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Thread: The new generation of holo-dancers

Talasa
Mon Feb 02, 2004 12:51 am
#1

Aloha,

after weeks of staying away from the NPC-cantinas, I put on my composite armor (even though I'm a dancer, I'm too afraid to visit these outposts of hell without proper protection) to check how the afk-macroers and spammers were doing.

So I entered the Coronet cantina and was astonished ... no spam ... no macros ... only your average afk's. But of course I was wrong - I was lagged.

The thing I heard the most only one second later was:

"Invite me if I'm not grouped! Auto-join macro on!"
"afk and autojoin on"

Sighing, I left the cantina ... knowing that it would never get better. And I travelled to Dantooine to continue my studies of Teras Kasi to be ready when one sweet day in my fantasy all those people will get TEFed.



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Never trust a grinning horse. It is always planning something.
Talasa
Mon Feb 02, 2004 12:52 am
#2

(no, this thread has no real meaning except for making me feel better)



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Never trust a grinning horse. It is always planning something.
spacedoggys
Mon Feb 02, 2004 2:54 am
#3

I saw that almost exact msg in the coronet cantina last night.


actually some people were singing their macro-spam msg, "*sings* If im not invited to the entertainer group, please invite me.


*sings* Tips and heals are welcome"




*shudder*



......_.:._...
...../..|..\
.....vvvvvv
v/|___/|Eponine/synnove/So'A
........|..
/O,O...| *TOTAL ECLIPSE BAND*
........|./__O__..|......./|/|
........J/^.^.^.\.|....../00..|...._|/|Live performer of
.........|^.^.^.^ |W|...|/^^\.|.../oo.|Xanadu Bay
..........\m___m_W|_|....\m_m |...\mm.|Guardians of Lok
vionerd
Mon Feb 02, 2004 7:28 am
#4

Talasa Come with me to level pikewoman, we will area attack the cantina with my leg sweep and knock all the afkers on their asses hahahahahaha.


no seriously i feel your pain, afkers ruined it for me too i quit and now im a master doctor and pikewoman, very rewarding. cuz with doctor youget to socialize and still heal, but i also make millions of credits now selling buffs hehe.





Valenia;
Left before the dawn could rise for her.
TheSillyOne
Mon Feb 02, 2004 7:52 am
#5

how cool would it be if you could somehow /invite them and force some kind of group tef on them then attack the lot of them and leave thier rotting corpses to be found by thier operators in the morning. That would so way rock.





-silly-


Save your breath. You'll need it later to blow up your date.
Metis_Onea
Mon Feb 02, 2004 8:27 am
#6

I had logged in the Bestine cantina the other day. When I came back in-game, I saw the scariest sight...


A female novice entertaininer in her underwear and the red shoes AFK while spamming.


I shrieked and proclaimed she embodied the end of our profession as we know it. ...Theeen I stole away all her ent. healing xp.




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ChaoKuang
Mon Feb 02, 2004 1:17 pm
#7

That's bad. Though, recently I came across one who spams for tips, too...



~*~Chao-Kuang~*~
~*~Kettemoore Server~*~
~*~Master of Entertainment~*~
~*~Zulian Zexxen~*~
~*~Naritus Server~*~
~*~Master of Entertainment~*~
~*~Zuli Zexxen~*~
~*~Naritus Server~*~
~*~Zulian's Evil Commando Clone!~*~
Talasa
Mon Feb 02, 2004 1:21 pm
#8

So was this "invite me, I'm afk" macroing going on for longer and I just didn't notice? o_O



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Never trust a grinning horse. It is always planning something.
Faellyn
Mon Feb 02, 2004 3:46 pm
#9

I'll be Master Dancer within a week, and I'll be taking over the player cantina in my player city (one of the largest on the server), so I'll remain a dancer forever, but I won't be forgetting what was done to us.



Here's what I'm going to do: It seems that Jedis login with their titles automatically set to none. (Everyone else can change it to none, but it won't stay that way after the next login). Anyone who walks into my cantina with no title gets denied service, and I'll sweetly ask them to show me their title before I remove them from the deny list - characters with no prof title will be assumed to be jedi until proven otherwise. Jedi will receive no service from me. Not that this will really do any good other than to make me feel better, but hey...



As I've stated before in other posts, I reject the argument that we should blame the devs, not the players who follow the holo-path. We all hate the jedi system the devs handed us, and no one has complained about it more than the holo-grinders on the jedi forum. How undignified is it, then, to so eagerly condescend to participate in such a system? By choosing to holo-grind professions, you tell the devs that you do not care about quality content, you do not care about immersion or believability, you do not care about community or the player economy, you do not care about even the playability or enjoyability of the game you're paying for, if only you might be uber. How easily you can be manipulated to pay for a few extra months of subscription to have your PC transmit macro commands with a remote server all day long while you're off doing something else, all for the reward of more experience points. We're all agreed that the jedi system is shamefully stupid, but it only hurts the game when players agree to it. It's not the dev's fault, Mr Jedi; it's yours, and I won't forget you.








The Jundland Juke Joint - on the shore of the Dune Sea
Come for the sun & sand... and the wide, wide beaches...
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, Proprietor - Master Dancer & Image Designer

Talasa
Mon Feb 02, 2004 4:16 pm
#10

A pikewoman and a Teras Kasi together .. yes .. sounds like a plan

@Faellyn: Every hologrinder should be forced to memorize what you just wrote and repeat it as a mantra until they see what they are doing.



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Never trust a grinning horse. It is always planning something.
Youna
Mon Feb 02, 2004 7:02 pm
#11

Hello. This is my first time posting in the official forum. ^_^ Nice to meet all you dedicated entertainers out there! I play on Flurry server and I am also strongly anti-AFK.


To make you guys feel better... this is what I did the other night.


I went to Coronet and checked out the cantina. The usual AFK macroing spams were going all over the place. I was disgusted, then thought of a sweet idea. I stood right outside the cantina door, and then created a macro spam of my own. It read "Come with me to the hoteland get a quality and quiet healing. Avoid the AFK macro spamming zombies and the lag!" I shouted that every 30 seconds for about 2 hours.


I managed to actually swey 3 customers to the hotel, and they all were very nice people who were sick of that horrible hellhole called Coronet Cantina. I offered them free mind buffs and they tipped me very well. Made good friends again, doing that too.


Unforunately, there were some people inside that cantina who weren't AFK at the time I was shouting. They kept sending me tells in the lines of "Hey stop ruining my experience!" "You are annoying" "Stop spamming!" "I am gonna report you!" etc. etc. It was too funny.... sigh....


Anyway, I hope to drive that cantina out of business and lure all the people who need heals to the hotel. Someday I want to see that happening, so that all those AFK zombies will get ZERO healing experience whatsoever. LOL!


Ok time for dinner. Hang in there and enjoy!
Mondkind
Mon Feb 02, 2004 11:47 pm
#12






Faellyn wrote:

I'll be Master Dancer within a week, and I'll be taking over the player cantina in my player city (one of the largest on the server), so I'll remain a dancer forever, but I won't be forgetting what was done to us.



Here's what I'm going to do: It seems that Jedis login with their titles automatically set to none. (Everyone else can change it to none, but it won't stay that way after the next login). Anyone who walks into my cantina with no title gets denied service, and I'll sweetly ask them to show me their title before I remove them from the deny list - characters with no prof title will be assumed to be jedi until proven otherwise. Jedi will receive no service from me. Not that this will really do any good other than to make me feel better, but hey...



As I've stated before in other posts, I reject the argument that we should blame the devs, not the players who follow the holo-path. We all hate the jedi system the devs handed us, and no one has complained about it more than the holo-grinders on the jedi forum. How undignified is it, then, to so eagerly condescend to participate in such a system? By choosing to holo-grind professions, you tell the devs that you do not care about quality content, you do not care about immersion or believability, you do not care about community or the player economy, you do not care about even the playability or enjoyability of the game you're paying for, if only you might be uber. How easily you can be manipulated to pay for a few extra months of subscription to have your PC transmit macro commands with a remote server all day long while you're off doing something else, all for the reward of more experience points. We're all agreed that the jedi system is shamefully stupid, but it only hurts the game when players agree to it. It's not the dev's fault, Mr Jedi; it's yours, and I won't forget you.












I do not want to burst your bubble. But as far as I know, Jedis can heal there own BF and do not need us.


Faellyn
Tue Feb 03, 2004 11:47 am
#13






Mondkind wrote:


I do not want to burst your bubble. But as far as I know, Jedis can heal there own BF and do not need us.





BF, yes. Mind wounds, no.









The Jundland Juke Joint - on the shore of the Dune Sea
Come for the sun & sand... and the wide, wide beaches...
Scylla8Tatooine8Helios -1900, -6200
Faellyn Omaraas
, Proprietor - Master Dancer & Image Designer

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