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Entertainer Missions: Cantina Agents and Becoming a Star.

Entertainers, Dancers and Musicians can register with an Agent located in each cantina to receive a basic hourly wage for performing there, with the possibility of being voted “Star” of the cantina by the patrons, on a weekly basis.

Allowing performers to earn a wage for playing in a cantina and to be voted Star of the cantina would have multiple benefits for players of all levels:

Novice Entertainers would be able to earn money for doing their job: entertaining. It would help spread performers out to static city cantinas besides Coronet and Theed, as well as giving audiences an incentive to visit the other cantinas.

Novice Dancers and Musicians would be able to have a crack at the “big time” by becoming Star of a Player City or less popular static city, before vying for fame in Theed, Coronet, or the more popular Player Cities.

Master Dancers and Musicians would be given an outcome to work toward each week, once their experience/skill grind was complete. They’d still be earning money, they’d have a crack at the rare loot rewards of being a Star, plus they’d enjoy the bragging rights of being voted Star.

Dancers’ guilds could promote themselves based on the number of Stars in their employ.

Player Managers could help promote Dancers and Musicians and organize people to vote for them and manage their followings.

1. Cantina Agents.

Cantina Agents are an NPC in each cantina. Anyone with Novice Entertainer has the ability to “Register” with a cantina agent to perform in that cantina. Once a performer is registered in a cantina, they receive a a small hourly wage for playing or dancing in the cantina.

A Cantina Agent can be placed in a player city cantina by the Mayor of the city. This will give performers a reason to populate player city cantinas, and give patrons a reason to visit them.

2. Hourly Wage

A basic, simple wage is paid to any performer who was consistently playing or dancing in the cantina where they were registered. At the very lowest level, the wage is 500 credits per hour of solid performing. Grouping and flourishing modifiers are applied to the wage, just like to the experience gained from performing. So, flourishing regularly and grouped with twenty people who are all performing, the entertainer might make three times the wage, or 1500 credits per hour. Modifiers based on the dance/song performed would also apply. The higher the experience, the higher the wage.

This isn’t meant to be an incredibly high wage, to avoid replacing the need for tips or other income. It’s just meant to represent a cantina performer being paid for working by the cantina itself. The real value of registering comes once the performer reaches Novice Dancer, Novice Musician or Master Entertainer: Becoming a Star.

3. Becoming a Star

Once a performer becomes Novice Dancer/Musician or Master Entertainer, they gain the ability to compete with others to be voted “Star” of the cantina. Any character in the cantina can vote for a performer who is (a) registered with the cantina’s Agent, and (b) is present within targeting distance.

The votes are tallied at the end of each week, and the performer with the most votes is the Star for the week. They receive an added multiplier to the hourly wage, with the rare possibility of a special loot item reward: a dance buff modifier skill tape, a decorative item or a piece of rare clothing.

Players can change their vote for star as often as they like, but the only one that counts is who they’ve chosen when the votes are tallied at the end of the week. This would prevent “stacking” the ballot box or exploiting by voting multiple times.

Jeff Coleman