Musician Archive

As long as people have to /listen to us in order to hear us, I don't see it happening.
Your average player couldn't care less for entertainers if it weren't for the buffs, which is sad enough. But I can't imagine lots of people showing up on such an event in order to listen, as most players are only interested in getting buffed up to the max, join a solo-group (with reduced pay = reduced tips) and go hunting for as long as buffs last. And with reduced solo-payouts (which I actually find a good idea as such...) players are in such a hurry to get the most creds for their buffs that they care even less about socializing...

Well PM me if any of you do want to set a time to take me up on it.

I say the time for this type of content is whenever you want.

I say the trouble is part of the fun.

I'm willing to take the time to help.

I'm going to answer you here and not on the Corbantis Entertainers Rock thread to keep it together.

I'm not interested in your challenge. The fact is that it is upsetting. As people have shown there are players who create bands, the fact you are unaware of this speaks to your interest more than their efforts. For another correspondent, who clearly isn't in touch with the entertainer profession, to throw out a challenge to create something that people have been doing since go-live just shows how much the non-ent professions really notice us.

The fact is that the mechanics to make an interesting song from our flourishes and instruments is fairly straight forward and you can do a lot. You can also perform with regular band or in a totally impromptu pickup band because generally one individual drives the entire band through a /bandflo command. On corbantis alone I have a friend with over 90 songs in alias files, friends that always ATK perform in cantinas and outside them, and still do buffs. Performing and buffing are not mutually exclusive activities. Just last night a group of us pulled together a band and played several higher level tunes including western while 8 dancers did coordinated dancing. When someone wanted a buff an individual would stop accepting the bandflo commands and provide the buff with little interuption to the improptu show. We gave the cantina crowd a great show and got plenty of complements and a few tips.

The problem is that when you take this outside you run into the players who never go into cantinas and always use buffbots. Lovely people like the fencer/TK template stacker that parked his AV on my band and proceeded to insult us and cuss at us for no reason except he thought it was funny.

I'm not out to beat buff bots, I can't because I play limited hours instead of dedicating a computer to create an NPC. The fact is that I shouldn't have to compete, they shouldn't exist. I'm also here to play a game, I shouldn't have to make it a job nor should I have to constantly create my own content because I'm paying for content to be delivered.

So thanks for the challenge but you are too late. People have been doing exactly what you say will "beat the bots" since the game started and it isn't making a difference. When I perform in a starport the vast majority of people don't even seem to notice the group of entertainers off to the side. Here is a group with notes floating up, dancers moving about, and ent droids creating special effects and hardly anyone glances. As long as that state exists, thanks to the dismal AFK condition of cantinas and buffbots, we aren't going to fix it. Only SOE can and should fix it the rest of us are paying for a content filled, fun game to play.

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When I perform in a starport the vast majority of people don't even seem to notice the group of entertainers off to the side. Here is a group with notes floating up, dancers moving about, and ent droids creating special effects and hardly anyone glances. As long as that state exists, thanks to the dismal AFK condition of cantinas and buffbots, we aren't going to fix it. Only SOE can and should fix it the rest of us are paying for a content filled, fun game to play.

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You speak right from my heart! People just don't CARE at all...

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Esharra wrote:

Oh Paks! Almost forgot..a good friend of mine is doing a Life Day play. If you'd like to be involved go to the Chilastra forum and find the thread there (it is close to the top right now). (sorry I'm not better at explaining right now but i'm a little doped up )

And Warryyr..you too!!

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Cool, I'll go check it out!

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Rowlyyk wrote:

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When I perform in a starport the vast majority of people don't even seem to notice the group of entertainers off to the side. Here is a group with notes floating up, dancers moving about, and ent droids creating special effects and hardly anyone glances. As long as that state exists, thanks to the dismal AFK condition of cantinas and buffbots, we aren't going to fix it. Only SOE can and should fix it the rest of us are paying for a content filled, fun game to play.

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You speak right from my heart! People just don't CARE at all...

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I was told by a doctor (who was buffing at the starport) that I should go back to the cantina "where I belong" and that if I wanted to make credits that I should "get a real proffesion."

Performing at a starport is like performing at a mall.

Any musician in real life knows that hell.

Actually personally I've always enjoyed musicians and Dancers at shuttles, but really it's all quick service entertainment... kinda the Carls Jr. of Entertainment (Malls hold true to this as well.) Not saying it's bad it's just... well not something I'd subject any band I led to... unless promoting a larger show perhaps.

I'm a huge fan of a Double Western Bacon Cheeseburger. I like it more than nearly every single other more "ritzy" resturant there is. So it's anything but cheepened.

It's just that entertaining in starports... like fast food joints... are less respected as a viable supplier of their particular product. doesn't mean the product is any less good.

But it does mean you are going to get horror stories like told before about people dropping AV's on their band and harassing them.

Or in the case of malls, you'll get kids blowing those godawefull horns and crying, while people stop for a minute and move on obviously less interested in the entertainment than in spending the allmighty dollar.