Being asked for money!?

I was never asked directly but I often see beggars in common chat. My usual response when I see it spammed is "Try making your own money like everyone else".

Oh JOY. Beggars.

The ONE mistake that I thought PWI had managed to avoid.

Blacklist them. And.or report them to the GMs for harassment/scamming.

funny thing, ive been asked once by some random stranger, buy me a herc....


i asked him why? he said that its cause their expensive, he'll pay me back 30 mil for it after a year.

i was loling so hard.

anyways, he kept it up for a while, i went afk and let him beg his heart out.

One of the reasons I left RS is because of all the beggars. I hate them. I've never seen any on here though, thank God. :P

I've only borrowed coin once on here (70k) from a factionmate, and I paid him back 100k as a thank you. I don't like asking for money, although I will help out people who really need it (IE: in my faction, and I trust them).

I've been asked for money by a few players, all they get out of me is how to check your quest log and what NPC to go to. I NEVER give out money and I don't take paid help.
Had someone ask me to trade my BM for his archer once. Another person wanted to trade their Polar Bear for my horse when I had it. I think I had someone ask for my Anni mount once. 0_O;

I haven't been online enough to get begged a lot though and I stay away from idiots 90% of the time. Not to mention Threatening to screenshot, report, and get them banned for harassment seems to shut some of them up like their mouth was on a spring-hinged trap door.

Feroxine - Lost City wrote: »

I'm not sure if it's the same on other servers, but beggars aren't much of a problem at all on Lost City. In the time I've played I've only ever directly been asked for coins on two occasions (both on the same day, strangely!).

I don't play on LC so I personally don't know how many beggars you do or do not have, but perhaps the silent threat of being PK'd for begging is enough to deter many of them, leaving only the persistent ones?

Buzzz - Raging Tide wrote: »

This has happened to me twice during the weekend. I am just minding my business when someone I don't know whispers me: "Can I have xxxx coin plz?" I ask why, the answer is "I am poor" or "Its an emergency". In one case, I said "no but I can help you grind" and never heard from that person again. In the other case, I just ignored it.

Have you been asked for money by strangers? Did you give any? Or have you yourself asked strangers for money, and if yes, why?

Wow why the hell would you offer to help some annoying random beggar to grind for money. You're to nice b:chuckle

Just tell them **** of, if they keep spamming you just blacklist.

Randoms in big cities will always bother you in MMOs so obviously they do it in PWI to. They will bug you to help with bosses and quests, ask to buy your gear, wings or fashion for some scam deal, ask to join their terrible 20 ppl nub faction or they will beg for coins and free itenz.

If some random whispers you "hey r u there" in Archo West you might as well blacklist them because 99% of the times they will just annoy you and beg.

One of the things I have noticed the few times I have given handouts to random desperados is that they never say 'thankyou'. People who authentically need assistance usually express their gratitude.

Yafande - Harshlands wrote: »

People begging for money and people asking for help are two different things. Usually most low level players have friends that already play the game and get most of their harder quests ran for them. This leaves the remainder to try to form a squad. If it's the Tideborn area, it consists of a few Assassins and a couple of Psychics which will usually die to Tuskar. If someone is looking for help with Tuskar I'll spend 5 minutes and kill the thing for them. One of two things happen, either they will be grateful or they will just harass you for everything afterwords. It's a 50/50 shot. I don't mind helping people that actually need it.

As far as needing coins, you can farm 50k easy in less than hour farming the Sea Grubs and crabs near the start point for Tideborns. Limestone sells for like 600 each and they drop arrows like candy. When I was level 10 I farmed for a day at this location and made well over 300k.

A real person is grateful for help and advice. A scammer will just harass you no matter what you do for them.

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Well there are different ways of asking for help. Someone asking politely if they can join party while you're killing a culti/quest boss is fine. Or someone asking nicely if you mind killing i dunno Adawolf for them if your already outside Orchid Temple.

Its really about how they approach you i would say. Someone just spamming "HEY HALP PLZ" to everyone in the area will bug the **** out of you if you help them. They will after the boss is dead start asking for help with 3 more bosses, and than help doing their BH and finally they will ask if you have any money lol. So i would never help or answer them in the first place cuz every time i did i ended up having to blacklist them and they showed no gratitude what so ever that i helped them either, just wanted more.

People that approach you in a polite and more mature way and ask for a couple of minutes with a boss is different tho. If i have spare time i might help them. But many even among them has no perspective or respect for others time, like when a stranger starts asking you to go kill 3 culti bosses on the other side of the map or doing all their quests in 1-1 while you're obviously busy.

People should join a faction or learn how to make their own parties and stop bothering others b:surrender.

Michael_dark - Lost City wrote: »

There was this one person in Arch... every week or two, for nearly 4 or 5 months I'd get a message:

"Hi Gorgeous"

"How are you today?"

"Tomorrow is my birthday, could you buy me a 8m/s Panther please"


I know several people that was whispered the same thing... they stopped, I guess... wonder if they ever got their mount. lol

With that many birthdays so soon, they died of old age.

I've been asked and begged for...

- Coins: "PLZZZZ I NID 200k FOR NICE FASHUN"
- Mounts: "You have a fancy mount and nice gear, therefore you are rich and can give me one..."
- Fashion: "armor is ugly, plz i need ur fash, it looks nice... plz"
- To carry other people around: "PLZZZZZ IM A HAWT LONELY GURL" (doesn't work with me)
- To be carried (on my veno): "lol ur hawt, plz accept, plzz PLZZZZZZ"
- Account info. I'm not dumb enough to give you that...
- If you pretend to be my husband who suddenly wants cash for his brand new char, nice try: he doesn't play. And wouldn't PM me. Come to think of it, he wouldn't even ask for cash! *eyeroll*

And I've hated every single moment of it.

I work for my cash (when I wanna anyways), work for yours. And just because I have nice gear doesn't mean I'm rich, it's actually the opposite after buying mats (because everyone makes mistakes no? x.x)...

Buzzz - Raging Tide wrote: »

Have you been asked for money by strangers?
Yes

Did you give any?
No

Or have you yourself asked strangers for money, and if yes, why?
No

..........

I can't stand beggers. Now that being said, anybody that can spot me some coin for platinum charms????? b:laugh j/k

There are so many ways to make money in this game by grinding mats or just doing missions that to spend all your play time asking for coin is just plain lazy.

I am more than willing to help people out with quests if they ask for it but random beggars will never get my coin. That is reserved only for myself, my friends, and my guildmates. b:victory