Entertainer Archive

Wasnt sure where to post this so figured I would post it here might post in rifleman and smuggler forums to but curoius what you guys think.

Well as we know smugglers have to do unarmed combat to become smugglers and then never use that skill again, rifleman use mind for all there skills but have no way of actually healing the dmg in the field (like stimpacks) and image design is certainly not entertainment (though used alot by entertainers). So here is my idea to solve all these problems.

1) Remove Image design from entertainer make it a non startable but takeable for 5000 credits from the image design trainers with the same cost for the skills as is currently just no prerequsite class. (put the entertainment ID pluses and skills into novice ID and the various first tier skill blocks)

2)Add spice dealer line to entertainer (since recreational drugs are a form of entertainment (illegal as they are) have mini spices in this line about 1/4 to 3/4s as good as the starting smuggler spices maybe move a few starting ones down to the entertainer area, and include in this line Mind stimpacks that heal mind and do dmg to to action and body.

3)Make this new entertainer line a prereq for smuggler and remove unarmed combat as a prereq.

4)Add better Mind buff spices to smuggler line more inline with doctors action body andstat buffs(I was buffed by a docotor once and my quickness was so high my flourishs were only sucking -1point so i could flourish all day and not loose one bit of action)

And there it is am curious what you guys think of this espeically the developers.

I'm not a smuggler, nor an ID, butI would love it if this was implemented. It would give us entertainers a viable option for money making, instead of relying on tips. Also, for anyone who has gotten ID for the ME (mandovial and ceremonial being the rewards) you know just how much of a pain in the keester it is to get ID. Woot for this one!

One question I have is, why should we entertainers want to be turned into drug dealers,(if not a drug dealer then that is the way it sounds). The mind stimpacks are a great idea. It would help when we have offers for outside missions and someone takes a mind shot. The doctors and medics may think the stimpacks are something they should have to help them better heal their patience.

It is true that image design doesn't fit into the entertainment after you reach master. I agree that something needs to be changed with this. Maybe offer image design as a starter choice like artisan, brawler or scout. It does seem a bit out of place as does the unarmed you speak about for the smuggler.

Sorry if things ramble, playing flourishes for hours on end muddles the mind.

Basically, if entertainers could create mind stimpacks, for mind heals (not mind wounds, but mind heals), I see this as an incredibly simple, yet effective solution to not only the problems with ME, but also the problems other people have with PvE. As many people have noticed, there are currently, no mind heals in the game, only mind buffs, and entertainers can only heal mind wounds. Giving us the ability to make mind heals stim packs would be a great source of income for us (since you could come to the bar and buy some mind heals from the entertainers, plus macroers would obviously not get any sales). I can see alot more people dabbling in entertainer for these, so simply make the really good ones (akin to stimpack D's or C's) available only to the ME (give us a real reason for ME, other than that one instrument and song). Whaddya think?