In-game Morals.Follow

I have given up a number of chocobo's to raise people that either ask me for it or else just random dead people on the side of the road. When someone calls for help I try to lend a hand as long as it doesn't interfere with my party. I was in the hell jungle yesterday and a pair of smithys were ripping the place apart. I was tossing in debuffs and the occasional Thunder to try and help out. My party was in some serious downtime waiting for a 6th on the airship. Figured I wasn't doing anything ATM and I might as well help out. I think I actually saw you there Art ^_^ you added to my bazaar poll about thunderstorms.

Edited, Fri Oct 8 11:00:19 2004 by MagdalenaKatt

Get off my chocobo to raise someone? Absolutely not. (I can't...I have no jobs with Raise ^^)

Help someone who has called for help? Frequently. I'm finding it's rather difficult these days though...it's as if the populace has, as a rule, forgotten that if you want me to kill the mob that you have engaged and are losing to, you have to actually use the call for help command. Usually all I see are shouts for help in my log with no coordinates, much less a compass marker to guide me to the trouble spot.

As far as helping a party in an exp area that I'm also leveling in...that's not a yes or no answer. Generally speaking, it's always nice to lend a hand, especially in higher level crowded zones. The tension between groups over who is camped where and getting what mobs eases a lot when you show a little comraderie. This isn't so in lower level zones like Yhutunga, where I've had more than one party turn around and say or do stupid things to my group after we have helped them out of a sticky situation.

Overall, it's important to remember the old saying, "Once bitten, twice shy." People who do not stop to raise a random person, or rush to the aid of someone who calls for help are not necessarily selfish players. It's entirely possible they've just been burned one too many times by dim-witted idiots. While I wouldn't say that should be a reason for calous disregard for fellow players, I know I certainly don't exactly wander Vana'diel looking for hapless adventurers in over their heads.

In fact, the last nasty encounter I had with a player came as I was running through the highlands towards N. Gustaberg. I ran past someone who was fighting a couple of lizards and didn't think much of it, having already passed by a handful of people train farming sheep in Mary's spawn area. I had gotten just beyond bow range when I saw a message that this person was defeated by one of the lizards...he was soloing for exp and got a link. I felt a bit of guilt, but he was engaged on one lizard...if he wanted help, he should have typed /help or even "help pls".

So I felt kinda bad, but it hardly ruined my day. As I'm almost to the zone, the person runs past me heading in the opposite direction...they had obviously set their homepoint in N. Gustaberg and released. They /slap'd me on the way by and proceeded to send me nasty tells because I didn't help them. I explained that I was sorry, and didn't know he needed help, but the nastiness continued. I tried to explain that if he wanted help he should go about asking for it appropriately, yet he continued to accuse me of being a selfish "hi level jackass".

I've happily and naively crisscrossed the Dunes of Valkurm to help a random person get the Magickked Skull for sub-job quest. The person never spoke as I ran around scanning, and when I finally found a ghoul, it dropped skull right away. I was kind of proud of myself, but the person I was helping wasn't even paying attention...I had to do a <call> to get them to pay attention and lot on the skull so I could disband and go on my way. The gratitude they showed me for helping them overcome such an odious obstacle?

"oh, thanks" No smilie, no "^^", not even a ! for my trouble.

Sure I'm willing to help, though I'd have to suggest based on my experience that someone who doesn't drop what they're doing to assist someone else isn't necessarily lacking in "solidity" as a player.

The "help me" shouts without ctrl+g are a problem indeed. Yesterday for instance, we had a PT in Konshat and got overtaken by someone who had linked two gobs and was running to the Dunes. Despite us frantically telling him to ask for help properly, he just ran on. Our RDM still sent of a spell while waiting for that call for help which never came. Result: a dead party member, and 10 minutes finding him a raise, half of the PT having zoned in the meantime :(

Aside from that, I 'voke off as a WAR when the person has called for help and, since I switched to WHM for a while, heal people around.

Edited, Mon Oct 11 02:39:04 2004 by Alastaironsiren

I hear that on the powerlevel note. I am constantly getting requests for powerlevelling. It's a little less now. I think the lower level players are thinking that 43 is too high to ask for that. However I still get it (Haste maybe ^_^). I only occasionally powerlevel close friends of mine. The people in the linkshell I'm in once in a while (much to their chagrin). The question I invariably ask them is then who's going to powerlevel me? I have like 12-15 people in my LS and needless to say it's a pretty tight group despite the fact that we are all radically different levels. At the moment I am the highest level player and being the only Main white (I think there are a few subs at like 18 or so) I tend to 'port my fellow members and of course any party I'm in. But I try to always have in my search comment (when I'm not in a party) that I don't do powerlevel.

One thing that gets me fuming is price gouging on community service spells (Raise II/Raise III). Some may see it as only business but to the White mages giving out those free higher level Raises, it's plain rude.

Wow!!! That's Awesome!! I'm not going to go off about the whole NA subject. J/P and NA are exactly the same. Some have more exp then others. The only problem is the langauge barrier. Even Squeenix's auto-translate doesnt resolve this. Yet the common courtesies from all eventually break past the gaps.

I like surprising people with help.

Generally don't tell 'em I'm helping unless they ask for it. I'll just kinda... appear. Or show up at the zone. Unless they can give me some kinda good reason for me to get lost, of course...

I really adore people who help each other out. Makes the game a friendlier place. I guess it's weird because I rarely ask for help... No matter how dangerous the situation I'll probably end up trying to sneak off on my own instead of asking someone to babysit me.

...but it never works... lol. Because when I do that I'm pretty quiet, and then people realize I'm being sneaky. And sometimes... sometimes someone will just end up popping out of nowhere to help me.

You get what you give, I suppose.

There's a reason that the game is a general comminity. People have to work together, and if I wasn't willing to work with others... well, what the crap would I be doing on an MMO, anyway?

Maybe I'm just gullible. ^^