I don't see anything in the OP about summoned items. Bags, food/drink, weapons for pets, waterstones, lev rings, bandages, arrows...

When I'm parked in EC I sometimes get asked and more often then not I am tipped, but I'm curious what people's thoughts are on this, because I don't think I've ever seen it discussed in these types of threads.

I avoid tipping for ports. I just ask if they’d like to port for x plat. Most of the time they say yes even if it’s far under 1pp per level. This way I can get my lvl 10 ported and don’t have to deal with people’s opinions about what I can/should afford and where I’m allowed to go!

So I got tipped for a SoW and a Levitate for the first time last night. I was blown away, 5 PP just for casting two spells! Woot!

However, by the sound of this thread, the tips get bigger as you level up?

i tip a max of 5gp per level. All you guys tipping 1pp per level are doing it wrong.

Had origins in Europe, with aristocrats tipping favored servants. In the US it started as refusing to pay any wage to freed slaves in the restaurant industry, not racing to the bottom but right there at the bottom from the get-go. Literally a slave wage.

I remember on povar the standard tip was 10p accross all levels. So an untwinked level 1 really had to earn his way into being able to ask for ports, it felt like a privilege when you finally had enough spare plat to quickly get accross the world even just one time. Level 50s would also tip 10p, which seems cheap, but they would also ask for ports constantly because they could afford to, so you'd still end up making bank from lvl 50s because of the sheer frequency of their port requests. This system also eliminated any tomfoolery where a rich twink pretends to be poor and offers you 2p for a port even though they have like 10k in the bank. It was just 10p, at all times, for all players.

@cd288

Warriors can generally carry more loot then most players, Warrior on green doenst need anything but banded, then bronze(1-2pp per ac) until 50, along with what a Halbard from HHP(20pp?) until 50. And don't say its not possiable bc most did it just recently on green. On live 10-15pp even I remember that. But this isn't live server where we had a wiki to where everyone and their mother knows whats worth money, or where to get it. Heck HQ bear hide, Bone chips, DF belts, CB pads.. Don't lie to youself. I made a fresh warrior on green(whos my like 6th alt) is lvl 20, Yeah I've not spent any money while palying him, and he still has like 150pp from looting a few items(and serious think looted only BC/Crack staff/HQ bear hides, Lightstones)

now thats reasonable. Tipping 50pp is just insane

I mean most people in the restaurant/bar industry I know do not mind the system at all. A bartender can usually make more in tips than they would in hourly wages with low (or zero) tips if the wage were higher. It's also mostly tax free income since they only report a small portion of it on their taxes. They'd end up netting less money per year if we switched to higher wages with low/no tips like Europe.