Entertainer Archive
Thread: Clear the Doorways: Cantinas
Amythen wrote:
Q.: Why is it that you walk into cantinas now and the entertainment is right in the doorway?
A.: I can only assume this is a product of afkers and buffbots. The only place I have seen this occuring is at the Coronet cantina on my server, which is quite crowded with AFK entertainment and buffbots.
Q.: Why don't they create stages inside the cantina where you will only gain xp if you are playing/dancing there?
A.: This would be a dangerous move. Shrinking the amount of entertainment space down from the entire cantina to a small section of a cantina would get messy. Soon You have dancers merging through each other and AFKers hogging all the real estate. Not pretty.
I can assure you it's not only a result of buffbots (or necessarily afk players). The first time I noticed people in the doorway in our Theed cantina, they were fairly well known dancers, and atk.
I've been trying lately to clear them out by calling them fire hazards. I usually get a laugh or two, but no movement. Hmpf.
I'll keep playing my music for table #6, for whenever patrons of the cantina decide to sit there.
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I'll come right out and say that I will actually not blame this particular phenomenon on buffbots.
Entertainers, just like any profession, have many people who want the biggest advantage possible. By standing in the door, they feel, and oftentimes rightfully so, that they are more likely to get the most healing experience or the most customers to buff. People always tend to take the shortest and quickest route possible with no consideration for lag, aesthetics, or atmosphere.
This past week, the Coronet buffbot on my server has been on vacation. I've been trying to take advantage of this by going into the Coronet Cantina and selling mindbuffs. I think it was Monday night, I was competing with 3 other master dancers (all probably who went back to Coronet with the same idea I had). It seemed like business was being split up rather fairly. However, there was one particular dancer who was much more aggressive than myself and the other dancer. That's all well and good. I mean, she's there, live, competing. But, of course, at some point during the evening she realized, "Hey, I will get the *most* customers if I go stand right there in the doorway!" So, that is what she did. And, as expected, she did receive the most customers.
Personally, I find hogging the door and being ruthless about getting *all* of the customers to be somewhat rude and tacky. I actually ended up leaving because I refuse to do that myself. Again, it's all fair, I suppose. But, my point is that this is something that some people just feel like they need to do to maximize the benefit of game mechanics. It's exactly why I don't support mind buffing and healing in starports, because I know everybody would go there and deal with the spam and the annoyance just to maximize their benefits. And, if I wanted to sell buffs, I could never effectively do so in a Cantina under that scenario. Right now, some of the more annoying members of our profession get as close to the front door as possible because that's the closest they can get to the starport. And, quite frankly, a lot of them are live performers. AFK'ers do it too, of course. But, I don't think this is something we can blame on afk play and buffbots.
Message Edited by Drygo on 08-25-2004 01:44 PM