This is the other case of the twink that bothers me. I have only met one
person with a bought account that I liked and trusted, and that's because he
came into it knowing the game. Most of these ppl buy these high level
accounts, but have no clue what they are doing.
Imagine you are camping the something in guk, some lvl 50 asks to join the
group, but doesn't know how to get to dead tower??? I've gotten killed by
these lvl 50 newbies a few times and refuse to group with them ever again.
Sartori D'Elsiraad <The Companions>
Bard of Quellious of the 50th Chorus
Veeshan
>From: scott@... (scott brisko)
>Reply-To: eqbards@onelist.com
>To: <eqbards@onelist.com>
>Subject: Re: [eqbards] Twinking Causes a Crisis of Faith
>Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 10:02:29 -0800
>
>I have a similar problem, but not directly related to twinking.
>
>I started playing EQ with a friend of mine, and since he had much more free
>time to spend on his chars, he was able to advance far ahead of me with a
>number of characters, but usually he would have one that he was working on
>that was near my level so we would hang out and adventure together.
>
>Recently I turned another friend of mine on to the game, someone who had
>been very addicted to UO and did not think EQ was going to be that much
>fun.
>He started a character and was moving up the levels pretty quick, but then
>at about level 15 he decided that the whole process was taking to long, so
>he bought an account from E-Bay with a 50th level character and a couple of
>20-30 levels characters.
>
>At first this really did not bug me too much, and while I tended to look
>down in general who bought accounts from E-Bay, I cut him some slack. But
>now it is really starting to cause some bad feelings, mainly because he's
>off adventuring in the planes Guk, Sol B, etc. and I am still looking at
>another 3-4 months at my pace of play to even get into the 40's where I
>might be able to try those places.
>
>It really make me wonder what I am putting all this work into. While for
>the
>most part I still have fun, on the nights when I join up with the world's
>most inept group or worse can't find a group I begin to think about hanging
>the lute up and calling it quits.
>
>I know this is not something any one of us can change or fix, but I thought
>I would put it out there to see if anyone else had a similar experience.
>
>Bernwyn Ablesong
>Mith Marr