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Thread: Future Friday Features
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DeathsEgo
Mon Dec 13, 2004 6:37 pm
#14
please let me know suggestions or changes you would like to see made. If no one beats me to it, tomorrow I should have drafts for : The Lost Art of Tipping In SWG, How to find an Entertainer Performer for Healing and Buffing, Planning an Entertainer Event
Aleyo
Tue Dec 14, 2004 9:00 am
#15
Not having super amounts of time right now, but wanted to add general feedback that if these things are to become a friday feature, I think we should feel free to be much more detailed and expansive with them. The posts by Okyy look like they can have a lot more added to them 
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Aleyo
Wed Dec 15, 2004 11:06 am
#16
How to find an entertainer to heal or buff you
A common issue brought up by players of Star Wars Galaxies is that entertainers are hard to find for healing and buffing. Here are a few methods to use if you are in need of an entertainer and don't know where to find one.
Something to keep in mind while approaching entertainers: Just as with any other player in the game, politeness goes a long way toward getting what you want. Someone is much more responsive to a nicely asked request than to a demand. This is mentioned because the longstanding state of the game has led many to become very demanding of entertainers, and entertainers are particularly sensitive about the issue.
Best method: Get to know some entertainers. If you are in a guild, recruit an entertainer (or preferably several) to join the guild. It's a good idea to find both musicians and dancers, since dancers can buff your primary mind stat, while musicians can buff your secondary focus and willpower stats. Once you've gotten to know some entertainers, you can contact them just as you would any other player whose services you need. Putting them on your friends list will let you know when they are online, and it's easy to send them tells asking if they are entertaining or if they can come help you out. They may be occupied at the time, but as you get to know them, you will likely get a better handle on their party schedule
(or better yet, you'll become part of their party schedule! 
).
If none of the entertainers you know is online, there are several means to find other entertainers. An obvious location to check, if you're near one, is a cantina. On most servers, you can consistently find entertainers in the cantinas in Coronet and Theed. However, you may not be near a cantina, and it's certainly not the only place entertainers can be found, so try one of the following methods.
If you want to see if there is an entertainer near you, you can use the player search feature. Hit ctrl-p, and find the tab named "Search". Under the profession listbox, select Musician, Dancer, or Entertainer, and you will find anyone within some distance of you whose title is currently one of those professions. You can then send the person a tell and ask if they can help you out with your healing or buffing needs. This will not find any entertainers whose titles are not up, so don't get completely discouraged if you don't find anyone with this. Move on to another method.
If you want to find an entertainer on your planet, you can check the map for cantinas with registered entertainers. Note that entertainers gain the ability to register with a location only after reaching Novice Musician or Novice Dancer. Access the planetary map by hitting ctrl-v. On the right side of the window is a list of locations that you can display on the map. Players can register under "Cantinas", "Theaters", “Hotels”, “Taverns”, and "Guild Halls : Theaters", so you'll want to select these. Each of the locations will then appear on the map.
In a normal HTML guide, it'd be nice if they actually inserted this picture inline
You want to find the locations whose name has an icon that looks like a sun. This sun icon indicates that a musician or dancer has registered with the location. The locations with moon icons do not have a registered musician or dancer. An entertainer is just a shuttle or short ride away.
Another method for finding an entertainer on your planet is to check the planet or auction channels. Your mileage may vary greatly with this option, since it has not become a convention across the entire entertainer community to use these channels. However, if an entertainer happens to be watching these channels, or another player who is near an entertainer is watching these channels, you're likely to find what you need. While this method may not yield results as often as the others, it certainly does not take much effort and is thus worth a try.
If you want to find an entertainer when you're in the middle of nowhere and don't know where to go, most, if not all, servers have channels set up for entertainers to use, and that non-entertainers can use to find us. Below is a listing of each server's channel name known at the time of this writing. Simply type /chatroom join chat.channelname to join the channel, and then ask where to find one of us. You may even be able to entice some of us to come to you. This is by and large the easiest way to find entertainers when you're, say, stranded on Endor with no idea where to go.
Bloodfin: cantina
Bria: ent
Chilastra: uec
Chimaera: ent
Eclipse: atk
Flurry: eof
Intrepid: ent
Kauri: ent
Kettemoor: ent
Naritus: atk
Shadowfire: ent
Starsider: ent
Sunrunner: ent
Tarquinas: ent
Tempest: atk
A common issue brought up by players of Star Wars Galaxies is that entertainers are hard to find for healing and buffing. Here are a few methods to use if you are in need of an entertainer and don't know where to find one.
Something to keep in mind while approaching entertainers: Just as with any other player in the game, politeness goes a long way toward getting what you want. Someone is much more responsive to a nicely asked request than to a demand. This is mentioned because the longstanding state of the game has led many to become very demanding of entertainers, and entertainers are particularly sensitive about the issue.
Best method: Get to know some entertainers. If you are in a guild, recruit an entertainer (or preferably several) to join the guild. It's a good idea to find both musicians and dancers, since dancers can buff your primary mind stat, while musicians can buff your secondary focus and willpower stats. Once you've gotten to know some entertainers, you can contact them just as you would any other player whose services you need. Putting them on your friends list will let you know when they are online, and it's easy to send them tells asking if they are entertaining or if they can come help you out. They may be occupied at the time, but as you get to know them, you will likely get a better handle on their party schedule
(or better yet, you'll become part of their party schedule! ).If none of the entertainers you know is online, there are several means to find other entertainers. An obvious location to check, if you're near one, is a cantina. On most servers, you can consistently find entertainers in the cantinas in Coronet and Theed. However, you may not be near a cantina, and it's certainly not the only place entertainers can be found, so try one of the following methods.
If you want to see if there is an entertainer near you, you can use the player search feature. Hit ctrl-p, and find the tab named "Search". Under the profession listbox, select Musician, Dancer, or Entertainer, and you will find anyone within some distance of you whose title is currently one of those professions. You can then send the person a tell and ask if they can help you out with your healing or buffing needs. This will not find any entertainers whose titles are not up, so don't get completely discouraged if you don't find anyone with this. Move on to another method.
If you want to find an entertainer on your planet, you can check the map for cantinas with registered entertainers. Note that entertainers gain the ability to register with a location only after reaching Novice Musician or Novice Dancer. Access the planetary map by hitting ctrl-v. On the right side of the window is a list of locations that you can display on the map. Players can register under "Cantinas", "Theaters", “Hotels”, “Taverns”, and "Guild Halls : Theaters", so you'll want to select these. Each of the locations will then appear on the map.
In a normal HTML guide, it'd be nice if they actually inserted this picture inline
You want to find the locations whose name has an icon that looks like a sun. This sun icon indicates that a musician or dancer has registered with the location. The locations with moon icons do not have a registered musician or dancer. An entertainer is just a shuttle or short ride away.
Another method for finding an entertainer on your planet is to check the planet or auction channels. Your mileage may vary greatly with this option, since it has not become a convention across the entire entertainer community to use these channels. However, if an entertainer happens to be watching these channels, or another player who is near an entertainer is watching these channels, you're likely to find what you need. While this method may not yield results as often as the others, it certainly does not take much effort and is thus worth a try.
If you want to find an entertainer when you're in the middle of nowhere and don't know where to go, most, if not all, servers have channels set up for entertainers to use, and that non-entertainers can use to find us. Below is a listing of each server's channel name known at the time of this writing. Simply type /chatroom join chat.channelname to join the channel, and then ask where to find one of us. You may even be able to entice some of us to come to you. This is by and large the easiest way to find entertainers when you're, say, stranded on Endor with no idea where to go.
Bloodfin: cantina
Bria: ent
Chilastra: uec
Chimaera: ent
Eclipse: atk
Flurry: eof
Intrepid: ent
Kauri: ent
Kettemoor: ent
Naritus: atk
Shadowfire: ent
Starsider: ent
Sunrunner: ent
Tarquinas: ent
Tempest: atk
Message Edited by Aleyo on 12-16-2004 11:37 AM
Aleyo
Wed Dec 15, 2004 11:10 am
#17
Notes on the guide I just posted:
Sadly, I don't have too much time to polish this in the coming days (I'd planned to do so during the last couple of days but my computer was not booting, so that wasn't really possible).
I rushed this today since the register fix already went live. If it can get in this friday, that'd be neat to somewhat coincide with the publish (and a nice b-day present).
Finally, the channel listing for servers is still missing plenty of servers, so if you happen to know one that's not listed (or one that's listed is wrong), that'd be good to know.
Sadly, I don't have too much time to polish this in the coming days (I'd planned to do so during the last couple of days but my computer was not booting, so that wasn't really possible).
I rushed this today since the register fix already went live. If it can get in this friday, that'd be neat to somewhat coincide with the publish (and a nice b-day present
).Finally, the channel listing for servers is still missing plenty of servers, so if you happen to know one that's not listed (or one that's listed is wrong), that'd be good to know.
Petronela
Thu Dec 16, 2004 10:36 am
#18
Aleyo wrote:
Notes on the guide I just posted:
Sadly, I don't have too much time to polish this in the coming days (I'd planned to do so during the last couple of days but my computer was not booting, so that wasn't really possible).
I rushed this today since the register fix already went live. If it can get in this friday, that'd be neat to somewhat coincide with the publish (and a nice b-day present
Finally, the channel listing for servers is still missing plenty of servers, so if you happen to know one that's not listed (or one that's listed is wrong), that'd be good to know.
Awesome guide
Btw the Shadowfire ent channel is ENT if you wish to add it to it.
Deli'ah
Aleyo
Thu Dec 16, 2004 10:41 am
#19
Petronela wrote:
Awesome guide
Btw the Shadowfire ent channel is ENT if you wish to add it to it.
Deli'ah
Thanks
I've updated the version here and on the ent board with shadowfire's info!
ASL
Tue Jan 04, 2005 9:24 pm
#21
Personally, I think the article should be on how we need more male wookie dancers...I'm the only one I've ever seen!!
Sunjammer
Wed Jan 05, 2005 5:03 am
#22
ASL wrote:
Personally, I think the article should be on how we need more male wookie dancers...I'm the only one I've ever seen!!
I saw one in Theed on Bria two or three weeks ago. Gave him a big tip because he was ATK.
J.
Umiio "Umi" Panwanga • Rodian party girl • Bria
Iba'onchab • Gets boarded sometimes • Chimaera
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"Now you listen to me, young man, you will drink the blood of the innocent, and you will LIKE IT. And would it kill you to dress all in black once in awhile?"
DeathsEgo
Wed Jun 22, 2005 5:03 pm
#23
Now moved to Here to get it more in the open to get feedback
Basic Guide for Coordinated Performances.
The Beginners Guide to Coordinated Performances
Band flourish is an entertainers best friend for coordinated performances. An entertainer has the ability to use the commands /bandflo 1-8 to sync up with other entertainers. The entertainer running the band flourishes is the only one who gets the experience. So you may not get experience right now, but don’t fret the look of dancers all dancing in unison and musicians all doing like flourishes is simply amazing. Experience can come at any time, get a group together and take turns doing the band flourishes. Many combatants will appreciate the extra effort of all parties involved and tips for a coordinated group tend to be higher. If you want to go and do your own thing and not participate in a group running band flourishes all you have to do is /bandflo off. You will not do the other groups flourishes and will get the same experience as before without all the spiffyness of a large group in unison.
Sample Band Flourish Macro
“BandFlo”
/bandflo 1
/pause 10
/bandflo 4
/pause 10
/bandflo 8
/pause 10
/bandflo 7
/pause 10
/bandflo 3
/pause 10
/bandflo 2
/pause 10
/bandflo 5
/pause 10
/bandflo 6
/pause 10
/echo Hit that Band Flourish Button Again
I have the pauses set at 10 as other players don’t get experience, but still lose the action of doing the flourish. Some species aren’t as well set as some for action stats. Remember your in a group this is a group effort please be kind to everyone. Some may even want the pauses at 15 or 20 if your all doing a high level song or dance.
The person running the flourishes only gets the experience that they would normally receive not the experience of the full group. Also the leader (running the flourishes) will start doing the flourish a second or two before someone else, sometimes its better to space out with the leader in the center doing a different dance or instrument, so It doesn’t look out of place with one too fast for everyone else. Another useful addition to this would be the /split command, if only one person of the bandflourish group gets the tip its most beneficial for everyone to /split (tip amount) so you split it evenly over the entire group. This will split it amongst everyone near you in the group. Even folks not participating in the band flourishes. Good luck to everyone with your coordinated Performance.
Basic Guide for Coordinated Performances.
The Beginners Guide to Coordinated Performances
Band flourish is an entertainers best friend for coordinated performances. An entertainer has the ability to use the commands /bandflo 1-8 to sync up with other entertainers. The entertainer running the band flourishes is the only one who gets the experience. So you may not get experience right now, but don’t fret the look of dancers all dancing in unison and musicians all doing like flourishes is simply amazing. Experience can come at any time, get a group together and take turns doing the band flourishes. Many combatants will appreciate the extra effort of all parties involved and tips for a coordinated group tend to be higher. If you want to go and do your own thing and not participate in a group running band flourishes all you have to do is /bandflo off. You will not do the other groups flourishes and will get the same experience as before without all the spiffyness of a large group in unison.
Sample Band Flourish Macro
“BandFlo”
/bandflo 1
/pause 10
/bandflo 4
/pause 10
/bandflo 8
/pause 10
/bandflo 7
/pause 10
/bandflo 3
/pause 10
/bandflo 2
/pause 10
/bandflo 5
/pause 10
/bandflo 6
/pause 10
/echo Hit that Band Flourish Button Again
I have the pauses set at 10 as other players don’t get experience, but still lose the action of doing the flourish. Some species aren’t as well set as some for action stats. Remember your in a group this is a group effort please be kind to everyone. Some may even want the pauses at 15 or 20 if your all doing a high level song or dance.
The person running the flourishes only gets the experience that they would normally receive not the experience of the full group. Also the leader (running the flourishes) will start doing the flourish a second or two before someone else, sometimes its better to space out with the leader in the center doing a different dance or instrument, so It doesn’t look out of place with one too fast for everyone else. Another useful addition to this would be the /split command, if only one person of the bandflourish group gets the tip its most beneficial for everyone to /split (tip amount) so you split it evenly over the entire group. This will split it amongst everyone near you in the group. Even folks not participating in the band flourishes. Good luck to everyone with your coordinated Performance.
Message Edited by DeathsEgo on 12-15-2004 02:26 PM
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