Phase 3: Profit !

Being Polite and Profits

What is the cost of being nice?

by “nice”, I mean talking politely, giving direction to others… Without costing much resources of your own

Most of the time, zero.
Well, sometimes it cost a lot. Since some people will abuse others on that, but then you can stop it right away, by an unshameful “NO”.

What is the cost of being bad/a jerk (Bad to others without any benefits)?
Alot.

If someone asking for direction in the the general/guild channel .
You can -

• Tell him the direction. – He or others may have an good impression of you
• Ignore him – not being nice but not being bad either. You just do not lose much other than “he/she is quiet”
• “You don’t even know that? NooB” – that’s a jerk. And people will ignore you when you ask for help or any request. That’s the price you pay

Being nice and polite is profitable.
And I had a recent experience on that.
The average “Sign Charter” Fee on my server is 5g-10g, depends which faction you’re on.
On a Saturday Afternoon, (Time of picking for the charter is important for creating your personal guild, See another post for details)
I urge to create my own guild for the “research” project
I ask around for 5g per person on sign up. 3 low level lowbies show up, so I paid 15g. and I had 7 persons to go,
but there are no more people coming

So instead I ask people come to me, I go to them

/hi
/whisper Would you mind signing this charter for me, please?

/thanks (if they sign)
/whisper Thank you

Then I got my charter filled in 15 minutes. That’s 35g straight. Better than many daily quest. What did it cost of doing so? Zero, other than walking around. Rewards? 35g saved in the pocket.

Being Nice is good to business.

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Updates,
While I wrote post a week or two ago, I put it into schedule.
(My guild for bank alt had been formed for 2 weeks now.)
Couple of thoughts appear on comment on several “post” on another site as well.
(I won’t talk about how similar that post’s topic with a post I had written before here, but that’s why I won’t mention their name here, cause I am still waiting their editor reply (for record, which is nothing yet, not even a general reply on “we had received your email”))

But even so, I guess it’s worth to mention that someone had the same thought on, being polite should able to pay for that dues.