Entertainer Archive

Oops! I'm not awake yet, that shouls start

One of the goals the devs have is to get more professions involved in the war, to this end I had an idea.

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Sir_Voor wrote:

Imperal customers =-25%* BF recovery and mind buffs

Rebelcustomers =-25%* BF recovery and mind buffs

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Tiaga wrote:

If your title says master dancer and yougive a 75% buff, it will be pretty obvious. -5% would be even worse because then it would be 95%, 70%, 45% or such, buff sizes that normally would never happen.

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That's true,

How do you feel about having it optional or (-25%* BF recovery and mind buffs )?

First of all, while many of the entertainers want to participate more fully for their faction, an equal ammount want to keep politics out of the cantina for the sake of tips. We already have a system in place for providing faster and greater buffs as a faction perk, and that is when a faction member buffs or performs at a faction base. But to drag politics into the cantinas? That is tantamount to making covertness pretty much a moot point, since one under this system would behave differently than a neutral with regard to faction issues, unless they perform an action that warrants a TEF. This would nerf my earnings a lot. The buff system, as it stands now, has been the BEST means of earning a living. It works. Tampering with it may very well make things a lot more difficult for me financially. I MAY go along with that ONLY if doctors, chefs, and spice crafters were under the same restrictions, AND the buffer and buffee are both overt. Why should our buff ability have some faction variable attached to it when other buffer classes don't? If anything, this will reduce my potential audience (and potential tips)by 60% or more, since nobody from an opposing faction will want to watch me. Even if members of my faction see me and tip me, I don't really see my tips going up 25%. It will, at best, be the same as it was under the previous 100% standard. However, if I am a neutral, and give the same buff that usually would have given me a 2k tip at 100% of the mind bar, my tips would go DOWN, because its not "the best." That is....if I can even get customers who will want to be buffed by one who can "only" give 100%. If I'm in a faction opposed town, FORGET IT. I won't make a dime, even if I buff to the best of my ability. Neutrality too, loses out the most, because most active players are factioned, and such players will universaly gravitate toward their own faction's dancer. I mean, come on! An Imperial crafter's gun doesn't become less effective if its bought by a Rebel. Why should my product's quality depend on a faction tag that I wish to neither display, nor ask about on the part of my clientele?

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Tiaga wrote:

Problem with this is it unless you make it overt/overt only, it kind of gives away covert status, something that a lot of people don't like.

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Sense they really don't know you skill level they really don't know how fast/strong it should be. Maybe have that part optional or reduce it to -5%?