MERCENARIES (in response to Sirhumpalot's thread)Follow

No.

A Mercenary gets paid to do someone else's dirty work when it doesn't benefit them at all, aside from the money factor. They don't get much EXP, they hardly get drops, and all they do is waste a bunch of their own time to do work for other people. That's why people pay them.

You're not a mercenary, just an elitest ******* with nothing better to do besides rip people off for your "services."

On my server, at your level, there are plenty of tanks searching, most searching for days. You didn't do a favor for anyone. You just ripped them off.

If somebody would blist a Bard or anybody for not joining a party then that is not a person you want to group with. Heck as a Bard I'm sure if that person was ever in your party, you could have them kicked out. Don't lower yourself to joining parties because you feel pressure, and don't lower yourself to charging people to play with you. If you're that arrogant of a Bard then you should leave the job.



Actually I don't think this puts you in the classification of a mercenary. A mercenary is a sword for hire that will do any job that comes before them. They have no personal ambition or desires to do or not do something.

I believe what you did by "not wanting to do it" more or less put you in the classification of a prostitute.

Really though, level 42 and you didn't want to xp? I have to laugh at that.

That's about all there is to say about you, other then you're really just a low person.

...Oh, and would you please stop acting like you're a real mercenary or something? Really dude, it's getting old. Mercenary this, mercenary that, mercenaries don't want to wipe their @ss but they do it for money.



nya nya nya, Marsha Marsha Marsha.

Nobody's saying you can't do it. They're saying you're a prick for doing it.

If it were a fair transaction, you should have MPK'd yourself in front of them until you lost all the EXP you gained over the hour.

i take it peoples humour died because theyre not being paid to laugh lol

"I'm too sexy for your thread, too sexy for your thread...."

Your FFXI server isn't as small as you may think. The more you interact with people in a certain way, the more people learn to understand your nature as such. It's called reputation. Yeah, some "tough" people may say that reputation means nothing to them but when Limit 1 takes forever because no one is willing to help you, that's reputation for ya. Then you'll probably end up paying someone exactly like yourself to obtain the items you'll need for the quest, then what? What goes around comes around. It's people like you that I don't blist even though I probably should. Why? Because I'll most likely see you shouting for help in Jeuno some day.

Fortunately, many people get into great Linkshells that help them avoid people like you. Linkshells that you won't fit into because of your mentality.

Edited, Thu Sep 29 14:48:56 2005 by Dawnn

As many people stated above, what would everyone else do if BRDs, or RDMs started asking for gil for being in an experience party?

Well, at least I won't do it, because it just feels totally wrong to get experience points and gil from my party members. It even feels worse than when one of the party members goes AFK for a couple of fights now and then, at least these guys aren't messing up with other players' wallets. Of course, if I don't feel like joining a party, and want to make gil instead, I will just go out and join a BCNM, or farm, or craft for a while. My choice in jobs doesn't let me become a Merc and help others with quests, because a level 56 BRD (my highest job) sure as hell won't be much help on an AF run, or on high level Missions. But, I will always gladly help anyone who asks nicely to get those darn Kazham Keys, Missions 1 through 5, or get their RSE1, for free. Yeah, for free, don't be surprised, I got help so many times on those same quests/missions, it's now my duty to help others on what they need.

End of discussion.

The thread exists, but your count is false.

As a preliminary matter, note that the thread was started by someone who, like you, is not from this guy's server, Ragnarok.

And (more to the point), of the six Ragnarokers who responded to the OP, at least three expressly said they would never pay a mercenary. I only see one person who says, under some specific circumstances, he might help the guy "for free."

On a personal note, you obviously have counted me as saying I "would help him get things done for free"; in fact, I said nothing of the sort. I didn't answer the question. Most of the Ragnarokers who responded also didn't answer that question. Maybe because it is really none of your business.

Lying about our responses is not the right way to deal with people who have the temerity not to agree with you immediately and unreservedly. I suggest you apologize and correct your error publicly.

You're right. There were TWO people as of the time of this posting who said they would charge him. They are Tamandra and Chuchuwally.

One person ACTUALLY said they would NOW help Hajpoj, FOR FREE, due to the fact that all the big, bad meanies in this thread (which he started, proudly trumpeting the fact that he became a "merc" by taking advantage of a lack of tanks looking at his level) are picking on him. That person is Dreyvin.

Then there are three people who have avoided the question Acepod, and later myself, asked. One of those people, you, avoided the question multiple times. Those three people are yourself (MJS the Venerable), Altdeer and EarthShaker.



Just because you posted in this main thread doesn't mean everyone on Ragnarok knows about Hajpoj. Perhaps that is why Acepod started the thread. Who knows? I didn't start that thread but seeing as how it was already going, I posed a question to your server, which only one person answered. You still have not answered the question even after I had to repeat it for you. /sarcasm "I Demand public apology" /endsarcasm
The question still remains, and I'll pose it for all the servers now and all future readers of this thread.

Would you charge someone to help them on AF, Missions, anything knowing they had charged others to be their tank in an exp party?
And (more to the point), of the six Ragnarokers who responded to the OP, at least three expressly said they would never pay a mercenary. I only see one person who says, under some specific circumstances, he might help the guy "for free."



Maybe it isn't. However, this is a forum board about the game, people's experiences with it and their opinions on matters. If it was none of my business you could have choosen not to post in the thread. Threads like these are obviously started to guage what other people think. That is the inherent function of a forum website. People post what they have done, or even what they are thinking of doing, and other people reply. There is no harm in asking whether your server knows of Hajpoj, and with the newfound fact of his past actions, whether they would treat him similarly to the way he acted.

If you were really all that interested in things not being other people's business, you wouldn't be posting in the first place so that is a pretty lame argument. Perhaps instead of playing the apparent crusader of justice that you make yourself out to be, maybe next time if you don't really want to post a relevant reply in a thread on your sever forum about someone from your server dealing with actions that they exhibited on your server then don't.

God, normally I don't drop to the lvls of insult but I have to today. People are idiots, true idiots. How can you honestly say what this guy did wasn't the right thing to do.

He found a way to make gil AND get exp at the same time. Was it morally right, thats up for debate all day long based upon your value system. Calling someone out on their values is a moot point and falling back on morals as an argument is weak.

If you put a bronxe subligar in you bazzar and I come pay 400k gil for it so be it. Double dumbass on me, just as it was dumbass on the party for agreeing to pay for a tank. The OP did what every business man and woman has done from the start of recorded history. CHARGE!!! Taken advantage of a situration.

Every great businessman and woman built there business by charging people to do a job. His job was to tank, no other tanks so he says "F*** You, Pay Me" and he gets exp to boot. Its the way the world runs and capitalism is built on profiting at others expense, so why should in game be any different.


And to the idiot who said he should lose all the exp he gained, c'mon, don't just be stupid. DON'T JUST BE FLAT OUT STUPID, JUST AVOID BEING FLAT OUT STUPID AT ALL COST. ******.

Maybe its just cause its the end of the month and my job is stressing me but some of the poster here are just morons.


Edited, Thu Sep 29 17:38:18 2005 by thetrott

Not to disagree just for the sake of disagreeing, but usually the connotation Mercenary never involves liking the jobs you do.


I hate G1, but if someone were to pay me to do it I'd still be a merc. So I guess Mercs are gil whores, but that comes with the territory.

"In the minds of the majority of posters on this thread, being an *** and adverstising to be a party member for gil are one an the same."

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Just for the record, the guy who pays is the ***.