Dancer Archive

Don't get hung up on just the "new stuff" folks, there are also changes to the way xp is granted, and at the moment it's looking like Inspirations are broken. At the very least I could not give/receive/selfbuff. There are core things you need to be checking and /bug reporting.

Many graphics bugs on the new props too. As well as minor UI glitches.

There may be frogs on TC- 'fin but dont just jump to master. Stand side by side with a musician and compare notes on xp per tick you get, for each new song/dance/instrument.There is a LOT of weirdness going on with it. Check it, test it, report it, or its gonna come to live this way.

PS- the only people that came into Mos Eisley cantina on TC-prime were there to do New Player Epxerience and left without a word I foresee this happening across the galaxies, but will reserve comment for now.

Well I'll do what I did in the CH forum (and still no one has paid me, waaah).

$50 says every one of these bugs you just reported goes live without even being noticed, regardless of how /bugged and reported it is.

An additional $50 says it'll take 3-5 weeks to fix these bugs, minimum, after they go live.

And a final $50 says at least ONE of these bugs ends up staying around pretty much forever.

C

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Chessack wrote:
Well I'll do what I did in the CH forum (and still no one has paid me, waaah).

$50 says every one of these bugs you just reported goes live without even being noticed, regardless of how /bugged and reported it is.

An additional $50 says it'll take 3-5 weeks to fix these bugs, minimum, after they go live.

And a final $50 says at least ONE of these bugs ends up staying around pretty much forever.

C

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I'd bet against you, but...I like to keep my money.

For information on the new xp gains, please refer to Scip's post here. Just replace references to music and musician with dance and dancer, and it all applies.

Just got home from work and will have more information as I compile my notes.

The patch doesn't seem to have quite hit TC yet.

Edit: Bah, beat by n'Jessi! But I can now report that TestCenter is offline, which means it is likely being patched right now!

Message Edited by Tiaga on 07-06-2005 12:09 PM

Bunduki1 and Bunduki2 should be in Dance Knowledge 1 & 2 respectively.

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psikobunny wrote:

At the very least I could not give/receive/selfbuff.

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The devs know their job well.

I can just imagine them sitting around in a meeting and the head honcho says:

"So we want to take out battle fatigue but don't want the ents to whine too much about it...anybody have any ideas?"

Random dev raises hand.

"Hey, why don't we give them some pretty new lights and things to hold? We could maybe even throw them a "new" dance/song or two. That should make them all squeal with delight."

"Sounds great! Let's take an hour today and get that all taken care of, then we can move onto important things"

Anyways, that being said, the new changes look pretty cool assuming they aren't too buggy once they go live.

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MeciniaLua wrote:
How will we make money?

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The same way I've been making money as an entertainer since day one. Talk to people. Entertain people. I have made 100k-200k per night, regardless of my skill level, when I interact with people in the cantinas. Especially when I've headed out to Kashyyyk.

I make the most money at the Theed Cantina on both Gorath and Kettemoor. The Kettemoor folk, being more roleplay minded, tip REALLY REALLY WELL when you are ATK and simply greet them by name. So many people walk in and say "Who's ATK?" If you speak up, they'll drop some good creds in your lap.

I've made the same kinds of money as a Novice musician as I have as a Master Dacner. You can build up a clientele of folks who are intersted in some roleplay or just basic human contact. You can make people want to visit a cantina, because you are working *together* as entertainrs.

Example, my sweetie and I both made novice ents on Kettemoor. We grabbed some staffs and started dancing (calling ourselves "Chicks with Sticks"). We picked up other newbie dancers and started doing /bandflos. We were having so much fun, we didn't care if we were getting XP. People were amazed that came to the cantina and saw us working together! We had quite the large audience and people were telling their friends. Many had never seen dancers do /bandflo before! We were all doing the flows (on footloose no less at one point) and we had folks working on musican, stand on either side of us, making a bit of a U shape.

We had people come in and tip all the people in the two groups we had. That's up to 16 players! We sacrified our own XP for some good old fashioned fun. Which is clearly, something that many Ents forget to do.

Message Edited by Gothywench on 07-07-2005 08:51 AM

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Chessack wrote:

$50 says every one of these bugs you just reported goes live without even being noticed, regardless of how /bugged and reported it is.

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Well, Ithink I can win at least half of this fifty right now. Our dev logged on to TC right after it came up from patching last night to see how it went. He warped to us in the Cantina minutes after he logged in and stayed for a long time to watch. He did some kind of information gathering while he had Tiaga blink in and out with the prop bug. Seani was also there who is a Musician and a very TC active QA. She told us that she had already reported the bug as well, so that one is known.

All of the Ent corrs came out to test and even a lot of the non-Ent corrs and glowies. So, if this does somehow slip to Live, it won't be because it wasn't noticed. Attention we've got!

Lilo, Scip, Eshie, and TechnoCan all have good notes now, so I'm pretty confident these bugs won't slip through the cracks.

Note to self: read all posts before replying

/bonk

Message Edited by Doriana on 07-07-2005 11:51 AM