Entertainer Archive

I have a question for the folks who have been playing entertainers for a while now. Does role playing have any affect on getting people to tip you when you are dancing with a group? This is by no means a flame to the more advanced dancers, as they have earned what they get. But when you are a novice entertainer in generic clothes, it's hard tocompete against a novice dancer in real nice clothes for the attention. The same goes for musicians in a room full of dancers.

I don't want to sound like I'm whining, because I enjoy playing my dancers, but the money thing is really starting to put a pinch on my character. Does anyone have ideas on how to attract a bit more paying business?

talk to the customer. Say hello. My best tipper are those who I see daily. They may not tip everytime but over time they tip well. Ask them what they have been doing, be involved.

Offer extras like a food, Jawa Beer or Caf. If they need a train train them. If you can't train them you may know others who can.

A relationship with regulars leads to tips. If you sit there AFK don't expect squat!

The entertainer character I play, not this one, gets pretty good tips, and did from the beginning.

Some other tips:

Always try to greet newcomers to the cantina. On your breaks, when you action pool runs out, sit at tables with other players and ask about their adventures. Thank everyone for their tips and any action heals. If you slip, do something like say "stupid slick floor" (I've seen that work for people). Use your emotes (/wink, /smile, /grin, /batlashes, etc.)

Get to know your other experienced entertainers, many of them will help you get started. The entertainer community is pretty tight. They like to look after one another in my experience.

I know I started as a scout and then became a dancer after I met Feather and Kai in Mos Espa on Tattoine, come see us there every night BTW, and they sort of immersed me into the world of dancing. I have been getting tips since night one which was yesterday and have already made close to 6K in tips alone. Which is incredible in my eyes. I usually just talk to customers or say hi to them and of course the ?wink, /blowkiss, and /welcome. And on top of that I just play around and joke with them while I dance. Of course I am there ALOT and NOw is when I am looking for some great outfits for my dancer to be. Since it seems I will be a novice dancer by tomorrow night already (whew was that fast or what?) I think I should be dressing the part. ^_^ I know I was supposed to be Miss rough and tumble creature handler but I like dancing as a profession lots more.

Also, try and remember some customers names, they like it and that leads to better tips.

Biggest tips I ever got were in my newbie clothes. Now I look like a million bucks and wear the best threads of any musician in the galaxy. Which one looks like he needs your money more?

It is true that higher level dancers can take the attention away from the others.

Yesterday, I needed money, so what did I do? I went to Wayfar. It is on tatooine, and not many ent. go there. For a bit of a run, and a few hours work, I made 10k. Not bad. If I had stayed in a more populated cantina, it'd been 1k most likely.

Talking helps. Work on your small talk and winking.

Also, I think us novice and skilled musicians should try out the hotel and theaters. Give the low level people full reign of the cantina. That way the audience that just wants to heal up and go shoot more on the grind mill can go to cantina and noobs get great xp.

The audience with some role-play/organized band interestes can come see bands like Eternal Heart in the Coronet hotel on weeknights.

It's not like we will draw off the cantina crowd. We don't heal that much faster than a 20 novice ent. band in the cantina. And we're playing organized written songs, flourishes in decent order with pauses in the middle, lighting effects, some dancers. Healing is not our focus at all as all those FX take up so much action that we either need frequent breaks or a full time medic on staff.

In fact, i'd rather have a smaller crowd at the hotel. We don't need the xp anymore. (well, i do, but i'm not playing for xp this week)

And the AOL chat room/pokemon display/slice container spam is something that really disrupts a decent organized song.