Dancer Archive

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Coreena wrote:
Oh and since they're planning to completely revamp the buffing system anyway:

Could they make it so we can buff ourselves at least?

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last night on TC-Ep3 i was dancing just to pass the time w/my guildies untill we all grouped up and went hunting and I DID recieve a inspiration buff on myself.

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Isleh wrote:

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Jagii wrote:
First off, I agree that the idea sounds good.
Secondly, I agree that the current implementation idea won't cut it.

After thinking about it myself, I came up with my own idea for implementation. I'm not saying it's the best or even doable, but I just want to throw it in for consideration. Maybe it'll lead to something good. Let it be known that I dislike pop-ups and favor passive mechanics. The following idea is a compromise between the active/passive and pop-up/no-pop-up mechanics for ensuring that entertainers are paid for buffing.

1.) You are a musician. You set your buff price to a flat fee of 2000 credits.
2.) You /start a song in the Mos Eisley cantina.
3.) Joe Blow /listens to you.
4.) Joe will recieve a system message when he is elibigle for a full buff.
5.) Joe can /beinspired at any time.
6.) When he chooses to /beinspired, a window pops up for him. It states your price and asks if he still wants to /beinspired.
7a.) If Joe selects "no," then he is not buffed.
7b.) If Joe selects "yes," then 2,000 credits are deducted from his inventory and/or bank account. He is buffed for however much he was eligible for when he decided to /beinspired.
8.) The money goes to a temporary bank account in your name that exists for 1 hour. When money goes into this temp. account, you receive a GREEN system message stating the current balance in your account and that the timer has been reset to 1 hour. You will be notified via green system messages when the timer has gone down to 10, 5, and 1 minute.
9a.) If you do not cash the money in your temporary account before the timer runs out, the money is lost. (Blame Wuher.) If you attempt to leave the cantina or use the /logoff command, you will recieve a green system message stating that there is money in your temp. account.
9b.) You may transfer the money in your temp. account to your real bank account any time before the timer expires. Activate the radial menu on the cantina terminal, select "cash tips," and enter the security code.

That's the best I could do so far. All the details in the steps are quite deliberate (except naming the command /beinspired) so if you need further explanation, I'll be glad to give it. The biggest problem I see with this system is the temporary bank accounts; I don't know if they are feasible.

Anyway, have at it.
= Andrew
Chilastra.Palacek

Message Edited by Jagii on 04-05-2005 06:22 PM

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Like it

I don't see a problem with temp bank accounts. We already have them because credits can be held in escrow when you tip someone offline. That can be used as a base to set up a second escrow account for this

Message Edited by Isleh on 04-07-2005 08:39 AM

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This idea is EXCELLENT and I agree with Fainora should be posted to the In Concept forums and maybe to the TC forums too since that seems to be where everyone is talking about the CU.

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Isleh wrote:

Nouva, I think Jagii's proposed system deals with buffbots with the bank escrow system. The concept is that if they never come to the computer to claim their funds in the escrow account, they will never get paid.

There are still popups, but it is moved the the customer.

There are only one problem.

Starting the service is still in the hands of the customer with the accept/decline in their control. The Buffbot can still be tipped and PAs who run buffbots will tell their members to just /tip with the buffbot price set at 0 for the accept/decline popup.

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Yes, I realize that what I proposed isn't perfect. However, I think it would be seriously messed up if we restricted a player's ability to /tip anybody, even buffbots.

= Andrew
Chilastra.Palacek

So, they have nerfed our new inspiration buffs from a 10% to 5%. Esharra do you have any info on why? It's not like 10% was a lot to begin with, and I hardly think most people will find a piddling 5% worth bothering with.

Last night grinding out some boxes in 2 handed swords I made about 400K xp. Yay for me!

A 5% increase would have given me 20K more xp.

Going to get the buff and back to my hunting location would take just about as long as if I stayed there and killed a few more things earning that 20K xp in real combat.

What is the point of these buffs??

If the devs don't like the ent professions, shouldn't the CU just remove them instead of this nonsence?

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Kaitlin78 wrote:

If the devs don't like the ent professions, shouldn't the CU just remove them instead of this nonsence?

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