Musician Archive
Thread: top 10 questions for the devs...
1. Do you see afk macrotaining as a problem as EVERY entertainer does? Do you realise that afk macrotaining is an exponetial problem as those who chose the proffession leave and don't teach the newer ones how a entertainer should be? What fixes are coming down the pipe?? When?
2. Do you will entertainers be brought more into the story of swg or are we doomed to sit in the cantinas with only a small role and not many options?
3. When will we get a responce regularly in these threads from you on useful posts? IE our suggestions for improvements ect. And WHY did you never respond EVER to our top 5 the first time and then only in directly the second time? bad form devs bad form... maybe an apology would help this.
4. Will entertainer proffessions be removed from holocrons to fix the HUGE problem they have become? when?
5. when will the 57,000 people that play these proffessions get some serious attention for improvments to the profession? I dont me here's a bone (buffing) i mean ok lets take some time and make entertainers a serious part of the game ie: involving them in new content maybe as info brokers as i had posted.
6. Will there be any game systems instituted to suport player events? Were almost always involved when there is an event and host many of our own and it would be nice for more support.
7. Will upcoming events involve non combat proffessions?
8. Why are the combat proffessions reseaving sooooooo much focus... i realise that most are in a combat proffession, but it makes sense since they are the only ones who get fixes/ content/ additions so its a self serving cycle... dont you think its time to pay A LOT of attention to the non combat types?
9. You say your adding new instraments, new songs, new dances. When are they comming and how many of them? 2 new songs/ dances/ instraments a year will hardly be enough and im scared that that is what is in store for us
10. What was your plan for the role of entertainers? do you see it fufilled? or did you envision more?
( exact copy from ent and dancer: )
Questions:
#1-#5 Top 5 ???
#6: Do you recognize that unattended gameplay is the norm these days while players that are live are a minority ?
#7: Do you intent to follow through on your EULA and prohibit any type of unattended gameplay ?
#8: Is any DEV or SUIT actually playing the game ?
Yes, TH just asked for the Dancer/Musician/Entertainer "top ten questions"; in fact, he singled our our three professions, which is a good thing. The timing just happens to be a bit awkward for me:last week, before TH made that request, I posted myJanuary "top issues" poll here, *and* a separate "brainstorming" thread. Now Musicians have to respond to a third poll! I'm worried my constituents are going to feel like they're being polled to death. 
But no worries,I'm happy to monitor all these different threads. So, Musicians: Even if you've already posted your "top five issues" or "cool ideas"in the other threads, would you mind posting your "topten questions for the devs" in this thread? I'm going to look through all three threads to compile out top-ten "questions" because I want to get TH a response pretty quickly, while we still have the devs' attention.
Message Edited by NewJedi on 01-23-2004 09:47 AM
1. Is there any chance to have instrument quality implemented?
Please make instrument quality matter in some way! You could go positive as in having a well made horn heal faster or you could go negative as in having poorly made instruments 'break' and become useless or heal slower OR MAKE HORRIBLE SQUEALING NOISES! 
2. Is there any chance of having gambling terminals in Player Cites at all? (if you say no to cantinas then please just put them somewhere! in a merchant tent all I care)
You know I want this; )
I don't care ifthe losses and winnings are taken out and added to maintenance... just please let me place them so I can increase my traffic!
3. Do you think it is fair that we cannot self buff?
It is totally not fair that musicians and dancers cannot self buff while doctors can.
4. Is it feasible (technologically) to have entertainer mission terminals give missions (IF ONLY VERY SMALL PAYOUT) for player cantinas/theaters?
These currently are a joke. 100 credits to travel 10k is not at all a good job. I would very much love if the entertainer mission terminal in front of our city hall started giving missions to play in random player city cantinas (I.E. mine )
EVEN IF THE PAYOUT WAS VERY LITTLE, IT WOULD HELP!!!!
5. Is the theater ever going to be fixed?
Mind wound healing does not work while entertaining on the stage. Items cannot be placed on the stage or in the 'house' of the theater. Do-baders cannot be banned from the theater audience section (the house).
6. When will instruments and songs be fixed?
Currently many instruments sound like each other and on some instruments the flourishes sound alike... how can you expect the entertainment population to play ATK when they can't actually entertain their audience?
7. Can we have a song/dance/unique instrument quest? like the Armorsmith RIS quest?
I promise you... the ent community would go nuts about this.
8. Are there any plans to include our field of expertise more directly in the GCW?
9. Can the omni box/ nalargon targetting issue be fixed?
10. Do you understand that the popular professions are popular because they are the most well maintained?
1. ETA on the promised new content? (i.e. new songs/instruments/dances/flos./etc.) (oh, and I include bug fixes in that category. i.e. buff bug, nalargon/ommni targeting, theater use, etc.)
sweatyclimber wrote:
here are mine:
1. Do you see afk macrotaining as a problem as EVERY entertainer does? Do you realise that afk macrotaining is an exponetial problem as those who chose the proffession leave and don't teach the newer ones how a entertainer should be? What fixes are coming down the pipe?? When?
4. Will entertainer proffessions be removed from holocrons to fix the HUGE problem they have become? when?
ok i guess friday's feature answered these two... so remove those questions and in its place and more umpf to us seeing some attention and ask...
1a: will the jedi revamp put us on the backburner again?
8. Why are the combat proffessions reseaving sooooooo much focus... i realise that most are in a combat proffession, but it makes sense since they are the only ones who get fixes/ content/ additions so its a self serving cycle... dont you think its time to pay A LOT of attention to the non combat types?
I only have 4 questions. Six more would be filler. Hehe.
1. Like I said in the Dancer boards, I'd love the ability to self mind buff. Also, I'd like the entertainer buffs to be more competitive now that chef is being improved/revamped and drugs are so common. Why can a Master Doctor buff for 3k above the normal pools but a Master Musician or Dancer can only buff 2x the regular pool? And how about a system message or timer? Doctors can see how much they've buffed for, is there any way we can see when the full buff is applied?
2. Dancers, even Masters, have a version of a "critical fail", falling. Everyone seems to hate it, but I think it's hilarious and neccessary. Of course, I think it happens too often with Masters... Anyway, will there ever be some version of this added to Musician? Maybe a sour note?
3. When will missions be lucrative and adjust for skill?
4. Is there an ETA for new songs or instruments?
Also, hiya FFW!!! WE'RE GOIN STREAKING!!!
You should know better Mr. Correspondant......they asked one other entertainer profession for top 10 questions.... Pikeman.........but only because our Correspondent snuck into the correspondent forums and reminded them we exist and asked to be part of the 4 professions.......
NewJedi wrote:
Yes, TH just asked for the Dancer/Musician/Entertainer "top ten questions"; in fact, he singled our our three professions, which is a good thing.Message Edited by NewJedi on 01-23-2004 09:47 AM
Well, at the time I wrote that, TH had singled out our three professions. His post in the Correspondent Forum was entitled "Musician/Dancer/Entertainer questions," or something like that. It still bears that title. Since then, at the request of three Correspondents, he's added three professions to his list of those from which he wants questions: Image Designers, Pikemen, and Tailors.
NJ-
when you post these questions that you choose, two things... one can you make sure that we overlap with the others as little as possible and also post what your going to post here?
Dev response:
" Hmmm lets have a meeting, to schedule a meeting, to discuss how long we can string these players along for."
" Lets book it for next month..all our people are busy with next expansion. Sorry but thats revenue generating and we have all our people on it"
"Well who is gonna do bug fixes"
"Ummm just use the interns"
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OK before I write more I better get some coffee.
Sorry friends but right now all these posts, and surveys, class issues, just strike me as a way to keep ya busy and hopeful.
It's almost February, and we've had what, one significant new piece of content (the buff enhancements) since launch? 
I'm happy to conduct survey after survey, but I too am getting impatient for results. The reduction of the holo-tainer population eventuallywill help a bit, but not enough, and that's not going to happen overnight anyway.