How inf much is “just enough” to give?

[Yomo Kimyata]

21 minutes ago, Bionic_Flea said:

 

1 (one).

 

Then do /emote dice twice and add that many zeros.

Huzzah!  You get 100.

 

Lucky for me it wasn't a pair of sixes (1,000,000,000,000)

 

*Mails Yomo my leftover shrimp and grits from Monday's dinner*

 

Shrimp are basically water fleas, you cannibal

[UltraAlt]

14 hours ago, Yomo Kimyata said:

(Also, I just like the word 'detritus'.)

 

It is a good word.

 

14 hours ago, Yomo Kimyata said:

1.  Someone comes up to my new alt in Atlas and sends a tell, "Hey, would you like some influence or [insert item here]?"  Awesome.  That's kind and thoughtful and behavior I try to emulate.  No problems, I decline politely and gratefully, and feel slightly better about the community here.  10% of the time.

 

Now. I'm wondering which server you are playing on.

I'll make a guess, Excelsior. 

 

14 hours ago, Yomo Kimyata said:

2.  Someone comes up to my new alt in Atlas and opens a trade window without any preamble.  I do not enjoy this, because it is interfering with whatever else I am doing at the moment, be it crafting, /AHing, trying to find or start a team, or sending lewd messages to provocatively dressed and willing robot characters.  I shut down the trade window.  Sometimes they try to open the trade window again two or three more times.  This is not a major inconvenience, to be sure, but it is also not a major inconvenience for the person to take the time and effort to send a tell and ask me if I want or need anything.  30% of the time.

 

Well, you can decline trade invites in the option menu ... and turn it back on when you want to use it.

 

14 hours ago, Yomo Kimyata said:

3.  Someone comes up to my new alt in Atlas and gifts me directly something nice, like a Panacea without any preamble.  Not a time or window suck for me, since it happens automatically, and generally I won't even notice at the time.  This is good because they are doing what they think is something nice, and this is bad because it removes me from agency.  I don't need a Panacea; I don't want a Panacea; this gift would be better off in the hands of someone who needs or wants it and I wish you had taken the time to figure that out.  So 10/10 for good intent, but 0/10 on execution.  5% of the time.

 

To each their own. You could always re-gift it.

 

14 hours ago, Yomo Kimyata said:

4.  Someone comes up to my new alt in Atlas and gifts me things like their unwanted SOs or snipe recipes without any preamble.  I get it that they are presumably not doing this to grief me and fill my inventory, although I have my suspicions.  But I don't really want to take the stuff that you don't want to be bothered to sell at the vendor.  Vend it yourself, then offer the inf to someone who wants it.  I'm stretching the metaphor here, but it's as if I see a homeless person in need on the streets and hand them my half eaten tuna sandwich and a used battery because they can eat my leftovers and sell the battery to someone who needs it.  I'm not doubting the giver's intent to do good, but it's really not helping the recipient as much as it is helping you get rid of your garbage and trying to feel good about it.  This habit of giving rankles me, and seems to happen about 55% of the time.

 

At that level, I personally put them on the market for cheap rather than handing stuff off to a random character even if it something that they can use.

If they are stuffing a SO into your inventory that your character can't even use, yeah, that could pretty annoying.

 

15 hours ago, Yomo Kimyata said:

I am more likely to benchpress the Atlas statue than to get anyone else to start sending tells before giving anybody anything.

 

 

 

Oh, wait, it isn't the day after Thanksgiving yet ...

Or is the Christmas marketing starting on All Saints Day at this point? 

Well, the Winter Lords haven't invade yet, so ...

[Snarky]

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[Ukase]

15 hours ago, Intrinsic said:

I think the best thing that vets can do for new players is to teach them how to get the most value from their reward merits.  A player who has completed some story arcs and TFs may be sitting on millions, or even tens of millions, worth of reward merits without realizing it or knowing how to convert them.  Probably much better for player engagement too because we'd be teaching them how to fish, not just giving them the fish.

This is harder to do than you think. So many players will give a new player clearly bad information. Like using reward merits to buy an ATO. This is as stupid a thing as I've ever heard. The same 100 merits can get you a purple recipe or a winter-O, which will sell for more. Sell them, then buy the ATO outright, if you're inclined to forgo actually using the merits to turn trash into gold. 

It usually ends up in a shouting match with the newer player left more confused than when they started. This is why I really wanted the tutorial to cover this in-game. One of these days, I'm just going to record a game session and make a youtube video and explain the different ways to make influence in this game. The problem is condensing the information that doesn't waste the viewers time. It's hard to do that and share bad jokes. explain things fully, to try and answer questions preemptively. 

[Snarky]

1 hour ago, Ukase said:

 It's hard to do that and share bad jokes. explain things fully, to try and answer questions preemptively. 

That is why i concentrate on the most important part. 

[Yomo Kimyata]

1 hour ago, Ukase said:

It's hard to do that and share bad jokes. explain things fully, to try and answer questions preemptively. 

 

Feel free to also answer questions emptively and postemptively.

[jkwak]

maximum 50M no matter how much the recepients complain "its not nearly enough" and what ever excuse they have, those types of give aways are meant for newbies to get started comfortable without grinding and spending more timea actually enjoying the content, if you are not a newbie and in need of those give aways you might do something wrong in the first place

in fact if they complain they shouldnt give the inf

Edited Saturday at 04:12 PM by jkwak

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On 11/1/2025 at 2:32 AM, Snarky said:

Whoa there... We don't sexualize Annie!