Musician Archive
Thread: Alternatives to a UI Buffing Interface for Musicians, since all the UI programmers are on JTL.
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Warryyr
Fri May 28, 2004 3:50 pm
#1
OK, for whatever reason, SOE only has enough UI programmers that they all have to be working on JTL right now. So say the Devs. Fine, forget the UI interface for Musician buffs completely.
What are some ideas for a non-UI method of ensuring Musician buffs aren't stolen from us?
Here are a couple I've thought of:
1) Just create a system message that says to both parties, upon completion of the Musician buff, "(insert name here) enhances your Focus and Willpower by XXX." This would also point people to their stat sheets to see their buff ( no more repeating countless times "check your stats to see if the buff worked").
2) As the Musician buffs, a littlesymbol thing (like what appears when Medics/Doctors heal patients) drops over the head of the patron. Make it a different color from the Medic/Doctor one, so it's discernable to the Medic/Doctor heal thingie. Let's say it's Green, since Action is what we expend to Musician buff. This green thing would fall on top the head of the buffee every minute while we buff them. This would solve a few things, such as:
a) No one knowing if a Master Musician or Master Dancer is buffing or not. How many Spatial spams do we see in Cantinas that /shout "ANY MASTERS BUFFING IN HERE?????!!!!!!??????" every 5 seconds? No one knows if a Master Musician or Dancer is buffing. Docs at starports are easily noticed due to this feature for them. Immediately, people walk up to Doctors when they see this symbol falling onto someone (and the -130 in blue numbers pop up over the Doc's head) and they ask the Doctor "can I get in line?"
b) We would know that, in fact, we actually are doing something useful with our time. This would be a vast improvement over wasting both our customer's time and our time trying again, and again, and again to get the buff to work. If the green thingie didn't start falling onto the head of our patron, they're not /watching or /listening. Then we can say, hey, listen to us dangit - without getting the response "I am."
Anyone else have any alternatives to a UI buffing interface for Musicians? We need to get this resolved. No other Master healing profession relies on the buff recipient's honesty as to whether the buff worked or not.
Warryyr
NewJedi
Sat May 29, 2004 10:00 pm
#2
Some good ideas here. I've asked the devs at least to give us a system message or some such, indicating that the buff is in progress or has been finished. They've never said no, but it just doesn't seem to be a priority. 
Landlubber
Sat May 29, 2004 11:46 pm
#3
NewJedi wrote:
They've never said no, but it just doesn't seem to be a priority.
Hehe - I propose adopting this as the official SWG Musician's Motto 
JamfeFabri
Sun May 30, 2004 3:33 am
#4
Landlubber wrote:
NewJedi wrote:
They've never said no, but it just doesn't seem to be a priority.
Hehe - I propose adopting this as the official SWG Musician's Motto
heh i love it! (not in that it bodes well for musicians.....)
Warryyr
Sun May 30, 2004 4:58 pm
#5
It's too bad that having our services stolen from us isn't any kind of priority for the Devs.
sweatyclimber
Tue Jun 01, 2004 8:11 am
#6
Warryyr wrote:
It's too bad that having our services stolen from us isn't any kind of priority for the Devs.
not to mention our buggs and everything else... its too bad to know that we have no priority what so ever with them... most likely it will mean for me that after the hutt casino a week/month of ranting untill they change stuff or i get kicked/ banned and then cancel.
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