Musician Archive

Dear fellow Musicians,

Could you tell me what your #1 issue is for the Musician Profession? Please don't give me a long list; just name your top issue. The devs are starting to engage us Correspondents more actively, and it would be helpful for me if you could give me some up-to-date feedback on what you think we need most.

Edit:When I first drafted this post, the devs had asked me to identify Musicians' Single Top Issue. Now they're back to asking for top-five lists, so feel free to give me as long a list as you like. [Edited Dec. 12, 2003.]

Thanks!

-NewJedi, a/k/a Ricky Starwalker, Master Musician, Master Entertainer (Chilastra), and Richie Starsider, Bad Slitherhornist (Test Center)

Message Edited by NewJedi on 12-12-2003 06:09 PM

The thing that bugs me the most is AFK musicials. (Well, AFK entertainers in general)

More songs and/or more unique instrument sounds. Fatter looking slitherhorns and fizzz's are a bit of a let down, and some of the songs need an overhaul - I point to starwars3 as a prime example.

Obviously, this is a non-urgent request. I'm sure others will have more weighty issues at hand. If not, though, heck, lobby away.

My top issue; I feel worthless. The only thing I can do as a master musician over novice is healing wounds a few minutes faster than a novice. Its a bit of a stretch but if you compare doctors and musicians.. Doctors can heal two ham bars, doctors can buff for 2-3 hours, doctors can revive, doctors can cure poison/disease. As a master musician I can heal the wounds of 1 bar & battle fatigue and have a worthless buff that lasts only a few minutes.Granted, Doctors don't have any aesthetical skills like we do, but they have 5x more use than us. Hell we can't even heal Bf in camps.

I think our buffs needs to last much longer and we need to be able to heal mind damage.

I disagree about the buffs, I have many people that really take advantage of them such as image designers, and one nice part is the buffs can stack, a 30 minute buff is nothing to laugh at. Since my #1 has already been mentioned I will say my #2 even though its much lower: The new /change bug, when you use it people not playing music will start playing but be unable to do flourishes until they restart. (FYI my #1 was the afks heh)

I just want to compose my own stuff... I'll master the elite-elite profession if I have to

Master Level Content! I want to be able to DO something!

I mean the socializing is still great and i love playing music but the afker and my other skills have put quite a damper on my music lately.

More post mastering content or abilities.

When in a group and the leader does group flourishes only the group leader gets exp.

Something other than the slither as first instrument, SW1 just sounds terrible on it IMHO. The fizz would do just fine.

I'd have to say my biggest problem is I often find myself outside the cantina earning money doing non-entertainer missions. There really needs to be some way for us to make decent money. Sure tips are great but you can't rely on them to pay your house rent. The current entertainment terminals just don't cut it. They don't pay enough and discourage you from joining the entertainment groups in the cantina. The missions take too long and when you do finally finish them, if you happen to be in the entertainment group you reward gets split between all the group so you usually make maybe 10-40 credits.

As for a suggestion as for a fix... they either need to fix the current terminals or maybe implement a new system to pay us. Perhaps maybe a terminal when you come into the cantina to log into when you come in. Once there you do your job (entertain the people) and earn a wage from the cantina. To make it fair perhaps limit how much you can make in a day from one cantina... this will encourage us to move from one cantina to another and then the often empty cantinas will actually be populated with entertainers. Once you finish working you can go back to the terminal and collect your pay and go about your business. I know my post has turned into more then just a simple "My #1 problem" but I felt I just needed to get that all out

AFK Macroing. It's teh suq

My top issues: I HATE AND ABHOAR the idea that I have to spend 29 more skill points just for ceremonial and the mandoviol. And from the entertainer standpoint, footloose2 and formal2 are crap as well. No true bonus for those WASTED 29 points.... I'd like to see musicians actually get instruments and songs... so I guess my top issue is that as a master musician, I should have more music to play, and more instruments to play it with.. or at the very LEAST, more music sounds for existing instruments. Currently there are only five music sounds in the game.. the mando, the two horns, the bandfill, and the nala..