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Is there a tipping guid out there somewhere? I am fairly new, I have been playing for 2 days now. What should I tip entertainers for clearing by battle fatigue? I currently make about 500 cedits a mission.

What is an insulting amount, and what is a generous amount for someone like me who doesn't make a whole lot of cash yet?

Thanks!

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ufo-beefcake wrote:

Is there a tipping guid out there somewhere? I am fairly new, I have been playing for 2 days now. What should I tip entertainers for clearing by battle fatigue? I currently make about 500 cedits a mission.

What is an insulting amount, and what is a generous amount for someone like me who doesn't make a whole lot of cash yet?

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Easy cop-out answer: Whatever you feel.

Some people have their own guides. Some say one credit per BF healed. Some say 10 credits per BF healed. I personally wouldn't put a set price on that.

An insulting tip--to me--is 1 credit. I think everyone agrees that it is a slap in the face to tip 1 credit.

Some performers are insulted at 20 credits. For all I know, the person barely has more than 20 credits, so I do not consider it a tip. The tipper may not know that some people tip thousands of credits. If a performer gets his panties in a bunch over a 20-credit tip, he should go find a new job, IMO.

A more common tip I see is 100-500. Some people hit the jackpot and share their weatlh with 1-5k. The big tippers come out when in a place with no entertainers. I will walk into Wayfar and see a few people sitting there hopeful for a show. I put on my dancing clothes and put on a show. I usually total at least 2000 credits from the grateful group. If I were rude, I could extort 10k, I'm sure.

For someone without a lot of cash, I'd say 50 credits is good. It won't kill you (unless you're REALLY bad off), and it is not an insult. If someone harasses you for being a cheap bastitch, then respond with a simple, "Oh, you are one of those bad entertainers I read about on the forums. Yeah, I was told not to tip your type. Could you send that money back, please?"

Some people may disagree with me, but I always say that you should tip what you can. If it's no more than 50, then no big deal. It's still a tip. Woohoo!

Some people apologize for giving such a low tip. I don't need such an apology, but it may make some performers feel better if you do apologize. *shrug* No skin off my back.

Base your tip on both how much money you have available and how much Battle Fatigue/Mind Wounds you have to heal.

I don't think anybody wants you to go broke tipping dancers. That would be silly. And you don't need to tip every entertainer in the cantina, either. Pick one you want to /watch or /listen to, watch your character pane, and then tip according to your conscience.

I'm not hurting for jelly beans, and yet I've had patrons tip me 50cr and /tell me "I'm sorry it couldn't be more, I'm just starting out". I still /tell them thank you, and ask them to come back when they need me. I value courtesy and respect far more than I value the number of credits they give me.

On the other end of the extreme, I've had players tip me several thousand credits and act like it entitles them to sexually harrass me

When I'm not dancing and have to heal up my BF, I generally tip about 5cr per BF and Mind Wound. So if I have 50 BF and 25 Mind wounds, I'll tip 500-750 cr. If i just died and my BF is around 150+, whoever I select is going to do quite well!

But those are just my own guidelines. Again, use your own conscience, scale according to what you can afford, and ALWAYS make sure the performer you tip is not AFK before you hand them money

I think the smallest tip I ever got (other than a friend spamming me several $1 tips for the fun of it) was $5. I still thanked them and some will appologize for such a small tip and promise to tip better next time, after they do some missions. Usually the small tips are because of new players or having to pay out the rear for skills. Some may just be stingy. I had one person that would regularly tip me 2k-5k every time he came in, even if it was 6 times a night. I have a husband/wife couple that each tip me and every other non afk entertainer 2k every visit (of course with the most successful clothing/weapons shop on the planet, they can afford to tip well).

So, just tip what you can afford and thank them for the dance and hopefully they thank you for watching, even if you can only tip $5-$10.

Also, if you don't have money, but do have some resources from your hunt, those can also be welcome. You might want to /tell the person you're going tooffer them to first - see if they need/want it. Also, dancers can't trade while dancing, so you may have to wait until they take a break to give them the stuff. But if you're really sincere about wanting to show your apprecitation, that's another way to do it. If I was dancing and you told me you only had hides/bones, I'd give you a smile and tell you to catch me some other time. The offer itself would be a nice thank you.

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ClearAqua wrote:
Also, dancers can't trade while dancing, so you may have to wait until they take a break to give them the stuff.

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Yes they can. Cannot flourish/macro while trading.

I tend to tip 100, for two reasons:
A) I don't have enough fatigue for them to heal that's woth anything, most of the time.
B) The real reason I'm there is to tip every non-AFK entertainer I can find 100 cr, over a 10-20 min timeperiod. It's a personal thing.

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Sinda wrote:
But those are just my own guidelines. Again, use your own conscience, scale according to what you can afford, and ALWAYS make sure the performer you tip is not AFK before you hand them money

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Gah! I knew I forgot one point I wanted to make.

But yeah, AFK people don't need to be tipped. They're not working for it, so they shouldn't expect the tip.

You'd be doing the entertaining community a big favor by making sure your tip goes to someone with a real person behind the character.

But be careful. While some AFKers are nonintrusive and honest, some are devious. They disable their AFK flag and run macros that loop through some comments and emotes that make it look like the person is active. In fact, you can use macros to target someone at random (not sure how, but I don't care). So, someone may say something witty, beam at someone, smile at someone else, and he is actually AFK. Make sure the person actually interacts with you.

Someone came in, and I said "Welcome, %NT." (I don't remember his name now, but it was typed out). He asked, "Are you programmed?" I assured him I wasn't. He smiled and tipped me. He is a responsible patron.

I guess some of the things I say might be construed as macro talk. I ask someone with a lot of mind wounds if he had a rough day. I welcome entire groups of people. I make some comment about the Tuskens. All of those could be rolled up into a macro. So, don't be fooled by the AFKer spammer. They are the worst kind, IMO.

Yes, definetly test for AFK before tipping. Ask a specific question and see if you get an answer, but give them a minutes they may be in tell hell or a slow typer like me.

I think 1-2 cr pre BF/MW point healed is good. But I've been tipped 19 credits and I knew it was all the person had and was happy they thought to tip me when their funds were that low. We understand that new folk don't make that much and things can get very expensive. Just remember us when you rich and famous

Min'Tora Ehi

Thanks all for your comments and thoughts. I have been healed twice from an entertainer, and I typed $30 once, and $100 once. So I guess that's pretty much in line with my income at this stage in the game. I will certainly increase it as I start making more, and definately be courteous and respectful

Thanks again,

Beefcake

If you don't have a lot of money, especially just starting out, nobody expects a big tip. Trust me, entertainers above anyone know what it is like to be flat broke. We invented the concept! :-)

I read someone on another board say he tips 10% of what he has made on the mission she is healing for. So if he made 1000 credits on missions and came in for a heal, he'd tip 100. If he made 500 and came in, he'd tip 50. And of course if he'd just made 10,000, he'd tip 1,000.

Not saying you have to do that exactly, but it's not a bad start as an idea.

C

As a smuggler/explorer/fighter class, I do tend to tip more at remote places, or ghost towns. Not that I'm a cheapskate at places like Mos Eisley or Coronet. Avg tips there are 500creds, but places like Mos Teike, Dantooine, Yavin, etc, it's around 2000creds. Of course, the destroy missions at those placespayout anywhere from 5k-20k.

Also, I hate crowds... not that I'm anti-social... it's a lag issue.

Though I would never require a tip from someone, if asked OOC, I will respond (in a /tell) that on my combat characters on other servers, I always try to tip 1c for each point of BF and mind/focus/willpower wounding.

I use this same rule of thumb for medics/doctors at the medical center, though I often double it, because their healing also has a real materials cost on the medpacks.

In my opinion, if you are incurring more wounds than you can afford with this system, then you need some serious guidance on how to play the game.

Ti

1.Within your first hour of play, you should have the best tier 1 weaponavailableat the Bazaaron your starting planet (paid for with delivery missions)... spend the next hour killing 45+45 of the weakest mobs that spawn just outside the city walls on Explorer/Hunting missions....