Entertainer Archive
Thread: AFK entertainers are killing me!
Chumplestilskin wrote:
I also wouldn't mind being able to put an entertainer mission on the terminals to come to my crafting house...this would give an opportunity for someone who claims to be serious about making dough and buffing a chance to really do it.
I gave up on the entertainer buffs a while ago and I do not miss them. I got tired of trying to find a musician when a buff was needed, and then to get a full buff from a master could even be more difficult to find. I also found I got very little in the experimetation buff part...in fact, I seemed to get more moderates than the occassional amazing. I will not take the time to network & develop 'contact lists'to track down a musician as suggested elsewhere -- that is a time sink and a no-fun-factor for me. Due to cookie cutter weapons and having the best resources, I just do not really need the ridiculous 2% resource buff (should never have gone live) as a weaponsmith, although it is handy to have. I can see this may make a bigger difference in foods. I can only say for my server is that dedicated chefs are hard to find, so whether one gets a buff or not will not really effect food sales.
I do like the entertainer profession, but the services of entertainers should have been directed to the MAJORITY of the players, who are combatant. The entertainer system should have been set up where AFK does nothing at all enhancement wise. I also firmlybelieve BF should have stayed in game, but maybe at a slower rate.
Deadtech wrote:
This somewhat reminds me of the Ranger issues out there. We have a chat channel that you can find on any server called RIN (ranger information network). I know that some servers have a channel called Ent but what about making a channel called ATK that all ents of all kinds can use. I know i'd regularly use this to find some good 'ol entertainment. I hate afkers and would rather not be buffed if that is all I can find. All the ent profs are truly special and should be enjoyed to their fullest. Gorath has a kick ass atk set of people called The Kreetles. They rock
There is an Ent Channel on Gorath, but last time I checked, no one was using it.
Gothywench wrote:
Deadtech wrote:
This somewhat reminds me of the Ranger issues out there. We have a chat channel that you can find on any server called RIN (ranger information network). I know that some servers have a channel called Ent but what about making a channel called ATK that all ents of all kinds can use. I know i'd regularly use this to find some good 'ol entertainment. I hate afkers and would rather not be buffed if that is all I can find. All the ent profs are truly special and should be enjoyed to their fullest. Gorath has a kick ass atk set of people called The Kreetles. They rock
There is an Ent Channel on Gorath, but last time I checked, no one was using it.
I think as a whole, the "novel" concept of a unifying ent chat network has kinda fallen into disuse across all the galaxies, I know mine is dead, and I listen in on it on both my characters.
akagiredsun1 wrote:
Gothywench wrote:
Deadtech wrote:
This somewhat reminds me of the Ranger issues out there. We have a chat channel that you can find on any server called RIN (ranger information network). I know that some servers have a channel called Ent but what about making a channel called ATK that all ents of all kinds can use. I know i'd regularly use this to find some good 'ol entertainment. I hate afkers and would rather not be buffed if that is all I can find. All the ent profs are truly special and should be enjoyed to their fullest. Gorath has a kick ass atk set of people called The Kreetles. They rock
There is an Ent Channel on Gorath, but last time I checked, no one was using it.
I think as a whole, the "novel" concept of a unifying ent chat network has kinda fallen into disuse across all the galaxies, I know mine is dead, and I listen in on it on both my characters.
AFKing on small servers is devastating. I haven't played for a couple of weeks now, and I doubt things have changed significantly, but Scylla's chat channel (which used to be vibrantly full of chat) is now totally dead. I used to often check who was in the room, then look disappointingly at those same names with (AFK) next to them in the same cantina as me.
The point is that is there are so few entertainers left, and a large percentage of those are AFK, who is left to chat with? deliver buffs to crafters? I know there are rumours of server merges, but I don't think things will imporve until AFKing become obsolete. I would hate to see an end to macros (all professions use them) but surely a logout timeout while AFK is attainable, if SOE want to implement it.... (which they clearly don't)
Other games have this wonderful feature to stop AFK playing: While AFK, you can't... anything! The best you got is the ability to run about, you can't even chat unless you take the tag off! Hell, its in a SOE game: EQ2!
It would be such an easy fix, if they really cared to fix it.
Update: Well this would take care of people wearing AFK tags, but what about players AFK while being ATK tagged? I would support the elimination of macros to bring ATK back. Thats one thing they tried to implement with CU: balance by removing the l33t combat macros that some 12 year old could download off the internet between looking at dirty pictures of Misty from Pokemon (sorry had to take a moment to rank on l33tist combat people )
Message Edited by akagiredsun1 on 10-24-2005 07:33 PM
The elimination of macros is your great idea. Ok, lets just take a knife and cut the throat of every songwriter and musician out there. Just put us out of our misery now. Macros have helped us way more than they ever helped combat people.The only people left who couldperform a song and still flourish with an instrument would be people with two brains andfour hands that could type 90 words per minute. Dancers would be reduced to tapping a keyboard while watching a stopwatch. What is your end plan?To make being entertainer such a miserable set of professions that no one would ever want to be one?
akagiredsun1 wrote:
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Update: Well this would take care of people wearing AFK tags, but what about players AFK while being ATK tagged? I would support the elimination of macros to bring ATK back. Thats one thing they tried to implement with CU: balance by removing the l33t combat macros that some 12 year old could download off the internet between looking at dirty pictures of Misty from Pokemon (sorry had to take a moment to rank on l33tist combat people
Message Edited by MusicalDina on 10-25-2005 11:15 AM
Okyo wrote:
What is your end plan? To make being entertainer such a miserable set of professions that no one would ever want to be one?
I think that's already happened at this point...
No, it ismorelike apathy. I was in Mos Eisley lastnight practicing music and another entertainer showed up. Instead of us working separately in our own corner, we worked together(or I tried to as it was late and I was trying not to fall asleep)and it was fun again. It is amazing what a little extraflair will do to a performance. (There are some things that I don't know why are still in the game like flourish message spam.I had forgotten how annoying that is to a musician.) The removal of macros? I have like maybe one or two non-social or entertainer macros. And they are my hyperspace macros for Secret Delight, my YT-1300.