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There is nothing I hate worse than having some fool park his big lizard in front of me on the dance floor!

Actual event: Guy comes in with a dewback and sits down. The lizard is standing in the middle of about 6 dancers and a couple of musicians at the Theed Cantina. I politely ask that it be removed. The guys says "why". I respond that it is making the floor wet and slippery (staying in character, dewbacks sweat a lot). He responds by saying "No, he needs healed". At that point I resond with an angry emote saying "I dont heal lizards" and sit down on the floor to wait until he leaves.

I think it is rude and uncouth for players to come into a Cantina with their creatures..they should be left outside. If they need healing buy a stimpack or visit a vet. I dont do creatures and I really think the dancing/entertainer community needs to address this issue of having the Cantina full of huge beast. I suggest you ask that they remove it. If they refuse, JUST STOP HEALING/DANCING . Put on the anger "mood" and sit down. I assure you if we all are together on this the practice will stop immediatly.

Are you with me or not?

Peace,

Lonnie Lee, Entertainer, Interpid

LOL That's stupidly funny...

Not you dear, but him. A pet's Mind is not healed by dancers... it's that simple. There is a system in place for a CH to heal it's pet. You "feed" it to heal bodily wounds, and you make it "play" to heal it's Mind wounds. If he has an animal that hasn't been trained to "play"... tough luck for him! NO amount of dancing from you is going to fix the black bars on that dewback (which, incidentally isn't a lizard...)

As for animals in the cantina.... umm... I have to admit, I'm guilty of this sometimes.I like keeping my panther out while I'm dancing in the larger cantinas (not the small outpost ones). She just kinda' slinks back and forth behind me, keeping watch. I have a collection of large felines... I find it adds to the "exotic" appeal.

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Tandava wrote:

I'd say ban them all. Not only are the rude and annoying but the cantina serves food and drink, can you say, health codes? Can you say planetary customs for foreign creatures? Can you say impound and fines?

Entertainers that want to do animal acts (something I really have no issue with in and of itself and plan to do in my own cantina ) can do them in private cantinas or the theater or outside.

Abuse the last 3 months has been to rampant I say get them all out.

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Can I say health codes? Sure, but I don't know what that means. You must hail from one of those civilized planets. Here on Tatooine, we just hope the creature handler turns his back long enough that we can serve up some fresh dewback steak. That's why I'm careful with my banthas.

But seriously, I don't want to ban pets. They are part of my dance routine. Large pets do not have the room to move around, so I can see banning them. I doubt there is a "size" field in the database, so that may involve extra work.

A creature handler who feels the need to have a pet out because he's too cheap to buy pet stims and wants to let the pet heal damage very slowly should have the decency to stick the pet in a side room. That creature handler was quite wrong.

OK, a question on "he needs to be healed..."

Dancers can't actually do anything to heal pets, can we? I mean, the pet would have to /watch us, and it can't do that since it's not a player, right?

So why does he have to be take out in the cantina? It seems to me the answer is, he doesn't have to be taken out in the cantina.

Which means the player who did this was an obnoxious boor.

I hate giant pets in the cantina. Little ones do not bother me but huge giant banthas in the middle of the cantina are obnoxious. I won't dance with them there and if the jerk who is controlling them won't take them away, I leave. Period.

C

I agree that the little creatures are ok...they are cute

It's the big uglies and the just plain ugly I object to. Another poster suggested they could be put in a side room...fine with me. Just not on the main dance floor.

I DO NOT agree that we should leave the Cantina in a huff. Just do a sit down strike so some attention can be called to the offender. I DO NOT agree thatthis is a dev problem either. That is not the answer. WEhavethe ability to control this.However if you do a lot of AFK dancing you probably don't even carecause you aren't there. I don't do afk dancing and this matters to me.

Peace

Lonnie Lee,Entertainer of humanoids Not creatures

Here's what I do:

1. Target the animal


2. Type /waft


3. Go sit down and talk to my friends until the animal is removed.

(Although, I do agree with Farradin - AFKers tend to screw up this strategy... just one more reason why they must be stopped, Stopped, STOPPED!!!)

You guys are too funny "let us entertainers band togeather and throw our weight around"

Get over it.

Oh, I don't know. I've taken to flirting, blowing kisses, and swooning at all the AT-STs that come into the Bestine cantina. All that metal...

OK, I admit it; I have a mecha-fetish.

/sign

(although I love the tiny critters)

I'd say ban them all. Not only are the rude and annoying but the cantina serves food and drink, can you say, health codes? Can you say planetary customs for foreign creatures? Can you say impound and fines?

Entertainers that want to do animal acts (something I really have no issue with in and of itself and plan to do in my own cantina ) can do them in private cantinas or the theater or outside.

Abuse the last 3 months has been to rampant I say get them all out.

I play a dancer and I also have a creature handler alt.

Pets heal faster inside the datapad and slower when called out. There's no reason to have large pets out inside a cantina. If you want to show them off, go outside, preferably out of the city.

However, small pets and small droids I don't mind as long as they are kept off the dance floor area (i.e: do not have them anywhere that would block someone's view of what the dancers/musicians are doing, or anywhere that would make it look like the dancer would trip on them).

There's no reason for CHs to have the pet out in a city when it's not in use. Cities are laggy enough. Good CH etiquette is to take out the pet right before leaving the city.They do have to be in a city or camp or public house to call them, but they don't have to havethem out all the time.

I myself am a dancer at Moenia Cantina on the Gorath server, and I usually get much respect from people when I ask them to remove their pets(larger ones), and if they do not, I do not imidiately go to /mood Angry, I try to reason with the person, staying in character all the time (MAJOR RP'er), and if he does not see my point (happens 1 out of 30 times), then just bad luck, then I just /denyservice, then he has to prove to me, that he is "worthy" of my services before I remove him from that list, only one has managed to do so, so far, think I got around 20peeps on the list or so. but still, there are some animals I like to see, mostly like to see felines/baby's as they are always so cute to look at.....

/denyservice on the handler works well enough if there is no afk-bot. I'd like a ban of all large creatures from cantinas, but would prefer a ban of all creatures if you can't differentiate the size.