"please give me money"

Once or twice, when I've gotten these requests on a higher level character, I've sidekicked up the lowbie, and jumped into a mission with them.

They earn some money, maybe get some nice drops, and gives me an opportunity to teach the newblood some tactical lessons.

If they do well, they get a bonus.

This approach presumes patience, and especially time. Which some of us don't have much to spare.

37 is just a number Sam, don't keep getting hung up on it. Popping off that number as your sole proof that this person should have known better isn't making your case. You learned all the things you did by that level because you went with the flow, paid attention to what was going on around you, and did some looking on your own.

Someone who does that now and isn't quite as smart as you drifts into the AE. They run missions because that's where people are. If they go explore once they have a travel power (or later) there's literally nothing obvious to differentiate between Steel Canyon or Atlas Park or Talos Island, in terms of where they should be. Not everyone is going to be together enough to look at the levels of the spawns, or go into each store and check the levels of the enhancers. Some people just aren't that attentive, and the game doesn't do a good job of explaining this kind of progression.

You make a big deal about paying attention to the game as it goes, but how does it go actually? The flow is broken, this is the downside of having so much added and improved over time. The amount of information people are absorbing starting today is quite a lot. If they're young or not very literate, it's an even bigger hurdle.

All I'm telling you (and I feel like I end up telling you this a lot when you post these 'I don't understand other people' threads), is that you need to climb out of your shoes and think about what it's like in someone else's for a bit. We don't know this kid. We shouldn't try to judge based on a few lines in chat.

To me, his worst crime is he went along with what people seemed to be doing at the time, and now he's trying to dig his way out of it but doesn't know how.

What I'm trying to figure out is why this kind of obvious bit of human behavior is so bothersome to you? You could have simply said "Begging for money isn't cool. I don't have time to help you now, you should use the Help Channel if you don't understand the basics of the game." Why couldn't you do that and chalk it up as your attempt at a good deed for the day instead of coming here and venting? There's really not a lot to be said about your run-in in a meaningful sense. To me it sounds like you either failed to get the fact that some people are a bit slow, or you wanted an easy excuse to pick on AE.

Either way it doesn't paint things in a very favorable light.

Another way to generate quick influence, if you're firing up an old character: a lot of the old toons may still have base salvage on them. Because base salvage is no longer used, you can convert it to Brainstorm tokens at any invention bench, which can then be converted into random salvage. You can generate a nice chunk of rare salvage that way, and even some of the common stuff fetches a good price.

Actually, when you put it this way, I can safely say I did over-react, and I suspect I know why. It's something I could only describe as residual mood. I dislike people being inconsiderate enough to butt in on my fights uninvited when I'm doing perfectly fine and haven't taken a scratch, and I SERIOUSLY dislike being blind invited, especially repeatedly. This perfect stranger initiated communication by doing both of those things, and then proceeded to hit me up for money. That sort of put me on a bad leg to begin with.

I suppose an argument can be made that I should have disassociated these events and understood that this person was perhaps somehow inept, but still needed help regardless, and helped him despite the fact I didn't like him from the moment I became aware of his existence. The fact of the matter, however, is that I didn't like him, and I am decidedly UNgenerous with the people I don't like. It's sort of a live and let live policy where I never wish ill to those I dislike, but am rarely arsed to help them out of the goodness of my heart. And keep in mind, this extends to people who threaten to break my teeth.

Maybe if that guy had been patient enough to give me a couple of days to introspect on why I thought to behave as I thought to behave and perhaps glean the truth of how I should have handled the situation, I might have done differently. Justifying my actions now is meaningless, though I can't say I exactly regret them, but one could say I got caught in a momentary reaction that coloured my perception. I'll accept this as a lesson for the future - count less on first impressions and more on immediate context. I guess I should also rely less on the actual people in question to provide the context, themselves, despite them initiating communication, but that's my egg to stand on.

I have a tendency to post about weird things that happen to me. This was decidedly one such, and I thought it noteworthy. That can't be THAT common, can it?

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

i remember almost all of us here couldnt afford to change outfits in icon early on before icon coupons.


i rememeber the "icon cost too much!" posts back in the day....maybe we should all remember how petty that was compared to nowadays.throw someone a million if you can afford it.

redside or blue...not everyone had money

i had 80 mill in issue 3 and i was one of the richest men on my server....nowadays if i dont have 1 billion im screwed!

So, Sam, my buddy...

Word on the street is that you're a quite... influental man, if you catch my drift? Wink wink nudge nudge say no more know what I mean?

I had someone ask "hey can i borrow 15 mil?" when I was at the WW in talos. Guess that was a month and a half or so back. Just ignore the spangers. Not literally /ignore (unless they're really annoying), but jeez. I'm not one of these billionaire flippers, go bug THEM for a handout...except giving away inf isn't how they got ridiculously rich. Why are you asking random people for that much cash..."Borrow"? Yeah, right, like i'm ever going to see you again.

In the early, year 1 days of CoH i'd randomly be dropping bling on people. I remember I handed out quite a lump to fully SO out the basically entire team of a Task Force I joined, because in those days you'd get auto-booted from the TF if your anchor lost connection and I had already had it happen two or three times so I was like..."BUY SO's LETS DO THIS FAST"