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Thread: Entertainers should loose their buffing ability!
I can see your point and agree with most of what you said, but I'm not talking about ent's who are hosting parties or involved in other going on's. I am talking about the fifty AFK's in the coronet cantina that are nothing more than lag monsters. Even some who are not AFK only speak to request heals from medics [who BTW I think should be earning their xp out healing hunting and PvP groups, but that's another grief]. I don't only see the Buffs, but they are a major need of mine and I can't believe the lack of interest that most entertainers [on Bria anyways] have in providing this service. I also can't believe the lack of ent's in the entire galaxy except for Coronet and maybe Theed, Besting and Dathomir. All 50 or so of them on at any given time are all in one place. When the game started I enjoyed how all but one ent I knew loved to RP. What I get today isn't even a pale shadow of what it used to be like.
I really posted this in hopes that it may shock the Ent community into taking the game seriously and acting more like the Doc's do. I am disappointed at the lack of flames at me over such a provoking post. Apathy seems the order of the profession.
I'm sorry for my bluntness, but I am frustrated.
Jasynn wrote:
I can see your point and agree with most of what you said, but I'm not talking about ent's who are hosting parties or involved in other going on's. I am talking about the fifty AFK's in the coronet cantina that are nothing more than lag monsters. Even some who are not AFK only speak to request heals from medics [who BTW I think should be earning their xp out healing hunting and PvP groups, but that's another grief]. I don't only see the Buffs, but they are a major need of mine and I can't believe the lack of interest that most entertainers [on Bria anyways] have in providing this service. I also can't believe the lack of ent's in the entire galaxy except for Coronet and maybe Theed, Besting and Dathomir. All 50 or so of them on at any given time are all in one place. When the game started I enjoyed how all but one ent I knew loved to RP. What I get today isn't even a pale shadow of what it used to be like.
I really posted this in hopes that it may shock the Ent community into taking the game seriously and acting more like the Doc's do. I am disappointed at the lack of flames at me over such a provoking post. Apathy seems the order of the profession.
I'm sorry for my bluntness, but I am frustrated.
Believe me, those of us who would love nothing more in this game than to entertain, heal, and buff you are very frustrated too. So frustrated, in fact, that many of us have walked away from the profession all together. Some speculate that NPC's will replace us. All the while, there are many who state that AFK'ers don't hurt anyone. If you are sincerely frustrated, please, tell the devs how you have been affected by AFK'ers. Many entertainers have tried to show that but we are too few for them to take notice and act. If others in the community are now finding that they are, in fact, impacted negatively by this practice, perhaps the tides will turn. I'm not counting on it though; my bet is on the buff bots.
Take heart; your efforts are greatly appreciated. /hug
Jasynn wrote:
I really posted this in hopes that it may shock the Ent community into taking the game seriously and acting more like the Doc's do. I am disappointed at the lack of flames at me over such a provoking post. Apathy seems the order of the profession.
Please don't consider perma-AFK macro'tainers to be part of the "Ent community." For the most part, they're Hologrinders who just want to master the profession and move on, or buff-bots for someone's main character.
The real entertainer community does take this very seriously. Unfortunately, time and again it's been shown that the Devs couldn't care less, and there's not a bloody thing we can do about it.If you're frustrated, please take it up with the Devs rather thancritcizing those of us whose hands are tied.
I don't only see the Buffs, but they are a major need of mine and I can't believe the lack of interest that most entertainers [on Bria anyways] have in providing this service.
Well, if you look on the docs forums, you will see a lot of people openly stating they aren't wearing their master doc title anymore because they constantly get asked for buffs. My interest in buffing someone else lies in one of two things: friendship or money. I don't have many friends who would need buffs, crafting or entertaining isn't too tough. So the incentive must be money.
I have been in the cantina for 3 hours yesterday evening. 3 people came in, asking for buffs. One came in and just said "buff me". Well, nice try, but I'm not a buff-bot, and I don't do so on command. Talk to me nicely and you get a buff. Stand in the middle of the room and expect to be buffed and it will be a very boring evening for you. The second one came in and politely asked for a buff. I gave one. He paid 3K. Normal transaction, no complains. The third one came in and yelled "looking for buffs". I said "I can buff you" three times every time he asked. He did not notice. After 3 minutes he cursed all of us lazy entertainers and ran out. I /told him I had answered his question 3 times and if he needed a buff. He replied no, not anymore. Well, you see, I was there 3 hours, I had two people frustrate me, and one transaction which netted me 3K for 3 hours. Do you do anything for 1K an hour ? Thought so. And this was a totally normal evening.
Who would complain about someone not willing to earn 1K per hour in a place that is unfun ?
I also can't believe the lack of ent's in the entire galaxy except for Coronet and maybe Theed, Besting and Dathomir. All 50 or so of them on at any given time are all in one place. When the game started I enjoyed how all but one ent I knew loved to RP. What I get today isn't even a pale shadow of what it used to be like.
And the entertainers are fighting this. Read our Top 5 Issues or Top Ten Questions. We WANT the AFKers gone. However, the DEVs don't, so there is not much we can do about this. The entertainers that have fun leave the cantinas, because they aren't fun anymore. Yes, it once was nice and entertaining and we want that back even more than you, because we are in cantinas all of our playtime.
I really posted this in hopes that it may shock the Ent community into taking the game seriously and acting more like the Doc's do. I am disappointed at the lack of flames at me over such a provoking post. Apathy seems the order of the profession.
No. As I said, look at our own complains. The same frustration you feel. The same issues. And we have been ignored for what ? 6 months ? You can only complain so many times and be ignored before you decide that something that you cannot change isn't worth screaming about. Yes, you are right. No, it's not our fault.
I'm sorry for my bluntness, but I am frustrated.
Message Edited by nvoigt on 02-13-2004 01:31 PM
Apathetic is an excellent word to use to describe me, at least. After 4 months of battling over this issue, it gets really tiresome. What's the point in flaming you? Even were we to convince you of a bloody thing, would it make any difference at all?
We don't need to be shocked. The devs do, they're the ones turning a blind eye to us and letting this travesty persist.
maybe im missing something but why pay 15 bucks a month to stand in a cantina?
Just curious?
Why pay 15 bugs ( err... bucks ) to run around shooting imaginary giant frogs ?
Why pay 15 bucks to search for masses of imaginary resources earning imaginary money ?
Why pay 15 bucks to produce bits & bytes called weapons/armor from other bits and bytes called resources ?
Why pay 15 bucks to become an imaginary religious hero of an imaginary sect in a completely fictious world existing only in a computer's database?
Why not just spend that money on a cinema ticket for you and your future girl/boyfriend ? Good question 
bubbles1 wrote:maybe im missing something but why pay 15 bucks a month to stand in a cantina?
Just curious?
You're missing something. Obviously, we do it because we find it to be fun. Maybe you're asking the wrong question?