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Originally Posted by Ravager
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The highlighted are assumptions. When you play with enough people, you'll see that the twink with a level 60 farming class main and has 10's of thousands of plat in the bank is atypical. Typically, (at least most examples I've seen) the twinks are being groomed to be new mains by players who are tired of their old mains. The person who twinked that char very likely spent all of their expendable plat to twink that char, and in many cases sold off a lot of their gear on their old main to dress up their new main.
In regard to time. If the twink happens to have a level 60 farming class main, that doesn't mean it's easy to farm plat. There's quite a lot of time involved in travel, in competing with other farmers (especially at the high end) and in safely xfering plat/gear to their twink that could actually use the plat (since I'm assuming you don't expect them to spend their armor). That's time they spend not playing the character they want to play, in service to the character they do want to play. Not to mention, quite often in order to farm a lucrative camp (even something like HG's or spectres) you need to do it at odd hours to both A) get the camp and B) efficiently make plat.
As for the drop that was an upgrade to the newer player, but just plat for the twink, where should the line be? Is there a certain value the item should be before a twink can be allowed to roll on it? 150 plat? 500 plat? 1k? 3k? Should a twink be expected to pass on every drop?
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So I went ahead and bolded your assumptions as well.
Twinking is not required, its optional, you can start a new character and play it "correctly" or just twink some basics (like a decent weapon and banded armor) to get into your teens quickly or something. I would suspect that selling EVERYTHING you own on a character you spent over a year playing to start over is NOT what normally happens. Not every twink out there is a person switching mains (which is a dumb concept on a server like this anyway honestly), I'd wager that MOST of them are just bored with their class and want to try something new, they have tons of money or gear laying around and they use they to fund the new toon. My "main" is a level 35 Shaman right now, I got a decent 1HS and some basic STR items...so I rolled a Paladin and twinked those over (along with a full set of Banded I made for them)...I'm not "switching mains", I'm just interested in playing more than 1 character...I'm already thinking about my 3rd and Paladin is level 12.
You don't need a "farming class" to farm at level 60, a warrior can farm at 60, maybe not blues, but you don't need to kill blues to farm money, literally EVERYONE can farm at 60, so yes, it most certainly is "easy". Sure there is competition, how is that different for the lowbie? He has competition as well, with smaller rewards. As well, the actual "farming classes" can farm naked anyway.
A level 60 doesn't have to worry about travel time, drop 60p (or whatever) on a port or just get a free one from your guild mates. Guild mates could also be used to safely move the items.
They don't need to spend time doing any of that...they already did it, before they made the character. The dude in full colored plate with top tier weapons doesn't need to farm anything.
As far as the line, I suppose that comes down somewhat to the item in question. If its a cheap fairly common item, need before greed, its not hard to inspect a player and see they are wearing junk. If its a EXPENSIVE item, like something worth 1000pp+, I'm okay with something like that being roll on by basically everyone, those are speciality items that are rare and in high demand...I don't expect exclusiveness on an item like THAT. I would prefer in those situations it went to someone who was more likely going to use the item over someone who is just going to sell it (or at least offer to sell it to the loser at a discount), but I can't really complain in that situation.
I'm much more talking basically items before ~ level 50 or so, pre-raid stuff most people don't REALLY care about, stuff half the server just gives away anyway, those things should to given to the non-twinks basically everytime.