Entertainer Archive

Hey

I was sitting in the coro cantina today, and suddenly an idea popped into my head.
We always see packed cantinas in the major cities. But, personally, I've never had the pleasure of seeing an entertainer in the theatre or in any of the hotels around the NPC cities, which I know the entertainers can also use.
Why not make it more lucrative for entertainers to perform in hotels and theatres?
You could, for instance, add some bonuses when entertainers act in theatres, maybe 45 - 50% faster healing or temporary combat bonuses at the expense of maybe, an entrance fee of... say... 300 - 400 credits, of which 90% would go to the performers and the rest out of the economy. This would also help the general game economy by dumping some money.
Maybe you could do something along those lines in hotels too.
Of course, there'd have to be a restriction on how many entertainers could perform at the same time. Maybe 10 dancers and 15 musicians (in the theatre. It could be the other way around in hotels)
I'm not an entertainer, so there might be some complication I don't see, and this is just an idea off the top of my head... so be gentle!

What do you think?

Do you have any suggestions?

Message Edited by ObikeFixx on 01-30-2005 08:36 PM

Message Edited by ObikeFixx on 01-30-2005 08:38 PM

It's sort of a double edged sword. Not only for using theater/hotels, but also for using other cities besides Coronet and Theed. No entertainers go anywhere else because there are no other ents to group with and no combat players to heal. No combat players go there because there are no ents to heal them. The same goes for other structures than cantinas.

The only way I can think of to get around it is to basically get a group of ents to go somewhere else everyday, and spread the word to the combat folks. But I still can't see too many leaving the big cities.

I would love to have theaters (especially player ones) be able to work from stage for buffing and heals. Actually I would like to see some of the NPC buildings get more use - anyone do any exploring lately of some of the cool buildings in the cities?

I was thinking more along the lines that they could compliment each other.
Maybe the theatre could give a slight boost to health/action and hotel could give an even slighter bonus to mind (to make up for the power a high mind gives).
Cantinas could then give a fast healing rate.