASE ENDEAVOUR TO RESPOND BY TELL OR PRIVATE MESSAGE.

The above information will enable us write letters of claim and job description respectively. This way we will use your company's name to apply for payments and re-award the contract in your company name.
We are looking forward to doing business with you and solicit your confidentiality in this transaction.

Please acknowledge receipt of this letter using the above TELL/PM Details. I will bring you into the complete picture of this pending project when I have heard from you.

Yours Faithfully,
GENERAL K.ONJOB @MAJOR_SCAM


PS - You can trust us entirely, Mr Tow. There is definitely no need to contact any GMs about this.

Many have 'asked' me for inf. Sometimes politely, sometimes not. I've given 100k to one player who asked very nicely. But I was also in a good mood at the time since I had sold a purple for more then 100m.
I once gave 1k to a player. He asked in a tell, said he wanted to buy some wings and I new he needed a lot more then 10k. So I obviously got a lot of abuse after but I laughed like a drunk Hyena.
I had a convo that went something like this once..

[Him] Hey, can you give me 10m? I will give you 20m back off my brothers account if you do.
[Me] Sorry, but I don't trust you to give me ANY inf back.
[Him] I will, he is level 50 and has 200m on it.
[Me] Then why don't you get your brother to give you the inf when he is on next?
[Him] We share the same PC so can't do that.
[Me] Don't you have any friends to help you transfer the inf?
[Him] They are all offline.
[Me] Then sorry, you will have to find someone else.
[Him] If you give me 20m I'll give you 40m back.
[Me] Sorry, I can't do that. I just don't trust you. (I only had around 6m on the toon at the time)
[Him] Give me anything and I'll double it.
[Me] Its not going to happen.
[Him] I'll triple it

I then ignored him. I was polite as I possibly could be. His typing wasn't as good as I have shown either. The player was known to many Defiant Villain players for his begging, this was my first encounter.
I tend to only give inf if I'm in a good mood and its not a lot. I use to do costume contests a lot a couple of years ago on Villains, since as they are incredibly rare compared to Heroes. I'm thinking of starting them up again now I have inf to burn.

EDIT: LOL Dave, my step-mom had something similar (obviously without the CoX references) come in the post a few weeks back. Its amazing how they think its believable.

must suck being poor

I find it odd, myself.

I've gotten to where I never buy TOs at all, sometimes skipping over SO enhancers straight to IOs (Invention Enhancers are pretty cost effective starting at level 25-30, as you won't have to replace them). But while IOs are expensive, most non-set IOs don't require rare salvage, so you can often sell off some salvage for a pretty penny (and it looks like arcane salvage costs are spiking again. Woohoo!).

How the hell can you be /poor/ in this game?

I'm dirt poor if you compare me with some multi billionaires in this game. But it's all a matter of perception. I get by with what I have on my characters. If there's something I want on a particular character and can't afford it, I save up, trade up or buy it with a luckier alt.

I think I have just over 100 mil on all my 20 or so heroes together, that's plenty for me.


//Jack

To be fair, it doesn't hurt to try asking people for money. The problem is how one goes about doing it.

When I started my first hero, I was lucky enough to snag 3 out of the four Halloween Salvage items myself, but couldn't get the fourth in time. So I hit the market in search of it, but couldn't afford it. Later that day in Pocket D, the topic came up in conversation with a much-higher-level stranger, and I decided to ask if he could spare a bit to help me out. Sure enough, he did, and even gave me some extra to pay for the tailor.

The key was being polite, and telling them why. I explianed what I needed the cash for, how much the salvage cost, how much I had, and explained that it wasn't necessary, just something I really wanted. After I finished my business, I returned to thank him again and show the results.

Now, if somebody did the same and asked me for money for any reason in a similar manner, I would spare what I could to help. It doesn't hurt to ask, but it does hurt to beg. "Give me money" or "Inf plz" comes off poorly, but "Excuse me, any chance you could spare X Inf so I could...?" sounds reasonable. And if someone says no, leave it at that and ask someone else.

Okay, I admit it.

I was stalking you Sam, it was ME!

Naow give meh moneys!!










(j/k)

Hehe.

I occasionally get requests like that.
I was marketeering in Talos the other day and a level 22 accosts me:

"Can u spare inf?"
(Too busy to care, hand them 2,000,000).
"Not enuff"
'That will buy you single origins at leel 25, enjoy."
"I need mracle +recov"
'Yep, you sure do need a miracle, good luck there!'

Of course, not everyone is a mooch. I was doing a Manticore TF once, waiting in Atlas for the clicky mission and a level 11 asked me where they can level to 14.

I tell them to his Steel Canyon, beat up on some Outcasts and Council or do some newspapers or even Montague's arc. They seemed pretty distraught and wanted 14 in a hurry. I opened a trade window and went to offer them some inf but it blocked me at 50,000 or so. He then explained he was on a trial and that if he hit 14 on his own (no one else levels him) his dad will validate his account.

I exed down to him after the tf and we had a grand time beating stuff up.

Generally though, I'll /ignore beggars, especially when they spam me for AE Boss Farms when my 'search' specifically says "NO FARMS (AE or other)".

Sigh

I've had a few strangers generously give seed funds to my lowbies. So periodically I've made a point of either finding a lowbie with no vet badges and giving them some inf. I don't do it constantly but it's very satisfying.

This thread reminds me: I need to bring my mercantile demon over to Mercy and see how many lowbie souls I can buy at 100k inf a pop.

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