Entertainer Archive

Right now, playing Waltz with a Kthulusatan horn by myself I get 33XP a tick. As long as I beat that number, I'm happy. Last night someone joined and we went to rock. I switched to bandfill just to sound better. I didn't get as much XP as I could have, but it was much more fun. (I think I got 40-50 a tick).

Your music xp doesn't go down in a group. Healing xp might go down per person watching, but overall healing xp tends to go up dramatically as well.

If you are a novice musician, and you are playing with your highest instrument, you will get the same music xp no matter what song you are playing though. Those that want to play higher songs and claim they loose xp if they don't are fooling themselves and/or just being vein.

"By playing in a large group, the new musician will also advance more quickly, thus allowing everyone to move up in songs."

Hmmm, there will be new musicians everyday for a long time. Okies, doing it this way, the base of advanced musicians gets bigger and bigger. There will always be the SW1able noob that wants in group. At the moment you have like 10 advanced musicians playing SW1 for 3 new musicians. They will move up in skills, but anyways, in 3 weeks you have like 100 advanced musicians playing SW1 for 3 new musicians, and so on

I just came to that same conclusion while I was playing rock last night Marrnos. There are a ton of people who have mastered a combat profession and are now starting to dabble in music part-time. They aren't improving very fast, and there are always new people coming in. (I know there are a ton of them because I can't keep instruments on the shelves... all the newbie instruments are selling like hotcakes! lol) I have been a master musician for like a week now, and have played songs higher than rock for a grand total of about 10 minutes since then. There are at least 4 master musicians in our city alone that I know of (and as many master entertainers as well), none of whom play music on a regular basis anymore (one of them is dancing his way to master entertainer, the rest have just flat out left cuz we can't stand playing rock anymore). I think we are just going to have to start saying Novice Musicians and above in one group, everyone else in another group. I don't need any more music xp, so what does it matter that I get the same xp no matter what song... I just snapped last night though, and realized I couldn't play anymore newbie songs for a while... but I don't want to exile myself from the cantina because of it. So, sorry in advance to all the newbie musicians in Coronet,but no more sw1 or rock or folk for a while... I wouldn't mind sw2(not sw3 though), and above... that sounds fair right?

Have you ever heard the song Pachabel's Canon? It's the pleasant 8-bar song that just repeats itself with unlimited variation. I can't count the number of versions I've heard, but they could all be transposed on top of one another and it would sound correct (the way you can stutter-start singing "Row, row, row your boat" with a friend so that you sing the first verse when he starts teh second, but it still sounds good). Similarly, in real life, I play guitar, but I'm not as good as some of my friends. However, I can still play in a band with them, letting them handle the harder lead guitar riffs while I hold down the easier background chords. We're playing the same song, jsut harder/easier versions of it.

Would it be possible to do something like this? So that a master could play Jazz3 in a band with a novice playing Jazz1, and they'd sound good together although the Jazz1 would be simpler?Then the band group would only need to agree on a style of music rather than a single piece, and each musician could play the highest rating of that style that he wanted.

It seems the best thing to do would be allowall in thegroup to play the songs the leader can play and thenadjust their exp as if they were playing the highest song they can play. Everybody wins, good tunes, good exp, for everyone.

If they ever put Canon in the game I will go postal on everybody... lol I must play that song at 20 weddings a year, and am about ready to tell the brides that I won't play it anymore... hehe

BTW, if anyone is getting married in the near future, do your organist/instrumentalist/etc (and yourself) a favor and pick some original music. Don't buy a CD of wedding music and think that you can only pick music from that CD... it's getting so old! Ok, /highjack off.

I don't think I've rejected someone and not played SW1, but I know I have complained a lot while switching, and muted my speakers <<lifesaver, there. People played SW1 when I was going up, so I should do the same.

They should not let everyone play whatever the band leader can play, as it takes 90% of the fun that comes with advancement out of the game. Getting that next song is one of the better things in the game (except for Rock. Rock just isn't a song.) The way it is now is fine. If you want to play more interesting songs, go find a private cantina/inn. The public hotels and theaters also have higher-level musicians regularly.

They should put "It's a Small World" in there. That'd be fun for 8 hours straight.....