Pawn rental question.

[Vepar]

I have a few questions about the system.

1.) Do i have to be online and playing the game for my pawn to appear in someone elses game?

2.) If someone rents my pawn, can he be rented simultaniously by another player too? As in, someone rents him for 4 hours, shuts the game off, plays another 2 the next day, releases him. Is my pawn appearing to other players during that time?

3.) I restarted the game with 2 player pawns hired. I forgot to release them, then restarted on hard mode (because i missed a lot of content and wasn't that far in). What happened to them? Did the owner get nothing or just a standard 3 star message and rift crystals? I hope they did, i kinda feel bad about forgetting that.

4.) Any tips on how to make my pawn get hired more? I upgrade his gear, make all his skills and augments the best i can and so far he's been hired only twice. Is that normal? Because, i'm level 27 and i see a lot worse pawns with no skills set, 0 star gear and 4 star ratings... So i'm wondering what the hell... Meanwhile, people who obviously take care of their pawns (which i hire) either don't have ratings or have mediocre ones, but they're better equipped than the others.

5.) What happens if i change my pawns vocation? What do other players see and when? Like, my pawn was a strider, but i wanted to try strider out so i made him a mage when i reset the game on hard mode, so basically at the middle of the game he was a strider, and at new game he was a mage. And if people change their pawns vocations while i'm using them?

Sorry for rambling, it's a fun system, i just want to understand it better.

[Karathrax]

1. No.

2. Anyone can rent your pawn, if they're so inclined. There is no limit; in actuality, a person renting a pawn is downloading a bit of information into their game and those copies can be infinite.

3. They get a death rent. Those pawns received any RC they earned while in your game, anything you equipped directly on their person, a 3* review and no comment.

4. Renters are fickle. You never know why or what inspires a player to rent your pawn.

5. Players will see the version of your pawn as of the last time you rested at an inn or rest camp or resting bench while online. If you later changed your pawn, that will not change your rentable pawn 'copy' in the Rift until you rest again. That works for other people's pawns, too-- they might have changed something about their pawn between the time you rented it the first time and the next time you look at it in the rift after releasing it.

[Vepar]

Cool. So the people whose pawns i ditched at least got rift crystals.

Thanks for the info. So basically, resting uploads the most recent data to the server, and my pawn can be in anyone's game at any time (even multiple games).

Now if someone would just hire him.

[DarkFenix]

As to getting pawns rented, make them a) female, b) attractive and c) fashionably geared. This is the Internet we're talking about, drawing in the horny teenagers is a good start.

[Vepar]

Haha, well, i can't argue with that judging from what i've seen.
The amount of "sluttE" pawns in the rift is damn high.

[Proconsul]

For advanced players, i.e. those of high level for whom BBI is now the primary stomping ground, the priorities change a bit. To get your pawn hired by such people you do well to give the pawn good carrying capacity (to act as a loot mule), high survivability, and make sure they have no annoying inclinations, e.g. Nexus.