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Thread: AFK Macro Entertainer is Essential!
And at that stage if you are still being killed by diseased nunas, something is wrong. :-)
Oops. Never try to hit nunas with your slitherhorn! Even with powerups it just won't do the job!
After a big battle with an army of deseased dwarfed nunas I walked into the canteena to get my mind cleared up and no one was there! I had to travel to another city, with my head spinning from mind damage, just to get healed. I really wished that someone would have been kind enough to run their afk macro and leave him there in the canteena. So, I decided to take up an instrument myself. To my surprize I got hooked on flourishes! I made some creative macros and in no time flat,I made Master AFK Macro Entertainer! j/k
I do run macros but i'm there throwing in comments and conversation between flourishes. While big battle are occuring in and outside the canteena, it is always nice to get healed when you want to. All we need now is a AFK Medic.
DesertEagle
If you have the skill points it may be worth your while to be able to heal yourself if no one else is around. Just like I have medic skills, but I will have to release that soon.
You can always save your healing for later and do more missions and then travel to a more crowded city.
i've heard advice saying to wait until your BF is at 100 before getting healed. Not sure how bad your mind wounds were unless you died and weren't cloned.
And at that stage if you are still being killed by diseased nunas, something is wrong. :-)
C
I knew you would get a kick about the "deseased nuna" example. I can't believe you thought I was serious =). Please don't take me that serious. Here is a real example: Last night I got incapped by 2 red-conned Imperials in which I cloned to Karen. I was half black on all barsso I ran into the hospital to find only anti-social NPCs talkin to each other. I got lucky when "Grrr" walked in and we healed each others wounds then proceeded to the canteena. To my surprize there was one entertainer AFK! yahoo! he read my thread! We all got our minds cleared, then we were back out to kill and be killed. What is the big deal about getting healed when u want to. Most games let you heal as soon as you drink some grog so you can go out and really enjoy the game.
DesertEagle 
That said, I did see a musician pull a blaster out of a mandoviol once...
- Vaadu Vun, Bria
Then perhaps there should be a medical droid in the medical centers that heals wounds for free.
i've heard advice saying to wait until your BF is at 100 before getting healed. Not sure how bad your mind wounds were unless you died and weren't cloned.
Most people I know don't even contemplate going to a cantina before that hits 250 to 300, and in my opionion BF accumulates too slowly. I can spend 4 hours on Lok and only gain 150 or so. I feel BF impact needs to be increased to make entertainers required nearly as much as medics are.
Spinndoctor wrote: Here is a real example: Last night I got incapped by 2 red-conned Imperials in which I cloned to Karen. I was half black on all barsso I ran into the hospital to find only anti-social NPCs talkin to each other.
Hey, just wanted to let you know, they recently added a feature to the game about two years ago during development called Cloning centers, where you pay 1000 credits to make sure you don't wind up with tons of HAM wounds after you die. You might have missed it when you thoroughly read page 114 of the manual.
AFK macroing is thus not essential; using some thoughtful planning ahead of time is. I do agree with you that it is VERY convenient to have someone in a cantina when you need it - hey, everyone forgets to clone once in a while, or doesn't understand the benefits, but I seriouly consider boarding a shuttle to other cities in search of a healer is part of the overall adventure and doesn't detract from the play experience. (If you are quick, you can bounce to 3 or 4 different cities including the ticket buying time, in the same spaceship boarding period, and have the Search function ready to go).
Hey, just wanted to let you know, they recently added a feature to the game about two years ago during development called Cloning centers, where you pay 1000 credits to make sure you don't wind up with tons of HAM wounds after you die. You might have missed it when you thoroughly read page 114 of the manual.
Thanx Tanoo! I didn't realize that your HAM bars reset to full health if you clone before you get cloned. I don't think alot of people realize that. I guess i'll really have read the manual (typycal male). I read in the SWG Guide that it only cost 100 creds.?
DesertEagle
Spinndoctor wrote:What is the big deal about getting healed when u want to. Most games let you heal as soon as you drink some grog so you can go out and really enjoy the game.
Here's the big deal about getting healed when you want to: SOE and LA deliberately designed this game so that you can't. They don't want you to be able to just drink some grog and go back out killing. They designed this game around one idea: roleplay. They don't want it to be a kill-loot-kill-loot grindfest. They don't want the cantinas to be empty and the towns deserted. They want it to feel like Star Wars. To that end, they have included stuff in the game to, whether you like it or not, force you to interact with other players. Yup, that's right. They made red-con beasties that you have to be in a group to kill. Why? To force you to work with others. They made it so that other players are the only ones who can make you a house, build you weapons, heal your wounds, and get rid of your battle fatigue. Why? To force you to interact with others.
SOE and LA want this game to be a living, breathing, online universe -- not an online killing and looting ground. They have deliberately, purposely designed the game so you can't just go through it never interacting with anyone else. And the LAMErs are helping people do just that -- avoid interacting with anyone else. Which is why they are bad for the game. They violate the basic principle of the game -- player/player interaction -- by turning themselves into automated healing bots rather than someone to be interacted with.
And hey, did you ever consider maybe, um, what's that thing called... oh yeah... roleplaying while you are in the cantina waiting for your 375 BF to heal up? You might find the time passed faster than just watching your HAM bars creep up.
C
Spinndoctor wrote:
(Tanoo wrote): Hey, just wanted to let you know, they recently added a feature to the game about two years ago during development called Cloning centers, where you pay 1000 credits to make sure you don't wind up with tons of HAM wounds after you die. You might have missed it when you thoroughly read page 114 of the manual.
Thanx Tanoo! I didn't realize that your HAM bars reset to full health if you clone before you get cloned. I don't think alot of people realize that. I guess i'll really have read the manual (typycal male). I read in the SWG Guide that it only cost 100 creds.?
DesertEagle
Don't believe everything you read LOL! Actually, it costs 1000 credits. What they did was increased the mission payouts, then realized people were making lots of cash on missions, so nerfed the mission payouts and messed up the economy . If it says 100 credits in the manual, it's certainly 1000 now! I only found out that your HAM bars reset about 2 weeks ago even though I knew cloning set your bind point (from reading the manual), so I think you're right, a lot of people don't realize it until they actually clone and find out for themselves.
*Doh*! What is UP with my post there, boy my sarcasm meter was running high that night. bleh!
I seriously hope you are joking, as a master doctor I earn virtually no money as it is from healing people, and you propose this?
AFK macro'ers, believe it or not, are part of the problem. The reason a lot of people quote as the reason they don't tip is a lack of respect built upon the fact that entertainers can achieve mastery by just making a macro and leaving the keyboard. This translates into a lack of tips, which results in entertainers picking up weapons and running missions, which ends up in that empty cantina you found.
In my mind, the first step to fixing the profession is to remove the ability to have endless cycling macros. Hence, no AFK entertainers and people might respect us a bit more.
As for doctors, those folks have real costs as an additional burden and by nature they cannot go AFK and do what they do. Anyone using a doctor should feel deeply ashamed if they do not reward that person for services rendered.
- J