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Thread: A Question about Cantina Crawl
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DarkUnkle
Mon Nov 15, 2004 4:09 pm
#1
I Just saw the latest Cantina Crawl Video and had a question. I saw Dancers moving in unisonand I was wondering how they did that
Thanks in advanced
DarkUnkle
MadLeprechaun
Mon Nov 15, 2004 5:09 pm
#2
band flourishes, just like regualr only with a band
/bandflo 1
/bandflo 2
all the way through 8
bawler14
Mon Nov 15, 2004 5:31 pm
#3
The command is:
/bandflourish #
#=(1-8)
You'll want to make sure all dancers in the group are accepting bandflourishes.
/bandflourish on/off
On is the default. Furthermore, you'll want to have all the dancers doing the same dance to get that synched look. You can combine the two versions of a dance, ie. Poplock and Poplock2. Keep in mind that whoever is bandflourishing will be the only one to get exp and they will flourish slightly ahead of the rest of the group, due to server timing.
On a side note, the exotics work really well bandfloed together... for example combining the differing high/low bases dances of Exotic3 and Exotic4 can create a really nice effect.
DarkUnkle
Tue Nov 16, 2004 10:02 am
#5
Tried it last night got it to kinda work but Ill have to play with it some more , Very cool
Thanks for the help
SerkLightstalker
Tue Nov 16, 2004 11:44 pm
#6
Ya, the band flourishes are awesome! Even if i don't get xp...they're a great eye-catcher and they really get the party started...definatley a rush.
NJ62
Wed Nov 17, 2004 8:17 am
#7
A word of caution:
1) If you want xp you can turn bandflourishes off by doing /bandflo off. If someone flourishes you, you don't get xp. You only get xp for flourishes where you hit the key yourself.
2) However, if in the middle of the animation for the flourish, you hit your flourish key, you don't actually DO the animation for the flourish you just hit, but you get xp as if you did it. This enables you to participate in the choreography or music, but to continue to get xp, if your timing is good.
EDIT: now that I think about it, this may not work for music because flourishes do queue. However, it's not quite as important for music, IMO, because if you're playing something like the bandfill, being out of sync with the rest of the band (i.e. just doing your own flourishes) will not be very noticible.
3) Sometimes people in group *cough* afk *cough* will get all mad if you do bandflourishes, because their action will get drained. If you want to do bandflourishes, be sure to notify the group of your intention, and give them an opportunity to turn their bandflourishes off if they desire. It is also polite to give others a chance to be the "band leader" if they want it.
1) If you want xp you can turn bandflourishes off by doing /bandflo off. If someone flourishes you, you don't get xp. You only get xp for flourishes where you hit the key yourself.
2) However, if in the middle of the animation for the flourish, you hit your flourish key, you don't actually DO the animation for the flourish you just hit, but you get xp as if you did it. This enables you to participate in the choreography or music, but to continue to get xp, if your timing is good.
EDIT: now that I think about it, this may not work for music because flourishes do queue. However, it's not quite as important for music, IMO, because if you're playing something like the bandfill, being out of sync with the rest of the band (i.e. just doing your own flourishes) will not be very noticible.
3) Sometimes people in group *cough* afk *cough* will get all mad if you do bandflourishes, because their action will get drained. If you want to do bandflourishes, be sure to notify the group of your intention, and give them an opportunity to turn their bandflourishes off if they desire. It is also polite to give others a chance to be the "band leader" if they want it.
Message Edited by NJ62 on 11-17-2004 06:02 PM
LyteFoot
Wed Nov 17, 2004 9:52 am
#8
Not much cooler than 10 dancers doing basic2 in synch in front of your band 
NeillM
Thu Nov 18, 2004 3:20 am
#9
NJ62 wrote:
2) However, if in the middle of the animation for the flourish, you hit your flourish key, you don't actually DO the animation for the flourish you just hit, but you get xp as if you did it. This enables you to participate in the choreography or music, but to continue to get xp, if your timing is good.
EDIT: now that I think about it, this may not work for music because flourishes do queue. However, it's not quite as important for music, IMO, because if you're playing something like the bandfill, being out of sync with the rest of the band (i.e. just doing your own flourishes) will not be very noticible.
Most of the music sounds ok if people are just doing random flos as long as they are all on different instrument groups(if you have two or more people on the same instrument doing different flourishes that is when it often starts to sound rubbish in my opinion)
For music you can bandflourish just people playing a single instrument using, for example:
/bandflourish 1 slithhorn
/b 1 slith <--- I belive this has the same effect
Maisland
Mon Nov 29, 2004 3:26 pm
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NJ62 wrote:
A word of caution:
**Snip**
3) Sometimes people in group *cough* afk *cough* will get all mad if you do bandflourishes, because their action will get drained. If you want to do bandflourishes, be sure to notify the group of your intention, and give them an opportunity to turn their bandflourishes off if they desire. It is also polite to give others a chance to be the "band leader" if they want it.
Sometimes people in group who are NOT afk but are newbies who don't know about turning bandflourishes off will get mad at you for this same reason... and a newbie might also not realize that they don't get any xp if someone is doing bandflos.
I know that I got annoyed the first time I was in a group and someone was doing bandflos and I couldn't figure out why I was running out of action so fast. I hadn't (at that time) even heard of bandflos. I finally stopped flourishing entirely... only to find that I was still flourishing with no clue as to what was going on. When I did find out what was happening, I was not at all pleased with the person doing the bandflos.
Bottom line: Bandflos should only be used in performance groups, and not in groups that are primarily there to gain xp.
kirah_ashlin
Tue Nov 30, 2004 4:57 am
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In my early days as a master dancer, I remember grouping with some folks in Theed. One guy keep bandfloing and everyone was yelling at him to stop. He didn't, so I suspect that he was either a complete jerkor had a bandflo macro running withan AFK macro (I don't recall him ever responding spatially). To a person they were all surprised (and happy) when I explained /bandflo off to them.
I never bandflo in a leveling group (unless they are all aware of the /bandflo off command and don't mind). If a few of us want to bandflo in a public cantina we normally justgroup together. I usually suggest that any dancers still leveling do the bandflos, also.
LyteFoot
Tue Nov 30, 2004 6:53 am
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Its really nice when you have a few master dancers and one novice as is often the case in Theed. The masters always are happy to help the novice setup a nice bandflo on one of their dances. Now the novice gets the XP, the dancers put on a great coordinated show, and that novice gets all the healing experience because guess where patrons go to watch . Yeah it takes the XP from the big AFK group butI'm not too concerned about the people who aren't present. All the ATK players are always welcome to join me and the dancers will either instruct them on how to turn bandflo off or they will take turns doing the lead.Often we end up with a big ATK group and a big AFK and the ATK group almost always wins the customers in that situation. 
. Yeah it takes the XP from the big AFK group butI'm not too concerned about the people who aren't present. All the ATK players are always welcome to join me and the dancers will either instruct them on how to turn bandflo off or they will take turns doing the lead.Often we end up with a big ATK group and a big AFK and the ATK group almost always wins the customers in that situation.
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