Entertainer Archive

I had a few thoughts the problem of entertainers sticking to a few cantinas and their general lack of credits.

At the moment many cantinas, especially at quieter times are empty and the entertainers that are online at those timesare forced to run delivery missions for credits.

Why not impliment a mission system used from the main terminals and NPCs that ask an entertainer to perform at a certain location. This would spawn an NPC in the said cantina, the entertainer travels there and performs while having the NPC tageted.

This would have several effects.

It should give entertainers more of a feeling of actually living as a musician/dancer.

It would spread them out a little more than mainly Mos Eisley.

It would populate the cantinas with more NPCs.

It would get entertainers away from so many delivery missions.

As entertainers get higher level special places could open for them to dance/play in such as Jabbas palace where they either get a nice reward or fed to the Rancor.

(we cant kill the Tusken raider to get in at the moment and Jabba did like his entertainers after all)

Please let me know what you think of this idea.

Regards

Serae

I believe there are already gig missions available through NPCs in theatres, although i've not tried one myself. I hear they provide poor payout for the time invested versus the ubiquitous delivery missions. Additionally, I hear they encourage a solo entertainer to show up, play for just long enough to get the money and leave, discouraging band participation and such.

If the system provided a slightly better method in which credits are assigned to the entertainer per flourish or xp earned over a long period of time, it might be good. For instance, each flourish done by an entertainer on the mission earns X amount of credits, with a mission time limit of four hours. When the time limit expires, or the entertainer leaves the cantina/theatre/hotel, the entertainer recieves the credits earned. Furthermore, the credits earned shouldn't be split amongst a group (or a group should all get credits for the mission) making the system more group friendly. Additional bonuses (mission difficulty) given for out of the way, low frequency cantinas, or difficult to reach places to encourage entertainer proliferation. Another possible option would be to increase credit payout for /bandflourishes, so an organized band would recieve less experience but more money for a nice performance.

I believe the modification above would go even further to getting more entertainers out in the field, whilst also helping to address the tip stingyness problems

**********For instance, each flourish done by an entertainer on the mission earns X amount of credits, with a mission time limit of four hours.********

I really like this idea, it could also work with the mission experience, a nice bonus to dance/music exp.