Entertainer Experience (Game Mechanics)

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Description Template (Game Messages) Related Tags 0% This document has not been started. Mechanics This document is about game mechanics. Completion Guide - 0% - No substantive information available on game feature 25% - page has been started but not completed 50% - page is as complete as possible with the currently available information but probably needs more research done on the subject matter 75% - page is probably complete but needs to be reviewed for accuracy of the page content and to make sure that no information is missing about the game feature 100% - page has been reviewed and compared against enough sources to the extent that there is reasonable confidence that the game feature is completely documented. System Messages Game Mechanics Music and dancing experience can be obtained anywhere so long as the player is performing a flourish. This means that a player can perform outside or in the field and still earn experience. The base xp you get per "tick" depends on either the song/dance level or the instrument level, whichever is higher. A tick is an interval of 10 seconds that recycles. Playing Starwars 1 on a Kloo horn (Musicianship IV instrument) gives you the same xp as playing Starwars 3 (Musicianship IV song) on a slitherhorn. Musicians are allowed to have up to 2 flourishes within the tick cycle to be counted for purposes of experience. Dancers are only allowed 1 flourish to be counted within the 10 second cycle. After a player executes a flourish they receive the maximum amount of XP possible. After that, if no more flourishes are done, they will continue to get XP per tick, but at 1 less XP per tick. So if you did a flourish for 8 XP and didn't flourish again, the next tick would give 7 XP, the next 6 XP, etc. This experience will count down until it hits 1 and then stop will coming in unless the player executes another flourish. Bonuses to experience come in the following forms: Group Size Bonus Audience Size Bonus Audience Interaction Bonus Note: The exact system for how bonuses work is unknown but some player accounts offer some clues so these will be used and interpreted to provide a scenerio for us to use. Presumably all bonuses are added cumulatively. Group Size Bonus Group size bonus is presumably a 5% bonus added to the base experience value for each group member that is actively playing by the time the experience tick cycle comes up. The bonuses are tallied cumulatively, thus a 20 player group would have a group bonus multiplier of 1.95. If the base experience for a player in that group was 100, then the experience they get at the next tick cycle will be 195. Audience Size Bonus Audience Size Bonus is presumably a 5% bonus added to the base experience value for each player that is watching or listening to a member of the group by the time the experience tick cycle comes up. The bonuses are tallied cumulatively, thus players watching or listening to the group would have an audience bonus multiplier of 1.95. If the base experience for a player in that group was 100, then the experience they get at the next tick cycle will be 195. Audience Interaction Bonus Not much information is available for this other than that presumably it is initiated by the players who are watching an entertainer. According to the report, a player that issues certain emotes such as /clap /applaud /cheer will instigate an experience bonus for the entertainer and or their group for at least one tick cycle. I'd propose that we standardize the bonus to 5% like the rest. We could make it so that every player who issued one of those three emotes prior to the tick cycle coming up would count for an experience bonus for members in the group or for the player. Only one emote would count per cycle and the emote would have to come from someone who is not part of the group. Basics of the affects of flourishing on exp gain: 1> A Musician flourish lasts 5 seconds, so even though you can hit the key twice in succession, it'll still take 10 seconds to actually play the notes. 2> When determining XP, it only matters when you hit the key or when the macro sent the command, NOT when it was actually played. 3> The game counts in 10-second periods from when you started playing; you'll know when a tick ends because that's when you get the XP. If, within a 10-second "tick" you flourish once, it gives you X. If you flourished twice or more, you get 2X. If I hit the flourish key six times in a row, I'll still only get 2X, but it'll take 30 seconds to play and will drain the full Action. So, as a Musician you should always have either 0 or 2 flourishes within a given tick, never any other numbers. 4> Every tick that had zero flourishes drops 1 point off of the XP gain of the previous one. 5> Dancers flourishes basically count as two Musician flourishes, taking double the Action points and twice as long, but giving the 2X experience. You don't care about that, though. Source References Source Source in Context