Musician Archive

Message Edited by Fragpuppie on 04-27-2004 02:06 PM

Instructions on how to make lots of credits with musician buffs:

Requires: Chidinkalu Horn, Master Doctor Quicknessbuff, a pet called "Buffs" standing somewherenext to youand Master Musician

Macro for F1 slot:

/startmusic virtuoso;
/flourish 1;
/flourish 2;
/flourish 3;
/flourish 4;
/flourish 5;
/pause 8;
/flourish 6;
/flourish 7;
/flourish 8;
/flourish 8;
/flourish 1;
/pause 8;
/ui action toolbarSlot00;

Macro for F2 slot:

/target (Buffs);
/shout Master Musician buffs available for 10k. New today: Quickbuffs - get full duration and full power buffs in only 3 minutes and 10 seconds! Send a tell to me for instructions. Next session starts in 1 minute.;
/pause 30;
/shout Next ultra-quickbuff session starts in 30 seconds. Invite me into your group if you wish to get buffed. Please send a tell to me for instructions!;
/ui action toolbarSlot10;/pause 30;/tellpet group;/pause 5;/ui action targetGroup0;
/pause 5;/setperformance;/emote begins ultra-quickbuff session for %TT.;/say Ultra-QuickBuff session started for %TT. Time remaining until session finish: 3:10 minutes;/TT Starting your buff now. Make sure you chose "Listen" on my radial menu! Please do not leave before the time is up. I will tell you when the time is up.;
/pause 70;/g Your buff session ends in 2 minutes.;/emote is currently ultra-quickbuffing %TT. Time remaining: 2:00 minutes;
/pause 60;/g Your buff session ends in 1 minute. If my action gets low please heal it.;/pause 30;/g Your buff session ends in 30 seconds. Be sure to chose "Stop Listening" on my radial menu when the time is up.;/emote is currently ultra-quickbuffing %TT. Time remaining: 30 seconds;/pause 30;/g Finished ULTRA-QUICKBUFFING. Please don't forget to pay unless you already did! Thanks for listening to me.;
/emote pants. He finishes ultra-quickbuffing %TT.;/TT Type /stopListen to activate your willpower and focus buff. Thanks a lot.;
/pause 1;
/TT You have 15 seconds to stop listening to me.;/pause 15;/say Thanks for listening to me, %TT. Enjoy your buff. Good day and until next time!;
/pause 15;/stopmusic;/pause 15;
/thank;
/disband;
/ui action toolbarSlot10;/tired A little break to regain action if needed. Next session starts in 1 minute. If you are waiting to get buffed, you may invite me to the group now.;
/pause 5;
/ui action targetSelf;
/stretch;
/pause 10;
/ui action toolbarSlot01;

Macro for F3 slot:

/join;
/pause 5;
/ui action toolbarSlot02;

Put Chidinkalu Horn in the F11 slot (if you want it in another F slot just change the /ui action toolbarSlot10 in the F2 macro to whatever slot you want it in).

Run all macros at once (or make a macro that calls all macros at once.. if you like like this:

/ui action toolbarSlot00;

/ui action toolbarSlot01;

/ui action toolbarSlot02;

AFK text:

Hello. I am a buff-bot. I am doing buff sessions every 5 minutes. To get buffed, please invite me into your group. I can only buff the group leader. The buff will double your Willpower and Focus stats and lasts 2 hours maximum. Please do not leave before the time is up. If I am already grouped, then someone else is currently being buffed. The price for the buff is 10k. I may or may not be afk.

Stand in a cantina, such as Coronet or Theed and do this and you should have no problem getting tips.

If there's a problem, let me know

There is also a version for non-quickbuffs if you are not Quickness buffed by a doctor, which can run when you are afk (also for the F2 slot):

/target (Buffs)
/shout Musician buffs (willpower and focus) available for 10k, To get instructions on how to get
buffed tell me "Hi".;
/pause 10;
/shout My next buff session begins in 2 minutes, Invite me to your group if you wish to get buffed.
/pause 30;
/ui action toolbarSlot10;
/pause 30;
/shout My next buff session begins in 1 minute, Invite me to your group if you wish to get buffed.
Price and instructions can be read by sending a tell to me (make sure you read these first).
/pause 30;
/say My next Buff session begins in 30 seconds.;
/pause 30;
/ui action targetGroup0;
/tellpet group;
/pause 5;
/setperformance;
/emote begins to play for %TT.;
/say Buff session started for %TT. Time remaining until session finish: 8:00 minutes;
/TT Starting your buff now. Make sure you chose "Listen" on my radial menu! Please do not leave before the time is up. I will tell you when the 8 minutes are up.;
/pause 60;
/g Your buff session ends in 7 minutes.;
/emote is currently buffing %TT. Time remaining: 7:00 minutes;
/pause 60;
/g Your buff session ends in 6 minutes. If my action gets low please heal it.;
/g You may go afk until I am finished buffing you, but please be aware that I will disband the group in 6 minutes. Missing the finish of the buff might pevent it from being activated.
/pause 60;
/emote merrily plays his tune for %TT;
/g Your buff session ends in 5 minutes.;
/pause 60;
/g Your buff session ends in 4 minutes.;
/pause 1;
/say To anyone waiting in line: My next buff session will begin in 6 minutes. Please be patient. Also be sure to send a tell to me for instructions and price.;
/pause 60;
/g Your buff session ends in 3 minutes.;
/emote is currently buffing %TT. Time remaining: 3:00 minutes;
/pause 60;
/g Your buff session ends in 2 minutes.;
/pause 60;
/g Your buff session ends in 1 minute. Be sure to chose "Stop Listening" on my radial menu when the time is up.;
/emote is currently buffing %TT. Time remaining: 1:00 minute;
/pause 30;
/g Your buff session ends in 30 seconds.;
/pause 30;
/g Finished BUFFING. Please don't forget to pay unless you already did! Thanks for listening to me.;
/emote blinks. He finishes performing for %TT. ;
/TT Type /stopListen to activate your willpower and focus buff. Thanks a lot.;
/pause 1;
/TT You have 15 seconds to stop listening to me.;
/say Thanks for listening to me, %TT. Enjoy your buff. Good day and until next time!;
/pause 15;
/stopmusic;/pause 15;
/thank;
/disband;
/ui action toolbarSlot10;
/tired A little break to regain action if needed. Next session starts in 2 minutes. If you are waiting to get buffed, you may invite me to the group now.;
/pause 5;
/ui action targetSelf;
/stretch;
/pause 10;
/ui action toolbarSlot01;

Thanks to whoever posted the initial afk-buff-bot macro a few days ago

Excellent work, thanks! I like how song choicehas no effect on this, and a definitive answer that group buffs are the same as /setperform.

Now to find some crates of Sunburn and T'ssolok.

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Ikour wrote:
Please don't afk buff. Musicians get a bad name for it, and real musicians who take the time to earn their money deserve it more than afkers.

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Yeah, why is that? I'm just curious - some other professions make money without being at the keyboard and it's no big deal - in fact, it's honored.

For example, a Master Weaponsmith (I'm sure you can think of a big name on your galaxy) when I first started playing would login and run crates of weapons which he would then deposit in vendors. He'd log off and log in as a secondary character and actually play the game. Meanwhile, his vendor is making money for him hand over fist without him at the keyboard interacting with customers. And, this weaponsmith sold tons of weapons for hundreds of thousands of credits - his best weapons went for over a million credits!

Yet, for some reason, there is this weird view that entertainers have to be at the keyboard to give buffs, otherwise it's a bad thing. Why? I mean, a service is being provided, right? How is it any different than purchasing a pre-made weapon from a weaponsmith? And, more than that - a musician doesn't make money the way a weaponsmith does. I've never charged anyone a million credits for a buff - my best buffs won't ever cost what I pay for a weapon, and I'll never make the kind of cold hard cash they do even if I am at the keyboard for 8 hours a day.

It's like people enjoy keeping musicians under their thumbs - "you have to be at the keyboard, you should talk to me, don't ever deny service for bad tips, and - oh yeah - you should only charge 3,000 credits for your buff even though I expect you to be at your keyboard the entire time. Of course, I'll be in the other room getting a drink while my character gets buffed..."

It's a ridiculous double-standard. I say, do whatever you want - people want the buffs, it's a service. Or, hold everyone to the same standard - make weaponsmiths craft the weapon each time they want to make a sale instead of crafting them off an asembly line - yeah, make them stand there and have to craft the weapon taking 8 minutes, the entire time "assembling" (like flourishing) to ensure the weapon "takes" then give it to a person and then say "I've crafted this weapon for you - please tip me". LOL - I think you get the point...

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Itta wrote:

Yet, for some reason, there is this weird view that entertainers have to be at the keyboard to give buffs, otherwise it's a bad thing. Why? I mean, a service is being provided, right? How is it any different than purchasing a pre-made weapon from a weaponsmith? And, more than that - a musician doesn't make money the way a weaponsmith does. I've never charged anyone a million credits for a buff - my best buffs won't ever cost what I pay for a weapon, and I'll never make the kind of cold hard cash they do even if I am at the keyboard for 8 hours a day.

It's like people enjoy keeping musicians under their thumbs - "you have to be at the keyboard, you should talk to me, don't ever deny service for bad tips, and - oh yeah - you should only charge 3,000 credits for your buff even though I expect you to be at your keyboard the entire time. Of course, I'll be in the other room getting a drink while my character gets buffed..."

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It's the entertainers who actually want to *play* a Musician [Entertainer] who hate this, really. Entertainer was intended as a social class. By encouraging AFK buffs (and, in fact, *any* AFK entertainers), we're deprived on the social interaction we wanted.

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It's a ridiculous double-standard. I say, do whatever you want - people want the buffs, it's a service. Or, hold everyone to the same standard - make weaponsmiths craft the weapon each time they want to make a sale instead of crafting them off an asembly line - yeah, make them stand there and have to craft the weapon taking 8 minutes, the entire time "assembling" (like flourishing) to ensure the weapon "takes" then give it to a person and then say "I've crafted this weapon for you - please tip me". LOL - I think you get the point...

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Weaponsmiths are not entertainers. They are Artisans. With the exception of Tailors, I'd rather help them get the components they need to make the best weapons, well, same as what's now out there. Tailors who do Custom Jobs will tell you that they probably get the best amounts of cash when giving personal attention.

One last thought. Artisans all ready /denyservice to anyone that doesn't meet their price. (you don't pay list, you don't get the gun. Dig?)Does that mean Enterainers should do it, too?

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Treguard wrote:

It's the entertainers who actually want to *play* a Musician [Entertainer] who hate this, really. Entertainer was intended as a social class. By encouraging AFK buffs (and, in fact, *any* AFK entertainers), we're deprived on the social interaction we wanted.

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Well I will not "BuffBot"....not why I spend the cash.

Enjoy the speed buffs and let me know of improvements.

Fragpuppie Uber
Master Entertainer, Master Musician
Guild Leader - Performer United Professional Society (PUPS)
Band Leader and Booking Agent - Frag's Puppies
President and CEO - Fragpuppie Enterprises and Uber Instruments
Coronet, Corellia, Chilastra

Fascinating. Let me get this straight: your macro has 5 flourishes in a row, with no /pause command betwen flourishes? Then a /pause 8? Does the listener actually hear more than one or two flourishes? The reason I've never flourished five-in-a-row like that, without pauses, is that the listener won't hear all of them. It had never occurred to me that the *server* might nonethless recognize them.

I'll try this this weekend. Pretty nifty if it works. 3:10 -- heck, I know doctors who take longer than 190 seconds to buff me.

Not that this is the right place for it but....I just hit Master Dancer and tried the "Patent Pending Fragpuppie Uber 3:10 QuickBuff" for dance.

It works there also in 3:10....need to verify if I can or can't go faster though.

Fragpuppie Uber
Master Entertainer, Master Musician, Master Dancer
Guild Leader - Performer United Professional Society (PUPS)
Band Leader and Booking Agent - Frag's Puppies
President and CEO - Fragpuppie Enterprises and Uber Instruments
Coronet, Corellia, Chilastra