Entertainer Archive
Thread: Street parties? Traveling troupes?
Well, this morning I was playing my crafter on Starsider. Passing through Theed on my way home, I noticed a nalargon in the middle of the square in front of the starport. There were about 3 or 4 musicians and dancers congregated around it, and they were having a street party. That triggered a couple of questions.
First, can folks get inspiration buffs when not in a cantina or house? Ok, really that was my only question, other than "Street party? Why not?!". We can't force people into the cantinas to keep them lively. We haven't lost our ability to entertain, just our ability to do anything that brings people in to where we do it, which until now had to be the cantinas. As far as I know, we can get dance/music/entertainer exp anywhere, right? While I love being in an active cantina, I think it's really up to us to find things to keep our professions afloat until the devs take some sort of action to return some of our utility. The plaza in front of the Coronet starport used to bustle with activity. Compared to the "good ol' days" when I sold baby rancors and GSPs, that place is a ghost town. Why not liven it up a bit and have some open air entertaining? Theed and Coronet aren't the only places with wide open spots to set up either. A traveling entertaining troupe - I happen to think it'd be a blast.
I don't know about the rest of you, but I didn't take up my entertainer profs to make money. I doubt we'd get any more tips performing in the street than we do in the cantinas. After yesterday's publish, I'm sure those will be dwindling anyway. I just think by focusing on what was taken away from us, we're missing out on some of the opportunities that could be opening up. I'm currently Master Entertainer, Musician 0/3/4/3, and ID 1/0/0/0. I still intend to master all 4 ent profs. I don't see yesterday's pub as death for any of them, just a challenge to keep them fun for everyone.
We'll all dress in our costumes and send emails to every entertainer we know, inviting them to play with us. We can keep a rave going FOR HOURS. It is a ton of fun and you get to meet all kinds of new people.
TCA-Dragons wrote:
Answer
1- An Entertainer cant give an inspiration buff when outside of a Cantina.
Street jams are loads of fun. Ive already posted this in another thread but im having one 2morrow @ 11PM est on Chilastra. The Kauri Invasion! All wookiee band & dance troupe are traveling throught the entire galaxy on our Wookieepalooza Tour. We will be trying to hit all servers.
I think Gorath will be our next destination
Gothywench wrote:
Our band on Gorath, The Kreetles throws a rave ever so often. We call them The Kreetles Starport Raves. We just had #5 out on Kashyyyk.
We'll all dress in our costumes and send emails to every entertainer we know, inviting them to play with us. We can keep a rave going FOR HOURS. It is a ton of fun and you get to meet all kinds of new people.
Epofa wrote:
Gothywench wrote:
Our band on Gorath, The Kreetles throws a rave ever so often. We call them The Kreetles Starport Raves. We just had #5 out on Kashyyyk.
We'll all dress in our costumes and send emails to every entertainer we know, inviting them to play with us. We can keep a rave going FOR HOURS. It is a ton of fun and you get to meet all kinds of new people.
rave eh? Are smugglers handing out spice too? lol
Why yes, they are.
When Going-Commando Party Squad (on Eclipse) started, street jam sessions are just about all we did lol. Normally we'd do it out in front of Theed starport cause thats one of the popular areas on the server. I've always loved doing them and am glad to see more entertainers taking to the streets to do them. The thing that confuses me is people AFK-ing on the streets... again, my state on afk is that if you've got to go to the fridge or feed your pet, or do a quick errand around the house, I don't really mind afk-away. Its the long, incessant afk-ing with the spam macros front center in the cantina that ticks me off. If you've got to grind and want to still get group points, be courteous, turn off your spam about your tips and your name and your blasted tippers list, tuck yourself in one of the side rooms, and grind away. I know this sounds harsh to some but I never tip AFK dancers and I'll only watch them if there's not a soul atk in sight. With Zahra (who's a meanie by roleplay standards) I'll actually go into a cantina and yell 'So who's not afk?' and if she gets no response, she'll grumble, complain about dancer's advertisements, and just be a general pain for the duration of her stay in the cantina lol.
We had a great street jam session the other day in front of Theed cantina. It was me, one of the gals in my guild, and a musician for most of the duration of it (others joined later). The fun and kind of ironic thing about that one was that Laera and Cirna (the other gal) look very similar. They both have similar long brown hair (Laera has the braid headband and Cirna has the actual headband), wear similar dancer's costumes, and have the same guild tag. The only really big difference is Cirna makes tiny little Laera look like a hobbit, she's tall and just generally bigger while Laera is tiny. By some casual costume and prop coordinating (I'd see what Cirna was wearing and try to match it to a similar costume of mine in a different color) and the wonder of bandflourishes, we had people stopping and staring thinking we were twins. I don't do it for the tips but we certainly made some. It was a blast, can't wait to do it again.