Entertainer Archive

i'll fess up to it, every time i see an afk entertainer and i need to get my BF healed they're the first one i watch/listen to. i also recognize that this is a tremendous blow to the entertainer profession as a whole. not only detrimental to cash flow but utterly demoralizing. ya know the whole "why the heck do i bother" routine.

i've come to the point where i sympathize with your position. and solutions for the problem abound. i'm very sorry if this has been posted by anyone anywhere else but i just want to get the idea out of my head before i forget it.

what if entertainers didn't have /denyservice but a [acceptservice] as a popup box like for group joins that CAN NOT be macro'd i.e. no corresponding / command.

think about it? would it get too hectic knowing exactly who you are performing for? or would it give you the opportunity to directly respond to your clients and add to the "RP" feel of the game.

perhaps along with that it could pop up a name list of who you are entertaining with indicators for BF and mind woulds. red for above 100, yellow for below 100 and green for fully healed. won't take all that much extra programming seeing as both systems are already in effect and would just need to be slightly modified.

so what do you think?

The general consensus seems to be that most dancers do NOT want a popup window every time someone tries to /watch... I for one agree. It would be a bit too annoying.

I would NOT mind an occasional popup window though.. One person had an awesome idea, which is... when you get a "critical fail" on dancing skill, instead of automatically falling, have a popup window come up. If you click it, you don't fall. If you don't click it, after 30 seconds or something, you fall on your butt and stop dancing. This would make the afk macroers look like clumsy oafs and get rid of that annoying falling business that us real dancers hate... Similar things could be done with musicians and sour notes.

As to knowing how much BF someone has... if I really cared I'd get novice med and /diagnose them. I don't really need to see it... they will presumably watch me till it is gone.

As a non-entertainer, the best thing you can do is to only tip at-keyboard entertainers, and tip them WELL. Also make a point of being appreciative of the fact that they are at-keyboard.

If you read these boards carefully and look below the surface the problem isn't really tips, nor even AFK, nor even "respect" or any of that... it is appreciation. Dancers and musicians want to be appreciated for the service they provide. All the rest of that stuff follows from a lack of appreciation... If the non-entertainer types (generally this is the combat types since most medics and artisans don't on their own need our services, unless they also fight combats) would just be polite and appreciative, 90% of the problems would be solved.

You can't control what anyone else does, but you control what YOU do. Take a positive role in the game and in the community, and you may be surprised what an impact one person can have.

C

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Chessack wrote:

As a non-entertainer, the best thing you can do is to only tip at-keyboard entertainers, and tip them WELL. Also make a point of being appreciative of the fact that they are at-keyboard.

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And if you don't mind being flamed, you could send an e-mail to each and every AFKer with the following message:

Dear AFKer,

As you are not playing the game, you are not worthy of tips. I was fortunate enough to find active entertainers in the Theed cantina, and I tipped them 6000 credits. You got nothing from me. Actually, that's not true. The patrons did enjoy your antics as you can see from this spatial chat log:

Bob spits on Lamer.
Lamer says, "Be sure to tip!"
Bob shoves a 1-credit tip down Lamer's throat.
Bob pukes on Lamer's shoes.
Chuck says, "That looks like fun."
Chuck slaps Lamer.
Bob says, "Boy, I'm going to tell everyone to go grope Lamer."

So, enjoy your free xp. I don't know what you'll do as a Master when everyone makes fun of you, but I'm sure you have great plans. Whenever people hear the name Lamer, they'll think whipping boy.

PS, I hope you don't mind that I added you to my Friends list. You were so much fun that I am going to run to the cantina just to spit on you again.

And feel free to make up your own log. How is the AFKer going to know? Expect a scathing--but probably funny--reply.