Social skills?

trik · **Posted:** Thu May 10, 2007 3:07 am

Why does 90% of the people I meet never ineract, communicate, or socialize at all? Everytime i look at the text box its either me saying hi to everyone or people trying to sell something items through the global chat. This game is so lonely, even my own guild doesn't respond to any of my greetings or attempts to start a conversation

Blurred · **Joined:** Nov 2006 **Posts:** 2894 **Location:**

trik wrote:

Why does 90% of the people I meet never ineract, communicate, or socialize at all? Everytime i look at the text box its either me saying hi to everyone or people trying to sell something items through the global chat. This game is so lonely, even my own guild doesn't respond to any of my greetings or attempts to start a conversation

Most high lvls are cocky

Ell · **Joined:** Oct 2006 **Posts:** 3281 **Location:**

I talk to random people

PureOwnage · **Joined:** Jun 2006 **Posts:** 1104

Blurred wrote:

trik wrote:

Why does 90% of the people I meet never ineract, communicate, or socialize at all? Everytime i look at the text box its either me saying hi to everyone or people trying to sell something items through the global chat. This game is so lonely, even my own guild doesn't respond to any of my greetings or attempts to start a conversation

Most high lvls are cocky

OFT: Hi Hi Blurred! So you still play SRO if not what happened to your char. PS: This is Memphist ^____^ :love:

Blurred · **Joined:** Nov 2006 **Posts:** 2894 **Location:**

PureOwnage wrote:

Blurred wrote:

trik wrote:

Why does 90% of the people I meet never ineract, communicate, or socialize at all? Everytime i look at the text box its either me saying hi to everyone or people trying to sell something items through the global chat. This game is so lonely, even my own guild doesn't respond to any of my greetings or attempts to start a conversation

Most high lvls are cocky

OFT: Hi Hi Blurred! So you still play SRO if not what happened to your char. PS: This is Memphist ^____^ :love:

off topic: yeah i still play, and still owning strs with mah int

Meow · **Joined:** Mar 2007 **Posts:** 1872 **Location:**

Blurred wrote:

trik wrote:

Why does 90% of the people I meet never ineract, communicate, or socialize at all? Everytime i look at the text box its either me saying hi to everyone or people trying to sell something items through the global chat. This game is so lonely, even my own guild doesn't respond to any of my greetings or attempts to start a conversation

Most high lvls are cocky

Agreed

Dyshein · **Joined:** Apr 2007 **Posts:** 8

I've noticed it too, moreso than in other MMO's I've played. I've been considering joining a guild just because people in this game are so damn anti-social. Either that or they're all just bots -_-.

jcof · **Joined:** Apr 2007 **Posts:** 30

trik wrote:

Why does 90% of the people I meet never ineract, communicate, or socialize at all? Everytime i look at the text box its either me saying hi to everyone or people trying to sell something items through the global chat. This game is so lonely, even my own guild doesn't respond to any of my greetings or attempts to start a conversation

Because they are busy grinding and you're bothering them

tyfly · **Joined:** Jul 2006 **Posts:** 826 **Location:**

#1 reason why ppl don't talk to u is cuz there botting

Crumpets · **Joined:** Aug 2006 **Posts:** 7800 **Location:**

Hershey wrote:

join a guild that uses vent or ts

and u'll be making new friends ^^

Yup get into a guidl that uses ts or vent, don't be shy and get talking. How I made a few good friends and 1 almost too good of a friend RIGHT STALLOWNED ?:P:P:P:P

alZen · **Joined:** Mar 2007 **Posts:** 657 **Location:**

just dun get into a gold bot guild.

Tasdik · **Joined:** Jan 2007 **Posts:** 13206 **Location:** Life

Yah most pople on silkroad are stupid but there are the really cool people who I talk too ^^

HyorunmarouZ · **Joined:** Mar 2007 **Posts:** 1839 **Location:** Hell.

75% Are bussy botting
20% Are pissed about game flaws and don't care about community anymore, just are "leave me alone, i need to grind"
4% Are nice chat users
1% Vent-TS guilds who have fun despite the problems of JM crappy customer care.

This is just approximations. Not facts, but i'm pretty sure they are near to real numbers.

ciddy · **Joined:** Dec 2006 **Posts:** 864 **Location:**

HyorunmarouZ wrote:

75% Are bussy botting
4% Are nice chat users

that's me

Ell · **Joined:** Oct 2006 **Posts:** 3281 **Location:**

Xia_Hou_Dun wrote:

HyorunmarouZ wrote:

75% Are bussy botting
4% Are nice chat users

that's me

Lol which one :shock:

truez · **Joined:** Jan 2007 **Posts:** 1288 **Location:**

tyfly wrote:

#1 reason why ppl don't talk to u is cuz there botting

+1

TwelveEleven · **Joined:** Mar 2007 **Posts:** 3806 **Location:** Heaven

I have the same problem

, probably why i don't have much high lvl 'friends' on alexander either

DonSkoD · **Joined:** Jul 2006 **Posts:** 35 **Location:**

trik wrote:

Why does 90% of the people I meet never ineract, communicate, or socialize at all? Everytime i look at the text box its either me saying hi to everyone or people trying to sell something items through the global chat. This game is so lonely, even my own guild doesn't respond to any of my greetings or attempts to start a conversation

Because every time a "low-lvl" sends a pm its usually gold he wants..
Ill always answer my guildmates / unimates

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Dmitriy · **Joined:** May 2007 **Posts:** 1

I always speak to players, unless he/she asking me for gold

P.S im lvl 79 on Oasis

trik · **Posted:** Thu May 10, 2007 6:41 am

this is what my chat box looks like 24/7

ElementSun: hello!
ElementSun: hey there, how you doing (after getting invite to a party)
Elementsun: dang nice drop, what are the stats? (after getting ksed)
(random person): WTS SOM lvl 16 BOW! COME TO STALL BY TRADE SHOP IN DOWHANG
Partky (GM): This is GM Partky
Partky (GM): Remember, GM's will never ask you for your ID, Password, email, or credit card number.
ElementSun: nice damage, how strong is your weapon? (after getting ksed)
ElementSun: hi (guild member's name)

this is the entire block of text after 2 hours...

TwelveEleven · **Joined:** Mar 2007 **Posts:** 3806 **Location:** Heaven

trik wrote:

this is what my chat box looks like 24/7

ElementSun: hello!
ElementSun: hey there, how you doing (after getting invite to a party)
Elementsun: dang nice drop, what are the stats? (after getting ksed)
(random person): WTS SOM lvl 16 BOW! COME TO STALL BY TRADE SHOP IN DOWHANG
Partky (GM): This is GM Partky
Partky (GM): Remember, GM's will never ask you for your ID, Password, email, or credit card number.
ElementSun: nice damage, how strong is your weapon? (after getting ksed)
ElementSun: hi (guild member's name)

this is the entire block of text after 2 hours...

O i aint doing so bad then :roll:

I made a lot of friends when we were all low lvl, but more than half quit anyways :roll:

ping_lo · **Joined:** Oct 2006 **Posts:** 911 **Location:**

trik wrote:

Why does 90% of the people I meet never ineract, communicate, or socialize at all?

Well if we take in to account that around 90% bot. And we assume a relation between the numbers. You may have your answer.

As a side not I type and grind all the time. My guild/union uses vent a lot but there are still times that guild and union chat scroll at a wild pace. Finally if someone says hi I basically always respond unless it is followed by something like 10kPls.

Honestly if you are in with a legit group either they are not a close group, AFK, or botting.

SoBlu · **Joined:** Mar 2007 **Posts:** 389 **Location:**

Well lets see,

I have a good legit Union/Guild so they talk alot and are active on vent (So no complaints there).

If ur guild/union is quiet they are either Bots, Dead, or really lame.

I talk to ppl randomly around me who have look interesting like cool gear or just dont fit in this grind spot.

I talk make good convos with ppl who ks my giants and mobs then sorry thought u were a Bot (Thanks for asking before hand...).

Then i say hi to the new guy in my grind spot to only see him get stuck on the wall or a rock 5mins later.

Its not so bad, but good conversations are killed with the usual:

Bots, jerks, emos, beggars, attention whores, spam, advertisements, noobs, it goes on.....

Krystan · **Joined:** May 2007 **Posts:** 37

I know what you mean about this game being anti social, but I think alot may have to do with language barriers aswell.

Last night on Zeus was weird, I was grinding away and I must have asked about 20 people to party up with me and they all refused, I was like WTF?!!? normally you can't move 10 feet without offers to join party.

Finally someone joined up with me and the first thing he says is
"YOU GIVE ME WOLF!"
I said, "lol why would I give you my wolf?"
"BECAUSE I DON'T HAVE ONE, GIVE IT NOW"

I laughed it off cause I thought he was just joking, but then he followed me around for about 20 mins standing in front of me, constantly trying to open a trade window with me and basically demanding I give him my wolf.
Finally I just booted him from the party and then used a return scroll to get back to town, it was really weird.

10 mins later I'm back in the same spot grinding again and someone else starts harrassing me demanding I sell them my wolf.........it was really really weird.

By the way, Hi, my first post is pretty long I know but I got so frustrated with what's happening over at the JM silkroad forums that I thought I'd lurk around here instead.

Dudez0r · **Joined:** Apr 2007 **Posts:** 214 **Location:**

IM glad ive never had this problem

Every friend I have from this game is because I moved from another game onto this one with my friends from that game and then they made friends and it just kinda went like that, BUt i know what you mean about the globals etc, Alot of globals are flaming or selling stuff,

What server do you play on btw?

[SD]Black_Snow · **Joined:** Feb 2007 **Posts:** 290 **Location:**

TwelveEleven wrote:

I have the same problem

, probably why i don't have much high lvl 'friends' on alexander either

ill be ur friend on alexander but im only low level atm

nightbloom · **Joined:** Jan 2006 **Posts:** 5492 **Location:**

I cant grind and type at the same time, Im pushing 1,2,3,4,1,2,3,4,etc. When I log on nightbloom, 5,000 ppl PM me and I cant answer all of them.

I always talk on Vent tho, so the guild is encouraged to join, or else put up with me not typing much. lol

bambskiii · **Joined:** Aug 2006 **Posts:** 719 **Location:**

Ell wrote:

Xia_Hou_Dun wrote:

HyorunmarouZ wrote:

75% Are bussy botting
4% Are nice chat users

that's me

Lol which one :shock:

are u saying u cant bot and chat at the same time..or be a nice botter? lolers^^

achmalach · **Joined:** Sep 2006 **Posts:** 986 **Location:**

nightbloom wrote:

I cant grind and type at the same time, Im pushing 1,2,3,4,1,2,3,4,etc. When I log on nightbloom, 5,000 ppl PM me and I cant answer all of them.

I always talk on Vent tho, so the guild is encouraged to join, or else put up with me not typing much. lol

yeah grinding and talking in chat is kinda hard.
also to me it seems that:
1. higher levels don't talk that much (most in union chat are lower levels continiously saying what did have in a drop, how much SP they have how much % xp, if anyone wants to buy 1 elixir they just found,...)
2. if higher levels talk, they take time to talk. i have had evenings of 3 hours online with 1% exp added
3. people on gold time want to take advantage of that without losing any GT

bambskiii · **Joined:** Aug 2006 **Posts:** 719 **Location:**

achmalach wrote:

nightbloom wrote:

I cant grind and type at the same time, Im pushing 1,2,3,4,1,2,3,4,etc. When I log on nightbloom, 5,000 ppl PM me and I cant answer all of them.

I always talk on Vent tho, so the guild is encouraged to join, or else put up with me not typing much. lol

yeah grinding and talking in chat is kinda hard.
also to me it seems that:
1. higher levels don't talk that much (most in union chat are lower levels continiously saying what did have in a drop, how much SP they have how much % xp, if anyone wants to buy 1 elixir they just found,...)
2. if higher levels talk, they take time to talk. i have had evenings of 3 hours online with 1% exp added
3. people on gold time want to take advantage of that without losing any GT

and the reason for their low lvl is cause they talk to much..

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