sup sup, you raise a few good questions...
1. Raise tips.. Raise anybody you can find, people like it, but dont go too far out of your way to do it..
2. PLer Payment.. Well, we dont really like the PLer's just cause bottom line, it makes the parties lazy, and they dont know what to do when they recieve a PL.. God knows i have had my fair share of PLs pre level 10 and thats all fine and dandy, but dont waist your time doing it.. unless you get 60k per hour from the party you are helping out..
3. Popular LS's... dont know of any Popular ones.. i know that HN, {My Linkshell} welcomes new members if they dont leech from us, and have no problem gettng subjob items, or even Limit break quests done.
4. PLD popularity.. Pld are always good, good hate keepers, until the NIN start to take over with thier blink tanking, and sometimes you dont even need a PLD because some people have learned to use thier jobs as great tanks and what not.
5. WHM/RDM/SMN population.. All the high level characters of that nature have started to join all the HNMls's and stuff, but there are quite a few that have chosen the path of not going down that road and stuff.. i know i have like 2 high level RDM that have stuck with HM for a bit.. but do stuff with other LS to pass the time..
6. DRK Popularity. DRK are excellent DD, i have a friend that subs THF with DRK and does some pretty damn silly Damage, like 2k damage with one hit... just on the Orcs we find while farming Gold Orcmasks.. lol
7. Fire/wind Crystal prices.. Fire Crystal Stacks 5k.. Wind Crystal Stacks 2k i think.. not sure, i dont use Wind Crystals much, i mostly just farm or Garden my own crystals..
8. People willing to PT past 30.. I find that that is when i get the most Party invites.. alot of people are trying to get thier subs to 37, and some are thinging of new jobs to use as thier main..
So come check us out, we have alot of fun on this server, and i would be glad to have you join my LS and come up and stuff..
see you ingame!