Entertainer Archive
Thread: I Just Don’t Understand .
I just don't understand this aversion to exotic dancers acting like exotic dancers. Being sexy, provacative and playful, while wearing outfits that suit such behavior. Plus doing so in cantinas, most of which are sle*zy-sordid dives that all sorts of alien trash frequent.
Look the cantina in Mos Eisley in the first Star Wars movie. What kind of dancer would you expect to see dancing in such a sordid den of violence and corruption. Would its patrons tolerate a beautiful, but conservatively costumed ballet dancer, or welcome a flesh-wrapped beauty doing a steamy sword dance? Not hard to guess the right answer that question.
If SWG didn't want this kind of role play, then what where the art directors and game designers thinking when they came up with the Fl*sh Wrap, Skin Suit, Hot Pants, etc. Recall George Lucas' choice to employ the Exotic Leotard in the third movie. Just look at the dance moves they designed for the game. Many are created to generate heat in the audience. Everything about the design of the dancer class says that this path is a legitimate choice for female characters.
Like many other men have said in this forum, I don't tip based on how much flesh a dancer shows, but on the quality of their role play. If a female dancer is fun and entertaining, who cares what they are wearing. Just sit back and have fun in the course of the role play. If a dancer is a dull-boring hack, they can dance nak&d for all I care, I won't watch and tip them.
I believe that many people who complain about exotic dancers and what they wear should make an earnest attempt to rethink their concerns taking into consideration what I have written and along with what others have written in kind. Then take a fresh look at what troubles them so. I think then you will find the game, or more specifically the cantinas, more enjoyable as a result. For they are a wonderful place to role play with both customers and entertainers alike.
In short, it's impossible to create a standard baseline for "good" roleplay versus "bad." It's all opinion.
My advice would be to not pay over much attention to the game forums. They are great places to meet and discuss minute details of the game and experience, but the social dynamics are very different than ingame. So different that some things that are considered "issues" are really not. They appear to be, by the volume generated on the forums. But when the daily lived ingame reality doesn't expose the issue at all, then it begins to get obvious that it's not as widespread as some would make it believed to be.
I have been in Cantinas for 90% of my gaming during the past four weeks. For me, that's roughly 120 hours of game time. I have never heard it mentioned that this was an issue... and I've seen some pretty funky stuff 
(be careful which public houses you walk into 
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