Difference between revisions of "Mind Buffing (Game Mechanics)"

Overview

At Novice Musician and Novice Dancer, and up, players receive the ability to enhance other players' mind attributes from 10 seconds to 2 hours. Musician buffs are linked to enhancing secondary mind attributes (willpower and focus) where as dancer buffs are linked to enhancing the primary mind pool. The buff strength depends on the Musical Mind Enhancement and Dance Mind Enhancement skill modifiers and each point in the skill will increase the effective size of the buff recipient's base attribute pool by 1%. At Novice Musician, this skill is 10, which results in a 10% increase in the relevant stats. At Music Tech 4, this skill is 75, resulting in a 75% increase. At Master Musician, this skill is 100, resulting in a 100% buff in effect a doubling of the player's base focus and will power attributes.

Issuing Buffs

In all cases, In order for a buff to be applied to a player, the player must be actively listening to or watching the entertainer and the entertainer must be actively performing. Buffs go into effect on the recipient when the player stops listening or stops watching the entertainer.

Buffing may be initiated on players by two methods:

• Passive Means
• Active Means

Passive buffing entails grouping players who wish to receive the buff and have them watch or listen to the entertainer. In this manner, entertainers are able to buff up to 19 different players at once. Ungrouped players are not able to obtain buffs from watching entertainers.

Active buffing entails using the /setPerformanceBuffTarget command to select a player to receive a buff. The setperformancetarget command will focus the entertainer's buffing ability directly towards a specific target. This is used to buff players who are not in the entertainer's group since anyone who is in the group can automatically gain access to the passive buffing. Entertainers may also add a parameter with the command that includes a player's name. This will have the same effect as directly targeting a specific player so long as the target is within range. The buff recipient must be watching or listening to the entertainer through this process.

Buff Duration & Strength

The size and duration of a mind buff depends on a number of factors that include whether the entertainer uses flourishes, what song or dance is used and what instrument is used. This section will first cover buff durations and then move on to discussing buff size factors.

Buff durations have a minimum duration of 10 seconds and can range up to a maximum of 2 hours. As an entertainer is performing, every 10 second tick cycle that passes or flourish performed increases the duration of a buff by 1 minute. For purposes of calculating duration, both dancers and musicians may queue up a flourish every 2 seconds. This allows for a maximum of 5 flourishes to be queued up within a 10 second time frame, and thus 5 minutes being added to the buff timer for the recipient. This means that at the end of the 10 second tick cycle, an entertainer can create a buff duration of 6 minutes.

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