Dancer Archive

Thread: Read ASAP everyone

Faellyn
Fri Jan 23, 2004 10:33 am
#27

1) Do you have plans to stop trivializing the socializing profession so many of us have worked hard to master by encouraging the combat-monkeys to turn them all into macro-fests?


2) Do you have plans to make earned abilities meaningful by not allowing them to be kept by those that have surrendered the skills (cantinas, theaters, vendors, merchant tents)?


3) Do you have plans to make the /deny list persistent.


4) Can we have /deny faction and deny guild?


5) Can I have /deny jedi? Because I fully intend to use it!








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Salope
Fri Jan 23, 2004 10:51 am
#28




  • Fix Formal/Lyrical base dances

  • More flourishes for the upper dances

  • AKFers

  • Allow items/instruments to be placed on Theatre stages

  • Dancer held props - Fans, Flowers, etc...

  • Some sort of improvement to the buffing system, know who is watching, time bar, multiple buffings (non grouped), etc...

  • Lessen to elimination on falls as going up the skill ladder - A Master should never fall.

  • Allow registration at all dancing locations - remote taverns/cantinas etc...

Thanks Raven


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Chessack
Fri Jan 23, 2004 11:01 am
#29

I can only add 1 thing to the original top 5, and that's AFKing needs to be stopped, but this applies to ALL professions, not just dancing. You shouldn't be allowed to gain experience unless you are at your keyboard doing stuff actively. The AFK flag should not be "disable-able", and once it goes up, all XP of any sort (not just dancing, but sampling, camping, auto-shooting mummer thugs that spawn in front of you, etc) should be nullfied.

The devs need to understand that a Master title is meaningless unless you had to actually WORK to achieve it.

C



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Ewoksniper
Fri Jan 23, 2004 11:04 am
#30






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The devs need to understand that a Master title is meaningless unless you had to actually WORK to achieve it.

C



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Gorathion
Fri Jan 23, 2004 12:25 pm
#31


I would like a command that we can use to have a whole group of dancers start the same dance at the same time. Synchrone dancing looks great, and a whole band of dancers could also hire themselves out at parties....


Right now we have to time it manual, which due to reactions and lag does not work very good....





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picklesSW
Fri Jan 23, 2004 12:30 pm
#32

As per your request, Raven, I'll hold out faith on this last attempt in the hopes that they'll actually answer the questions this time around. On a personal note, my account remains cancelled pending the response (if any) to these questions.


Here are my additions to the top 5, and more than issues to be addressed, they are questions to be answered.


1) Why the silence? Does the dev team acknowledge that they have ignored us, and do they intend to communicate more with us in the future? Or is this a one shot deal to shut us up?


2) Do they agree there is a problem with the AFK/holocron issue with regards to entertainers? If so, what are their current thoughts (if any)to address the situation?


3) Do any of the developers actually play entertainers as their main character and NOT away from keyboard?


4) Many of the other professions are getting significant upgrades, balancing, etc. Aside from new dances, which are essentially more of the same, will the dancer profession see some serious effort put into our class at some point? By serious effort, I mean take a look at the current multi-month efforts on droid engineering, combat classes, chefs, BEs, etc. WIll there ever be a monthly publish where entertainers are given serious attention and new content?


5)Exactly what drugswas the designer who created the theater for player citites on, and can we please get some too? Can we expect that someone will revisit that useless waste of space and make it a decent and useful building like the theaters in NPC cities are?


- J




Ewoksniper
Fri Jan 23, 2004 12:34 pm
#33






picklesSW wrote:

5)Exactly what drugswas the designer who created the theater for player citites on, and can we please get some too? Can we expect that someone will revisit that useless waste of space and make it a decent and useful building like the theaters in NPC cities are?


- J





You mean that's how they are supposed to look? I only saw one and I thought maybe it was a graphics glitch with the placement because it made NO sense what-so-ever.
miralin
Fri Jan 23, 2004 12:37 pm
#34

Yup. You can't even dress the stage or anything, and there's no real seating, just the amphitheatre slants.


I'm glad I ended up buying our Cantina, because I wasn't so excited about the theatre.





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nvoigt
Fri Jan 23, 2004 1:11 pm
#35

Questions:



#6: Do you recognize that unattended gameplay is the norm these days while players that are live are a minority ?


#7: Do you intent to follow through on your EULA and prohibit any type of unattended gameplay ?


#8: Is any DEV or SUIT actually playing the game ?


#9: Do you recognize that your communication with the players is next to non-existant and your effort this year have brought absolutly zero improvements ?


#10: Are you working on improving it ? If so, how can we notice ?


( Note that to answer these, all you need is gather facts. No coding, no meetings, no bsing, all you need is a yes or no based on facts TH should already have. If he doesn't, that really should not be our problem. )

RatRock
Fri Jan 23, 2004 1:57 pm
#36






ChaoKuang wrote:

*insert offended post about the women comment here, doesn't feel like typing out a big long offended post. Is a male dancer*

Sheesh. Stereotypes these days.







i know what you mean


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Staren_Langio
Fri Jan 23, 2004 2:04 pm
#37

Bugger! Some keyboard command submitted the thing before I was done! Seems to be an issue for some today.

Startover:

1. Props--Will we be seeing such things made available to hold while performing that are
not just weapons-related?

2. Content--Will there be more active content for the entertainer classes to participate in
in? (Such as making Jabba's Throne Room work like a cantina; missions involving
having to visit an NPC battle--could be any two opposing factions not just
Rebels and Imperials, you and your combat friends take out one side, the
entertainers heal, buff, or just perform for the winning NPC side, and then all
receive reward; missions involving having to perform for an influential NPC for
higher reward--maybe personages such as Jabba the Hutt, Lady Valerian, the
Emperor, Luke Skywalker, the Nightsister Queen, the Drall Leader, Lord Nyax,
The Tusken King, etc.--perhaps each could request a specific favorite dance.)

3. Dances--Will we be seeing new dances and flourishes and when?

4. Buffing--Will we be able to buff ourselves eventually and when?

5. Group--Will we be seeing some commands that help groups dance synchronously better?
(Like those already mentioned: /groupstartdance, /groupchangedance,
/groupflourish, /groupstopdance.)

There. I am anxiously awaiting the response and consideration.

Staren Langio
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Ravenmist
Fri Jan 23, 2004 3:13 pm
#38

Thanks everyone for all the great questions so far, I'm seeing a few come up pretty often. I'll put together a final list this weekend and have it ready for TH by Sunday or Monday. Please keep coming with the great questions, and if you change your mind or think of something else then please post it!


Pickles, I agree bud and thanks for throwing in your lot on this.


For most of you this is probably the last chance you want to give the Devs, it may be stall tactics but if they come through on this one then maybe we can finally make some ground again. So lets wait and see what happens with this and just hope their being sincere this time.


Thanks again everyone who's stuck in there and thanks for throwing in your ideas.
Mabako
Fri Jan 23, 2004 6:42 pm
#39


mmmk, no special order here...


1. New dances/flourishes-- I don't like how they did the ones for poplock, the timing was off and it looked fake, they did this with some of the other dances, too.


2. Falling-- I'm a master and have been for a while, falling isn't much fun...


3. Mind Buffs-- Maybe a system where instead of us needing to keep track of time, a system message could pop up on the watcher's screen. Also, Mind buffing myself would come in very handy


4. Base dances-- I was sad when I did formal/lyrical, I don't like how on the base dance of formal after like 2 spins, my charecter like looks around franticly like she's lost or something,lol.


5. Dancer only clothes-- I really like this idea. I think it would help liven up the profession, for me atleast. I was thinking maybe we could come up with a system similar to the faction points one. For example, Imperial wants stormtrooper armor, get's the faction points, goes to an Imperial recruiter, and buys it. Dancer wants new outfit, gets the xp, goes to dancer trainer, and buys it. Different outfits could be at different levels so that you have to work your way up to get them. I think it's a fun idea, but you guys might not, thought I'd atleast try.


6. Props-- This could be in the same format as my dancer only clothes one. There could be a wide variety of props used...as said on the 'Dance Pole' thread: hoops, flaming sticks, canes, garlands, boas, staves, poles, swords. I think this would help show each dancer's individuality. Different styles of dancing with differnent props for me would make the profession more enjoyable, but hey, just my opinion.


Those are my major issues, I usually dance in the theed cantina, and I'm not real up on the /registerlocation thing, I've heard it talked about, have no idea what the point of it is, or what it even does for that matter...but it hasn't come up as a problem for me, but if it is for others, then it deserves fixing.


Also, on a side note, others of you were asking about the holo/entertainer problem. I guess since they changed the jedi being system holos might become a smaller part of the things you need, or maybe removed alltogether, again, just what I've heard. So, if that is the case, hopefully that problem will be solved.


Guess that's all I have to say...

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