Entertainer Archive
Thread: Tipping etiquette
Everybody tip your Doctors. Don't feel like you're tipping too little, because every little bit helps.
If 50 people tip 100 credits than that's 5,000 credits which is nearly 10 missions.
As a rule of thumb always tip at LEAST 2 credits per wound healed. Than you can feel free to add more based on how friendly/chatty the Doctor was.
Dejan
Also remember that you are healed faster the lower your battle fatigue is.
Higher level medics and Doctors are using pretty expensive Meds...and they'll need well over twice as many to heal you if you walk in with a ton of battle fatigue. Many high level medics wont waste their valuable meds on someone who hasn'thad the courtesy to heal their mind first (something they'll have to do anyway after all).
Visit the cantina - enjoy the entertainers - heal your mind first, and you'll spend less time in the hospital.
Yes it may mean you have to spend 2 minutes in the cantina while your corpse is waiting...but it's probably 3 minutes less in the hospital (remember Medics must wait 30 seconds between heals...and if our meds are only half as effective on you because you haven't fixed your battle fatigue- then you are making your downtime even longer.)
These are all serious questions. I'm not trying to make a point but curious.
1. What is considered a good tip?
2. What is the average that the entertainers receive (or want to receive)?
3. When in a cantina, should the entertainers be tipped separately or the band leader with a request that he/she split it? And if a tip goes to a "band", does each band member expect the amount in question 2?
4. Should entertainers expect AFK entertainers to be tipped?
1. What is considered a good tip?
At the moment in my location a good tip is around 500 credits (a great tip is over 1k)
2. What is the average that the entertainers receive (or want to receive)?
Average tip amount is between 100 and 200 cr
3. When in a cantina, should the entertainers be tipped separately or the band leader with a request that he/she split it? And if a tip goes to a "band", does each band member expect the amount in question 2?
This is really up to you, I've never recieved a tip split from the band leader nor have I been asked to split the tip. In smaller cantinas where the performers all know each other and are friendly then asking that a tip be split would probably work whereas in a larger cantina with alot of wander in traveling entertainers then asking to split the tip might be risky. But it's probably in the larger more crowded cantinas where you can't necessarily tell who all is in the group that you would want to ask that the tip be split.
4. Should entertainers expect AFK entertainers to be tipped?
AFK is a touchy subject whereas someone that is afk in a group for a long period is adding to the experience and the healing ability of the group they aren't adding to the atmosphere of the cantina. Since tips are not a given but more of a showing of appreciation I would say that afk folks should not be tipped unless they are the only person in the cantina providing healing.
Subjective questions, I think, but I'll give my own interpretations =)
1. A good tip is a tip that is given with a smile, and that does not cause the patron to be put in a bad position for having given it. If you are going to tip 10c or 25c, then you probably need it more than I do, and should keep it. A "good" tip, from my own experiences, ranges from 100-500c, depending. (on cantina, time of day, number of entertainers, wounds, etc)
2. Averages are almost impossible, in my opinion. Generally speaking, males get tipped less, except those with well established names or clientele. For me, the key is clientele. I make what I consider to be very good tips, but I have also performed in the same cantina since the day I began, and worked hard to establish relationships with the patrons in the cantina. Some days are over the top, because someone will have a great hunt, or be in a particularly good mood and tip 5-10k. Others are much slower, but in some cases more fun. On average? I suppose we'd all like to make enough to pay for training (or tip other entertainers), buy clothes to perform in, and pay maintenance on our buildings. Rich would be good, but I'm not holding my breath <g>
3. Band tipping is difficult to impossible in today's setup. I'd like to see an *optional* /bandtip option, that splits the amount evenly among the performers (with SO many reasons not to do this it's unreal). My personal feeling is that a customer should decide how they tip. If the band sounds especially great, then single out a performer you know better, or ask who the band leader is, and offer an amount to be split among the group. If you spend your time watching and conversing with a particular dancer, there's no reason why you shouldn't tip that person separately, only, or extra.
4. I will never ever ever tip an AFK entertainer, *assuming* that they did not give a heads up on group chat, are not 'known' for performing for long periods AFK, or what have you. Then again, if someone is continuously AFK, I discuss it with groupmembers and kick them, so there wouldn't be a need to tip them anyway. About the only time I can think of that it MIGHT be appropriate to tip an AFKer is if you come into a cantina in severe need of healing, and they are the only one there.
dorsai78664 wrote:
1. What is considered a good tip?
Where I am (Theed, Naboo, Sunrunner) anything over 200 is pretty good for a musician. Dancers probably make more.
2. What is the average that the entertainers receive (or want to receive)?
The average is probably 100. The low end is about 50, the high end: I once got tipped 1,000, which is pretty good for a musician!
3. When in a cantina, should the entertainers be tipped separately or the band leader with a request that he/she split it? And if a tip goes to a "band", does each band member expect the amount in question 2?
Tough question. I have never tip split, nor have I been tip split. I take special care to thank the tipper out loud (not with a /tell), so that the rest of the band knows that a tip has taken place, and, if anyone were to mention anything about tip splitting, I would split with them. Often, though, there are 1 or 2 entertainers in a band who are really active, 4 or 5 that are kind of active, and the rest are AFK, so I always assume that a tip is for a person, not the band in general.
4. Should entertainers expect AFK entertainers to be tipped?
No. Nononononono. AFK deserve nothing. I'm not saying they're evil, there could be countless of reasons they're AFK (phone ringing, restroom, whathaveyou), but they don't deserve to get paid for just having their computers running. I feel strongly about this because AFK musicians bug the hell out of me. They repeat the same section of melody over and over and over again, and it drives listeners crazy. Most band leaders are too nice to kick them out of the group, but the last thing they need is to be rewarded for inflicting audio torture on us.
Sorry about that downer note at the end
I appreciate the input on this. It seems I wasn't too far off in my thinking. I try to tip 250 to an individual and 500+ to a band with a request that it be split. In the past I have also given 1000 cr tip to a particularly good musician that seemed to wipe out my BF before I could even craft a stim to heal him. I have been fortunate to not get cloned on a regular basis (I usually solo so I'm careful) and usually go to the cantina to "top off" before going to bed so I feel comfortable so far in my tipping practices. I had just always wondered...