Dancer Archive

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SlickRiptide wrote:

Just to give some perspective on this particular topic - I took a look at an entertainer terminal just after I came back to SWG. My reaction was "Wow! Nice payout!"

You see, back in the days when we walked from Dearic to Nashal uphill both ways in the snow, entertainer missions paid a whopping 250cr or so. Less than a Fedex mission to another town. Seeing payouts in the 1000cr range made me grateful that the devs had actually listened for once and done something for the professions. (Back in my day, mission pay was the number two issue after the AFK problem.)

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Well back when I first started, around launch, ent mission payouts were roughly equivalent to delivery missions as I recall with payouts of maybe 100-200 credits for in-town, and up to maybe about 1000 credits for a far away venue. Then shortly thereafter they were all reduced to about 200-300 credits for some "important reason" that I don't think was ever explained - or dealt with as far as I can tell because I can't tell that they changed anything with respect to our profession or the missions when they finally raised the payouts back up to what they are now. *shrug*

Anyway, I'm not sure why raising the payouts would lead to AFK farming. After all you still have to check in every, what, 20 minutes to get new missions? You can't just earn credits completely AFK with ent missions. While I think the ent missions should pay more and should scale with entertainer level, I don't think they need to pay as much as the combat missions do. Combat players do have more overhead in general and should get more pay to cover things like weapons, armor, food, spices and repair kits. I would think that combat missions should probably remain the best way to make the most credits just by doing missions.

The way before mentioned Spy functionality is absolutely remarkably incredibly cool. But then again, I think maybe what I'm looking for is just a spy class altogether..

The idea of loot, that's good, for entertainers blows my mind. Can you imagine love like that? The SWG community would flip over.

They really, really, really need to get people back into the cantinas pronto... for real reasons other than just afk or I'm broed... I had some ideas to fix that...

Esta's crazed ideas

Message Edited by Esta on 09-25-2005 11:12 PM