Dancer Archive

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Warryyr wrote:

I don't care if all bots instantly are banned from the game, people will still be playing Entertainers in the big cities. JTL enables instant travel. Go to Coronet, go to Theed. It's really not that much of an effort.

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Esharra wrote:

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Doriana wrote:
Of course I just REALLY hope it's not the system of the patron getting a list of what flourishes to tell the entertainer to perform. That is about the only thing I can think of that would make me quit. :I

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heh..

"Do flourish 7"

*jiggle*

Nah..over my dead body.

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Nono, Eshie, over the dead body of the idiot player who requested it . . . . . .

you people think of the weirdest tortures

Scip once repeatedly bandflourished footloose flo 5 until he was unceremoniously booted from the group (remember that, Eshi?). Come to think of it, I haven't invited him to a party since. LOL!

Actually, now that I think about it, I think he was briefly booted from the cantina. Ah, funny stuff.

Message Edited by NJ62 on 05-05-2005 05:31 PM

/cackle

I just remember seeing at least a few people supporting that style of ATK requirement. and ugggh. Nono noonononoo. No telling me what to do. No!

Either way... I hope all this isn't just a rumor. /sigh

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NJ62 wrote:
Scip once repeatedly bandflourished footloose flo 5 until he was unceremoniously booted from the group (remember that, Eshi?). Come to think of it, I haven't invited him to a party since. LOL!

Actually, now that I think about it, I think he was briefly booted from the cantina. Ah, funny stuff.

Message Edited by NJ62 on 05-05-2005 05:31 PM

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I'm trying to convince him that he has succeeded in being an endless source of frustration and without having to /bandflo the goofy dances. It's not working.

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menyou wrote:
Having said that I love recursive macro's when chilling out with friends in a cantina for instance so I'd hope that we can make macro's pretty long in length.

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I've done some experimentation in this area. The character limit for macros is 990 characters. At least, that's where my longer ones get cut off.

You can paste a longer one into the macro window and it will work. If there's an upper limit, I haven't found it. But when you log out, the next time you log back in it will be truncated at the 990 character mark.

I have a few performance macros designed to fit into the limit, and they last about 15 minutes or so. You can extend that by having longer pauses between flourishes, of course.

You could also use aliases, but I don't like the alias spam in the chat window. I do use the fewest possible characters for each command:

/flourish: /flo
/bandflourish: /bandf
/startdance: /startd
/stopdance: /stopd
/colorlights: /co

/pause, unfortunately, can't be abbreviated.

It was just about six months ago--maybe going on seven now--that TH posted the first "Recursive Macros Are Going Away" thread. I was reading these boards at the time. I had seen the videos from Javier and Balgosa and loved them, but I'd just about decided not to buy the game because of all the AFKers. I changed my mind because of that thread. I hope this isn't a joke.


Umi

If any person has reason why recursive macros should not be removed, please speak now or forever hold your peace.

In response to the poster who said they do not like having to click their macro, I think it is pretty reasonable to expect a live performer to click a button at least once every five minutes or so.

Honestly, this announcement has me very excited. This will mean the end to widespread /blinking, /yawning, etc., to stay logged in for hours on end, and cantinas that have AFK'ers will at most be slightly more full than they would, without the random spam that accompanies recursive macros.

And to Lelisia, I think it is only reasonable for us to be impassioned about our profession. I don't think that's an excuse for being rude, and I don't think that was intended. The truth is that many Entertainers now ARE just rp...but if we have more than two passive abilities, that WILL change. I have not spent a regular timespot in a cantina for quite a while...but when anyone sends me a tell looking for a BF heal or an inspiration buff, I am only too happy to help!

The one thing all Entertainers have in common is a desire to perform and be recognized for it. For some, money is the ultimate show of that. For others, gifts. For many like me, though, it's just in knowing that we have a useful and unique ability to help our friends. And for that reason, when someone asks me for a buff, I know it'll only take less than five minutes of my time to travel and perform, so it's my pleasure to help.

If you can find five people on your entire server like that, you will rarely if ever find yourself needing an Entertainer and not being able to get one.

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LelisiaAlanna wrote:

I can list off 30 entertainers on my friendslist whom are active, but I guess I need to find non RP entertainers since the ones I know do more then just play music or danceand are not consistant in any cantina. Not that it really matters to /me/ since I have the standard musician Alt-lot-mule that I can just pull out if need be, rather do that then forsake RP to wander into large cities polluted by l33t's and the like.

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• Youknow 30people who are entertainers


• These 30 people are active


• They can all be considered friends

Then, I don't really understand why you can't find one of those 30 people to either come to you, or for you to go to them for BF healing at any given time. You'd do the same for any other profession you needed, right?

Message Edited by Drygo on 05-06-2005 10:41 AM

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Drygo wrote:

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LelisiaAlanna wrote:

I can list off 30 entertainers on my friendslist whom are active, but I guess I need to find non RP entertainers since the ones I know do more then just play music or danceand are not consistant in any cantina. Not that it really matters to /me/ since I have the standard musician Alt-lot-mule that I can just pull out if need be, rather do that then forsake RP to wander into large cities polluted by l33t's and the like.

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If the above statement is true, ie:

• Youknow 30people who are entertainers


• These 30 people are active


• They can all be considered friends

Then, I don't really understand why you can't find one of those 30 people to either come to you, or for you to go to them for BF healing at any given time. You'd do the same for any other profession you needed, right?

Message Edited by Drygo on 05-06-200510:41 AM

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LelisiaAlanna wrote:

"Really not a big deal. It's a massively multiplayer online role playing game. It can't be all about you all of the time."

Also for future reference Warryyr you don't need to 'assume' so much about someone when counter posting, even if you the topic is something you are passionate about. Guess thats something you learn when you hit around 5000 posts?

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Errr, ok...I don't think I was assuming very much at all.

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LelisiaAlanna wrote:

Meh recursive macro or not there will still be plenty of buffbots. And thankfully too, since the majority of ATK entertainers are not up late at night. I support both ATK and Buffbot entertainers sinceone if good for RP and one is good for functionality of the game.

Butit will be ironicif SoE succeeds in getting rid of buffbots altogether and be forced to put in NPC entertainers to heal BF.

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i see cantinas everywhere being as empty as player cities.. this is yet another dagger in the back of all entertainers as far as im concerned.