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Thread: Surprise! Another AFK page! Yay!!

Nav227
Fri Mar 19, 2004 7:58 pm
#1

I've joined the club, I'm the ultimate newb and I've choosen my side...

It just occured to me not too long ago, maybe the Devs aren't doing much because its only the entertainers complaining about AFK entertainers. What if we got support from the other professions? Wouldn't that hand more pressure onto the Devs to deal with the problem? I'm sure they'll come up with at least a "decent and satisfactory" solution, but from all the possible solutions I've read, I say the idea about having some sort of t imer that records how long you've used your macros is put in place. Once it passes a certain amout of time, it shuts off. By that I mean, only after say, 10 continual minutes of macroing, are your macros reset, and you have to trigger them again....

Seems like a decent idea to me at least....
BZebub
Fri Mar 19, 2004 10:09 pm
#2

as a combatant who is constantly getting pwned by every durni that crosses my path, i like AFK entertainers. they don't cost a thing for me to get healed.



as a person, though, i loathe the concept. recently (on my server) i've seen things getting out of hand. people put "Please tip me!" in their macros, so every2 or3 seconds I am getting begged by some AFK Entertainer. One one hand, I can't blame them for being AFK, yet as a combatant I don't even have the choice of going AFK and getting much XP, so I don't like that they do it.


i can't say much. it would be easy to make it so that AFK Entertaining doesn't work, there are several easy methods. But until entertainer becomes interesting at all, I don't think you should take that crutch away.


It will be interesting to see how many entertainers are left after the Hologrind is over...Surely people don't become entertainers because they want to AFK Entertain. Rarely, anymore, do I see Entertainers socialize. Only once they become buffers do they even begin to mildly socialize. Its pretty sad.

Ostracized
Sat Mar 20, 2004 2:29 am
#3






BZebub wrote:

i can't say much. it would be easy to make it so that AFK Entertaining doesn't work, there are several easy methods. But until entertainer becomes interesting at all, I don't think you should take that crutch away.

Only once they become buffers do they even begin to mildly socialize. Its pretty sad.





You brought up a good point. And one that i have been trying to open peoples eyes too.


The class itself is farily boring for most people. There are those that find it wonderful but just chatting away gets boring for most players. So instead of truly trying to come up with ways to have the class be more Interactive...


like dance rutines, or music bands that can truly function.


We see people arguing and wanting to remove AFK altogether.




And i did become more talkative after I started buffing... doesnt mean I dont buff AFK dance too... Buffing is more interactive (although not by much) and thus means it keeps your attention longer.



1st holo = Jedi

DOH !!!!
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