{"id":48,"date":"2005-03-04T10:33:58","date_gmt":"2005-03-04T16:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp\/2005\/03\/plvl-m3-plz-n33d-teh-plzor\/"},"modified":"2005-03-04T10:33:58","modified_gmt":"2005-03-04T16:33:58","slug":"plvl-m3-plz-n33d-teh-plzor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2005\/03\/plvl-m3-plz-n33d-teh-plzor.html","title":{"rendered":"“plvl m3 plz? n33d teh plzor”"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have not achieved a high enough level to get tells requesting assistance in PowerLeveling<\/a>, though I certainly see the [Broadcast]s and (for those who are at least following a couple of rules of etiquette) the [Request]s coming across the Chat window all the time.<\/p>\n

Sprinting through Steel Canyon, I spot a corpse lying in the road, about 100 yards from Blyde Square. Curious, I stop to look. It’s a Level 2 blaster. I do a double-take. Yes, Level 2… alone, in the middle of Steel Canyon.
\nThen I get a tell from him: “plvl me plz?” – followed immediately by a team invite.<\/p>\n

I decline team invite for the moment, and reply with a tell. “I’m on my way to a mish and I don’t do power-leveling. Want a teleport to the train?” I figured I’d be nice, since my mish was in King’s Row and I was heading for the Yellow Line anyway. I would have even given him an Awaken, patted him on the head, and sent him on his way back to Atlas Park.<\/p>\n

His reply: “no rez me and help me level”<\/p>\n

I glance at the group of level 18 Tsoo standing nearby, presumably the ones who placed him in his present concrete-kissing predicament. “I can’t rez.” I reply. “You can go to the hospital, and I’ll tp you to the train.”<\/p>\n

Another reply: “no staying here”
\nI don’t know that I’d go so far with some of the “taking revenge on annoying PLers” stuff as the folks commenting in the post above (though I strongly suspect most of them wouldn’t actually, either), but I understand the desire. Trolling strangers for unearned achievement is annoying; the ‘tude that some of the PLers seem to adopt (“I am entitled <\/em>to this. You are a high level. Your duty <\/em>is to PL me, even though I have a silly handle, an ugly costume, and am in the game just to to prove I am cool and 1337, and am clearly not interested in investing the time and effort that you did. And if you don’t, you suck.”) is just plain old rude.
\nBut I agree that the best way is simply to ignore them, even if there is that temptation to SK them out to Talos Island and then leave them there.
\nNow, I have been fortunate enough to have some higher-level players offer <\/em>to help me get some XP or take me on some higher level outings (as I’ve recently written), and I’ve tried, when they’ve done so, to be both duly (and sincerely) grateful and to pull my own weight in the team. But I would never presume <\/em>that that they must, <\/em>or even that they should, <\/em>regardless of the bonds of friendship, any more than I’d presume that any of them would just give me money on demand or come over and help me mow my lawn.
\nRudeness is no basis for a society. Folks who don’t learn that don’t last very long. At least, it’s nice to think so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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