Musician Archive

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Salporin_Wookie wrote:

heres one I brought up before. How about a "fame meter"? It could be hidden to the player, but the more gig missions you run, the more fame you collect. The more famous you get, the more reaction you get from the npc crowds.

Example:

100 gig missions - rank of "well known". A few cantina NPCs notice you when you walk in. Wave and pay attention to you when you play.

200 gig missions - rank of "celebrity". Nearly all NPCs in cantinas notice you and shout out relevent text. "Hey! Theres that Musician I've heard about! Lets go listen!"

300 gig missions - rank of "famous". NPC's in cantinas go wild when you come in! "There's %%! I've got all his holos!" NPCs on the street recognize you and ask for autographs.

400 gig missions - rank of "superstar". NPC's start following you to cantinas and cheer and dance when you play. Major NPC's (jabba, the emperor and luke and leia) generate special missions inviting you personally to play for them.

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Epidap wrote:

great post, some really great ideas.

personaly:

1. speekers, mike craftable by musicians

2 . dynamic quests and missions with suitable rewards

3. clothes!!!

4. portable mini stages

5 hooverJets on my Nalargon LOL

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Ssmoking Joe, don't we already have the "cantina song" as Star Wars 2? Personally, I'd like to have the main Star Wars theme as a post-Master "orchestra" number, only performable if you can find another dozen Master Musicians or so. That would be fun post-Master content. I'd like to see them do that with other Star Warsy tunes.

Brandon: I'd like a White Tie and Tails to wear while performing Ceremonial, or some Star Wars equivalent of a tux. I'd like Sergeant Pepper uniforms, even though that's not very Star Warsy. I'd also like to be able to hold a can of booze and drag on a cigarette (even though I don't smoke in RL), like all those cool jazz musicians. I'd like a ripped T-shirt and shades to wear while jamming on Rock. I'd like to be able to get an ID to transform me into a Bith for half an hour, for a fee. Wouldn't it be fun to be a Bith band, as in the Mos Eisley cantina?

Hey, great one there, Salporin! I love the idea of being able to do command performances for the big shot NPC's! This would defenitely make it worth my while to do the music missions. We already know that they can track these sorts of things, all they would have to do is add a 'visibility' log to us just like they have for the Jedi.

One thing I would suggest though is that they make it so that visibility rises and falls--in other words, in order to avoid falling out of the public eye, you need to not only make the original number of mission performances, but you must also do a certain number of missions per month to keep your stardom.

-Liloman Hammons, Master Entertainer, Master Musician

Join us at the Drunken Tusken Cantina in downtown Mos Elsewhere, Tatooine--Bria Galaxy

simple idea....

star wars cantina song should be the master level song

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Tralmek wrote:

Oh, and LeBob? I don't know if anyone has replied to the thing about not being able to pick up missions for player cantinas? It is possible, just VERY rare. A few days ago when I was in Mos Elsewhere I wondered if it was possible so I ran to our entertainer mission terminal and after a whole bunch of clicking on refresh I got two missions for the Drunken Tusken. Just so you know...it is possible.

-Lilo

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sumunabatch...

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Ibexguy wrote:

Add Combat songs.

Oh how about the Master level ability to walk slowely and play a small instrument at the same time

Bom'bay Sapphire--- Dancer/Musician/Fencer--Intrepid

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Ibexguy wrote:

Add Combat songs.

1. The Song of Peace....Area of effect, combat stops for X seconds. Could help those Bio-Engineers get those samples they want so bad.

2. The Song of War...Combat song, needs a bonus that is different then Squad Leader or Medic. Increased rate of fire....is that a squad leader ability?

3. The Song of Hope...Lowers a players INC. timer when they are down.

4. The Song of Taming...Gives a bonus to CH Taming, but doesn't actually allow you to tame.

5. The Song of Tracking...increases a Rangers Tracking range.

Basically my idea's focus on the Musician helping/inspiring other classes. You could go on and on with the Song of.....list, as long as it helps each class skills just a bit.

Just my 2 credits worth. Hopefully someone can build on this. These songs will get us out of the cantina and into the field and more interactive.

Oh how about the Master level ability to walk slowely and play a small instrument at the same time

Bom'bay Sapphire--- Dancer/Musician/Fencer--Intrepid

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as stated above, the dev's dont want bard, while nice ideas and they would be fun, they will never get implemented

Lots of good ideas here -- I especially like the fame concept. I think travel should be incorporated into fame as well. That is to say, visiting different cantinas increases fame. It should make sense that the more places you've been, the better known you are. Of course, I'm a bit partial to this as it fits my playstyle: I've been to every "fixed" (i.e. non-PC) cantina in the galaxy.

A second idea I had the other night is "/squelch". The squelch ability would transform musicians into moderators for the cantina. Any musician registered in a cantina would be able to squelch any patron in that cantina from speaking in spatial chat (and from emoting). This would:
1) Cut down on rude and abusive patrons (who could, of course, continue their rudeness in /tells).
2) Cut down on the afk bots' macro'ing and begging spam

There is, of course, the potential for griefing. To this end, the "/squelch" should end after a fixed period of time (say 5 minutes). The ability should only be useable in "fixed" cantinas. Other than that, I hardly see how any more damage could be done by silencing people than the appalling behavior some cantina patrons engage in. Perhaps the ability should be restricted to masters, so only the people who put in a great deal of time, and theoretically are more concerned about the cantina.