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This macro is great! My only problem was that I needed to start exotic2 before I started the macro, since it always said I wasn't dancing once I ran the macro. Good job on figuring this out by the way.

Lawi of Scylla

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JeremiahD wrote:

wouldnt it work with thte 2 second pause in between every step in the macro? without the start/stop part I mean, bc that would stay within the 5 flourish per 8 second rule? run 30 times and you got a 5 min buff, without all the star/stop spam. And what about the entertainer food? The one that makes it take less time to buff?

thanks for all the great info btw

Jeremiah Dee

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This would work perfectly fine, I have also posted a 4 minute version in this thread... just read previous posts

Zorkham

I've been using this macro lately and it works great. They last for 2 hrs and a few seconds. The reactions are usually cute. You're right Ikoo we have it better than docs do. My husband has a character on Bria who is a doc and I see how much it costs him and the hassles that go with it. In that respect, we're lucky.Also, if you'll notice, not alot of things that the devs do make sense. They haven't done anything to help the smuggler prof (my hubby's other character on Starsider) for quite some time and there are some really screwed up things about that prof.They just made panic shot useless for instance.Go figure. Besides this is pretty much how a dancer makes his/her money (unless they have combat skills for missions)so the more we can do the better. If the docs could find a quicker way to buff (even though they're already pretty good)they'd do it so why not us?

If the devs decided to change that and we had to buy buffs to decrease time than so be it. I'll enjoy this in the mean time

Rhysati Ynr

Master Dancer, Novice Pistoleer on Starsider

If I was a dancer i'd be standing right next to ya dancing away and makingsome easy "k" Until, and if, they change it.

But yes, I agree, so much in the game still needs improved upon. But I am an optimistic person, and belive things will change/improve as time goes on. To me SWG is still by far the best game ever .

Dance your heart out and earn that money! hehe

Master Chef chiming in here on this interesting topic. IMO the Devs did not intend for this to be allowed. Only reason I have is why make a food buff ( T'ssolok Entertainer Buff Time Reduction +15-24% 6-12m) for a possible buff by a master dancer/musician that only takes 30 seconds?

Makes no sense to me they would make a food to reduce the time it takes to a mere 22 seconds.

I believe they intended the buff to be reduced to +15-24% from the 8 min mark. With a Bio-Enhanced T'ssolok, the tbuff time could bre reduced to 4 minutes from 8.

Imagine a Master Dancer on some BE T'ssolok. She could Buff everyone in the cantina 15 seconds each in less than8 minutes.

And as for Master Docs. Agreed they can buff someone quicker than 8 minutes. But they also have to spend a good deal of cash to get te buff packs. Where as a Dancer/Musician only need their skills. So the upside to a Doc is the length of time it takes to buff, downside for a doc is the costs associated with it. Upside for the Dancer/Musician is no costs to buff, downside it the time it takes to buff without using a macro.

Sounds fishy to me. Expect this to get nerfed, if nerfing this is possible.

And if it does, expect Dancer/Musicians, like every Master Doc to invest in their trade by purchasing buffs to help increase speed time there for increasing their bank account

Ikoo

Adding to the confusion:

The musician 1 minute compressed (speed) buff works fine on either a single or a group of people. I took my alt and migrated all stats to 400, and bumped action stats to 800/1100/1100. This allows me to repeatidly apply the 1 minute compressed buff. The macro I use is:

/startmusic ballad;

/flourish 1;

/flourish 2;

/flourish 3;

/flourish 4;

/flourish 5;

/pause 2;

/stopmusic;

/ui action toolbarSlot22;

This macro will almost kill the action HAM bar. I loop this macro as is for approx. 70 seconds (/pause 70). When doing this speed buff I >>HAVE<< noticed a difference in effectiveness depending on instrument/song. After applying the buff, I /stopmusic and sit while I provide information to the players who wish to receive the buff. This allows my HAM to regenerate before the next round.

FYI: Wild-man / Wyld - KGB - Bloodfin

not very smart at all

you think this will last?

this will be nerfed very soon...

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MovieMania007 wrote:

Master Chef chiming in here on this interesting topic. IMO the Devs did not intend for this to be allowed. Only reason I have is why make a food buff ( T'ssolok Entertainer Buff Time Reduction +15-24% 6-12m) for a possible buff by a master dancer/musician that only takes 30 seconds?

Makes no sense to me they would make a food to reduce the time it takes to a mere 22 seconds.

I believe they intended the buff to be reduced to +15-24% from the 8 min mark. With a Bio-Enhanced T'ssolok, the tbuff time could bre reduced to 4 minutes from 8.

Imagine a Master Dancer on some BE T'ssolok. She could Buff everyone in the cantina 15 seconds each in less than 8 minutes.

And as for Master Docs. Agreed they can buff someone quicker than 8 minutes. But they also have to spend a good deal of cash to get te buff packs. Where as a Dancer/Musician only need their skills. So the upside to a Doc is the length of time it takes to buff, downside for a doc is the costs associated with it. Upside for the Dancer/Musician is no costs to buff, downside it the time it takes to buff without using a macro.

Sounds fishy to me. Expect this to get nerfed, if nerfing this is possible.

And if it does, expect Dancer/Musicians, like every Master Doc to invest in their trade by purchasing buffs to help increase speed time there for increasing their bank account

Ikoo

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Echinacea wrote:

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MovieMania007 wrote:

I believe they intended the buff to be reduced to +15-24% from the 8 min mark. With a Bio-Enhanced T'ssolok, the tbuff time could bre reduced to 4 minutes from 8.

...expect Dancer/Musicians, like every Master Doc to invest in their trade by purchasing buffs to help increase speed time there for increasing their bank account

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The problem with T'ssolok is that the customer has to drink it. Not the performer. This makes it completely useless, as most people getting a mind buff from a performer also use Vasarian Brandy, in my experience.

I also think the 3 minute, 10 second buff, while taking the system to its extreme limit, is perfectly valid. So that's how I buff. I use Accarragam to do it if I don't have doctor enhancements to my Action/Quickness/Stamina.

I don't do the 30 second buff for two reasons:

1. I think it's utilizing the system in a manner not intended, and thus constitutes an exploit even if the developers can't be bothered to say so


2. My system is technically below spec for playing the game, and since the calls to perform actions are coming from my client, I lag too badly to do this effectively

I would hope that if it is an unintended manner of buffing, it'll be fixed somehow. Perhaps as with Surveying, where one can't re-start surveying for a delayed period after initiating it.

That would require someone on the development team paying attention to The Girlfriend Professions™, though, and that's not allowed. Well, the Image Designers get some love soon, because the art team is on the ball.

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I haverepeatedly asked the devs to clarify whether any form of the "speed buff" is an exploit. I asked most recentlky just last night, and again tonight. So far I haven't had any reply. I am quite certain they did not intend the buff to be delivered in 45 seconds or less; I'm not quite as sure about 3 minutes. The longer this unintended buffing goes on, the louder players will scream "nerf" when the devs finally get around to fixing it.

Please don't blame me if they do nerf it; they were already well aware of the speed buff before I started asking them about it. My guess is that they're not quite sure what to do about it, since the buff turns on the number of flourishes performed, not the time in which they are performed.

For the time being, I myself am refraining from using the "speed buff," but I'm a Correspondent, so I tend to be very cautious about this sort of thing.