Entertainer Archive

What I have found is the only time to make an impact on buffbot users is when the buffbot is gone. For those few glorious days when dancer group buffs didn't work and people pretty much had to go to live entertainers myself as well as a few others managed to win over a few buffbot users. That was something that is very hard to do when the buffbot is around.

1) I go afk in my quiet little corner. Everyone knows that if someone needs a spot to just kick me out of the group. I only do it while asleep and at work(which is where I am right now) Otherwise I'm usually the group leader and trying to instigate some roleplay as well as general chatting in groupchat.

2) Charging for buffs in Mos Eisly, Bria - Don't charge a damn thing. Some people will tip you only 500 credits, as they're new, and others might tip you 100 thousand. Hell some might not tip at all but thats the business.

Send me a mail in game if you want a nice buff macro, I use it and it makes giving buffs for individuals real fun and easy. I wrote it up and it has complete instructions on how to make your own with personal feel. I actually activly ask people if they need a buff with my /ooc alias.

I have a master entertainer/master dancer. She has never AFK macro danced. A few times, I will admit, I did leave the macro running for a minute to run to get a drink of water. But that's all. Any longer than that and I stop (usually, any longer than that and I log -- I don't see the point of being logged into the game if I am not gonna play it). Therefore I have been, from a month after launch, to this day, a 100% At-Keyboard Entertainer.

That said... I don't generally dance in public cantinas anymore. I certainly don't go there looking for pickup groups. On my server (Naritus) at least, coronet is AFK zombies, Dant Mining is AFK zombies, Dath Science is AFK zombies, Theed is AFK zombies... and no other cantina has a single dancer, musician, entertainer, ever, period.

My band, Hyperdrive (which sadly is down to 3 reliable members, 2 of whom are now pondering quitting as a result of unhappiness with what they have so far heard about CURB) has been doing a "cantina revival tour" since the beginning of this year. For 3 months, every week we have performed in a different public venue -- places like Nashal Cantina, Restuss Hotel, Endor Smuggler's Outpost. I bump the concert thread on my server board every week and send a mass mailing to my guild and other people (mostly other ents or former ents who still play the game but I never see entertaining anymore) on my friends list. In general, the audience turn out has been almost non-existent. We usually get maybe 5 or 6 guild members who show up, I suspect more out of pity than anything else, because they feel bad if we end up playing to an empty room all night. Each week, I'd guess that maybe ONE person who is not in our guild, has bothered to come watch.

So, that is it for me performing in public cantinas. I used to love it, way back when... there were lots of entertainers and you could get into a pickup group and do a jam session with them, and have tons of fun chatting and whatnot while you healed and danced and played music. But those days are over. So after our tour ends (which will be in about 3 weeks I think) that's it. I'm not going to bother to schedule another one. We'll just go back to performing in our town's cantina, which is open to the public of course... but which no one but our guild ever seems to use.

I'm still an at-keyboard entertainer when I entertain... I just don't do it much anymore because there's not much point in doing so in the public venues anymore.

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