Musician Archive
Thread: Quick Question about Registering...
But anyways, I'm confused about the RegisterLocation command does... I know it's for "registering at a specific location" and all that, but what does this accomplish? Do you gain some benefit? Does it let other PCs know about you? Any other hints or tips on Musician are welcomed here... after all, I am new to this. Thanks.As for the registering question, when you type /register in an NPC cantina, a little star/sun thing pops up next to that cantina's name on your map (ctrl V). That lets other players know that there is an entertainer in the cantina, and they can get healed there (or be amused). If you notice ones with a crescent moon next to the name, those are the cantinas without anyone registered.
I believe this also works in Player Cities when it is registered on the planetary map. I'm not entirely sure though. I tried registering at one, and it told me I was not of the correct faction. Oh well. /shrug
There are some really good posts on this forum for you to read to figure out your other questions, or just get hints. I would suggest the one on holo-grinding (although i don't recommend grinding), but it has some helpful hints. Also there was an old post about tricks for aspiring musicians. I don't remember the exact title of it....perhaps Tiaga could help out there? I believe it was his post anyway
Registration is currently utterly, completely, totally worthless. If you check the planetary map and look under Cantina or Theater they probably all have little sun symbols next to them. When the server resets, they're all set to this. That's supposed to mean that a Musician or Dancer (not first-tier entertainer) is on duty inside. Because they're all set to "staffed" status every day, and only show as 'empty' (the litte crescent moon symbol) if a Musician or Dancer has gone in, registered, and then left...that being the case, registration serves no purpose whatsoever.
If the server reset made all of them toggle to the off/unstaffed/empty icon, then there would be a point. Anyone who needed Entertainment Healing could look on the planetary map and see which cantinas had at least one performer of Novice Musician/Dancer skill on duty.
Yet another nifty idea that's borked and probably won't be fixed for a year or so.
Message Edited by Echinacea on 02-03-2004 08:33 PM
Nichu, that's the problem, is that no one (especially not our customers) ever checks. and the fact that it gets auto reset to the sun (i.e. someone should be in the cantina) every day makes it even more useless for anyone to check.
I think this is one of the things on our list for the Devs. It would be a great feature if it worked properly and with a few tweaks it would be even better.
Well, I'll try /register again. I haven't tried itrecently. But it's never ever worked right for me. I know why it doesn't work in my Player Cantina; I'm a rebel, and the owner is an Imp. But I can't get it to work right anywhere.
Echinacea, for what it's worth, the devs don't like AFK-macroing any more than we do. At least they say they don't, and I think they're sincere. But I fully agree with you that their short-term "solution" -- getting rid of Holotainers -- is hardly going to make a dent in the problem.
What we need, of course, is new fun content that encouragesat-the-keyboard play. If it's fun to play at the keyboard, more people will play at the keyboard; and if there are XP or other rewards for doing so (anddenial of XP for AFK'ing), more people still will do so. I think we Musicians have come up with lots of cool ideas that would make at-the-keyboard fun; there are some in my AFK thread, andsome especially good ones in the new "brainstorming" thread.The trick is selling one or more of these to the devs. I've certainly tried, and I plan to keep trying.I plan to go on apretty intensive lobbying campaign for specific "new content that encourages ATK play" once we get our 10 questions back from TH.
Bihlbo wrote:
Echi, NJ is right. /register is borked. I have never once successfully registered with any player cantina, not once. And I recently went bar-hopping to about 40 of them on the Eclipse server. Each cantina tells me that I'm not of the right faction. I assume this means that only town citizens can register with a cantina? Or is it cantina owners? Regardless, the way it is now is utterly worthless.
)when I was un-guilded I had no trouble /register ing in player cantinas. that was a few weeks ago and I haven't tried it since adding a guild tag to my name.
I can't do it in my own cantina yet cause our city isn't listed on the world map (silly lvl 3 caps).
I have yet to receive the "wrong faction" message, I'll have to try again here at someone else's cantina.
Hmm, I wonder if either guilding or faction has an effect on /register, apart from the obvious -- you can't/register in a cantina owned bysomeone of the opposing faction. I suppose I could test this by resigning my guild and faction membership on my TC character. (My main is NOT leaving the Alliance, and he's guild leader, so we aren't going there. )
Echinacea, I roleplay my faction all the time! In fact, it's one of my favorite shticks as an entertainer. If I'm playing with Imps in the audience, I'll innocently mention to a bandmate that I'm planning a vacation on Alderaan. Or I'll suggest that the Emperor needs to see an Image Designer. Or that Vader needs a better tailor. (Black is slimming, Darth, but the cape has got to go.) Our resident Dancer is an Imp; she and I are always debating the great issues of the day.
For that matter, combat PvP sometimes involves RP'ing too. My favorite moment was when an Imp came across me while I was liberating an Imperial poison factory. After his AT-ST 
made short work of me, he cried over the bodies of the Stormtroopers 
I'd dispatched, and then he looked at the installation and said something like,"They make milk here, you know. Er, at least that's what I was told." I was chuckling about it all the way to the cloning facility. 