Various Tales From Grumpy
Various Tales From Grumpy
Grumpy’s Big Day at the OfficeSo Grumpy logs in to find out his 3 stores sold over 200k of furniture and deeds the night before. Many architects would be excited, Grumpy is annoyed; now all those vendors will have to be restocked. Grumpy wanted to go fishing sometime this week.Grumpy has a pretty large operation, 3 store locations, 40 lots to manage and an army of young punk architects and other ne’er-do-wells doing the dirty work.To make matters worse, two of the ne’er-do-wells were already out hustling Grumpy’s waypoints at the busy starports, so the stores were full of customers needing Grumpy’s attention. Sometimes Grumpy hides in his workshop, sometimes Grumpy pretends to be afk. Some days, neither of those tricks work.Grumpy’s first problem, ore, steel, copper and ore. Did Grumpy mention the ore problem already? Grumpy’s miners claim there is no steel or ore to be had on Corellia, Grumpy knows this can’t be true. Grumpy addignores all the miners. Grumpy thinks Corellia is a sick joke, geographically speaking, that the Sony developers decided to play on the architects and miners anyways.Grumpy’s second problem, tells from shoppers that think they know more about architect pricing than Grumpy does. Grumpy knows this isn’t true, either. Grumpy hates shoppers that want high-BER mines for little more than resource cost. Grumpy ALWAYS addignores them.Grumpy isn’t fond of noob guild halls either, especially when they think Grumpy will consider it a privilege to outfit their hall with 50 sofa chairs, Master Architect marble furniture and large beds for every member. Grumpy offers 75% of store price on large furniture orders, but noob guilds want it at cost, or less. Grumpy wonders if they are high. Grumpy is running out of room on his addignore list.Grumpy’s next problem, a punk architect that wants to make components for Grumpy’s stores. Grumpy likes the young punks even though they will try to cut Grumpy’s throat later with their 2cpu pricing. Altho, Grumpy likes to buy their products at 2cpu and resell them at 5cpu OR MORE! Grumpy enjoys that almost as much as fishing. Which he still hadn’t had a chance to do yet that night.This particular punk was very amusing though. He wanted to make wall modules for Grumpy; Grumpy pays 9k per wall, as much or as little as the punks want to make, and Grumpy always pays them the same day. Grumpy thinks this is fair, he likes to encourage them to get on their feet as architects. But this punk wanted Grumpy to provide the resources to build the walls AND pay 9k each for them. Grumpy thinks there is entirely too much spice being hustled nowadays.Grumpy’s favorite shopper of the night is someone desperate for a heavy mineral deed. He lectures Grumpy on how over-priced his mines are at 5cpu (OR MORE, depending on how annoying it is for Grumpy to make the deeds). Grumpy tells his store managers to ban this shopper for cursing at Grumpy. It will be very funny later to get the tells with even more cursing when the shopper goes to get the "over-priced" deed because all the punk architects are sold out. Grumpy could hardly wait.Grumpy decides to go check out some of the competition. Grumpy always goes "No Title" when he does this because, well, he may find a bargain. Grumpy thinks it’s rude when the competition bans him from their stores. Grumpy just sends an alt, but he is annoyed all the same to have to run another character out to see their wares.If there were any wares, that is. Grumpy wonders why some shopkeepers never have any stock. Grumpy wonders why they don’t decorate their shops even just a little. Or put a nice sign on the shop other than "LeEt DeWdz DeEdZ". Grumpy figures if he wasn’t an architect, he would wonder **edit** a "DeEdZ" waz. He knowz what a deEdZ iz tho, it’z future stock for Grumpy’z storez.Grumpy thinks he better go check on the starport hustlers. Grumpy can tell when store traffic drops off that the hustlers on Grumpy’s payroll are in the Cantinas kissing the dancers gently on the lips instead of hustling the waypoints. Grumpy reminds the hustlers that they are easily replaced with mouse droids and kicks them back out to spam shouts.Grumpy thinks he can go fishing now and starports over to Moenia to pick out a quiet puddle. Grumpy thinks stores near Moenia are funny. Grumpy figures only the spice junkies would bother swimming through 34,809 puddles to get to some far-off waypoint with no stock.There are days when Grumpy envies the Moenia merchants. No tells, no punks, no customers, no "You have new mail" every 2 minutes and plenty of fishing holes sure sounds appealing.Grumpy puts up his favorite afkmessage "6cpu and they all require lots of u, you do the math" and pulls a dozen fish out of the pond. He heads back to the workshops after prime time is over, reloads the vendors and PRAYS no one buys them out overnight. (Grumpy thinks the European and Asian players should do their shopping during prime time like everyone else. This would work much better for Grumpy’s schedule.)Grumpy didn’t used to refer to himself in the third person, Grumpy thinks it was the ore fields that did it to him.The Grumpy Master Architect
GRUMPY FOR PRESIDENT!
-
GuessWho17
- Posts: 2021
- Joined: Thu Feb 17, 2022 8:24 pm
Grumpy Knows All About ResourcesGrumpy knows when he logs on he can't go fishing for at least a couple of hours. This annoys Grumpy. This annoys him almost as much as 24 percent ore fields.Which is the first thing Grumpy has to do every SWG day, hunt down ore. Grumpy thinks if the Sony Dev Team came trick-or-treating at his house, they wouldn't get any treats, only tricks. Just like the tricks they play on Grumpy when he's trying to find ore. Grumpy doesn't find it amusing at all when the only 60 pct ore fields are in the cities.Grumpy tries to answer all the tells he gets when he is on an ore hunt. He doesn't think he should have to answer customers that begin their tell with "yo" or "hey" or "dude", however. Grumpy thinks it's not too much effort to begin with "hello" or "hi". And, Grumpy wouldn't mind if people that use "ta" instead of "thanks alot" were to discover that their houses had sunk under the SWG geometry. Grumpy would sell them a replacement house deed, but he doesn’t want to see "ta" ever again. When Grumpy was in school, "ta" meant something entirely different.Grumpy had a good day yesterday tho, he found a new 55 ore field, and, even more exciting, a 90+ steel field! If Grumpy ever found a 90+ ore field, he might have to celebrate with free furniture for everyone at the Coronet starport. Of course, all architects and miners know that can't happen. Grumpy doesn't find that Sony trick very amusing either.One thing that Grumpy does find amusing: SWG guilds. Grumpy gets asked to join guilds all the time, almost as much as he gets tells asking "yo, price on pa hall?" Grumpy is too smart for that tho. He knows they're just asking him so he'll build the hall AND their player city for free and maybe build 29,000 sticks of furniture to go inside the hall. Of course, all architects know that 29,000 sticks of furniture wouldn't even FIT inside a PA Hall.Grumpy thinks SWG guilds are best left to the punk architects that don't know any better yet.After Grumpy got cloned from the aggro mobs that are never fooled by Mask Scent, he got a tell from someone wanting a PA Hall. Grumpy sometimes feels like a grocery store worker with all these "price checks." Grumpy referred them to a couple of punks that build PA Halls for 250k and told the shopper that the punks were looking to join a guild too, so maybe their price would be even LESS! Grumpy laughed for quite a while at that trick.Grumpy had to go through a few starports while on his ore hunt. He doesn't like starports because he gets too many tells from the "yo" shoppers. This particular night, a punk architect wanted to know if Grumpy yo had any spare ore yo to sell at yo 1cpu. Grumpy told him to lay off the spice. Grumpy told him that he'd have some huge lots of ore tomorrow since he just found a 86 ore field on Datooine right near the agr-yo outpost. When Grumpy got the angry tells later, Grumpy explained he musta been thinking about the inert gas field he found. (hehe)Last week, Grumpy got a lot of tells from doctors wanting big chemical mines. Grumpy knew what was up; he had seen this happen a few times before. Class 4 was back. Grumpy laid down several chem mines of his own because he may need some Class 4...for a rainy day...in about 2 weeks when the bazaar is sold out. Grumpy could have raised the prices on his chemical deeds, but he didn't. Grumpy won't be so kind in 2 weeks with pricing his supply, however. That's how capitalism works.Grumpy wishes the Sony Dev Team had to buy Class 4 in two weeks. That would be a very amusing Grumpy trick to play on them.But, now that Grumpy has his new ore mines in place, maybe he can go fishing tomorrow night. Yo.The Grumpy Master ArchitectAll in one thread now 
Grumpy Goes ShoppingGrumpy was still happy about his ore fields so he decided to get some shopping done last night. Grumpy has to do a lot of shopping, far too much of it, but he needs component suppliers for his own products.Grumpy thinks stores with NPC vendors that face the walls are stupid. Is the /rotate command or radial menu that difficult to use? Grumpy thinks the only good thing about the ridiculously high pricing at some stores is that the owner doesn't have to restock. Grumpy wonders why any customers would run away from the bazaar terminals to a store that sells the same item for twice as much. He thinks their customers probably wonder this too. Actually, there are no customers. ever.Grumpy thinks he knows why.Grumpy thinks NPC vendors that ad bark are stupid. Grumpy is afraid to move too far away from the NPC for fear it will start shouting at him again. and again. and again. He thinks that malls with barking NPCs deserve to have some of Grumpy's mines placed right in front of them with rude names on them like "Sorry, this mall is closed for remodeling" or "Vendors broken today - Taking credits and not giving the item". Grumpy knows that people can't find out who the mine owner is by examining it.Grumpy had to pick up some crates from a supplier at a mall last night. He always remembers to put up "No Title" when he goes shopping. Grumpy wasn't inside the mall but 2 minutes when he got banished outside. This was very annoying as Grumpy was there on legitimate business...this time. After Grumpy's supplier restored his access, he warned Grumpy to stay away from the mall's architect vendor. Jeez, Grumpy had already seen his stock and prices. He thought the punk architect should bring along a small house deed whenever he was traveling to an adventure planet because his price might just about cover the starport ticket. (but not quite).Grumpy kept getting the evil eye from the mall's punk architect. He was watching to make sure Grumpy didn't make any FALSE MOVES towards his vendor. Grumpy is going to enjoy selling this punk chemical mines next month when his holocron tells him to master doctor. Grumpy might boost his price a little for a "poetic justice" surcharge.Grumpy finds this whole holocron nonsense very amusing. Grumpy might have been fooled into chasing after one if he hadn't played EverQuest for a few years prior. He knows all about how this sort of "content" works. Grumpy wishes he could loot a holocron that told him to be a Master Baiter. Besides the obvious plus of getting to fish alot, he could amuse the cantina dancers with his title. The ones at their keyboards anyways.Grumpy had to make a stop at the bazaar to find a large lot of junk hides. He thinks most of the people selling hides are high. The wooly sellers get to imagine any sales price they want, and pretty much realize their dreams, but the bristley/scaley sellers of OQ 2 hide are obviously smoking stuff worse than crack. If Grumpy were to pay some of these prices he might lose his shirt, but at least he could wear a hide around town.Could be worse. Eclipse could be Loading......The Grumpy Master Architect
Grumpy's Home LifeGrumpy's RL girlfriend is his SWG business partner. She's a master crafter too. Grumpy really hopes this works out because it could be bad for business if it doesn't. He tries to behave as best he can for this reason alone.Grumpy knows more about resources than he knows about women, but he knows this much: Keeping his mouth shut is his best option.Sometimes Grumpy runs low on supplies and has to sneak some resources out of her workshop. He thinks what she doesn't know won't hurt her. She might be angry if she knew Grumpy was using 995 conductivity copper to make furniture. One time, Grumpy took a crate of her very very special FWG's that were more precious than life itself and hid them under his stack of ore. Grumpy thought that was hilarious. She threw a pencil at him IRL. That coulda put his eye out!Two days ago she wanted to take a night off from the SWG business. Grumpy thought that could be financial suicide! Grumpy suggested McDonald's to speed along this "together time" thing. She musta thought it was more an Arby's night because she called Grumpy a name that begins with A and ends in hole.Last week, Grumpy's miner told him that he would have to live off his stockpiled resources for a few days to wait for the next shift. Grumpy was dubious but agreed. Three days into the drought, Grumpy was starving for resources and by Day Four, he was performing illegal favors AND paying 3 per unit for any kind of metal. Grumpy was a junkie needing a fix. He decided he would have to fire the miner and take control of the situation before he tried to use his gf's Krayt tissue in Sofa Chairs.Grumpy's gf told him he couldn't "fire" anyone in SWG...she was wrong. After Grumpy had a talk with the miner MOSTLY INVOLVING ALL CAPS AND WORDS THAT WOULD BE EDITED OUT BY THE MSG BOARD FILTER, Grumpy cut him loose.Two days later, Grumpy's fusions dried up. Grumpy knew this could get serious. He had a week's supply stored up. But a week goes by quickly and Grumpy wouldn't have ANY fishing time if he had to hunt for radioactive every day. Grumpy tried to get his gf to talk to the miner. Grumpy had to listen to a bunch of "I told you so's" and the even-more cryptic "I'm not going to tell you I told you so". He thinks that's really just another way of saying "I told you so".Grumpy told her that part of her job was to clean up his messes. He thought this was an incredible compliment to her...he was wrong. Grumpy even promised to stop shouting at the starports that she would dance in a fleshwrap if people ran to his stores. Grumpy thinks his gf is stubborn. He probably shouldn't have said that out loud tho.Grumpy found a new miner and he learned a valuable lesson. His couch is very uncomfortable to sleep on.The Grumpy Master Architec