Porter trade secrets

[gredoo]

• How much do you make on average per hour?
• What is the average price paid per port?
• Should I join a porting guild?
• Does this work like taxis where you are supposed to wait your turn or can I compete in the free market offering lower prices than the competition?
• Wheres the best place to port?
• Am I better camping at a hot spot doing quick rides or should I am for the long hauls (like taxis).

Trying to decide if the weekend of lost farming while I PL a druid is worth it.

[Wonkie]

/ooc trading my dignity for platinum, who wants to ride me?

[gredoo]

Originally Posted by Wonkie [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

/ooc trading my dignity for platinum, who wants to ride me?

Bro I used yaulp to get out of guk bot because I couldn't move due to all the fine steel. Having some dignity is the least of my concerns.

After seeing: https://www.project1999.com/forums/s...d.php?t=277707 I'm interested in this as a fall back plan if I don't get the answers to the hard hitting questions in this thread.

[Ella`Ella]

with a Z heart, White Dragon Scale Boots, Pre-Nerf Fungi Staff, Wiz Epic, and a Manastone and you can make some pretty good coin porting people around.

[gredoo]

Originally Posted by Ella`Ella [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

with a Z heart, White Dragon Scale Boots, Pre-Nerf Fungi Staff, Wiz Epic, and a Manastone and you can make some pretty good coin porting people around.

Hummm that's a pricey upstart cost. I guess most taxi drivers don't own their own medallions. What will you charge to rent these items?

[Moerne]

I leveled up my druid guilded with DaP for the most part, so these are somewhat informed responses:

How much do you make on average per hour? It really depends. If it's a busy time, I could usually do almost 500p an hour. Slow times closer to 100p

What is the average price paid per port? If they are higher level (50-6), I usually see about 50p. Lower levels it varies a lot, but probably averages around 20.

Should I join a porting guild? If your goal is to make port cash, yes. Dial gets most of the "look up a porter" business, otherwise you have to try to go out and find the clients yourself.

Does this work like taxis where you are supposed to wait your turn or can I compete in the free market offering lower prices than the competition? Most druids don't advertise a price per se, but it definitely a free market. No "lines" that I know of.

Wheres the best place to port? Probably either hammer hill in OT or maybe east commons tunnel for independents. Can get a few people at west commons ring too.

Am I better camping at a hot spot doing quick rides or should I am for the long hauls (like taxis). Long hauls (like running somewhere to do a pickup) are risky. Often you get there only to find the client has taken another ride, or their promise of a big tip is no where near reasonable for making the run. I wouldn't usually do them, unless it was really slow, there was a corpse run involved, or it was someone I knew.

[gredoo]

Originally Posted by Moerne [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

How much do you make on average per hour? It really depends. If it's a busy time, I could usually do almost 500p an hour. Slow times closer to 100p

Rough that's not so great. I guess if i'm half afk it's better than making zero. Not great though.

Originally Posted by Moerne [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Should I join a porting guild? If your goal is to make port cash, yes. Dial gets most of the "look up a porter" business, otherwise you have to try to go out and find the clients yourself.

So I really just need to include dial in my name so /who all dial shows up. I suppose I lose the advantage of going /anon if I am totally afk and can't service people.

[QUOTE=Moerne;2768955]
Most druids don't advertise a price per se, but it definitely a free market. No "lines" that I know of.
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See based on your 50pp price point I could advertise 40pp and under cut the competition if there are lots of druids at a hot spot like OT.

This is helpful. My main concern about going at this on my own is a 'accident' happening to me. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[loramin]

Originally Posted by d3r14k [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

A little less than 1k per hour is average.

Dial a Porter's often says "1k an hour" here in the forums, but in my experience that's BS. Sure on an optimal day with steady customers and good tips 1k an hour (or more) is absolutely possible ... but if you're talking about an average hour:

Originally Posted by Moerne [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

How much do you make on average per hour? It really depends. If it's a busy time, I could usually do almost 500p an hour. Slow times closer to 100p

This is the honest answer.

[d3r14k]

Originally Posted by loramin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Dial a Porter's often says "1k an hour" here in the forums, but in my experience that's BS. Sure on an optimal day with steady customers and good tips 1k an hour (or more) is absolutely possible ...

I should have added a disclaimer: Results may vary*

If you have all the ports, (level 44) and succor (level 57), are attentive, don't make people wait, and are paying attention to chat (specifically /ooc), 1k an hour is, yes, average.

The last time I sat down to port last week, I did it for around 2 hours. I remember this specifically because I made zero trips to Misty bank to unload until I was done. I came back with around 1.6k. That's 800pp an hour. Sure, it's not 1k, but it is close.

[gredoo]

Maybe following skarlorn's advice and doing a Seafury hustle is a safer and more profitable route. 2k a hour is nothing to sneeze at if 500pp a hour is a 'good' return.