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Thread: This is sort of a Weird Idea I've been jugglign around in my head

RazielHex
Fri May 07, 2004 10:12 am
#1

Though I am a Bounty Hunter, I used to be an Entertainer, so I kinda feel y'all on this little cold war between Actual Entertainers, and Macro-Using Holo-Grinding Faux-Entertainers. I'm a heavy empath on your side, because I feel that the profession is the glue that makes the society ever so social.


The problem is the morass that are these people who leave their computer on 'til the server shuts them down. They don't even play the game. So how can it be fixed so that real Entertainers can congregate and get customers and avoid the thick molasses that is the Holo-Grinder while still keeping the Cantina?


Well...why not limit the number of entertainers that can be actively playing in a cantina? This will force other Entertainers to actually visit and play at other cantinas in other cities, such as Keren, Moenia, Tyrena, and Bestine. With Entertainers actually traveling in troupes to find Cantinas, you'll have a greater dispersion of them around. With Entertainers playing in more venues, it will turn these derilects into hospitable places again because Combat Professions will spread out to listen to them, and medics will heed the call and follow the combat professions to buff them for business.


But you are thinking, "Well, why wouldn't they all just listen to the Coronet / Theed Group?" Valid point, but why not make a limit to the number of non-entertainers that can listen to a single entertainer group? There's only so many people who could hear a tune over the cantina sound or see a dancer between all the people around. This would give Cantinas a "Sorry man, we're full" feeling, like getting dejected from a Night Club. When this happens, you just go to another club! Thus, you would move to another town, looking for a Cantina that had room for the combat professions. Society will once more be equilized like it was in the beginning of the game.


No more ghost towns! Entertainers can band together to have "real" Entertainer city cantinas because most of the AFK'ers are too moronic to actually move from Coronet or Theed. I think it's a fine idea myself, but I am a bit biased.
jabon
Fri May 07, 2004 8:23 pm
#2

i love this idea. i hate to walk through keren and get horrible lag even though no one is there..i wish they would just delete that city its usless. but this idea shoul really be tested. all it has to do is limit the number of ENTERTAINERS ACTUALLY PLAYING not the people watching them.



i hope devs see this



IBON - Master Medic, Master CM, Master Fencer, Master Pistoleer, Master Artisan, Master ID, Master Merchant,Master Scout, Master Ranger
Potshot2k
Sat May 08, 2004 12:39 am
#3

Interesting idea...not sure how it could be practically implemented, tho. If you limit the number of people who can "use" a cantina in the major cities, you will more likely create lines OUTSIDE the cantinas, rather than getting people to travel to another city for their BF healing. People would feel pressure to come in, get healed, and move on to make room for the next group--which is just the opposite of the idea of the cantina as the "place where everybody knows your name."


You'd also create intense territoriality among entertainers, as they pick and choose who they will "allow" to perform in "their" venue. If the game allowed only one or two groups per venue, invites to the groups in busy spots (Coronet, Theed, the Dath Outpost) would become VERY valuable, and people might actually be forced to PAY the leader for an invite. (Actually, an interesting concept, in a twisted sort of way....)


If there were some way to incentivize people to perform in or visit the cantinas in the player towns AROUND the major cities, that would be a great thing, and might spread out the population in the big-city cantinas a bit. Perhaps affording an XP bonus for performing in a cantina in a player town of your own faction, and an XP penalty when performing in a hostile town? Similarly, the buff could get a slight boost in effectivness and/or duration when delivered in a friendly town's cantina.


But yes, as a Master Dancer, it would help both me and my clients to clear out the dancing zombies where I am trying to perform, whether to entertain or to buff. Hard limits on performers or audience may not be QUITE the right answer, but maybe it will help us all think of something new.


Khia Ka'Zrai, Master Dancer/Sniper


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