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Hey there, just wanted to report something that (from accounts of other players and the increasing amount of times it is appearing on these forums) shows a pretty bad pattern for this game.
Im in Corellia, Coronet on the Sunrunner Server the other night when a female toon called "Roseis" comes up to me. She is ecstatic that she has finally made novice commando. I understand this, myself being master and knowing the long trawl through unarmed 4 and the 40k combat xp required for novice so i congratulate roseis and tell her i am happy for her.
At this point Roseis asks me if she can borrow my flamethrower. I tell her that the flamer i use is very expensive (custom made for me) but that i do have a "mass produced" one with not bad stats and trade it to her. She stresses as we trade that she only wants to try it out and will return it after a couple of hours. The emphasis that she stresses on this gets me slightly suspicious but i go ahead with the trade anyway thinking that im doing her a good turn (i had 'Helper' above my name) and the flamer is below 25% anyway. As i am typing in that she can keep the flamer for however long it lasts i am suddenly spammed with
"LOL @ U N00B - IM A GUY IN RL" in /tell.
Roseis then ran off, leaving me bewildered and thinking "LOL @ U NOOB - UR LAME IN RL"
anyway, what im trying to say is that it didnt take long for the majority of players in this game to turn cynical, untrustworthy and malicious. I think the thing that attracted me to it in the beginning was the helpful, friendly community i was part of. Thats long gone now and it only took a few months.

Hmm... Well first of all I feel a bit sry for ya, but what did you expect ? Borrowing out your flamethrower, that is NOT very smart now is it ? I dont really think so, so I guess that its your own fault you lost it. I know its not the point, but you know being friendly ingame, it is not worth it. But you know a lot of people has started the latest time, and I would not really except that every one of them would be honest and friendly, and I was not even surprised about your story.
Nothing to do about it anyway so :) get over it and next time, ask the guy to fu*k off

Alot of the same punks who ruined public server Counter Strike received SWG for christmas.

So expect stuff like this to happen more often in the future...

Next time yank your dialoge window up to full screen size take a screenshot and report his/her/it's @ss to Sony. You might not get anything done, but its worth a shot.

desnoshor, you're on to something here. Not only did the clever thief think that he/she got away with something special, the list goes on:

1. thought that the donor was motivated to cooperate by the thief's sex.
2. thought that the donor was a "NOOB", presumably for the aforementioned mistake.
3. thought that "NOOB" was an insult.

What a savory victory.

And a brief word of encouragement... I just came over from EQ. I've been playing SWG for about a month now, and one of the most marked things I've noticed? People actually do help. Good damn luck getting any help in EQ anymore. :) In general (with a few rare very wonderful exceptions) people there are untrusting and untrustworthy with a health dose of ungrateful and rude thrown in for bad measure.

Ironically (and sadly) this seems to be a cycle that all MMOs go through. I saw it with UO... the same happened with EQ...

Edited, Tue Feb 3 17:00:26 2004 by vostik

I have helped people on Valcyrn, and one guy was a gal in RL. They anounced it to the entire game that was standing around that they were a girl and that they had kissed me. I had just given them a general crafting tool. My answer to that was, even gay people can play, I would have helped you at any rate. It did not matter to me. The kiss, described by the game was passionate, My reply was I didn't feel a thing. Alot of LOL's were seen and that person must have gone to another server,or changed their ways, I haven't seen them since. But I will continue to help, a good rep replaces alot of bad hype. My group is a wonderful bunch of people, I came in very green, I was tucked under a few wings, and am trying to help others. I am still learning too, but I refuse to let the loss of a few things limit my enjoyment of the game.

Connetigutted,
I am glad to see you helped someone out. Even if they were an idiot, you protected yourself and still helped them out.
Like other posters, I was helped out so very much when I started this game. I had never played a MMORPG before and knew nothing about them, but 2 guys on Wanderhome took almost a week to teach me everything they could about playing.
One person's kindness, in RL of the game can undo a hundred Jack@$$&$ rude behavior.

I think you have to take this thing in the same manner as in RL... you can't let people sour your experience ... and as for people who think that helping is not worth it (because of fake money or whatever) i think thats a lame attitude... what reason to play if not for the people? Help is always appreciated by new or lost players and respect and dignity go a lot farther in peoples minds then (fake) credits and (fake) items.. i'll never stop helping people and man, you did a good thing by offering her(him) the flamethrower.... too bad he(she?) turned out to be a prick but your willingness to help is really inspiring (especially by dishing out a 30k weapon)... way to go!

I'm very new to swg and enjoy it so far, but I would imagine that just like in EQ, the game is only as good (or fun) as the people you group with.

I like the community. I'm on Tarquinas and I'm usually around AH or Traders Town. When I'm in AH I see declared Imps helping Declared Rebs after they have killed them. I thought this one guy was an @$$ but he turned out to be pretty cool. I hate getting killed though when I come back with a TEF by him.

Quick wit and a sharp tongue is a good defence against people like this. At the least you can goud them into having a full on argument with you them you ignore them and walk off. The greifing mofos are often the easiest to toy with.
i just hope people still offer thier help, just be careful.

Unfortunately there seems to be alot of conning now. One person on Tempest server has a system where, by paying for two accounts, they have the ability to have two characters on the same server. While one character is their 'main' character, the other is a novice whatever that goes around conning people. His most common con is shouting out that he sliced weapons, and, when people pass over their krayt scatter pistols or whatever to be sliced, he simply runs off with the weapon and puts it in a vendor that his 'main' character owns. He has also claimed to sell master doc buffs, and when people have tipped him he has simply walked away. I think this is dishonest of him, but he defends himself by saying that his character is a smuggler, and that if you are to role play properly you should notice that in the booklet it even says that smugglers are meant to con people and steal. He says the way the game is set up is so that smugglers can steal the very good weapons they are given to improve. The only thing people can do is be carefull who you pay for buffs, and not to hand over weapons untill you see their smuggler tag, or even only allow smugglers in a guild or people you trust to handle your weapons. He told me this only because he said eventually people will know his 'con' character, but when he becomes notorious he will simply delete it and start over. I do not know his 'main' characters name so I couldn't say who to watch out for.

Roseis is a real bad sort. It can be found most nights in any of the capitol cities spam begging at the top of its voice. confusing thing is that once it get the money it /flirt and /kiss to show its gratitude. yeurgh, i dont even wanna think on that.
it stole an armor segment from a friend of mine some weeks back that it promised it was going to slice. lesson learned now for both him and me and now it seem you too connetigutted.