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]