Entertainer Archive
Thread: Entertainer Top Issues November ~ February
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Landorin
Mon Jan 31, 2005 8:36 am
#14
It would be great if the mando would sound like an e-guitar on a few more songs (especially rock).
Once there would be more development time available I would recommend to split the mando into two instruments: e-guitar and violine like so you have both sounds available and just pick the one you prefer.
Once there would be more development time available I would recommend to split the mando into two instruments: e-guitar and violine like so you have both sounds available and just pick the one you prefer.
LeBob
Mon Jan 31, 2005 5:39 pm
#15
February is upon us! *points at the thread title* Soon it will be time for a new Top Issues thread!
...just a reminder.
psikobunny
Tue Feb 01, 2005 12:10 am
#16
I doubt it qualifies as a "Top" issue, or is even truly an Entertainer skill (it could be musician/dancer) but please see my "crazy idea" post, and consider adding it to the list, if we can get some feedback on exactly how the Firework Package bonus works (i.e. is it master entertainer? is it novice musician/dancer? I'd actually push to get it moved to Novice Entertainer, since its basically meaningless fluff, but simply a "nice thing to have" like our ability to /sing)
Echinacea
Tue Feb 01, 2005 4:11 am
#17
LeBob wrote:
The Correspondents were just asked for our Top Five this past week, so I thought I would start a fresh thread for the next quarter.
This is based off of Tiaga's thread linked in the next post.
- Unattended gameplay
- Entertainers need content
- Entertainer missions need more fun and more pay (especially for masters)
- Master Entertainer has nothing for Image Designers and little for Dancers
Planetary registration for player owned cantinas is useless due to bugsFIXED!
Please review these and post here if you have an issue with these issues.
- Unattended gameplay is possible because our skills give benefitscompletely passively. Make it require active input and that won't bea problem anymore.
- I'd personally like to see content in the form of craftable recordings for both dancers and musicians, as well as instrument quality counting for something. Quests, if they're going to be like the Theater Manager one, I'm not interested in.
- Gig missions are still all labeled as "Dancer." They also do not incorporate the difficulty scaling of combat missions. If they could scale like combat missions with difficulty ratings based on skill levels of group members, that would be fantastic.
- There's been tons of ideas for things to include for ID's in Master Entertainer. One that wouldn't require creating anything new would be to give Master Entertainers the holoemotes, excepting the "all" option. I don't know what they could do for Dancers, since I can't see the base loop of Formal/Formal2 getting fixed.
- ...isn't totally fixed, babe. I shouldn't be able to /register in a player city med center. I mean...in an NPC med center, I get "You lack the appropriate skill-set to activate this location."
<3 LeBob!
Hobbytla
Sat Feb 05, 2005 5:59 am
#18
1. AFK
Make healing active but simple. Something that you have to be there for.
Perhaps use the existing funcion of the options that come up when you click a player (Trade, Examine, Heal Damage, Start Listening/Watching....). For a player to be healed, they click you, but instead of Start Listening/Watching, they send a request to you - just like with trade. You then click on them, and do the same - healing starts. Simple and I *think* not possible to macro? Socializingstill optional for those with xenophobia, and not so complicated thatit would interfere with theother things the entertainer might be doing.
If it is possible to macro then make the function similar to the scout disband camp - you have to click on the "control" of the camp to disband it, and this has so far resisted macroing.... I would rather be dancing or playing next to my control device than next to a bot/AFK-zombie.
If this is not possible, could the imperial crackdown please also extend into the cantina, where if you don't stop skill animating while they search you, you will get incapped and fined according to your bankaccount. (well, I think that's actually when you /lick them... and if you repeat, they will also draw a larger sum for donation to the Impoverished Stormtroopers Foundation or some such :smileyvery-happy
Since *I* have watched the films I happen to know that all sorts of scums hang out in cantinas so it would be only logical for the stormtroopers to raid the place.
Or perhaps they could have that hatch in the floor where bad dancers are sent into a dungeon to be eaten by a rancor? I saw that at Jabbas! And to be honest, anyone who repeats the same old routine for 23 hours of every day week in week out would qualify as a very bad entertainer indeed.
2. Healing monitoring
Make it easy for the customer to see if their BF and secondary mindwounds are going down without covering their screen. Going to the cantina for healing is not pleasant if you are in a rush - you wouldn't mind taking a few minutes to be polite to your entertainer, but are "forced" to stare at the stats screen. And face it - that's most customers. Is that entertaining for the customer? No. And it makes the entertainer feel ignored needlessly.
Similarily - it would be very nice if the entertainer also could see how the healing is progressing - if nothing else, make the Medic function /diagnose work while skillanimating. Even if I have to be a novice medic to use it.
3. Healing XP
I am really struggling with my XP. I would be ever so grateful if I could get healing XP from NPCs while doing the missions. It could be a tiny scrap of XP, 1/10th of Novice healing, I don't care, but SOME WAY where I don't have to go to Coronet and whore myself in a sea of spammers and AFKers... or wait for weeks while my musician and dancers XP are capped to be able to get to the Novice boxes... I guess I play during those undefinable "off hours" because I hardly even see another player.(This is not an issueif the AFK goes away, because I can stand losing my XP to someone live, that's fair enough.And besides, live entertainers invite you to their group!)
4. Easier for entertainers/customers to find eachother
As a combat player I've had to pick up novice entertainer to heal myself because I can't find an entertainer, and as an entertainer I can't get healing XP - there has got to bea way to solve this? Preferely galaxy-wide and less clumsy than the cantina search on the planet map. Perhaps something as simple as opening up the Search feature to being searchable on three levels, as it is now (local), and Planetwide, and Galaxywide. I don't want a new spam channel, and in fact this would again encourage ATK entertainers since they are the ones who could reply to enquires. (Afraid you will get tell-hell from combat types? Well, visit the doctorsforum. It's an occupational hazard if you are in a service profession I guess. Take your flag down.)
5. Loot
There is an irony in the same people who won't tip 1 credit to an entertainer charging the same entertainer fantasy sums for skilltapes specific to the entertainer professions. Come on! Make it possible to get at least the entertainer skilltapes as an entertainer. Either as random rewards or transfer items from NPCs only conversing with entertainers of a certain level, or just make low level kills drop them. Something. There is something unpleasant in giving in to bad behavior on the loot hoarders part and admitting that they just won't play nice, but there is no reason to be punishing the people the tapes were created for by being stubborn and hoping that this will change. As a crafter I get frustrated with the insane prices too, but at least my vendor will laugh in their faces if they try to get my merchandise for free.
6. Denyservice - make it work like the ignore list but be separate.
I don't have anyone on my ignore list except spammers - that doesn't mean I will deny them service. And if I deny someone service and they are pouring insults over me I would like to know about it.
7. Secure payment
I would love to have a secure payment window - it's been discussed in the medic forum too. If it's implemented I think they could be the same since the issues are similar, doctors don't have problems getting paid for buffing, it's the little heals and ent. heals that people don't want to pay for. At the same time, you don't want something interfering with your gameplay, something clumsy and complicated, and preferly the medics as I understand it want it to work in the med center, but not be required in the field - equaling a med center to a cantina here... perhaps something connected to the building itself, where you can sign yourself up for duty, which is what the medics have suggested.
8. Self-spamming
Thank you who ever it was who reminded me (can't read the post atm) for the love of God take away the "You perform a Flourish" and "You gain -- XP" system messages. At least make me able to turn them off.
I'm still not even a novice dancer or musician yet *blush* but these are my wishes atmfor what they are worth....
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