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Mumoto · Oct 17, 2005, 09:47 AM // 09:47

The NICEST people you've encountered on GW!

There's a thread about 'Jerks on GW' so I made this one :P

Is there anyone particulary nice on GW, why? What did he/she do... tell us here :P

I've met someone that gave me a free green item, but unfortunately I don't know his nickname.

Charcoal Ann · Oct 17, 2005, 09:51 AM // 09:51

i'd suggest that nobody posts the names of the charitable souls. it will just mean that they will get lots of pms ascking for money.

I was given a nice (gold) monk staff back in the old days when Big Jim was at the Great Northern Wall.

apart from that though... not much.
i myself have given away a Ruby to a poor tank in my FoW team who got nothing. and probably given out 30-40k in small lump sums. (a lot when you consider the total extent of my wealth at the moment is 30k)

and one whole messload of time.

Mumoto · Oct 17, 2005, 09:54 AM // 09:54

Quote:

Originally Posted by Charcoal Ann

i'd suggest that nobody posts the names of the charitable souls. it will just mean that they will get lots of pms ascking for money.

I was given a nice (gold) monk staff back in the old days when Big Jim was at the Great Northern Wall.

Nah, Jerks-names are posted too and I don't think their names will be remembered, I just read the post and forgot the names already so it will probably be the same here, so it's no problem posting it here unless someone notes them down lol

Charcoal Ann · Oct 17, 2005, 09:56 AM // 09:56

its just that some one on these forums was apparently given an awful lot of ectos by someone. that someone requested that their name was not mentioned on any forum.

and besides you are not supposed to post ANY names on here without the permission of said person.

Tactical-Dillusions · Oct 17, 2005, 11:13 AM // 11:13

I met someone who gave me a green for free in Sorrows Furnace once.

Apart from that, i can't think of any more.

natus · Oct 17, 2005, 11:25 AM // 11:25

well i met this guy in grotto, and gave him a cookie (mursaat token :l) later he gave me a gold wingblade sword, 2 gold bows, and a gold fire wand, and then he ran me from yaks to sanctum cay

coolsti · Oct 17, 2005, 11:31 AM // 11:31

Its amusing to see that the answers so far to this post seem to insinuate that the basis for whether a GW player is nice or not is what that player gives away for free.

That wouldn't be my criteria at all.

Consider the opposite: the basis for whether a player is a jerk or not is how that player behaves towards other players in this cooperative game. For example, a jerk can be considered one who doesn't play with a team spirit, or who commands or berates other players, or who leaves in the middle of a mission for no good reason (like, dinner is ready or I'm dead, etc.) or who scribbles obscene images on the map view, etc. etc.

So in my mind, a "nice" player is one who really tries to make the other players in the team feel comfortable and have an enjoyable and exciting time while playing this game. And in my opinion that means not only good team play but also a good humor and good spirit.

Teufel Eldritch · Oct 17, 2005, 11:58 AM // 11:58

The ppl at WOLF Gaming. They are the nicest ppl I have met in-game.

As for giving green items away...I have gave every single green item I have ever found away...to friends. They in-turn ask me if I need the green items they find..if I do they give it to me. Does our friendship revolve around green items? No. We were friends long before green items were introduced into the game. Hell! many of us were friends long before GW ever came out!

Volarian · Oct 17, 2005, 04:42 PM // 16:42

I've met several nice people in-game who are not only a breathe of fresh air to group with but good players too.

Definition: Someone willing to offer help, game advice, give 100% for getting 100%, non-demanding, team player.....hmm sound allot like my guildies or those we recruit.

Nomads of Turmoil - NOT: small, fun and friendly guild.

Jetdoc · Oct 17, 2005, 04:48 PM // 16:48

By far the nicest person I've met was giving away 10 celestial sigils for free (from his highly ranked guild - can't remember which one). There was a mad rush on him, and I got one of them.

Unbelievable.

huh · Oct 17, 2005, 04:50 PM // 16:50

The jerks thread is 3 pages long and this is still on its first page.
I guess jerk stories are more fun to read and post rather than those about nice people

Well here's mine.
When I first got to post, some dude helped me all the way until Gates of Kryta.
I wanted to give him money (like 5k which was a lot since I only had 7k).
He kept refusing and then gave me a chaos axe after that!
Wow talk about nice!
Spend so much time playing the game through with me and then giving me a nice weapon too!

smurfhunter · Oct 17, 2005, 04:51 PM // 16:51

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Originally Posted by Jetdoc

By far the nicest person I've met was giving away 10 celestial sigils for free (from his highly ranked guild - can't remember which one). There was a mad rush on him, and I got one of them.

Unbelievable.

thats really funny, considering the "free sigils" thing is an overused lame way of getting people to leave the district

the nicest person i met on gw was probably the very first person i met, who explained to me what a skill was, as well as helped me get my first skills (woot, powershot!)

that was like 3 months ago and i have no clue what the ign of that person is anymore, but s/he definetly helped me out when i was a nooby

Mumoto · Oct 17, 2005, 06:15 PM // 18:15

Forgot to mention

You can also post here about nice people like coolsti has described or just knowledgeable people that helped you out alot.

Even if you post their names, it'd be weird if people ask them items.

Besides I gave away a Superior Rune of Divine Favor to a monk in my party and I usually give away crap while farming, the Rune costs 30k at the rune traders.

Guess that guy was lucky :P

kawaii_bat · Oct 17, 2005, 06:21 PM // 18:21

I've not really met nice people as of yet.....

but I think *I* was a nice person at a certain point for the heck of it

Nice short stories:
I was playing my new R/N in ruins of Surmia when I noticed there where *absolutely* no monks. So I switch to my level 20 and invite newever players (those that advertise the long way instead of L.G.F or telling their proffession or level)
So I guide them through the mission.
At a certain point I notice I have an XP scroll that I'll *never use* so I say ''what the heck'' and use it. They all go raving mad and kill everything they see without fear of dying. A level 20 monk angel was watching over them! And they each leveled up happilly...twice.
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A player wanted money for drok armor (he was new but he wasn't run there) so I gave him the components I didn't need instead. I made him promise to help someone else like I did if he ever has the chance.
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A new player didn't know what he was doing so I guided him through *all* of pre-searing ascalon in a half a week marathon.
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I have a friend I made when doing a long mission when I had started the game. I hadn't heard from him in 1-2 months because he said he was moving but when he was settled, he PMed me to ask how I was doing. I asked him to meet me somewhere and I gave him a green death necro staff for free. Since then we keep in touch and I belong to his 2 people only guild.

kawaii_bat · Oct 17, 2005, 06:30 PM // 18:30

Quote:

Originally Posted by huh

The jerks thread is 3 pages long and this is still on its first page.
I guess jerk stories are more fun to read and post rather than those about nice people

It's a statistical fact in business:
That when someone gets bad service they will tell 28 other people they know, while if they receive good services they will only tell 4 other people.

Also good news receives only 28% percent of the attention that bad news porentially receives.

I know this cause I took a service course in hospitality and tourism in high school. So hurricanes that kill people are more interesting than cures to empidemics.

Sol Faithman · Oct 17, 2005, 06:47 PM // 18:47

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Originally Posted by kawaii_bat

A player wanted money for drok armor (he was new but he wasn't run there) so I gave him the components I didn't need instead. I made him promise to help someone else like I did if he ever has the chance.

I did something similar - was stood in Droks with nice shiny new 15k glads on dyed gold and a female warrior comes up to me with a hotch potch of ascalon stuff on - she'd been run there by some guildies and left to her own devices

She pm'd me and asked what the armor was, was very complimentary about the look and at no point was she sucking up to me. I asked what she hoped to get and the answer was knights 1.5k......so I bought it for her. Boy was she happy

I never mentioned it, but I added her to my friends list so I could pm her from time to time to see how she was getting on.

One month later, she's not been on line at all since then

Being nice in this game hard - I tried giving stuff away and all you seem to get is abuse. I tried to help people in early missions and the same thing happens. The vast majority of people are just generally not nice, hence I guess why the "Jerk" thread is upto 3 pages. I'll stick to irl friends or guildies I know and trust (and one or 2 peeps off gwg) and ignore the rest of em.

Rich

asdar · Oct 17, 2005, 07:02 PM // 19:02

I couldn't agree with Coolsti any more than if I'd typed it.

To me nice does not equal what they gave you at all.

The nicest people I've met are the ones that stick around for a mission when they only needed the bonus, or the ones that say "good game," in PvP and will send a whisper to someone who's asking a question in chat.

My guild is full of the nicest people I've met. Every one of them will say Good game, and mean it, and talk about what the other team did that we liked.

Thock · Oct 17, 2005, 07:08 PM // 19:08

I love my guild.

Slade xTekno · Oct 17, 2005, 07:12 PM // 19:12

I consider myself pretty nice. I'm the scrub that answers every "may i pleaz have some gold?" plea under 1k and gives obvious newbs in Ascalon 750g and crafting materials for armor. I'm also the one that whispers directions to locations and how runs to Piken Square are scams.

This all comes as a product of someone in Pre-Searing during the last BWE who gave me 30 iron, 1 steel, and 750g for my Warrior when I got to Searing for the first time.

Xero Silvam · Oct 17, 2005, 10:17 PM // 22:17

I can consider myself "friendly".
-I spent time in Ascalon d1 answering quetions to newbies,
-Bought about 8 sets of 1.5K armor for guidlies or people that I just happend to have a good conversation with.
-Bought some1 full 15K dragon armor at my guess the number below 50 contest

-Give away just the regular stuff I dont need, cause I know that there are still some low levels who, just like me once, are absolutely trilled with an 11-19 req 9 Sword.

Kindest person I ever met?
hmm hard, cause I have encountered far more "jerks" then nice people.