Musician Archive

Message Edited by Echinacea on 09-09-2004 06:26 PM

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Skuzz wrote:
Ok recently i have begun to have all sorts of weirdness happening with my master musician buffs. I supply most folks in my city with buffs on a very regular basis, i use a macro to give them the buff, nothing fancy just a simple one that cycles thru the flourishes in a orderly manner. Anyway, the problem is that sometimes it takes upwards of 15-17 minutes to get a full buff now. I used to give out full buffs in like 8 minutes, then it crept to 10 then 12 and now its at 15-17. Is anybody else experiencing this? In addition to this as of about a week ago when my toon flourishes he loses the action but doesn't do any animations. Ive checked with those watching and they arent seeing any animations either.

Any help with this would be greatly aprpeciated. Thanks!

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I meant to reply to this earlier but i got sidetracked...sorry

I do not use a buff macro...i use a timer and just make sure i am almost constantly flourishing. I just have my patrons watch for 4 minutes and i have no problems. I did a couple just last night, so its not messed up for me.

Post your macro and let a few of the macro Gurus have a look at it.

Thats all I can think of at the moment......gotta run

Durney Kova

Master Entertainer / Master Musician / Master Image Designer / Novice Dancer

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Skuzz wrote:
Ok recently i have begun to have all sorts of weirdness happening with my master musician buffs. I supply most folks in my city with buffs on a very regular basis, i use a macro to give them the buff, nothing fancy just a simple one that cycles thru the flourishes in a orderly manner. Anyway, the problem is that sometimes it takes upwards of 15-17 minutes to get a full buff now. I used to give out full buffs in like 8 minutes, then it crept to 10 then 12 and now its at 15-17. Is anybody else experiencing this? In addition to this as of about a week ago when my toon flourishes he loses the action but doesn't do any animations. Ive checked with those watching and they arent seeing any animations either.

Any help with this would be greatly aprpeciated. Thanks!

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Skuzz wrote:

Ps- Frag what is this /change thing you mentioned? im not familiar with what you are reffering to.

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The /change bug will be when and if you are grouped with other musicians. Because you burn the action, it does not look to be a /change bug issue.

Here's what happens:

1. You are in a group with other musicians


2. For whatever reason you are not playing at this exact instant (Action, changing instruments, paused to teach)


3. You have an instrument equiped (or targeted for Nal and Ommni)


4. At that EXACT instant another musician in the band who is playing decides to /change to a song that you can play.


5. You then begin the vamp annimation and play the vamp music, but you do not flourish. If you try to it says "you need to be skill annimating to flourish". You do not burnANY action or gain XP, and if you move you do not stop playing the vamp. The way to get out of it is to do a /stopmusic and then restartup playing. If someone does /stopband you do not stop. If everyone else stops (due to /stopband or any reason) then thenext person to start chooses the song, and it may not be the one you are playing. You will /change to any other song you can play, but you'll still be bugged. If someone /changes to a song you cannot play, you continue in the one you were playing, you do not stop playing like you should.

In XP groups, this bug is EVIL.

Message Edited by Skuzz on 09-13-2004 01:53 PM

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Skuzz wrote:
Wow you guys are really responsive here. You rock! 8)
Okay let me see if i can give any more details so you guys can possibly help me with this...

Buffing
- I can buff just fine, it just takes 16-18 minutes to give a full one to a group (passive) or an individual using the /setperf (active) methods. Up until a few weeks ago i could do a passive group buff in 8-10 minutes. That was before i got this weird bug.
- When buffing i have only been doing a flourish like every 4-5 seconds (roughly), but as I mentioned above im not seeing the animations for the flourishes and i strongly suspect that im not even doing them as far as the game is concerned. =(
- I dont use my entertainer droid when buffing.

The Flourish problem
- It doesnt matter what instrument I use, or what song I play, whether im grouped or solo, or whether I use a macro or handle the flourishes manually while I play... my master musician Toon no longer does the animations for ANY flourishes. I dont see them on my screen and those watching do not see them either. This started out of the blue about 2 weeks ago
- I have made new instruments, did a full filescan from game launcher, etc. but nothing has fixed this.
- last night I logged with my fiance's entertainer toon using my machine to see if it was a problem with my game files, but i could do and see all the animations and movements for all the flourishes as normal with her toon. I then logged back in with my master musician and it was the same as before. No flourish animations.

Phew! Does that help anymore folks? =/

Message Edited by Skuzz on 09-13-2004 01:53 PM

Message Edited by Skuzz on 09-13-2004 01:58 PM

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here is another thing you can check.....but be careful

Shut down the game, open your SWG folder and find the Profile folder, copy the folder that has your character in it,named whatever server you are on, to another place, atemp folder, desktop, where ever, then once ot is safely copied, delete the folder from the profile folder. Restart your game and let the game itself rebuild your profile *** You will be bald in the Character selection screen*** Log on with your character and rebuild your tool bar enough to test flourishing. I am very interested if you have something corrupted in your profile, and if that doesn't work, you can log out and copy the folder you moved right back where you copied it from.

Durney Kova

Master Entertainer / Master Musician / Master Image Designer / Novice Dancer

Message Edited by Cudayn on 09-13-2004 10:32 PM