Entertainer Archive
Thread: What are the top entertainer issues
Sir_Voor
Tue Jan 20, 2004 9:11 am
#14
In no set order
- Holocroners (but that is for most professions)
- AFKers
- Image Design User Interface need improving badly
- Missions, musicans and dancers are bad and IDers have none
ChaoKuang
Thu Jan 22, 2004 9:18 pm
#15
More musical variety I think is a big issue for Entertainers. Just look at the musician tree, horn horn horn and Mandovial at Master. Every horn in the game sounds the same. One sounds one way, then there's a second horn sound I think, but it's between those two variations. So I think an issue would be giving each horn its own UNIQUE sound. Also, there really ought to be a variation. Perhaps get the bandfill moved down to Music 4 in Entertainer?
Someone mentioned a lack of ID perk for ME. I think she's right, ME needs an ID perk. It has Formal2 for Dancers and Footloose2. Mandovial and Ceremonial for Musicians. Maybe Master Entertainers could give wacky haircolors? Though, at this point I'll be running and hiding from all Master IDers...please, don't killme, just a suggestion! x.x;
But yeah, those are issues I'd say..
ArthurP
Fri Jan 23, 2004 8:09 pm
#16
All of the above - and I don't see AFK entertainers as problematic - just jedi entertainers.
What can be done to prevent Ommni Box and Nalargon from being moved around the room by someone who is neither building admin or current musican on the instrument?
Nosri
Fri Feb 06, 2004 8:47 am
#17
I would like to know how to make macros with more than one dance step please reply
Jaela
Fri Feb 06, 2004 10:22 am
#18
Unattended afk gaining and gameplay ,,,is my number one issue and has been for 3-4 months, maybe longer,,,and its not justaffecting entertainers,,its every profession, and every player,,I see nothing positive whatsoever about allowing this to continue and it needs to come to a screeching halt.
Echinacea
Fri Feb 06, 2004 3:11 pm
#19
- Make our healing active, not passive. I think that's the root of most of our problems. If we had to target people to initate the healing process, that would negate a large part of the effectiveness of AFK macroing one's way through the performing 3/4 of the profession.
- Make Master Entertainer desireable for all sub-classes of Entertainer, not just Musicians. And speaking of musicians, switch out where the Ommni Box and Mandoviol certifications are given. That would give the great percussion sound at an early attainable level, make the two master classes have the two on-the-floor instruments, and leave Ceremonial where it would still be something special. In Dance, switch Footloose2 or Formal2 with Exotic at Dance Knowledge 4. It's really ridiculous to have all 4 Exotic styles clumped together like that, and it would mean something to those of us who would love to dance even a few flourishes like that, but don't really want to blow all those points on doing so. And put something in there for Image Designers. It's insulting that they're part of the Entertainment class and get nothing at Master Entertainer. Perhaps the body tattoos that we've all wanted since beta? Belly/navel, chest pectoral area (for men), lower back, upper back shoulderblades (for men), biceps, forearms and calves are all areas that can be displayed if you choose the right clothing. A few simple line designs, perhaps the rebel and imperial sigils, the same palatte as women's cosmetics, and players would love it. And/or wild hair colors that match the women's cosmetic palatte, or even one of the broader racial eye color palattes.
- New types of horn soundtracks for the existing horn instruments. Ok, we have horn sound #1 and horn sound #2...neither of which sound like a flute, or a trumpet, or...okay, I'm not a real-life musician. If every single horn sounded different, it wouldn't be so godawful that there are so darn many of them. If new songs are going to be for Musicians, at least give Entertainers the sop of making the instruments they can use sound unique.
- Missions -- make performer missions scale to skill, include some way for image designers to get missions they can use their unique skills on, pay out amounts that aren't insulting, and give us factional missions we can do as entertainers...all three types.
- Put Registration as a skill in Novice Entertainer. And then fix player cantinas and theaters being set to on/staffed/sun status upon server reset so we, and our patrons, can actually make use of this neat feature.
- Limit the number of characters that can be actively performing in a public cantina, hotel or guild hall theater. Make us have to spread out a little. One full group's worth of performers in any venue is plenty for healing and socializing.
- Give Novice Entertainer something in Image Design they can do on any race or gender. Make Eye Color the thing you start out with. It's convoluted enough to do without having to find a guinea pig of a specific gender or race to start out with.
Seduisante
Thu Feb 19, 2004 9:12 am
#20
Cantina's, Theaters, and Hotel's
The only place you can buff someone is a cantina? I think you should be able to Buff people in a Theater from the stage to the audience. I also think you should be able to Buff people inside a Hotel.
What is the point in owning a Theater? Besides looking cool they are nothing but a pink elephant.
I think Entertainers should be able to own Hotels.
Buffing, Self Buffing, and Self Healing
Doctors can do it, why can't we?
Gknee
Thu Feb 19, 2004 9:27 am
#21
***Entertainer missions. First of all..if you are going to put ID in Entertainer..then they should be able to go to the entertainer misson terms and get missions as well. they need to make money too.
Kiatra
Sat Feb 28, 2004 2:51 pm
#22
1, Buffs....i would really like to be able to buff myself. doctors are able to do this, but ents must find another dancer/musician if they wish to get a buff also. what benifits me from even being in this proff if i cannot help myself?
2. Content...new songs/dances would be nice and new hairstyles and such....please...
3. Gameplay...if someone is just an ent, they are left with nothing to do if no one else is in the cantina besides sit there and stare at the screen or do a delivery mission
4. Better ways to make money...you can make a lot for buffs and stuff sure, but thats only if other players are nice enough to pay it, ent missions suck and delivery gets really boring and low paying after a while too...
5. Buffs working in camps....this is the only way in which it is usefull to take an ent out hunting or on raids and such...
Dapper_Dan
Wed Mar 10, 2004 10:39 am
#23
Thunderheart wrote:
7. Do you feel that it is acceptable that the role of entertainers is being completely filled by people impersonating NPCs, leaving those who play the class with nothing to do? Do you plan to do anything about this, such as an auto-logout or making healing a more active process?
We understand the nature of this issue. In essence, we can’t prevent AFK people from playing, but one thing we are doing is looking at different ways we can encourage at-the-keyboard play.
(And I know this will come up again, so here is why we can’t prevent people from AFK. Given that this is an online game, there are people out there who are very smart and will learn how to play AFK no matter what we do. It is just the nature of the beast. So instead of keep it so that only high-end computer savvy people can AFK, we make it fair so everyone can do it instead of just an elite few.)
ArthurP
Wed Mar 10, 2004 6:33 pm
#24
I'm happy... but most suggestions above would be nice.
My humble request is to fix the Ommni Box and Nalargon so that people can't move them around the room - whether its being played or not.
Dhrun
Wed Mar 10, 2004 7:45 pm
#25
I would like to see some E.O.D. Entertainer On Demand.
For example, a player heavy on BF and mind wounds walks into an empty cantina on naboo, keren for example. He puts an X amount of credits into a slot machine and mission-accepting entertainers get a mail that there's an X amount of credits to be made at the keren cantina. (/registerformissions would be great for the master entertainer, always knowing if there's some credits to be made out there or not). When an entertainer arrives on the spot, he gets a as much credits equal to the damage he/shehealed. It could actually spur some competition among the entertainers. And promote a bit more high-paced game then just afk-ing watching the xp roll in.
It needs some tweaking i agree, but it would give the entertainers something to do, not to mention playerbased missions are good for morale 
Bihlbo
Sun Mar 28, 2004 10:07 pm
#26
My primary concern is the global registration system not working in cantinas. If this were working, people could look on the global map and see if there's a cantina worth visiting nearby. This would help spread out populations to player cities and give entertainers a reason to play in player cities.
Along these lines, the overlay map should also display registration information.