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Thread: Performer Tips and Tricks

--Qilue-UCW--
Sun Jul 03, 2005 4:46 pm
#1
After reading the AFK post where somone blamed "You perform a floush" as a reason why they didn't chat much I though perhaps some of this could be usesfull... Please, Feel free to post your own tips and we can have a Tips and Tricks Thread...






1. Set up some chat tabs.


Creat a new tab and call it "System" then filter System messages to that tab. This window will now recieve Messages about Flourishes, EXP gains, Covercharge settings. and a whole host of other messages that can cause spam in the spatial window. (its also a good idea to turn only spatial on in the "Spatial" tab


2. Use colors.


In Options > Chat Colors you can add a whole host of customized color texts! This is very helpfull in keeping track of when Someone tips you, and when you gain diffrent xps. My biggest tip for this is set your own name up with a special color. So that if somone says your name you can see it easer. There are 2 settings... Word Colorization or Sentince. If you use worlds It would appear like this


"Hey Qilue, Can I get an Insperation?"


Only My name is colored. However if you use Sentince when ever the words you pick appear the whole sentince is colored.. For example if I pick "Dancing Enxperience" as my phrase then it would appear like this..


"You gain XX points of Dancing Experience"


3. Turn off some chat bubbles.


I am not sure what is default for the system, But I only have them on For group members, Guild Members, and Othe Players.. This can make seeing who is speaking easer. and you can hold conversations even whith the stormtroopers around.


4. Onscreen system messages


These can be turned off in Options > Misc I have had mine off sence my 3rd day of playing hehe..




Signed, Kyo'nne Ilhar'dro
Kairn Medical Regiment, Chief Medic
Taeor Quartermaster

"I want to find something I've wanted all along... Somewhere I belong"

~ J'inx [Bria] ~ Kaji'ra [Starsider] ~ Qilue [Corbantis] ~ Bell'an [Valcyn] ~
Maisland
Sun Jul 03, 2005 6:27 pm
#2

I used to have on screen system messages turned off... and seperate windows for the following:



  1. System Messages

  2. Spatial Chat

  3. Group Chat

  4. Tells

  5. Guild Chat

With Combat on a seperate tab attached to the System window so I can check it if I need to, but don't see it otherwise... Unfortunately, my chat windows have not been saving from session to session and I have to either leave all my tabs lumped together of redo it all at every log in, so I have turned on screen system messages back on. I am not happy about this situation. Before I turned on screen system messages back on, I missed several /tip messages... and I like to thank each person when they /tip me.


I do use custom chat colors... a LOT! I have flourish messages (and any other that I really don't need to see) set as close to the background color of my chat windows as I could get. This actually makes the important messages stand out more. For Example:



  • You perform a flourish

  • You perform a flourish

  • Combat Monkey tips you 100 credits

  • You perform a flourish

  • You perform a flourish

I also have the option to not recieve messages from afk characters and I /addignore all spammers.




I survived the CU


I can not survive the NGE


Ikewe
Mon Jul 04, 2005 10:41 am
#3

I'd adda fewother "tips" for newer entertainers as well:


1) create and use the "Planet Chat" tab. Many newer players on Shadowfire use this tab to ask questions and being able to answer them and offer assistance is a great way to get your name known and thus increase the number of people who will look for you when they want healing or inspiration


2) try to know where trainers for other professions (especially the elites since they don't show up on the planetary maps)are located and also vendors for weapons and armor. These are common questions asked by people in and near the cantina. Just as tip 1, any time you can help someone they'll remember


3) keep your eye on the doorway and make an effort to at least /wave when someone enters. It's even better if you can actually speak to them but sometimes that's harder. You'll find it easier to see this if you don't park yourself right at the bottom of the steps. When I walk into the cantina the first thing I wait for is some sign of life from an entertainer. If I get none then they don't get the healing xp - even if I have to travel to 10 planets in order to find someone. This goes for other entertainers as well. I find it extremely rude to walk into a cantina and get not so much as a /nod and then 5 minutes later when I start dancingI get an invite window popping up on my screen. We need to stick together as a community and that means looking at your fellow entertainers as people you can laugh and have fun with not as competition to be eyed with suspician or simply another 2 - 4 point xp boost






Ikewe, Master Dancer, Shadowfire
When you wish upon a falling star, your dreams can come true. Unless it's really a meteorite hurtling to the Earth which will destroy all life. Then you're pretty much hosed no matter what you wish for. Unless it's death by meteor.


Sunjammer
Tue Jul 05, 2005 5:31 am
#4
It can help to know a little something about local quests and POIs. When I was dancing in Nym's, people were always asking me for directions to the palace, or how to start the quest there, or where the pilot trainer was.


Umi
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