Entertainer Archive

Well, actually 295. . .after 4 hours playing in the Cantina. Just needed to vent a bit. .

Dancers and Musicians across all the servers share your pain.

However, if you can find a player-owned town, before the big patch, then there is a good chance of you making some decent money.

I hope this helps.

Huh? Before what big patch?

Leyf,

The big patch, for player-owned towns, among other things will display player-owned towns in maps thus showing thier postion to all. Meaning that the most successful towns, those few towns that are placed; nearnon-player characters with large drops andnear largesources of resources,will be flooded with musicians and dancers all looking for thier share of customers. More musicians will mean fewer tips as it is in cantinas. So if you find them now, make friends with them, the rest will fall into place.

I hope this helps.

If I dont get a good amount of tips (~500) per hour, I leave that cantina and go somewhere else becaue it just isn't worth my time. I can run easy destroy missions (unequip pistol before browsing) and make an easy 10k/hour or more. When I get wounded and fatigued, I go to the med center, TIP THE MEDICS, then tell them I'm going over to the Cantina for a while. I then play till my fatigue and mind wounds are gone, and go take more delivery missions. If I catch a good crowd at the cantina who appreciates whatI do for them, then I'll stick around after my fatigue is gone, until the crowd thins out and I no longer get enough tips to pay for my time. Tired of your entetainers running off in the middle of healing you to go do missions? Tip them!

Sounds like you either /spam for tips or work in a very crowded cantina. I play in Coronet City for the experience only. I hardly ever receive tips. I get more tips playing at the shuttleports.... lol. If you want good tips go to a city that needs entertainers badly. Cities on off beat planets or city's on popular planets but in an off bit corner normally always need entertainers.

I found the best money-making tool in the game last night. It is called a Nalargon! I finally hit master and was playing mine last night, and people were throwing 500-1000 crtips all night. lol I'm not kidding, my lowest tip was300, and the rest were 500+... The band was starting to give me a hard time because I was thanking people left and right and they weren't making any money.

Anyway, it funded a trip to Naboo and a brand new outfit from a clothing store I had found out about there. Thanks Lyrra!

Nope - not a crowded cantina, and I've never asked for tips, though I do thank 'em. Heh - was tempting last night when a hordes of Rebels kept coming through, tired from battling the Imperials - I thought about sotto voc'ing to the guy next to me, "Lets root for the Imperials, they might tip better than these guys". I resisted the urge though

I think one problem is that the non-musicians don't get how it works - they probably think that if they tip one bandmember it's going to all.

I did find one way to 'force' tips - play about 5 or 10 minutes of each available song, then stopband, /bow, /stretch, and announce to the crowd a five minute break between sets. For some reason lotsa tips come in when there's a break - I guess it feels to them more like it's an actual performance, rather than 3 guys just playing the same song for an hour straight. Can be a hard though to convince the band to take the break.

I know that this may not apply to everyone but a secondary skill set such as marksman or scout can generate enough income that tips become irrelevant. I am primarily a musician. It is the most enjoyable aspect of the game to me. However, I never ask for tips because I don't play for tips. When I receive a tip, it always comes as a pleasant surprise and I do receive a fair amount of tips. Got a 3500 credit one the other night and, of course, shared it with my bandmates equally. Some things that may help you enjoy this a little more and maintain some perspective on the profession, if I may be so presumptuous as to offer advice, are:

1. Talk a lot as you play. Play to the crowd, tell jokes, keep a running patter about upcoming concert dates, band T-shirts for sale, stories of life on the road, groupie hijinks, etc. If you can make people laugh, as well as appreciate the music, you will make money.

2. Share any tips you get with whatever medic is healing your AP. If you receive no tips, then tip your medic out of your own pocket. Don't perpetuate the injustice by not tipping people who help you just because the people you help don't tip.

3. Always give a big shout out to people who cheer you, clap for you, etc. Most people get a kick out of bandmembers cheering for them, telling them they are great fans, etc. They, in turn, think you are a great musician/dancer, etc. and the love perpetuates ad infinitum or ad nauseaum, depending on your point of view LOL.

4. When traveling, always stop at a camp. You may be able to heal someone there and if not, at least you can provide a little entertainment. Think about it realistically, a long cold night in the deserts of Tatooine, you're camping, eyes glowing in the darkness around you, bounty hunters on your trail. Then a fizz player shows up and plays a few songs by the light of your campfire and suddenly the future doesn't look so grim anymore. You, the entertainer,have made a difference!

That's my two credits, anyway. Take care my funky brothers and sisters, it's artists like us that make life worth living for all those no-rhythm having, can't carry a tune, soulless marksmen/scouts/miners, etc. out there.

Maevir Songo

Musician, Gorath, Currently heading North from Bestine for entertainer gig at Mos Entha

This is crazy how are you people not making tips!!!!

In 4 hours of playing I can easily bring in 5-6k and recently I made 10k

This is the average at my cantina, are you talking to the customers or just spamming for tips.

I have alot of customers tell me that they will not tip the people that run a tip spamming macro.

Also if you need the money for training let people know they are more sympathetic, I am so tired of seeing people being stagnant in the cantina then complaining about tips.