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Thread: Entertainer mission payouts have been substantially increased.

Echinacea
Tue Jan 25, 2005 7:41 pm
#27

Missions on the Musician tab still say type "Dancer."

Missions don't scale in difficulty. The difficulty for a Master Entertainer/Master Musician holding a Chidinkalu Horn was still 0.

%TT being fixed is nice.

/register is slightly off in that I can /register in a Player City Med Center



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Ikewe
Thu Jan 27, 2005 1:46 am
#28

I was so happy to see this patch in! I've had some serious computer problems recently that prevented me from doing combat missions. I spent my little on-line time last night running from the mission terminal into the cantina and getting paid nearly 12 times what I made doing these same missions just a few days ago! Wahoo! No it won't enable me to buy one of those decorative rugs for my cantina but it will at least allow me to make a decent wage again.


One quick note. The distances listed on the missions I took were a bit misleading. I tookmissions that said they were 300 meters to the South of the terminal but turned out to be just 30 meters to the South in the Cantina.


kudos to all who helped make this possible.


Ikewe, Master Dancer Shadowfire




Ikewe, Master Dancer, Shadowfire
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Kiriah
Fri Jan 28, 2005 7:50 pm
#29

I think it's a great thing for newbie entertainers.

However, I also think part of the reason there isn't a great big HOORAY! from the community in general is that, frankly, no one's bothered touching those terminals except as a novelty device in about a year. Compound that with the fact that most "newbie" entertainers are actually second/third/fourth account characters, or new players who were dragged in by older, much more well off friends and are just being tipped within a week of starting up, I just don't think it's going to make much difference.

Again yes, it's great. It's just sort of a bit late, especially since I'm seeing the player base itself actually dwindling to a shadow of it's former glory.



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Chirri Lin
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psikobunny
Mon Jan 31, 2005 7:30 am
#30






NJ62 wrote:





LeBob wrote:

This was possible for me to do awhile back on TC when I was testing.





Okay so you get 2 payouts for the same 10 minutes, at around 1200 a pop - so that's... 2400x6 per hour = around 14k (minus travel costs, if applicable). That's not great, but not horrible either. It's pretty good for a n00b, not so good for an advanced profession.






I think that any increase is good, but its possible to make 30k or more in that same hour, after travel expenses, with just Novice Artisan, on one of the "Milk Run" crafting mission routes.


Things I'd like to see, when the time comes to address these fully


-equal pay for equal time across all basic professions


-minimally engaging content (when we were discussing the Loot Revamp, I thought it would be great to entertain NPCs and have a shot on the loot table be a tip for a job well done, having an Entertainer mission generate NPC(s) and have them possibly tip you extra creds or items would be a good change over Go to X dance for Y minutes)


-Increased payouts for skill AND group size (how cool would it be to draw 5 players into a band, and hop from cantina to cantina getting say 10k each for 25minutes of playing?)


Don't get down about the response LeBob, it is a goodness to see changes, I'm just leery of a lot of these number tweaks being substituted for real content changes. If it is the groundwork for bigger and better, that is great, but I watch, and wait, and do not judge.




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Made it before all hell broke loose.



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