Entertainer Archive

Though I am a Bounty Hunter, I used to be an Entertainer, so I kinda feel y'all on this little cold war between Actual Entertainers, and Macro-Using Holo-Grinding Faux-Entertainers. I'm a heavy empath on your side, because I feel that the profession is the glue that makes the society ever so social.

The problem is the morass that are these people who leave their computer on 'til the server shuts them down. They don't even play the game. So how can it be fixed so that real Entertainers can congregate and get customers and avoid the thick molasses that is the Holo-Grinder while still keeping the Cantina?

Well...why not limit the number of entertainers that can be actively playing in a cantina? This will force other Entertainers to actually visit and play at other cantinas in other cities, such as Keren, Moenia, Tyrena, and Bestine. With Entertainers actually traveling in troupes to find Cantinas, you'll have a greater dispersion of them around. With Entertainers playing in more venues, it will turn these derilects into hospitable places again because Combat Professions will spread out to listen to them, and medics will heed the call and follow the combat professions to buff them for business.

But you are thinking, "Well, why wouldn't they all just listen to the Coronet / Theed Group?" Valid point, but why not make a limit to the number of non-entertainers that can listen to a single entertainer group? There's only so many people who could hear a tune over the cantina sound or see a dancer between all the people around. This would give Cantinas a "Sorry man, we're full" feeling, like getting dejected from a Night Club. When this happens, you just go to another club! Thus, you would move to another town, looking for a Cantina that had room for the combat professions. Society will once more be equilized like it was in the beginning of the game.

No more ghost towns! Entertainers can band together to have "real" Entertainer city cantinas because most of the AFK'ers are too moronic to actually move from Coronet or Theed. I think it's a fine idea myself, but I am a bit biased.