[Satrek2000]

I never asked for donations either, although someone once sponsored me 50 plats for woodlore, without being asked, although he was thanked (or so I hope). Anyway, diamonds aren't that rare - the three of us collected up to 250 diamonds in a few months, without concentrating on searching them, so it isn't impossible. Quite a few people have asked me for money when they saw that I was buying alehcmy items - i.e. salt, phorphor, sulphur etc in some quantities, probably thinking that if I could waste my money on that I could as well waste it on them. I'm doing it to make more money, yes, but that doesn't mean I can afford to sponsor everyone. I have no problem with lending money to people I know, but just giving it away makes it too easy for them (seeing how people mass "buying saddle for 50 plat" - very hard to get, 4 skins and a coal) and doesn't help me, as those (in my opinion and experience) would hardly return the favor.