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I came up with these ideas while slowly grinding my Entertainer levels for musician today.

I was thinking about Squad Leaders and their effects on combat groups, and this led into me think of a way to have an Enterainer version of the SL.

Now the original name of it was Orchestra Leader, but I wanted to include dancers in this too.

The Band Leader would be able to assemble and coordinate a large group of entertainers.

The Band Leader would have the ability to control how the band members play their songs.

Such effects I thought of were:
- Isolating certain members of the band for solo performance opportunities.

-Isolating certain duos or trios in the group for performing a certain song.

-Allowing lower level members to play songs that they cannot access due to being at a low level, albeit at a lower wound healing level that if they were at the appropriate level.

-Breaking up a band into sections, examples include a Percussion section for Nargalons and Omni-boxes, Wind section for Traz horns and Kloo horns.

-Coordinating a dance troupe to perform while music plays (not well versed in Dancer, so I leave that up to Dancers to expound on this better)

This type of group would need a Theater to properly work, but could be done in Cantinas.

Sure, i know that this would be for the hardcore entertainers, since such a thing wouldn't be financially rewarding in-game, but if the Entertainer's could get paid in-game, it would work.

And the Singer profession was another idea i had.

The Singer profession would be another Entertainer branch, like Musician and Dancer, and would require extra coding and design than a simple profession revamp, but it would provide another layer of depth to the game.

In order for this system to happen, voice tracks and songs would have to be recorded for the game.

A collection of singers would be assembled, males and females. Then, songs would be made in Huttese and Basic for the game. And then the voices would be distorted to sound like their species counterpart.

Then, set up the system from there or whatever is the next step.

Now, I know that seems farfetched, but these are just ideas.

Thanks for listening

Please take these ideas and share them or ponder on them yourselves.

***Olorin from Shadowfire is my Entertainer character.

The orchestra leader is an interesting concept , but seems like the sort of thing that needs to be adressed after alot of other things are as it would really only benefit actual performing entertainers. This is a worthy goal but, makes a real minority of the playerbase. alot of what you want could simply be added to the appropriate professions. Master Entertainer strikes me as a good place to add some.

I actually think singing is pretty good as it is,I have several song macros and alot can be done with the current system. I think it is fine as a non-xp pseudo profession, like those who decorate houses.

Don't mean to flame your ideas, but why new professions? How can't this be added to existing musician/singer? Personally I'd like to see a lot more content for the existing entertainer classes than adding new ones. It's not like the current ones are so full of great abilities and skill that adding more to it would unbalance them =P

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Sareena Sung - Dancer and Sharpshooter