MERCENARIES (in response to Sirhumpalot's thread)Follow

LMFAO!



Oh wait. You're serious! LMFAO!! Man I can't stop laughing. I just coughed up my lower intestine. I've never heard something funnier in my life about FFXI.



Ok, this is funnier. Those people that "hired you" (*cough* that you extorted *cough*) are pretty stupid. What's the race to 75 people that you would pay some low-life to be your tank? Hell, get another job to tank for you. It's not like a 42 Paladin is God's gift to FFXI.



I agree. Hopefully everyone on Ragnarok will charge Hajpoj anytime he needs something done. Anytime he wants to join your party or invites you to his, charge him because "Simply, it was something you didn't want to do." Anytime he shouts for anything in Lower Jeuno. Charge Him. AF? Charge Him. Nation Missions? Charge him! ZM's? Charge Him!! CoP? Charge Him!




So don't. Go Anon. That is what it is there for.



Which is what they should have done, instead of willingly allowing themselves to be extorted.




So I guess you did it back, eh? An eye for an eye? I'm glad there aren't people like you on my server and PLD's are a dime a dozen.



Yeah I doubt you'll be getting past the Limit Breaks with your attitude. *new idea* HEY RAGNAROK PLAYERS! Charge Hajpoj 1M gil each for every Limit Break! After all, it's something you don't want to do, right?



Nice. What a tool. Well Ragnarok, here is your evidence to present to GM's if Hajpoj steps out of line.



And hopefully you'll get yours. I'll let you in on a little secret. While I do agree that merc work isn't all bad, what you did was despicable. This game is about shared experiences more than anything else and greedy players who try to capitalize on the situation (i.e., tanks who charge for exp b/c no other tanks are seeking/available) don't get far. At higher levels, your reputation means a lot and you'll be the one getting MPKed or worse (yes there are worse things) if you choose to be an *** early on in the game. If you didn't want to party, you shouldn't have. It's not like your situation doesn't happen everyday to White Mages, Black Mages, Red Mages and Bards, not to name Ninjas whose costs of tanking far outsurpass a Paladins.
Good luck getting far on Ragnarok because you will need it.

I've been playing for well over 18 months. I've just never heard of someone charging for an exp party OR for that matter, people being stupid enough to even pay for it. Not only stupid, but aggregiously so.

It's not really being blown out of proportion. I guess you could say people here are shocked at the gall you would have to charge others for an exp party. Just remember, 20k isn't worth it for a bad reputation. Remember that.

It's extortion in the sense you are taking advantage of a situation, unfarily, for your own gain. You've already said yourself that you don't even like it when it's done to you, i.e., you even suggested that you would MPK those people who took bribes and left for other parties like White Mages apparently did to you. Well, if you would MPK such people, should we all MPK you? You did the same thing. You're no better.


Man I hope some people on Ragnarok that incident when you ask for help. There is nothing better than hearing about someone getting what they deserve.

Said the level 65 Bard to the 75 Thief.
Now that is funny!

How did I leave an already functioning party in the middle XPing for another party leaving them high and dry?

I was just sitting in jeuno with the Comment up, and Was on my merry way. No harm done.

I'm still laughing at this. It was an isolated incident, and every part of the transaction went smoothly.

My hiring party was content with me, they understood I didn't want to party and Respected my actions. When it was all done they waved goodbye to me and the BLM gave me a warp. I don't see any harm here? And if this is an Isolated Incident that really only concerned them, which in fact was a chore to me. I don't see how you keep saying my reputation is damaged? Everyone involved was satisfied.

You are all trying to depict me as this "tyrant," and making assumptions about me and my current in-game self. it just goes to show that the Alla community is quite hostile to anyone that lies outside of their conformist views.

Are you accusing me of being elite? If so, maybe some basics in reading comprehension and general conversational interpretation might do you some good. Let's review chronologically.

1 - I said that a 42 Paladin CHARGING potential party mates for his "tanking services" was the funniest thing I've ever heard.

2 - Traydon tells me that it is not as funny as I think it is (which is entirely my opinion - the degree of amusement is mine only and I'm not saying everyone would find this to be one of the funniest things they have ever heard, ONLY ME), in a very condescending manner I might add, for example by questioning my playtime. Could we stay on topic here Traydon? Could we?? The OP was about someone charging 20k as a level 42 Paladin (he was level 42 because he has admitted to never changing his sig on here), not about my playtime and whether or not I've witnessed others charging for parties. If you have, great. On my server, asshats like that are blisted by the entire NA population and become the laughing stock of Siren within days. As a matter of fact, I've been on these boards almost as long as I've been playing FFXI and I've never seen someone championing the fact that they extored 20k out of others for their tanking services.

3 - I respond that I have 18+ months of FFXI playing under my belt (since the almighty Traydon called into question my playtime) and that it's true, I have never seen someone pay another just to be a member of their party.

4 - Traydon responds with the above quote. Here it is again for your convenience:



Now who's elite again? He just accused me of living under a rock! Who's being the snob here??? When you can point me to one thread on this website where one person admits proudly to charging others for being a member of their party OR where someone says it happened to them, then I'll agree I've been living under a rock. Traydon makes it seem as if this happens all the time and jobs like Bard, Red Mage and Tanks are SO in demand that they can just charge others to be in their party.

5 - I responded, rightly so, "Said the 65 Brd to the 75 Thf" because obviously, I haven't been living under a rock if I've levelled 4 jobs almost to level 40 (2 of which are in pretty high demand and expend exhorbitant amounts of gil in parties, Ranger and Ninja, respectively) and 1 job to level 75. This statement wasn't intended as an "I'm better because I'm higher", it was merely a reply to "you must be living under a rock" accusation.




Nope, why would I? I don't even know what "leeter" means? Is that some sort of reference to "elite"? If so, I don't proclaim my gear, skills, knowledge of the game or anything else FFXI related to be more elite than any other people. The sole reason I play this game is to enjoy the company of the friends I've made. If it wasn't for that, there wouldn't be much reason for me to log on. I could care less about what gear others have, what their skills are, what their knowledge of FFXI is, etc. I know what I've got and that is all that is important to me.



Then that is pretty sad. I can tell you honestly I have never heard of someone offering to be a member of a party or paying someone else to be a member of their party, for gil. Not in 41 levels of Ranger (pre-nerf mind you, where most of the parties on our server had at least one Ranger in them, especially up until level 40ish). Not in 38 levels of Ninja. Not in 33 levels of Warrior. Not in 75 levels of Thief -- and this is the kicker, if you've levelled Thief to 75, you'd know that it is definitely not one of the most sought after jobs, especially after level 60 when SE permits other melee to take our 2 best job abilities and do better damage with them than the primary job for which it was intended. You'd know that sometimes it would have been pretty tempting to pay a Bard or a Red Mage to be in your party. Honestly speaking though, up until this thread was created, that was such a ludicrous thought to me of paying someone else to be in my party, where we both gain the same benefit. You don't want to party? Fine, I can understand that. Charging for it? Nope, I can't understand it. That idea is hilarious to me. What's even funnier is that some people are so desperate in their rush to level that evening or that week that they would actually pay hard earned gil for someone else to get exp right alongside them!

If you absolutly didn't want to EXP at all, why did you accept the invite, even though gil was involved?

I think that was he did was a very nice idea.

He didn't felt like partying. He did a /sea NIN, WAR, PLD, and not a single tank was there. He just offered his services as a tank to anyone would would pay him. It's perfectly logical, and if these people agreed to pay for a tank because there was none, good for them. They couldn't had partied otherwise.

Good idea OP. ^^

--Ikkian

{Congratuations!} on your level... but that just makes me hate you more XD