Entertainer Archive
Thread: The best use of pets and droids in a cantina
So I came into a cantina and started dancing. I was the only entertainer in the place. Well, there was a spambot doing stupid things over and over again like emoting spins and boogies while reciting the same lyrics every 5 minutes. The spambot has gotten to the point where it can use Music Technique, so I suspect that its healing capabilities are impressive. People walking in probably aren't there long enough to realize that they're not interacting with a real person.
I was chatting up a regular who hates the spambot as much as I do. We hit upon a wonderful idea. He brought out his two stored pets. One was a full-grown dewback. I'm not sure what the other was. He placed them directly on top of the spambot. He even pulled out a droid so that you couldn't see its feet under the animals.
It was truly magnificent. I have levels of creature handler too, for my dance routine. When I'm not dancing with my animals, I may just park them on any spambot. Serves them right for annoying the rest of us without being there.
Caveat: I will not hinder the progress of AFKers as long as they're quiet and out of the way. It's the spambots I hate.
chadrl wrote:
What is a spambot?
Spambot schematic: 1 lack-of-personality chip (annoying). 1 data module (containing afk macro with 2 flourishes, 3 "tip me" messages, 2 "/shout come watch me" messages, 5 random comments to fake interaction, 3 stage effects, 4 "Tipping appreciated" messages, 1 "heals appreciated" message), 1 spam-bot chassis, 1 spam-bot covering
Spam-bot Chassis: 10 metal, 500 meat.
Spam-bot Covering: 25 Spam(tm) goo.
Contact your local droid engineer for prices! 
Seriously,this sounds like someone who plopped their avatar down in the cantina with a looping macro, and had several comments begging for tips during the run. If you want to grind out xp while afk, fine; just do it out of the way of the real performers and don't expect tips.
Hee hee. Nice schematic.
Yep, a spambot is my term for the hideous AFKers....the ones who annoy people from afar with their spam.
Sadly, they get tips. After so much AFK experience, they can afford to jack up Wound and Fatigue Healing to the maximum. So, some guy with 400 Fatigue walks in and watches. The spambot says something "witty." The patron, not knowing better, laughs and gives it 500 credits. The spambot says something else "witty." Clearly, this is a great entertainer who cares for its audience. He tips her a bit extra, says "Thank you," and leaves, none the wiser.
Those of us who have to put up with this garbage sees this:
- "Witty" statement A
- Flourishes lights
- "Witty" statement B
- "Tip me" statement A
- Winks to random people or pets
- "Tip me" statement B
- "Witty" statement A
- Flourishes lights
- etc.
I used to put them on /addignore, but I discovered that I get better tips by mocking their spam. People who enjoy the cantina scene are just as annoyed as we are, so they enjoy a good poke here and there.
My main character is a fighter with no entertaining skills at all, and I block spam-bots. I look for someone who's not afk, and is interacting with the crowd. I watch for them to mention people by name. It's not pissible to put THAT into a macro, is it? If so, hat's a good way to know who's a spam-bot and who's a genuine entertainer?
If you can select something at random with a macro (you might be able to, I don't know) you could thrown in %NT in all of your "whitty remarks" so it LOOKED like you were talking to people. But since I can't stand typing the macros (I can't get them to work right anyway) I don't SPAM.
Hmm.. your SPAM bot sounds tastey, can I cut them up and fry em? Heh, though I'm a doctor I really should eat better. 
ANYWAY.. you wouldn't happen to have a screenshot of that? I'd love to see you "hide a SPAM bot."
GozertheCarpathian wrote:
ANYWAY.. you wouldn't happen to have a screenshot of that? I'd love to see you "hide a SPAM bot."
I wish I did. It didn't occur to me at the time. I'll try to re-create it. Last I saw, the spambot still frequents this cantina. The screenshot would be great if there is a moment where the spambot says something from inside the belly of a dewback.
It seems that you can target people using macros. I'm not sure how. I don't care enough to find out. So, while 80% of the time, the spambot will do something stupid like /flirt fellow dancer, the rest of the time, someone will enter, see that the spambot is "interacting" and assumethere is someone there.
And calling by name may not be a surefire way to check. With the %NT command, I guess you can call someone by name. If you can do /flirt %NT, then I'm sure you can do /say Hi, %NT.
As I was dancing, I welcomed someone by name. He asked, "Are you programmed?" So I proved to him that I was actually interfacing. Then he immediately tipped me. Yay. It shows that there are plenty of people out there who do not tip AFKers.
What's funny is that this spambot is notorious in Bestine. Yet, he still tries to convince people that he exists with his routine. Everyone knows about this, and he's not relocating to a new city. Such the moron.