Dancer Archive

Please list the top 5 major dancer issues, in order of importance to you and your gameplay. These can be the major things... anything that you think is a big issue for Dancers as a profession.

Please list anything and everthing that you know of that are little bugs that just seem like they should be quick, easy fixes, taking into account that we're not necessarily sure how easy such fixes really are.

Big Issue,
Remove the ability to afk play our profession.

Quick Issue,
Give new entertainers to the game (female) something better then a furry diaper. its ugly and the shirt is frumpy, first thing female entertainers do is delete them, and dancing in your underwear is not sanitary, now hotpants are a different issue.

Top 5 Major Issues:

1. Buffbots and, related to this, the ability to completely automate our profession while AFK
2. Lack of a complete and distinct set of flourishes for all the exotic dances (1-4)
3. Broken base dances - lyrical 1 & 2, theatrical 1 & 2, are there others?
4. Inability to buff ourselves
5. The fact that the simultaneous dance and music buff STILL hasn't been fixed

Easy Fixes (?):

- Art glitches, especially in the extremely revealing skirt
- Lack of dancer reward items (exquisite leotard) for all species and sexes
- Ridiculously high experience requirements for the new songs and dances
- Pathetic entertainer mission payouts
- Player city theaters that are undecoratable in the stage area and useless for healing/buffing
- Lack of group dance commands like /startbanddance, /changebanddance

Major issues;

1) I'd say the biggest issue right now for dancer and musician both is the lack of entertainer healing experience on all severs but the top three.

2) AFK is killing the profession. AFK skill gain, AFK healing and specifically AFK enhancing are rapidly devaluing the profession and leading to in game grief of the people who choose to actually play the profession.

3) Dance art is not working correctly. Some clothing items clip, fall animations don't work while holding weapons and some dances do not show up correctly on a /watching player's client.

Quick Fix Bugs;

1) Entertainer mission payout is set far too low.

2) Stored buff exploit.

3) Stage area of player theaters doesn't allow healing.

4) Listening to a musician while getting a dance enhancement causes that enhancement to fail.

5) Human stats are still bugged to the point where a human is able offset the action costs of dancing without the need for enhancements.

Self buffing is not in the game by design and fall animations not showing for weapons is a bug. Just an FYI.

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Xyrdre wrote:

Major Dancer Issues:

The ability for a player to fully animate all mechanical aspects of our professionswith an unattended avataris eliminating the live players of our professions from the game.

Quick-fix bugs:

Please fix the ability for a musician and a dancer to apply buffs to a player simultaneously. (this was our one edge over the bots; we are willing towork together)

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This space reserved for near-future edits. (ie: busy weekend)

1.Buffing-

• Fix and/or revamp buff application, including letting us self buff.90% of buff failures are because combat folks are confused on the application. They listened to a musician at the same time as watching me or forgot to /stopwatch that novice entertainer before /watch me. (You should be able to do both at the same time.) Meditate can break the buff and sometimes the buff simply doesn't apply at all. It frustrates the customer and is rather embarrassing and frustrating for the entertainer.

2. Dance Failures. I don't thinkmasters should fail at all but at least lessen the fall rate (you know musicians don't fail at all /grumble).

3..Add the missing flourishes. Exotics!
4. Fix the base dance of formal,lyrical and theatrical so our customer sees us dancing and not sliding across the floor randomly.
5. Loot. Theloot meant for our profession is obtainable by combat folks, not entertainers.Give us some quests that give us a chance to obtain some of this loot ourselves or maybe make them drop more often to drive the price down.

Thank you and I may need to edit later, I copied this from my 9-12-04 post.(I'm at work today , but hey I was able to take register off the list!.)

Quick fix? I maybe tossed from the good dancers club for this but.... I've thought about this alot lately and must get it off my chest. How about they lower the skillpoint costfor master dancer & musician. If they don't have time to fix the profession, I would appreciate them reducing the skill point cost to justify me only keeping it for fun value.

Message Edited by SianGali on 12-18-2004 09:54 PM

1. Broken base animations (Formal, Lyrical, Theatrical)


2. Buff system problems, including the music/dance buff failure thing, inability to self-buff, AFK buffbotting, and my ultimate dream which is the possible addition of a timer/meter/something so one can know when they've danced/flourished enough to apply the full buff.


3. Missions. Payouts, possible loot rewards, incentives to get out of the Cantina. More things like the Theed Theater Entertainer quests please!


4. Missing/doubled flourishes for Exotic.

Minor Stuff:

• Hilariously low mission payouts.


• Weapon/fall bug.


• Personally, I'm annoyed by the "You must wait x seconds before entertaining again" thing.

Message Edited by Ignok on 12-20-2004 04:03 AM