Dancer Archive

2005 is going to be a great year for SWG. We’ve seen some huge changes, delivered on a ton of player requests and we’ve even added additional features. Galaxies is on the Station Access pass, the Combat Upgrade is well underway and looking at the immediate future, we have the Galaxy-wide vendor search, a player association succession system and even an Entertainer upgrade!

- TH in Newsletter #16

Wildest dreams?

1) reduction in skill points needed for master dancer.
2) self buffing or better yet the total and complete removal of buffs
3) new dances/fixes to the old dances
4) more entertainer specific chat/social content (emotes, moods and entertainer specific chat rooms)
5) afk play made illeagal via EULA and enforcement by CSR.
6) more interactive and creative input abilities in our dancing.
7) better group/partner dancing abilities.
8) NPC cantina revamp (lets get some decco in those places ala the ID tents )
9) more entertainer specific items and quests we can complete as entertainers to get said items.
10) scaled payouts on missions based on group size and dancer skill level.

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Panthu wrote:

So, what are your wildest dreams for the EU?

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My wildest dreams for the EU are that starting tomorrow (March 5) at 4:00am Central Time, no one will be allowed to dance or play music while AFK. Any found violating that rule will be instantly banned and their characters possessions and bank accounts will be randomly distributed to the entertainers on the server.

My more realistic dreams for the EU:

AFK dance and music will be stopped/prohibited and those found doing it will be banned.

Entertainers who can buff will be able to buff themselves

Our elite professions will be more powerful to justify expending more skillpoints than an elitecombat profession. That power can be done in any number of ways from implementing scaled mission payouts and entertainer specific loot rewards for non-combat mission (including SEAs!!) to granting us defense bonuses so that someone who is both Master Dancer and Master Musician can successfully escape from aggressive thugs.

Our dances will be fixed and all of them will have 8 distinct flourishes (even better would be that they all have 8 flourishes that I like but that might just be getting carried away).

Deny Service will work like Add Ignore

Entertainers will have Village Quests and will have the ability to receive FS skills that enhance their performance or their mindbuffing percentage

Questrewards will not be "barely there" clothing.

We'll get more"performance specific" effects including a /troupedancechange command

My dream list for this profession could go on and on and on, so I'll just stop here and reiterate that the number one change I would absolutely need to see for my dreams to be fulfilled is the cessation of the ability to dance or play music while afk. That just needs to go and it needs to go NOW.

Ikewe

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Warryyr wrote:

... TH just has an uncanny knack for phrasing things in a very odd and unfortunate way.

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Message Edited by Esharra on 03-04-2005 02:34 PM

A vision statement on what the Devs want our game play to be, and our role in the interdependency of this game (what we need and why, and what others need from us and why)

Remove the ability for ALL professions to afk through the game.

A fully fleshed out and viable game for Ents, along with DIFFERENT things for the different professions so as to make their game play uniquely theirs.

A free year’s subscription for those that were here when they inflicted the hologrind on us.

Better tools for performing. So that we can better make our songs ours. Our dances ours.

50 more dances, 200 more songs.

More instruments (50), make the ones we have unique sounding.

Make it so that /pausem pauses my music for those listening but keeps them hearing the rest of the group. (I want them to be able to hear my Droid solos)

A FRS/Ent Quest based Ranking system with special rewards for the top 10. (I want a limo vehicle...)

I want to be worth the Skill point investment. NOT for them to decrease it as they think we aren't worth it!!!!

I want them to treat these Professions like they honestly believe we are an exciting new thing to MMORPGs. I want them to put the effort into making them that. So that years from now ALL MMORPGs have classes/professions like this. I guess I want them to believe that BS they put out there.

• I want AFKing to become a banable offense (I think the characters should be set upon by CSR commandos and fried to a never-again recognizable crisp).


• I want quest loot that is either not clothing or non-gender restricted - male entertainers could use that +5 mind enhancement, too (as could musicians).


• I want the devs to stop treating us as if we are "even" entertainers (yes I know, TH does indeed have a knack for phrasing things so very wrong).