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Haha...

Me and my mate were happily Silkroading today when all of a sudden, during a nice little sit down in Bar Street of Jangan... a new player ran up to us... and caps-locked the almost inevitable "10k Plýsss!!!!" (I'll save you the torment of it by opting for lower case).

Well... you could've guessed, as with all beggars since we began... gave 'em the usual "shut-up-and-go-grind-it" treatment... AFTER ALL... what is it at most? ... A hundred young tigers here and there... BAM! 10K. The newbie would've earned it honestly and honourably too. But no. He opted for tramp mode... so I had to lay the smack down.

... Well after he left to go bug his next victim... Me and my friend philosophised over the fact that...

"Why is it always 10K?"

And it took some deep thought... being completely honest.
Then it hit me.

10,000 gold. Why would a newbie need... 10,000 gold?

The 1st hypothesis: To buy a weapon?

- No because same level weapons come flying at you if you go the quest route (as you should early on).

The 2nd hypothesis: To get gear?

- Nah... can't be... you get that stuff anyway, right?

Then we were stumped. Rondoing supplies... nope. Voids are cheap...

Then we thought a little deeper.

We then theorized that... its down to multiclienters/or otherwise... users using two or more computers... sell their stuff on one... grind with the other. We've all heard of it. Possibly a few of us dabbled.

Even so, my point is. A "newbie" would therefore need 10K because he/she's fully suited and booted with all the nice SOX items and elements in his/her storage his/her high level "friend" has grinded for... and he needs to get somewhere. But he/she forgot to plop a bit of "helper cash" into the storage !!!

Now you ask where?

A "newbie" spawns in Jangan. As we all know. The best place to sell high level SOX and elements/tabs is... Hotan... where all the high levellers are.

"Well duh," I hear you say.

But the thing is this... Mr/Ms "newbie" here can't risk going horseback from Jangan to Hotan.. for he/she has no money for transport pots... or the strength to take on the deadly foe (lol) that cross his/her path.

One would surely get his/her ass handed to him/her.

So he decides to teleport... JG ----> DW ----> HT

"... but I no moneýýýý?!"

Of course this route requires the lump sum of 10,000 gold.

Sooooo... in conclusion - the likely theory is that... some high levellers make the noob mistake of NOT sticking transport cash into the storage (or trading it) when they multi-client... and therfore resort to begging for this specific amount.



PS: All a bit of light-hearted fun. Hope you enjoy the read.

Disclaimer: Of course my theory has no relevant proof; the hypothesis hasn't been tested statistically; no collection of data has occured... if you decide to take this all literally... I accept none of any complaint you may make for "exposing" any beggars in SRO.

EDIT: Request: Just realised I posted in wrong forum. (S***)... Please can this be moved to GD if possible, thanks!

They always ask me for 500k, greedy bastards.

wow, u really thought deeply into this
i like your theory, and i agree with it

your theory is cool except i found someone begging for 10k in dw i guess he would have wanted to give 5k to his other character lol

He can't find any big donations in DW, so he asking for 10k to try in Hotan and if he doesn't succeed to get back to DW .

well when they see a high lvl player they do ask that

I tend to give mine the "Why do you think you deserve 10k gold when I got to where I am without begging my way up?" speech. Stupid enough, the response tends to be a 10plzzzzzz! or a **** you

Usually my response is "10k PLISSSS". Then they get all confused and it gets pretty funny to see them try and explain what they want.

some high lvl. say "10K plzzz" but not really asking for gold just saying you are a noob XD.

Yeah that's a nice thought, good thinking.

But if I was to beg for 10k or something like that. [Which I never have]

For this kind of game, I think I want it for the potions so we can go run and grind again.

50 herbs at that level (which go fast, no matter what your build) are about 3k. Repairs aren't that much at low levels, but it starts to ass up, and if someone is truly a nublet they won't know they need to repair until their items are breaking and have a kinda big repair bill.

10k can get you a lot through lvs 1-15.. after that it's kinda dumb.

lol it starts to ass up?

I beleve they ask for 10k because if they ask 10 people and all 10 people give him 10k he just made 100k. So if you can find 10 people every day you can get money pretty fast and easy, just gotta find the right person.

Note: Me and my friend where making new characters for fun and every decent person we saw we bugged them for 10k to see how it feels to be on the other side.

Although we didnt get anything >.<

...riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight...................

or... maybe they just want to increase their capital by 10k spontaneously?

How bout that deduction?

*Genius over here*

@Ell
My beggars are worse, they want a wolf.

One would of thought that obvious...

Sometimes the best things in life are obvious.

Next time someone asks 10k plzzzzzzz just answer:
Oh you poor little thing i was like you, an abandoned creep left outside alone at the road, we can boh share pain, if someone pays you give me half plz...

o.O

i never give money to anyone unless im on vent with them...i star most of my guildies off at 250k

Go Grind Manyangs you little pieces of sh1t i did the same mistake of not leaving cash in storage i grinded mangyang and picked up all the gold drops around me was done in a hour

Never had beggers asking that much (But what you've said is probably true, nice analysis ), though when they ask for like 1k or so and I'm feeling generous at the time I give em doubles

yeah i did the same thing when i made a noob char but this was when the severs had bad traffic and i never had enoth to buy pots for my noob but i still made about 50k every time i went out to grind by picking all my money up and drops

The following drama plays every day:

(Cloverleaf rushes in from the left.)
random n00b: 10k plýsssssss
Cloverleaf: beer please
random n00b: need moneý plýssss
Cloverleaf: i need to drink please
random (and quite puzzled) n00b: ananý sikerim (or some equivalent in english)
(Cloverleaf walks away thirsty.)

lol i know this flame some turkish flame xD a turk said what means it i don't want say it xD

sheesh i though the 10k 'ers were beggerbots. You mean to tell me a real person sits in front of a keyboard and walks around begging for 10k? they should add euthenasia Pk to the game....

This is the only phrase I know in Turkish
Guess why