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Thread: Wait a minute! Strike that. Reverse it.(The future of Entertainment)
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DarkY0da
Thu Nov 18, 2004 4:10 pm
#14
Banthabutcher wrote:Oh, almost forgot...Willy Wanka and the Chocolate Factory
/hands kodo a 15 pound ball of chocolate chip cookie dough... just waiting for him to bake it.
Banthabutcher
Thu Nov 18, 2004 6:13 pm
#15
DarkY0da wrote:
Banthabutcher wrote:
Oh, almost forgot...
Willy Wanka and the Chocolate Factory
/hands kodo a 15 pound ball of chocolate chip cookie dough... just waiting for him to bake it.
Bake?
Pfft!
I love raw cookie dough!
And I like the idea of a Fame requirement to get in the Hutt Casino. I mean, they probably don't want every single street performer there crowding the place. They'd want the cream of the crop!
Not to mention a Fame requirement system would eliminate this XP currency nightmare.
Hmmm... maybe players could trade in Entertainer XP for Fame points ala the Village...
vthings
Fri Nov 19, 2004 1:25 am
#16
As a musician, an ingame midi synth would be awsome to have instead of just the same songs over and over. Plug in a keyboard and see what that Kloo horn can really do. I'd like an indoor theater if that's possible. Then you can decorate the stage, even have props to put on plays or whatever. Option of having a cover charge to enter your place to provide funding for special events.
That's all I can think of.
Kirbacca
Fri Nov 19, 2004 5:23 am
#17
deserves a BUMP!
Message Edited by Kirbacca on 11-19-2004 06:24 AM
Tarnak_Archvold
Fri Nov 19, 2004 5:54 am
#18
I know that we can get to compose out own music from scratch, doe to copy write reasons. But if I had to do over musician I would totally remove the current flourish system.
In stet I would let musicians play songs that Lukas Arts and/or Sony had the rights to. I am talking MP3 files here. For example the Imperial March, or The main Starwars them, or "Duel of the Faiths" (or what that tune from episode 1 is called). For musician to perform such a song they needed to have earned the sheet notes and learned it throe a quest. And the group had to include a specific set of instruments (a minimum sat 2 slithhorns, 3 frisses, a mando, a narlagorn and 2 omni boxes... or something like that), this combination would vary from song to song.
Then I would give us hologram grafting skills, you know to make holografik art for players homes and limited use items others could use in the feels, like say a "emergency flare" like beacon, that could be seen far and the like. Perhaps something like holoemotes that just interacted with you target.
Entertainers could become the ultimate fluff profession, a profession who have no real game mechanical needs to exist, but would create the luxury's and decoration that almost everyone want anyway. Or what about thoughts peaces of art that we got last Xmess, Why not let us make such items as well.
If paintings was not an architect item, I would haven given that to entertainers as well, but not factory produced ones. No, We should have to travel to the PoI they show and the we could paint one at the time, witch would take say one minute. Perhaps this can still be done just with "holographic displays" containing different scenes then the paintings has, perhaps something that could be inserted in the windows in player homes.
In stet I would let musicians play songs that Lukas Arts and/or Sony had the rights to. I am talking MP3 files here. For example the Imperial March, or The main Starwars them, or "Duel of the Faiths" (or what that tune from episode 1 is called). For musician to perform such a song they needed to have earned the sheet notes and learned it throe a quest. And the group had to include a specific set of instruments (a minimum sat 2 slithhorns, 3 frisses, a mando, a narlagorn and 2 omni boxes... or something like that), this combination would vary from song to song.
Then I would give us hologram grafting skills, you know to make holografik art for players homes and limited use items others could use in the feels, like say a "emergency flare" like beacon, that could be seen far and the like. Perhaps something like holoemotes that just interacted with you target.
Entertainers could become the ultimate fluff profession, a profession who have no real game mechanical needs to exist, but would create the luxury's and decoration that almost everyone want anyway. Or what about thoughts peaces of art that we got last Xmess, Why not let us make such items as well.
If paintings was not an architect item, I would haven given that to entertainers as well, but not factory produced ones. No, We should have to travel to the PoI they show and the we could paint one at the time, witch would take say one minute. Perhaps this can still be done just with "holographic displays" containing different scenes then the paintings has, perhaps something that could be inserted in the windows in player homes.
LyteFoot
Fri Nov 19, 2004 8:49 am
#19
I don't want to lose our flourishes, it allows us to be unique. Simply playing an MP3, well the listener might as well load up their favorite artist outside the game.
I like the fame ideas but I also want some connection to thg GCW if I desire. I would like to see some mechanism where we could gather information. Perhaps clandistine meetings with NPC where we get information on upcoming troup movements, city crack downs, or hints on the current balance of the GCW. As they revamp the whole GCW concept it should include things like tracking the progress. Perhaps the way to let that information out to the public is through entertainers? I would love it if smuggler had a real function to move contriband and entertainer could play in that world. A musician/smuggler is an ideal combination because the musician role gives you reason to move around and cover your smuggling operation.
Another thing that is needed is more encouragement for groups. Perhaps a mechanism to register entertainment troops and their members. Then anytime a quorom of the members perform as a group they get fame rating increases. Add these troops to the "fame board" and to the names NPC drop. I don't want this to equate to a guild because I'm not breaking up my guild of one set of friends to join an entertainer guild, this needs to be a separate association. It would be nice if you could register the specialization for your troop so their could be bands, dance groups, or even a group who does plays or other types of entertaining.
Fix the theaters, the stage is a great tool but you can't hear the musicians well from the back row and have to first go to the edge of the stage and start your listen.If the musician is at the back of the stage you can't hear them at all from the back row. Make that room all within range of the stage, its a theater with appropriate acoustics I should here them all from anywhere.
Move the cantinas, having them next to the starport insures that no other building will get used. Either that or move the other venues so that the trip to any of them is equal distant and people are encouraged to spread out a bit. In Theed it is a short walk to the cantina but another 600 meters to the theater. People aren't going to travel out of the way.
Improve the chat capabilities for entertainers a bit. Perhaps colors or other abilities beyond a slightly different chat bubble.A bandflo for chat would allow us tocoordinate songs, plays, or even poems and present them in a pleasing manner as a group.
GadonThek
Sun Nov 21, 2004 4:50 pm
#21
Please allow some more of the real SW movie music! And not just the tunes, actually design the music along with the ingame instruments so that certain combinations of instruments will almost exactly re-create the original track. You can still keep flourishes in, it will just take some effort on the part of SOEs sound department to make them fit in with the rest of the song.
Also, allow entertainers the option to play music while moving, but if they do so they lose the ability to heal and/or buff. I want to see military bands at the head of a column of Stormtroopers, parading through towns playing the Imperial March
Also, allow entertainers the option to play music while moving, but if they do so they lose the ability to heal and/or buff. I want to see military bands at the head of a column of Stormtroopers, parading through towns playing the Imperial March
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