Musician Archive

At the request of a few Musicians, I've started a thread over in the Droid Engineer forum about whether musical droids, akin to medical droids, might be a good idea. One possibility might be to allow us to confer our buff anywhere, not just in a camp or cantina, if we're accompanied by adroid with a music module. This would help us get our buff to the masses-- and I firmly believe that our buff, one of the best in the game, isvastly underutilized. Another possibility might be to allow limited battle fatigue healing in the field, but my impression is that the devs will be firmly opposed to anything that undermines the necessity ofvisiting a cantina.Anyway, these and other interesting ideas are discussed in the thread in the DE forum, at

http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=droid_engineer&message.id=45618&highlight=#M45618

At the request of a few Musicians, I've started a thread over in the Droid Engineer forum about whether musical droids, akin to medical droids, might be a good idea. One possibility might be to allow us to confer our buff anywhere, not just in a camp or cantina, if we're accompanied by adroid with a music module. This would help us get our buff to the masses-- and I firmly believe that our buff, one of the best in the game, isvastly underutilized. Another possibility might be to allow limited battle fatigue healing in the field, but my impression is that the devs will be firmly opposed to anything that undermines the necessity ofvisiting a cantina.Anyway, these and other interesting ideas are discussed in the thread in the DE forum, at

http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=droid_engineer&message.id=45618&highlight=#M45618

Yeaaaaaaahhh... man, boom-box droids. That would be SO COOL. Possibly a new droid in the upcoming DE fixes. Yeahhh.. a Stereodroid. The size of an R2 unit, but it looks like a little speaker

The possibilities for function are endless.

BF healing in the field would be nice, but would have the downfalls you stated and IMO would end up hurting us

If it was to replace a camp - maybe we should make it so you don't need a camp to call it. Otherwise, why are you going to need it in the field? Droids area bitch to drag along, maybe we'll fix that.

However... it allows for interesting possibilities for street performances if this is true.

Possibly allow it to have an extended radius in which people can hear you - thus allowing for outdoor performances in venues like theatres and places like the streets. Make it so other entertainers can use it as well. Other entertainment droids in the playing radius would essentially snap to it, in turn making a larger radius

Man, that'd be sooooo coool.

I got a good idea!

How about when people walk into the radius, they automatically start listening - but this won't work inside buildings.

Ahh... street music. I DEMAND STREET MUSIC.

My droid's name is Musicbox, wishful thinking, I know.

You have my support for this one. Perhaps a "transformer" type droid-thing that turns from tour bus into a stage with lights and speakers for those road shows I've been planning. ...

i like! good idea

Good idea.. I like the idea of street performances

However, as stated with others, we don't want to promote people to NOT visit cantinas for their BF.. Maybe what they can do it code the new droid in such a way that it ONLY works in the city limits.. NOT camps, or any location OUTSIDE of the city limits.. This could also be used to allow healing in THEATERS , since those are buildings inside city limits and have no healing ability on stage..

Now all we need to do to make theaters useful is to find a way to "drop" funiture.. lol The only way I see that happening is to give mayors one more additional ability.. "drop furniture" like they can do with streetlamps and fountains, but increase or make it so that furniture count is not part of the current limit count..

I love the idea

I like the idea, but if they are going to put it in then they should do it right.

It should be just like any other module that a D.E. can put into a droid. That module should allow a musician to heal BF, Buff, and heal wounds.Much like a medical droid does.

I would also like to see them, in the furture to implement a module for a droid that will play music. This is how it would work.

• A musician makes a CD like thing that people can buy.


• The person can then stick that CD into a droid, and the droid will play back that music and heal BF, and wounds.


• The CD should be a 1 time only use.

But I would like to see musical droids like NewJedi mentioned.

My droids name is TipJar

But I have to say NO to this idea. The purpose of the entertainer is to draw people to the cities. I didn't dump al that money into my cantina for people to be healed in the field.

Thats very true Monkeyboy3DX, I never thought about it that way, and the more I think about it.. why would we want droids to do this. You can do it in camps, and you have to have a camp to call a droid out in the wild. Unless of course you pull that dang droid all the way out in the field. So, you might as well use that camp!

I like the idea though it would have to be done correctly because I believe there should still be a reason for people to visit a cantina.

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Monkeyboy3DX wrote:
But I have to say NO to this idea. The purpose of the entertainer is to draw people to the cities. I didn't dump al that money into my cantina for people to be healed in the field.

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And I'm tired of being, metaphorically speaking, barefoot, fleshwrapped and in the cantina. I want to get out and pursue my craft without being chained to the friggin' bar. I see absolutely zero reason to treat us differently than doctors, other than misogyny (let's face it...most entertainers who actually stick to the profession are female) or a serious hate-on for 'bards.' (Though that's been amply demonstrated.)

I have always had one burning question...why do players need to be forced to congregate? If they want to, they will. Artificially forcing it doesn't make it work. Those who don't really want to get buddy-buddy with every Tom, **edit** and Harry just walk into a Cantina, listen/watch for as long as it takes to get healed up, and leave without saying a word. When I didn't have Entertainer skills (that was a rather brief period, but it did exist) I did that. I'll be friendly when I feel like it, and making me go to a really loud (spammy) area doesn't encourage it for me. Hell, it inhibits it. There's one type ofplace that is guaranteed to be full of people: the areas around the starport in big cities.