Entertainer Archive
Thread: Question for Entertainers: Tipping & Action Healing
To Entertainers,
How do you feel about receiving action healing from people watching you and then receiving tips as well. Should the tips be less than normal because of the healing? Would you prefer to supply your own healing and get larger tips? What is a reasonable protocol? Thank you.
I have never understood why medics will heal us for an hour and then proceed to tip us when they are done... lol It's a nice jesture, but I just don't get it. I generally give back the tips from the healers and thank them for the healing.
We get xp from healing you and some of you perform so well I feel you deserve a small tip on top of the healing.
And lets just say I spent 2 hours of my sunday sitted in middle of a band of very cute dancers and healing them for all that time while they all were vying for who would flirt with me the most oustrageously 
I didn't feel at all like I was doing any kind of job but more like I had died and gone to heaven =)
Pardon me for butting in, but as one of those medics who heals and tips, its mostly because out of everyone else playing this game we understand, just as much as you do, how much the /tip system leaves to be desired.
It isfar more pleasant to heal for 20 minutes in the cantina, using a few stims, and get thanked for it. Than spend an hour in the med center using many different woundpacks, ultimately costing us more and listening to morons, and believe it or not, getting about the same XP. Which would you pick most days?
We get more out of it than you might think.
--Voose. Tarq.
Ok... I've thought of one situation where I would expect a tip from someone healing me. That is when I am purposely flourishing and using my light effects as much as possible in order to drain my action so that the higher level healers can get decent xp. I don't have people request it that often, but I am more than happy to oblige... heck, I don't even use my lights that much in order to conserve pts, so it's a nice change of pace. 
Hijo wrote:
Ok... I've thought of one situation where I would expect a tip from someone healing me. That is when I am purposely flourishing and using my light effects as much as possible in order to drain my action so that the higher level healers can get decent xp. I don't have people request it that often, but I am more than happy to oblige... heck, I don't even use my lights that much in order to conserve pts, so it's a nice change of pace.
Heh, yes, when I notice that a medic is burning through experience, I flourish and dazzle like mad. It's like a competition then. Then he smacks me with a Stimpack D, and I am humbled.
I viewed it as a symbiotic relationship. Entertainer gets xp faster because of the medic's efforts. The medic gets xp because of his stimpacks. Or he's not using a stimpack, in which case, we end up healing the mental damage that happens as a result. I consider it a wash.
I have tried to share a large tip with a medic. If I have a dedicated medic who keeps me going for a long time and someone tips me 2000 credits, I'll split it with the medic. It's my theory that he kept me on my feet. Most of the time, the medic returns the tip.
Oh, and yeah, medics understand entertainers the most. I like our relationships.
I usally don't tip when I used my healing on the entertainer I was watching for healing, though if it was a generous day in the medcenter I will spread the love
When I go to the cantina to gain medical xp, I usally tip them something, I don't really know why...
Yea, for low level medics, cantina is probably the best source of xp...
I'm never entirely sure how to deal with medics in the cantina. On one hand I love them lots and want them to come back and stay and keep me dancing longer. We had a great healer once in Theed that single-handedly kept a full group of entertainers playing for hours. The net result of him being there was easy to see in the fact that I was getting 50% more dance xp than when he wasn't there, simply because the entire group was entertaining at the same time.
But in the crowded cantinas at least, I usually don't get tipped while I'm there. And while people coming into the cantina are in effect asking for their mind wounds to be healed by being there, I am not asking for my action to be healed. But they do it anyway. Furthermore, sometimes I get healed from 5 or 6 people at once, and it's always changing who the 5 or 6 are. So if you thought trying to tip an entire band was a pain, try tipping every single healer that tosses a heal your way while performing.
I do however ALWAYS thank them. Perhaps if I got more tips, I would always tip them too.
Just to clarify what someone mentioned above. I have never, never ever, met a medic who expected to be tipped for healing in the cantina.
I certainly don't expect a tip, and if I get one it goes right back, or at least gets redistributed to the other entertainers if they are stubborn about taking it back.
There are several reasons to be in a cantina healing entertainers, making money is not one of them. Either we are using you for xp or we are fairly short on tips that day and are making up for it. To me 100-200 credits doesn't sound like much, but that and 10-15 minutes of heals I feel halfway decent about.
So in short I don't think you entertainers should ever feel the need to tip the medics in the cantina. That just seems wrong to me.
--Voose. Tarq.