Dancer Archive
Thread: Cover Charge
Hello, new to the message boards.
I will not charge a cover. I recieved 22,000 +2300 from the missions I was doing in about 30 minutes this morning.
If I charged a cover I am positive it would be less. I need the healing XP very bad, I woudl pay them a cover to listen haha. Why charge for someone helping me. If when I make master I also do not think I will charge a cover charge, I beleive I make great tips being there to say welcome (not a macroed message). Usualy I have everyone listening to me play the othres with the cover charge seem to ignore the people.
just my thoughts, now back to trying to gain healing! YAY
I was on my combat toon and went to Dant, Mining OP. There was one ent there....a dancer. She had a cover charge of 20k and she was afk. The place was empty and I wasn't going to pay that much. Felt too much like a bot situation.
btw...I won't charge anything.
Message Edited by BeesKnees on 06-03-2005 08:52 AM
WhiteSwan wrote:
I've earnt over 2 million credits in tips, an AV-21,several rare posters and most importantly of all, I've made a lot of friends. Cover charge ?. pffft
Don't really wanna know what you understand in flirting if it makes people give you an AV-21.
AG-941 wrote:
I charge a measly 69 credits. But I'm kinda cheap and naughty that way.
Thats awesome, must try that one!
In all seriousness tho, I do ok by using thetip system, and except for messing with friends leave it at 0. Our server is so small Iknow when you walk in the doorwether you are tipping me or not.This is excluding new people of course, causeIf youarenew, I dont expect a tip. Starting with 1k is hard! 
Rabenschwinge wrote:
WhiteSwan wrote:
I've earnt over 2 million credits in tips, an AV-21,several rare posters and most importantly of all, I've made a lot of friends. Cover charge ?. pffft
Don't really wanna know what you understand in flirting if it makes people give you an AV-21.
/greet
wait for response
/smile
say Hello, Hi or similer
start talking
/flirt
what else did you think ?
Moved to another spot :
Theed Cantina, Master Entertainer title displayed, very low entertainer population (less than 6), low traffic, no bot, /covercharge set to zero (indeed, I didn't expect to keep performing there for long at first), almost 4 hours of performance.
Due to the very low entertainer presence, almost every patrons entering went to me or my group partners. Ent Healing XP was constant.
I got tips from bank transfer or directly, for a total of 18800 cr, from9 patrons.
The situation was interesting as the place wasn't flooded by entertainers. With such a low competition for attention (and I believe my own personnal performance), relying on tips is a viable solution
I noted that, since the inspiration buff changes, patrons feel more concerned by our efforts and are spontaneously giving tips more often, by opposition to old buffs, only sought from Master Dancer/Musician and BF healing being never or very rarely paid.
For low skill entertainer, it may mean they can have hope to gain money while not yet Master, something which was the exception under the old system.
The capacity to get an inspiration buff without being obliged to find either an ATK entertainer or a bot seems to change the relationship between patrons and entertainers.
Studying my fellow entertainers and trying to guess what were the choices of patrons, I believe people are choosing on the overall look of the performer : having a nice outfit, displaying visual effects and being ATK are major factor to me. As being a Master doesn't seem to be that decisive to get attention with a pure technical reason, the Master has more options to draw attention to him or her (more dances/songs, more visual effects).
While I can't be sure, I now think most AFKers get less attention, so the necessity of a group is growing for them.
Still, setting a /covercharge, whatever your performance, your ouftit, your efforts, sounds counter productive to me. The perception of entertainment tiping is still linked to a "favor" the patron is doing when tiping than receiving a service.
I had some patrons thanking us for performing but not tiping 
Well, better than nothing (and, no, they didn't look broke)
Chali
Quiet master dancer on Starsider
WhiteSwan wrote:
Rabenschwinge wrote:
WhiteSwan wrote:
I've earnt over 2 million credits in tips, an AV-21,several rare posters and most importantly of all, I've made a lot of friends. Cover charge ?. pffft
Don't really wanna know what you understand in flirting if it makes people give you an AV-21.
/greetwait for response
/smile
say Hello, Hi or similer
start talking
/flirt
what else did you think ?
I am sorry about the implication within that.
But I still don't believe you that anyone would give you an AV-21 just for dancing and entertaining. An AV-21 schematic, yes. But not a powerplant (worth 7 - 9 million credits on my server) or a full AV-21 (worth 10 - 12 million credits on my server).
Rabenschwinge wrote:
I am sorry about the implication within that.
But I still don't believe you that anyone would give you an AV-21 just for dancing and entertaining. An AV-21 schematic, yes. But not a powerplant (worth 7 - 9 million credits on my server) or a full AV-21 (worth 10 - 12 million credits on my server).
What was fun was, the guy who gave me 50,000 of that 80,000... He bank tipped me, I thanked him, and he sent me a tell: "That's for being at keyboard and not having a cover charge."
Apparently the two AFKers in the corner both had cover charges. I did not bother to listen to them to check.
C