Bio Engineer Archive
Thread: thinking about retiring my **edit** creator in favor of droid eng revamp aka combat droids*
I remember Ralph Koster last fall talking about how they were going to turn Pet Wars (TM) into Droid Wars (TM)... who knows if that intent is still intact, but I would be suprised if droids did not become a much more popular alternative to pets for the Non-CH/non-DE clases.
I would be very suprised if DE's do not get the ability to call 2 droids at a time (the repair droid/droid issue), but I would also be very suprised if they implemented a CL-per-box system like they have for CH.
BoberFett wrote:
I generally try to keep a positive outlook, but let's not kid ourselves. Look what happened to BE when it received a major reworking. They borked it.
Do you really think you're going to become a DE and everything will be coming up roses after the DE revamp?
To me it's not a question of bugs at all. It's a question of the game's direction. What are going to be the combat pets of the future, and who are going to be the suppliers of these pets? That is the 1 million credit question right there. And SOE has shown very little regard for preserving game balance with these types of changes in the past. Droids used to be THE battle pet of choice. When they nerfed droids as battle pets, they nerfed them hard, and left them crippled for months. When they released mounts the completely invalidated scout terrain navigation. Didn't matter, mounts were cool and everyone wanted one. Then vehicles, completely invalidating mounts, hurting CH and BE. Didn't matter, vehicles were cool and everyone wanted one. Now we will have battle droids.... think they are going to bother to preserve the balance between pets and droids? If they did this, it would be a first.