Musician Archive

Message Edited by Gknee on 10-27-2004 04:46 AM

1) All AFK play must go. Musicians must have all our healing and buffing abilities made active just as the medics are.

2) More music. The existing instruments should all have unique sounds, new songs should be added, and more instruments (that are not horns) should be added.

3) Better paying Gig Missions. Musicians (and entertainers in general) must be given a income that is independent from other players, not something that rival master combaters, just something as effective as the recon mission on the explore mission terminals.

4) Give us a clear definition of our role in SWG in general as well as in the GCW. If we do not know what we are mend to do, then we can not come up with meaningful suggestions and feed back on how to improve our profession.

(5) Take a more active role in moderating anti entertainer commentary in the games and on the boards. If moderators on the boards would lock topics that defend or promote buffboting, and AFK in general, with a comment that it is an unwanted game play style and that it will be removed sometimes in the future. We would have more peace to discuss out profession. You do not even have to go look for the posts. I think that many of us would gladly report such posts to the moderators when we come across them.
Like wise we need to be able to report such commentary in game, If CSR's would just lock out any AFKer found using a skill or spaming text in special, planet, or auction chat.

1. Healing Passivity: Performer healing/buffing should have to be active, should not be possible to do passively. I think addressing that would effectively kill 'buffbots' and 'healbots,' which would cause a revival of interest in the professions from those who are inclined to pursue them, but don't because of the whole AFK/buffbot issue. Ergo, fixing this is my true top priority, because I think it would address the symptom that is AFK macrotaining.


2. Buff Interface: Give us an un-macroable interface for buffing. It's our only true commodity. Even our healing can be done by a Cantina, albeit excruciatingly slowly.


3. Registration: Fix player cantinas, theaters and med centers being set to on/staffed at server reset. This is the true problem with /register. If people could look on the Planetary Map and SEE where Musicians (and Dancers, and Doctors) were on duty, I think it would help tremendously. Though it would also be really terrific if we could /register in Hotels and Taverns, too. And leaving the game world should cancel it, which it currently does not.


4. Crafting: I want craftables. I want instrument quality to matter in our healing, or buffing, or if the instrument sucks and we're n00b performers to hit wrong notes (akin to Dancers falling). I want to be able to make a "recording" that can be played in a droid in a venue where we could heal anyway. Make it function at 1/2 the performer's skill so it's less desirable, or make it require Novice Entertainer to use, like medic stims and woundpacks, but give the option for us to function on the same level as medics. There are hundreds of medics/doctors who never craft other than to get their mastery, but there are plenty more who supply pharmaceuticals for the whole community if they get something out of it.


5. Denial of Service: Why can anyone do this, even if they aren't Entertainers? It's used as a griefing tool, for goodness sake. It should work off our Ignore List.


6. Give each horn, the bandfill and ommni boxunique sounds. And implement those songs we've been told have been recorded for months. Totally new instruments would be terrific, but just fleshing out what's already drawn would be great. Re-doing the flourishes and base loop so that any flourish segues into any other and the base loop would also be fantastic.


7. I'd like to be involved, as a Musician, in the GCW, Force Sensitivity and quests that do more than re-hash the newbie helper droid quests. And for goodness' sake, put a bloody tavern in the Aurellian village.


8. Get over this obsession with Wound Healing. Give us some help with Fatigue Healing. Force Sensitivity, food/drink, bio-tissue...something.


9. Make gig missions something on which you can support a character with a vehicle, medium house and buying food. The level they're at right now is downright insulting.


10. Give droid engineers a module to put into droids that at the very least allows us to cure battle fatigue outside our professional structures, as medics and doctors do. If we had to go to scout camps or our professional buildings for wound healing and buffs, fine. Well...not really, but it'd be better than where we're at now.


11. Make Ommni Boxes and Narlagons like vehicles or droids, so they can't be stolen/used by other players. (But make it so we can call them indoors.) And fix their relation to the Z axis so we can use them on balconies, roofs and player theater stages. And somehow get rid of the need to keep them constantly targetted.


12. Bugs like /startband, /changeband, "you direct your performance to %TT," T'ssolock not working at all and others have been around for just a ridiculous amount of time. We've reported them endlessly. Please actually address them.


13. Some quest-granted item that equals our colleague's Exquisite Dancer's Leotard. That, patch messages addressing changes as "Entertainer and Dancer changes," and that all gig missions are "Dancer" missions, even when they're music ones, makes me feel even lower on the pole than Dancers.

Message Edited by Tralmek on 10-27-2004 10:26 PM

I like it. Send it.

Personally:
1.) I think our buffs should cost us something. That way the AFK'ers have to make a sacrifice for their 24/7 buffs.
2.) Our buffs are already balanced for the Combat Balance.

FYI: I saw today someone running a Squad Leader AFK on a macro during PvP for their group. Just left him in the back doing /formup commands to heal the group's Dizzy state.

For number 3, I'd love to see the volume of the instruments balanced in Western. The chid and traz are nearly silent, which is too bad because they're really pretty cool. That should be a trivial change to make. If the devs really wanted to make us happy, give musicians a volume control, so that we can balance the instruments ourselves.

I personally think 1, 2 & 5 are all sides of the same coin. If the buff interface (issue 2) were improved to include feedback and interactivity, that would naturally solve the buffbot issue (#1). Fixing /register (#5) will have far more value if buffbots are gone. Personally, I don't think fixing /register without dealing with buffbots is particularly helpful. After all, the bots can simply register themselves.

I would like to add that Musicians should get something with Musical Mind Enhancement to correspond to the Exquisite Leotard the Dancers get. (And it would be nice if whatever we get works for both genders...)

Gramon Blatt, ME/MM

Agree with you list.

17 would be just under 6 for me! Damn sexist game! More male dancers clothes!