Entertainer Archive

what do you guys think about this?....... everytime i go into a cantina now I see anywhere from 2 to 10 entertainers grouped, musicians and dancers included. how do i tip everyone??? seeing as everyone is helping me to heal? i was thinking about it, and I came up with the following idea. how about you guys pick a trustworthy band leader and everyone tip him, then at the end of the day or when everyone leaves the group or whatever, he is responsible for dishing out the tips for everyone. i at least tip 100c to whoever i am listening to, but its getting expensive tipping everyone in the cantina 100c. you guys need a designated tip reciever or something.

Sounds like a nice idea. If there were ten people in a group, the designated tip collector could spread it across all ten, which would be 10%. I kind of like it.

Not a bad idea. The only problem is that the band leader has to spend too much time calculating who gets what share of tips based on when they joined and when they left the group.

Personally, I'd like to see the /tip group command. That way, the audience can choose who they want to tip, be it everyone or only one person. They should have that right.

I agree with darthminos, the sharing must be automatic or it would be too complicated for the leader. There could be some options that the leader decides only once (like :is each share related to the level of the entertainer,is it related to the time each one played, etc.). The listener could also choose if he wants to tip all the group or just one member. But all this should be easy to manage and not to be done every time or it would be too complicated and would not be used.

Call me selfish, but I just don't like the idea of the band leader to decided that all tips that come to any member of the group to be automatically split amongst everyone. I think the inclusion and exclusion commands are fine for tips give to the group, but not to the individual.

Part of the problem is that when there is a group, if you don't join it, you lose out on major xp bonuses, especially if the group is large. If you are the only one in the group that is putting up a good show, then the group leader could exclude you, or others you want to get a piece of the pie, without your even knowing it.

The solution of course, is for there tobe a message anytime anyone gets tipped in a group, and what your share of the tip is, and what percentage that is. I guess that would keep the leaders honest.

If there were to be a tip split option it should be implemented on the tipee side not on the group side. If the tippee wants to tip everyone in the group they should be able to do so easily. But there are times when they don't want to or when they would wish to tip one person more than others that should be their right to do so. I have no problem spitling tips with the group and frequently split my tips up among active group members but when I do so that is my choice or the request of the customer.

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Ndainye wrote:
If there were to be a tip split option it should be implemented on the tipee side not on the group side.

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I agree 100%.

If someone wants to tip that cute little scantily-clad Twi'lek dancer, not the whole band, he should be able to. Maybe he can finagle an in-character "date" out of her that way. :-)

(NOTE: I mean this in a roleplay sense, not in the sense of a RL date.)

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This is a nice idea. Personally, as a band leader, I'd want the following commands (sorry to some who've heard this alot ):

• /TipInclude <name>


• /TipExcluse <name>


• /GroupTipSplit <on/off>

Then everyone in the Include list gets a split. New people are automatically included in Include, and they automatically default to the splitting tips they receive.