Entertainer Archive
Thread: Some thoughts on the future of Entertainers
I posted this in another thread but it quickly got lost in the chaos. I kind of miss the old days of entertaining, before player cities and all that. The original role of entertainers may be all but gone soon, but here's some of my thoughts on what could be done with the proffesion. If yall hate the ideas thats cool and all their only ideas, but on the whole a lot of great stuff, viable or not, pops up in the discussion of these Blue Sky threads.
JFreeman wrote:
We want entertainers to be more like 'entertainers', and less like 'healers'. In general, we don't want to force interaction. You should go to watch an entertainer because you want to, not because you have to. It'll be better for this to be a positive interaction ("I go see an entertainer to get something good") rather than a negative interaction ("I go see an entertainer in order to get rid of something bad").
I agree with some of the others that if BF is removed the Entertainers need to be given something else. Sooo... heres my thoughts on things.
I would really love to see more community based mini-games put into the system and actually have an old post on it here. I'm not pushing this to be a huge "chat" game but to allow interaction beyond the hunting/combat experience. Much like the cantinas use to be.
I would love to see player placed gambling tables and machines. Thepost mentioned above details exactly how I would see this working. I think the placement of these devices should be specifically certed to entertainers. Whether or not they should be entertainer craftable is something I'm unsure about.
Jukeboxes. These are available as a player event perk I believe, but I would love to see them craftable by entertainers. I would also like to see the entertainers able to craft music chips that could be loaded into the jukebox so they can be played and enjoyed while crafting, decoratin, or hosting a Player Event. I do not think that these should give buffs or heal damage. They would only be for entertainment/atmosphere.
I would like to see props such as fans, dummy guns and swords, and the like for entertainers. Some flame batons and some fire blowing action would be great. I think the fire effects are allready in the game.
Disguise kits crafted by Image Designers, that would act as a cross betweeen camoflouge kits and IFF. They would confuse NPCs into thinking you were of a similar faction for a set amount of time with a chance to fail just like mask sent and camoflouge.
Pre-set makeup/hair/body arangements that last a set amount of time. Created using a base template that when applied to a character these items would temporarily alter a PC's apearance. Would have to be species specific. Would be great for Player Events and general fun.
I'm a huge fan of Cantina Mini-games... I hope that one day the draw of the Cantinas (beyond just to see the performers and get our services)will be both the mini-games that people will want to play and also tools for trade and services that can only be found or will have an advantage inside of the building (Bulliten boards, Service terminals where Rangers/Docs/Smugglers/IDs can advertise their rates and if they're available, ATM type Bank terminals and small Bazaar terms, so on).
Deila also talked about using mini-games as a way to spread out patrons seeking city fun - here.
I really do think that having Cantinas as a true social hub can be successful, but I think it's going to take improvements like these to the buildings themselves to keep people from just using the shuttleports and banks that are normally used for this in most games (both because of the foot traffic and the need to be near a bank for trade/storage).
I also love the idea of gaming tables we Ent Players could provide at events outside of the Cantinas, but I also think it would be cool if we could do something a little extra at the NPC cantinas as "game hosts" with the mini-games that could only be found there.