Orchestrion Fail or Bugged??

[Serilda]

I quite like the way it is. Anything else would have been a logistical nightmare - what if you picked up the FC's jukebox and moved it to a private room? Or replaced it with some future, cooler-looking variant in another patch? And what if you got a rare song then added it to your FC's jukebox - then left the FC and couldn't add it to your own? Also, some of my FC members are lazy about collecting things and this way I can force them to listen to Blood For Blood 24/7 until they figure it out.

Agree there should be an option for how the sound disperses through the house though.

[ladyJ]

having it so anyone in the FC could use it, would give another activity for fc members to do together and feel like they have achieved something as a Fc and community and group....

[Serilda]

In my FC we're planning on working together to rerun old content in groups and unlock the songs, so even though the drops don't go to everyone each time I think it's still doable. Perhaps they could have set it up so the FC's song list would be based on all of the members combined, so if someone has (say) Answers unlocked and they're a member, any other member can pick Answers from the Orchestrion? But I don't think this is a terrible alternative, otherwise large FCs would have every single song unlocked on day one and there'd be very little impetus to keep hunting for the missing tracks thereafter.

[Scott]

I think the collecting is ok. But it should be like Triple Triad Cards and you can use it right away. The whole "Find Material and let it get crafted" is a bit tediouse when you don't want to bother your LS Mates to always craft you your Sheets.

[SokiYagami]

Personally, I think it would be fine with 2 changes:

1. Give us the option to change between virtual surround (as it is now) and ambient music (like all other bgm) mode.
2. Let us store say, 5~20 tracks on a local Orchestrion as "Last Played" or "Favorites" so the rest of the FC can change the music as and when they prefer. It will also encourage more FC bonding as well.

This is kind of off-topic a little, but can we do Crystal Towers series with just a full party now? From the hints in the Orchestrion Log, it seems like we need 3 faded music sheet from each of the towers, I sure as hell hope it's a 100% drop into personal inventory with worst-than-Edda-frightening queue times for the towers. And before other people mentioned anything, nope, the music sheet alone wouldn't be enough motivation to get enough players back to do those contents. (I really wish I'm wrong though)

Also, good job on patch 3.2 guys! The development team deserve a thumbs up! ^^b

[dark494]

This feature's a failure for the community and is a big middle finger to FC's. How did SE not expect FC's to try out the feature, think they put a song in the "jukebox", realize only 1 person in the FC can even use said song in the "jukebox", and then quickly abandon it completely because of this poor implementation? Why is a furnishing, something that is built and supplied for the FC to the FC house, not a shared feature for the FC? I was excited for all of 10 minutes when I thought how cool it would be to setup an orchestrion and buy some songs to throw in it and quickly tell the FC "Hey guys, go check out the orchestrion in the FC house, I put some songs in it" and then the disappointment and loathing set in as soon as the first person showed up and demonstrated how useless it is to anyone but me. What a sham. What could've been an FC activity is now a solo endeavor whose value lies in reselling on the market rather than personal use.

And I don't buy any "server limitations" excuse. It's far more efficient if they had implemented the songs as a feature of the jukebox, an object that can only exist in finite quantities in limited areas (1 per house), and not the player data that can grow unbounded. What a huge oversight on their devs.

[SokiYagami]

Probably the technical difficulty to ensure every jukebox placed has an individual mini database to keep track what was "unlock" on it. Then there's the drama if someone accidentally remove the jukebox (if the Log doesn't tie to individual player). But I do agree there's plenty of room for improvement in the system and a combination of individual player's Orchestrion Log and local storage on the Orchestrion should be the answer to our problems as well as T13.

[Prynnie]

Can't I just think of the Orchestion as a giant (albeit poor) speaker and my song collection my person mp3 player that I hitch up to said speaker so I can make it go? Because that is what I'm going with. And I don't care how much I like you I'm not handing over my player! ^^

For FC's who seem downhearted that not everyone can use it though I am terribly sorry. I know it would be super duper cool.. but I also know that there is no difference between FC and Player Housing when it comes to furniture. So Perhaps there just needs to be two different music players. One that works as it does now for personal housing and a FC based one where you could store the music scrolls within to play for everyone?

I am however enjoying gathering up all the music and watching my collection grow, so I don't really think of it is a failure. I am also sure there are many like me who ARE enjoying it. It might just not be what people would have assumed/hoped it would be.

[Solarra]

Perhaps there just needs to be two different music players. One that works as it does now for personal housing and a FC based one where you could store the music scrolls within to play for everyone?

This is a great idea. The schematic to build one could be added to the FC crafting recipes, perhaps. It would be great to have music available to the whole company.

[RyuSaarva]

This is a great idea. The schematic to build one could be added to the FC crafting recipes, perhaps. It would be great to have music available to the whole company.

nice,let's add armory to fc houses as well for all gear too so people don't have to earn equipment themselves.