Dancer Archive
Thread: Is saying Thank you that hard
AyaPRX wrote:
You know, I WANT to personally thank every person who gives me a tip, but the messages simply get missed sometimes. Is there some way to scroll through those system messages that pop up in the air over your head, or some channel that I can put up that shows them? If I go afk for 30 seconds, it might be long enough to miss a tip, OR I may notice the tip, but when I go to thank the giver, their name is no longer there for me to see.
You're in luck. You can hit PageUp to scroll through your messages. This is a vital key for entertainers, since it also means looking back at conversations that scroll off the screen because you have all that experience cycling through.
In addition to coloring the entire tip sentence purple, I make the Experience more subdued. I set "Dancing Experience" and "Entertainment Healing Experience" to dark gray. I can read them if I have to, but for the most part, they blend into the background. Thus, all the emotes, conversations, heals, and tips show up without being camouflaged by the Experience spam.
As people have said messages can fly by very fast and tip messages get missed from time to time, usually happens when there are alot of people in the cantina. If the cantina is not busy and you are still not getting thanked don't tip them again. You are showing your appreciation for the services they are providing and they should at least acknowledge that.
I try very hard to thank everyone that tips and when possible I do that vocally, Iinclude their name and always thank in the same manner no matter the size of the tip. A large tip may get an extra smile or a few moments of direct attention. If I notice the tip too late and they have run out I send a tell. Say messages do radiate for quite a distance outside and around the cantina sosomeone walking out right after they tip should still be able to see the thank you if they have just left.
Vocally acknowledging tips seems to do two things first off it lets the other patrons know that you do appreciate tips, heals, applause ect..it shows to everyone in the cantina that hey I'm not afk and I am paying attention. It also seems to provide a bit of peer pressureon the other patrons. A thankyou for one tip is often followed by several moreso and so tips you messages. Some have said that it can cause problems in groupswhere oneperformer may be getting tips more than others but I've never seen that happen. If one member of the group seems to be getting more tips than others the others need to see what it is thatisdifferent it canbe many things from level to dress to attention. I alwaystip the musicians when I dance since I know they get less tips on average than the dancers do and I hate dancing to no music so I make sure to show themmy appreciation, I also tip the rare male dancers. (With splitting tips I only do so with those performers that are non afk professionals not the hey I have novice ent and want to join the group for 10 minutes to heal my wounds and BF.)
It is WAY too easy to miss a tip message in this game... I have Chat Color'ing turned on, I have system message times set to max and I *still* miss tip messages all the time in busy situations with the experience messages rolling by. They need to let us turn OFF experience messages without missing tip messages.
So to every person who has ever tipped a performer a BIG thank you right now. Many of us try, and we humbly appologize if we missed thanking you personally.
I *hate* when I miss thanking someone -- I have even re-read my chat logs and emailed people I missed before.
I try my hardest to thank everyone who tips me no matter how much they tip.
But I bet 1 out of every 20 gets missed if a lot of people are chatting plus all the XP spam. And that's with a different color of text.
I always send my thanks as a /tell. Sometimes there will be dancers in group chat complaining about how they haven't gotten a tip in hours and I have raked in 5k in a short time, I don't want to rub it in by publicly thanking everyone. I'll only publicly thank if I am the only entertainer there.
When I was new, I would try and /tell someone a thank you and I woud get so and so is not online. I thought they had signed out. Now I realize it was a typo. Ooops. So many people have really hard names. Although with your name I don't think I would have a problem.
Was the person who didn't thank you actually talking to you? I have seen some AFK dancers who will target random people and start flirting and winking at hem even though they aren't there.
If i miss saying thank you and they run off i don't use tells.
As someone pointed out, it kinda breaks the roleplaying.
So instead what i do is send them a nice thank you letter via electronic email 
There are two good reasons to do it.
First on is you did say thank you. In a very personal way.
Secondly, they are more likely to remember your name and come to see you again.
Syl
I have the words TIP and HEALS highlighted so aas to see them better as they roll by and i try and send a /tell to anyone who i see tipping me to personally thank them .... i use /say to thank any healers i see offering me help
Much Love
Play Time
Master Dancer...Sunrunner
Caterofe wrote:Good points all. I was just alittle frustrated. Also I'm not tha kinda person who says "Hey did you get the tip"...but Chessack has made a good point and a way for me to do so and not look like a complete a$$.
I have said this before but I will say it again here:
In roleplay, all is made right with the world. :-)
Roleplay the tipping, rather than just using the game mechanics, and I predict your experiences will be very different. Most dancers and musicians want to roleplay, but end up trying to jam RP in edgewise in between comments like, "d00dz, youz guyz just got housed!" and "Can any1 teach scout 3 plz?"
My answer to almost everyone on any board here that has ever had any problem with the game has been the same, if you boil it down: just roleplay. You will find many of the problems with the game, not just ingratitude over tipping, will disappear.
C