Wow, how convenient, someone wanted to get free ride since he didnt want to use his CE? Uh, then WHY THE HELL he joined that KOA party lobby if he didnt want to use his CE?

LOL, beggar.

Youre just gonna have to suck it up and face it: Kids are EVERYWHERE in SK. May as well call this "Bob-The-Builder Knights"

lol. psycho i'm glad you did that because the first thing I thought was... "please friend me we'll hang out... i'll introduce you to fun good people."

So yes, Laraso, please send a friend request my way. Psycho and I... we'll get you hooked up with good people that, hopefully, you'll enjoy to be around.

Send it to dancinjen.

This is my alt that i'm using since i'm posting from work.

I wish you well.

Yeah, it's an undeniable fact that this game has lots of kids who'd be banned if OOO were to know of their age. One doesn't need to be a child to be immature though. I'm 14 and I generally stay away from those of my age. For this reason, as well as the fact that I can never trust the skill level people in PUGs, I choose to only run with friends and family. My guild, Shadow A D (previously Aeonic Doom), is filled with pretty mature and skilled players.

Running with the same people really often also has a great side to it: you get to know eachother's playing style and arsenal. In addition, you can also learn a thing or two about things you don't even have. After having played so much with a certain hipster, I can't imagine playing without bombing support. My weapons choice is also often based around what his is. Combuster and Electron Vortex makes a great combination in FSC.

I generally dislike tabbing PUGs right off the bat, since I find this inconsiderate behaviour. If someone runs out of mist halfway through a mission, then sure, I'm happy to give them the mist to finish off, but paying 50 mist just so someone can make another 8k off the KoA mission? Not happening.
Friends I can deal with, since I know that they are generally willing to repay the favour in some way and/or are appreciative, but if some random person asks me to tab them all the way down to Vanaduke, then that person is pretty much asking to get kicked.

I'm normally fairly generous, and I'm perfectly happy to give out free materials for crafting or a few spare crowns if someone needs it, or giving someone else an equipment drop in a party, but what I am not open to is full-scale begging.
And yeah, @OP, I understand your sentiment. The quality of English seems to be going consistently downhill... not to mention the community. There are still good people around, but quite a lot of them have left over the course of the year for various reasons (the RSS update, amongst others).

Also, apologies for being a mythical creature D;

feel free to add me too :)

I completely agree and this is something I've been thinking about for a while.
Back when I first started playing, spiralknights felt like one big family....one big mature family.
I'd log on and start getting greetings from my friends. Friends would exchange materials for free
though the receivers never expected the gift and the givers expected nothing in return. I would
join a party with my poor 3* gear and the other members would tell me not to worry......
I could go on and on about the times of old...

Now, in present time, I log on and my screen fills up with requests to join parties; not even a message
greeting me or requesting my help....just POOF.....I delete it and move on......POOF...it's back:/
People beg for free things now and those who give free things expect something in return.
I, too, have joined a party wearing proto as a costume which the leader responded to by kicking me.

I log on and check to see what friends are on.......I only recognize a 3rd of the names.....if that.

In short, this thread has made me want to restore my friends list to one of knights whom I enjoy
spending my time with.

If any of you feel the same, I'd love to get to know you.
Send me a friend request in game or I might send one to some of you here (Already know half of ya).
And, Laraso, incase you need a background check, these are some great knights <3

The one and only, Guardianknight.

The game may have had a few beggers here and there, a few party leaders who would kick for no reason etc.
However, it's become a lot worse compared to when I first started.

I began playing SK around June 2011 and I have to say, the game has changed a lot community wise. I decided I would take a break around early January and I just got back about a week ago. Back then when I was still a newbie in 3* gear people would offer to help with JK runs and RT runs. But now, when I join a random party for FSC not only do I get kicked for my rank (not yet vanguard because there were no missions when I left) I get insulted afterwards in tell? I hope the SK community improves throughout the following months...I HOPE.
And is there anyone who is able to do FSC runs with me? ...only a handful of my friends who didn't quit are able to do FSC
IGN: Corefinder

feel free to add me, but i can't add you as i don't know how to add people without meeting them in-game. i have 4 star stuff, but i usually just run t2. if i say something misspelled it is usually an accident/joke. i go on about once everyday. also, i must have luck. the only thing that happens to me is the immediate invites. maybe t2 has better people (and grammer)?

It's a sad story... Especially the tabbing part. Well, Nevermind you can be my friend. c:

Oh boy, I know exactly what you mean. I've seen tons of people like this, and every elitist, beggar, and player who cannot spell or use correct grammar just really gets on my nerves. Of course we all misspell some words sometimes, but these guys do it on PURPOSE. It just kills me, it really does. But like they said, the forums is the best place to make friends. Not as near as many of those people here.

~Magnicth

I will happily be your friend! This is why I only play with friends, and never random parties. It's like that in every online game once it has enough time to become popular.

I just want to point out that I don't blame said party leader. I do fault him for his attitude and situation-handling, but his reasoning for disapproving of the "beggar" is wholly just, imo. You can't join a random party, announce that you can fund it yourself but that you just don't want to. Why should strangers pay your ce bill for you? Was he offering to give you his cr share of the run in return? I highly doubt it.

Anyhoo, on topic, it's not a problem with SK, it's a problem with humanity as a whole. The ratio gradually shifts, in no small part to the internets powers of "txtspk" and anonymity, and you do see it crop up more and more across all MMOs. There's really nothing that can be done about it other than try to keep yourself away from them.
The game has given increasing ability to cherry-pick your party and avoid random encounters and, this is one of the few reasons/situations in which that can be construed a good thing; utilise it, hang at the GH of your favourite people, do runs based on your friends list. The more you stick around people you like, the less you'll see this.

I honestly don't do random runs much, if ever, anymore, and this simply isn't an issue for me. Even in LD, I spend a lot of time around people I like because I talk to a fair number of them and have a heap listed. My ignore list is empty, and I never get bothered.

You already have me on your list; hit me up for a run sometime or come chill at our GH and you'll not have to worry about them anymores~

Joining randoms are 100 times worse now than they were back then. So I join randoms in FSC and I get called names for entering the rocket puppy room ( the leader wanted to do all the rooms by himself). I told him that if he wanted to do all the rooms by himself he can just tell me beforehand but he doesn't listen and I get kicked from the party. And the rest of the story....Let's just leave out all the rest.

Anyway, I'll be more than happy to give you a hand on runs and stuff.

In-game: Shadowki
Preferred weapon: Guns
Tier Clearance: 3
Rank: Vanguard

If you want shoot me a message. Just don't leave it blank.

Ofc, another option is to just run your own parties, so that you can't be kicked by folk like that, and have teh option of just kicking anyone that's ruining your play~

People don't know how to work hard anymore. People expect stuff to be handed to them. I'm tired of people expecting to have things given to them. Work hard and it will pay off. be responsible.

I blame text messages and their character limits. People directly lifted habits from that onto the internet.

Blame the leniency given to children nowadays. Education, despite being more advanced in knowledge, is a lot looser and messier in practice, especially with political correctness and over-attention to "child safety". I'm sure there's a nature vs nurture argument somewhere involved, but whatever the cause, children are just becoming shocking and, equally shocking, is that they're allowed to get away with it.

Although Light speaks the truth; maturity is, although often correctly gauged by age, not restricted to it. There are plenty of young and mature people and plenty of adults who would genuinely have you believe that they're prepubescent from their actions.

I haven't been kicked from ANY party for like 2-3 months or so. I think even the bad players respect me because of my large prestige amount, nice look and skills.
But that doesn't protect me from beggers or random-frienders at the streets of haven, it just makes it more frequent.
I don't get much dislikers at PvE, but PvP and LD, those are what im most worried. No-one is safe from the LD-ragers (well except the ones that got 20k+ damage or so).
I'm called hammer noob (more precisely noob hammer...) in nearly every LD match
I'm disliked for using Snarby set as my helm&armor.

It seems like everyone should be skolver clone with at least GF, DA and BTB (and maybe Polaris), NOT to use Hammer and have 17k+ damage to avoid getting raged by LD- ragers

T1-LD still nice :)

Of -course- he wanted to save energy. Sorry, no, asking strangers to spend -their- CE for -your- adventure is, by definition, begging. Being polite and using proper grammar and so on... makes it respectful and polite begging, but it doesn't make it -not- begging. While I agree in general w.r.t. stupid reasons to kick and a downward spiral (... pun not intended but left alone... ) in the maturity of knights, it also isn't good to extend your kindness and sympathy to the point of pure gullibility. The beggar may have meant what they said, but still - NOBODY wants to waste CE, EVERYBODY has another item they want to craft. Energy is currency, asking for it to be given gratis is begging. I'd probably try to explain that before kicking if I was party leader, but I'd still kick if a player at the start of a run was insisting on being tabbed or not getting on the elevator and I would in general discourage tabbing strangers.

Also you can friend me if you want, I won't kick you for silly reasons. I also won't ask you to tab me. :o

Spending your CE on a stranger is no different than spending you ME on a stranger. He may not have deserved to be kicked, but the fact is that, polite or no, he was begging for strangers to supply his elevator bill for him with no reimbursement. To ask someone to spend their energy to tab him, and he would give them his share of the cr would be asking for a trade/purchase, but just simply asking them to give him energy is the very definition of begging.

ME isn't less valuable than CE at all. Even if I had spare ME, I could use it to craft, buy slots, tab friends/guildies. He's asking for "energy", whether it's mist or crystal is completely irrelevant.

To assume that ME is something that can be given or thrown away freely is to vastly underestimate the value of ME and an insult to any player who does know the value, as it can easily come across as trying to trick a player into giving up energy by making them think that it's less valuable and that they can afford to give it away.