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Thread: Top Issues Polling Get them in now!
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Aleyo
Mon Jan 31, 2005 9:41 pm
#1
Ya'll know the drill 
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Let's get an updated set of top issues. We've had a few entertainer-related changes lately (e.g. fix for /register, fix for simultaneous dance/musician buffs), so let's see where our priorities lie these days.
Please submit at least 5 of your biggest issues, and rank them according to their importance to you. Feel free to list as many issues as you have in addition to your top 5. Ranking is appreciated, but less important, for the issues not in your top 5.
For reference, our last top 5 issues can be found here.
.Let's get an updated set of top issues. We've had a few entertainer-related changes lately (e.g. fix for /register, fix for simultaneous dance/musician buffs), so let's see where our priorities lie these days.
Please submit at least 5 of your biggest issues, and rank them according to their importance to you. Feel free to list as many issues as you have in addition to your top 5. Ranking is appreciated, but less important, for the issues not in your top 5.
For reference, our last top 5 issues can be found here.
Message Edited by Aleyo on 03-09-2005 01:05 AM
seline
Tue Feb 01, 2005 12:31 am
#2
I can start with FS skills to be changed to BF healing instead of current Wound Healing
or Musician / Dancer Enhancement skills.
Tralmek
Tue Feb 01, 2005 12:48 am
#3
1.Stop all long-term AFK "play" of the Musician profession(and by extentionall the others)
2. More songs, instruments, unique sounds between existing instruments
3. Fix Player Theaters: Buffing, healing, and decorating should be allowed on-stage. Also,Nalargons, Ommni Boxes, and Droid Effects should appear on-stage instead of on theground underneath the theater.
4. Add music-specific clothing (like thedance leotards from Jabba's palace, but equippable byboth males and females)
5. Fix /denyservice to be more like the friends and ignore lists.
6. Fix all Nalargon/Ommni Box targetting and placement (including the ever-annoying stealing)
7. Provide a specific SOE-supported vision of what the Profession should be and where it's going
8. Fix /startband and /stopband
9. Improve Create content for Musicians, including more paths to Jedi in the Village
10.Make gambling available in Player Cantinas and Theaters
Message Edited by Tralmek on 02-01-2005 12:49 AM
LyteFoot
Tue Feb 01, 2005 7:40 am
#4
Please ignore the troll folks.
1. Remove AFK play completely, I no longer care how heavy handed the approach is just do it SOE
2. remove passive buffing or the /join /invite commands.
3. Content, content, content
4. Allow us to call droids inside NPC cantinas like we can in PC cantinas
5. Allow us to group ent droids in space
6. Fix the band commands /startb, /changeb
7. Self buffing
1. Remove AFK play completely, I no longer care how heavy handed the approach is just do it SOE
2. remove passive buffing or the /join /invite commands.
3. Content, content, content
4. Allow us to call droids inside NPC cantinas like we can in PC cantinas
5. Allow us to group ent droids in space
6. Fix the band commands /startb, /changeb
7. Self buffing
NJ62
Tue Feb 01, 2005 10:17 am
#5
1. AFKing. Gone.
2. Self-buffing.
3. More Content (songs, instruments).
4. Better buff controls - put control of the buffs in the hands of the entertainer, not the customer. Make an interface so that you know when a buff is finished.
5. Experience gain related to level. You have to play often a lower song than your highest because of lower level band members, or may want to play a lower instrument because of its sound. This should not penalize you for experience.
6. Different instrument sounds
7. Bugs with /changeband etc
8. Experience for bandflourishes (possible again when afk "play" is disposed of) - to encourage "performances" at earlier levels.
9. Targeting issues and customer hijinks with ommni etc.
10. Customers cannot see flourish animations unless listening (pet peeve of mine). Hey, they can see dancers, soooo why not?
2. Self-buffing.
3. More Content (songs, instruments).
4. Better buff controls - put control of the buffs in the hands of the entertainer, not the customer. Make an interface so that you know when a buff is finished.
5. Experience gain related to level. You have to play often a lower song than your highest because of lower level band members, or may want to play a lower instrument because of its sound. This should not penalize you for experience.
6. Different instrument sounds
7. Bugs with /changeband etc
8. Experience for bandflourishes (possible again when afk "play" is disposed of) - to encourage "performances" at earlier levels.
9. Targeting issues and customer hijinks with ommni etc.
10. Customers cannot see flourish animations unless listening (pet peeve of mine). Hey, they can see dancers, soooo why not?
Shaizann
Tue Feb 01, 2005 10:27 am
#6
Well I guess I should say it too..
1. Remove AFK play. I don't just mean for entertainers I want it gone from the game totally.( AFK loot campers, AFK Meatlump killers etc.) I'm referring here to zombie FS grinders and such for entertainers.
2. Cantina Mini-games: I think that the companion issue to AFK play is the lack of cool stuff to do whilst in a cantina. Yes the social scene is good, but I think the porofessions as a whole would grow from some alternative form of activities rather than just passive listening. I mean simple games like Tic-Tac-Toe. If resources allow I'd like to see Sabacc or Pazzak. Such games combined with removing AFK play would do great strides in enriching the Cantina atmosphere.
3.Passive Buffs: I'd like to see this removed. I think a viable substitute would be to have /setperform work on multiple persons at a time. Even if it would require grouping to do a /setperform for more than one. This would be an anti-bot measure in lieu of wholesale removal of afk.
4. ATK SuperBuff (tm): If it turns out that we're not going to see bot removal then I propose that the ATK buffer be given the advantage of a very powerful buff. Perhaps /setperform out of a group would do a 175% buff or something like that. I know this might seem extreme amount of buff, but I'm looking for a compromise for us and the combat folk here.
5. Rework the buffing system completely. Our buffing code by Keldrain's admission is a pile of poodoo. I'd like a buffing window type interface. I'd like it to tell me things like a) who I'm buffing now b) how much time is left until the buff is done c) secure payment like the ID window
6. The code for the entertainer quest allows us to see who we are entertaining during the advertising phase by giving us a system message when the patron /listens to us. I'd like this to be a feature we can have all the time. It helps me a great deal to know who is /listenign to me. This feature should be toggleable so folks that don't like it can turn it off.
7. Self Buffing: We can already heal ourselves I would like to be able to self buff as well. /sing I don't want anybody else when I think about you I buff myself.... 
Message Edited by Shaizann on 02-01-2005 09:29 AM
Warryyr
Tue Feb 01, 2005 10:41 am
#7
1. Put a bullet through the head of the AFK monster. Or a spear. I don't care how, I don't care why, all I care about is WHEN because I'm tired of seeing good friends give up on this game and it's despicable situation with Entertainers.
2.Three words: Entertainer Buffing Interface. It still pisses me off to no end that we, as Musicians specifically, have NO WAY to know if our buffs worked or not. I've been ripped off before due to this. You can't prove a darn thing. May as well fix this all and fix it right, give us an interface that says the buff, buff duration, and time remaining to apply. Your claim to us, when we asked this before, was that ALL the UI people were working on JTL. Newsflash - JTL is long over and no longer requires every single UI designer on your team. Put them to work on our UI immediately.
3. Make our instruments customizable and sound unique - you cut corners early on to get the game going, now make up for it. New instruments. Let us color our instruments. More songs, like 20 or 40. I know of no supposed "master" musician who has but 10 songs in his or herrepertoire. Fix it. There isno reason why certain near-master instruments should sound the same as instruments gained at novice. That's sad. I'm paying my skillpoints to learn something new, not the same thing I could before but with a new graphic mesh over it.
4. Let Musicians entertain. I know this might stretch your combat-oriented brains, but we need some creative thinking here. Go nuts, anything is better than having nothing tangible at our disposal to entertain in-game. I know that our personalities are part of this, but there's only so much entertainment one can provide at certain parties before you become another decoration, with pretty music notes floating over your head. I want to be able to DO SOMETHING that's entertaining, not the same "raise horn in air, twirl in circle, dip head down low, step side-to-side" motions that are supposed to entrance a crowd. It might have - for the first few months of this game. Help us be entertaining.
5. Competely destroy and rebuild Entertainer missions. They're boring now. Fix that. Also make them scale to the ability of the Musician. No profession should be getting paid for missions at the SAME RATE from when they're Novice all the way to Master. Very ridiculous.
6. STOP LETTING PEOPLE STEAL OUR NALARGONS AND OMMNI BOXES. You sure got a bug up your butt when people were stealing the Doctors' droids, didn't you? What grand treatment! Ohhhh, you got that fix RIGHT into shape! How neat! You know, OUR game is important, too.Fix it, stopit, make them not require targetting to play, ANYTHING. JUST DO IT, already.
Message Edited by Warryyr on 02-01-2005 09:46 AM
Shorrim2
Tue Feb 01, 2005 11:04 am
#8
Do not remove /invite until after fixing the Nalargon and OB targetting issues.
Shorrim2
Tue Feb 01, 2005 11:12 am
#9
1. Just so we're unanimous on this: kill the buffbots and bury them at a crossroads at midnight. Kill the people that own them, their families and their pets. Fire the CSRs who give badges to buffbots.
2. Make instrument quality matter. Faster buffs, faster healing, stronger buffs, less chance of a bum note, anything that will add some point to the musical crafting game.
3. End Nalargon and Ommni Box stealing. I hate having to rearrange my cantina every day.
4. End the 15-second wait between songs.
5. Add a buff interface so we can see who we're buffing, and when we're done. Make it a secure trade window like ID, and make it non-macroable.
6. Add self buffs.
7. Allow us to walk while playing the portable instruments. If (4) were fixed this would be less of an issue.
2. Make instrument quality matter. Faster buffs, faster healing, stronger buffs, less chance of a bum note, anything that will add some point to the musical crafting game.
3. End Nalargon and Ommni Box stealing. I hate having to rearrange my cantina every day.
4. End the 15-second wait between songs.
5. Add a buff interface so we can see who we're buffing, and when we're done. Make it a secure trade window like ID, and make it non-macroable.
6. Add self buffs.
7. Allow us to walk while playing the portable instruments. If (4) were fixed this would be less of an issue.
DarkY0da
Tue Feb 01, 2005 11:27 am
#10
1. AFK non-playing. Looting, POI camping, Meat Lumps, FS grinding, any and all forms of AFK that allow you to take up server resources, and screw with people that are really trying to PLAY the game, need to go.
2. Content. This covers changes Entertainer missions into scaling interactive things. The ability to access content already in the game through our professions mechanices.(Like being invited to Jabba's to play after you have finished up the Entertainer quest). Making Cantinas a more inviting and fun place to be. Or making hotels and theaters more inviting and fun places.(with the addition of like Pazzack and Sabacc, shoot maybe even add in WoTC's Star Wars: TCG with cards as loot and stuff)
A system based off our Entertainer quests and the FRS system to give post master perks and content. (I'm sure you get the idea)
3. Bug fixes. (/changeb, rewriting our buggy Buffing Coding so it doesn't break any time you sneeze on it, ect.)
4. More instruments. I would like more different sounding instruments. But at the very least Quest related loot like an instrument. Or loot drop of a limited use scematic that only a Master Musician can craft.(which sort of falls under #2)
5. I also would like some way to get a little more creative in making music. Take for instance the /pausem command. As far as I know it only pauses the music for me. Not for the people listening. I like to stop playing sometimes while my Droid does a short solo. No one hears the droid play as they were listening to me. And hopefully with a re-writing of the buffing code you could remove that stupid 15 second timer so that we could maybe get the ability to switch instruments on the fly.
2. Content. This covers changes Entertainer missions into scaling interactive things. The ability to access content already in the game through our professions mechanices.(Like being invited to Jabba's to play after you have finished up the Entertainer quest). Making Cantinas a more inviting and fun place to be. Or making hotels and theaters more inviting and fun places.(with the addition of like Pazzack and Sabacc, shoot maybe even add in WoTC's Star Wars: TCG with cards as loot and stuff)
A system based off our Entertainer quests and the FRS system to give post master perks and content. (I'm sure you get the idea)
3. Bug fixes. (/changeb, rewriting our buggy Buffing Coding so it doesn't break any time you sneeze on it, ect.)
4. More instruments. I would like more different sounding instruments. But at the very least Quest related loot like an instrument. Or loot drop of a limited use scematic that only a Master Musician can craft.(which sort of falls under #2)
5. I also would like some way to get a little more creative in making music. Take for instance the /pausem command. As far as I know it only pauses the music for me. Not for the people listening. I like to stop playing sometimes while my Droid does a short solo. No one hears the droid play as they were listening to me. And hopefully with a re-writing of the buffing code you could remove that stupid 15 second timer so that we could maybe get the ability to switch instruments on the fly.
Fragpuppie
Tue Feb 01, 2005 11:53 am
#11
REMOVE AFK...from all professions....all situations. If someone is not ATK, they are not playing the game and noone should get the benefits of someone playing that is not there. Buffbots are just the one that mostly affects us, but get rid of them all. Spam, XP gringing, buffs, sampling....lose em all.
Fix the variouis bugs.../changeband, /startband, targeting, buffs, etc....
New content that doesn't....ummmm....errr....lose its charm after the first 3 missions. New instruments and songs. Entertainer specific roles in quests. Make instrument quality matter or just remove it.
2 words....BUFF INTERFACE.
Fragpuppie Uber
Master Musician/Master Entertainer
Fix the variouis bugs.../changeband, /startband, targeting, buffs, etc....
New content that doesn't....ummmm....errr....lose its charm after the first 3 missions. New instruments and songs. Entertainer specific roles in quests. Make instrument quality matter or just remove it.
2 words....BUFF INTERFACE.
Fragpuppie Uber
Master Musician/Master Entertainer
Zombiedman
Tue Feb 01, 2005 12:29 pm
#12
1: Stop AFK macroing, this is some thing that should of been done a LLLOOOONNGGG time ago. Infact I would also request an (real)ETA for then this gits fixed!
2: More songs, simple enough
3: new/differnt sounding instruments, two way differnt looking instruments should not make the same sound
4:Cantina mini-games, holochess,a card game..Some thing to do in the cantina's for those who come to watch/listen
5:Better buff control
6:Fix missions for ents: In No way should I a master mus/ent should git paid 1000 creds for wasting 10 of my time, I don't need to git the same reward has combat types but make the missions worth it..
2: More songs, simple enough
3: new/differnt sounding instruments, two way differnt looking instruments should not make the same sound
4:Cantina mini-games, holochess,a card game..Some thing to do in the cantina's for those who come to watch/listen
5:Better buff control
6:Fix missions for ents: In No way should I a master mus/ent should git paid 1000 creds for wasting 10 of my time, I don't need to git the same reward has combat types but make the missions worth it..
Message Edited by Zombiedman on 02-01-2005 11:30 AM
Landlubber
Tue Feb 01, 2005 1:01 pm
#13
1. Remove AFK play or at least make it not as desirable as it is right now. I really would prefer some positive additions that give people an incentive to stay at the keyboard instead of just a macro nerf that alienates us even more with the combat players. For example, just one way to do this would be to introduce some kind of interactivity into the buffing process, giving a bonus to a buff applied by an ATK player.
2. More songs, more instruments, ideally also more flourishes per song
3. Self-buffing
4. fix the issues with the Nalargon and Ommni Boxes (targetting, instrument-stealing)
5. bring healing time for bf more in line with that for wounds. Make wound healing slower, speed bf healing up
Edited, I hope it's not too late
Message Edited by Landlubber on 03-13-2005 01:41 PM
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