Bounty Hunter Archive
Thread: Combat Droids
I disagree. Using a weapon requires skill on the part of the one who purchased the weapon. Using a droid requires no skill on the part of the purchaser. All the skill was put into the droid (programmed and wired) by the droid engineer. Since the skill is in the droid's electronic brain, anyone who purchases the droid should be able to make use of that skill. What, you ask, should be the limiting factor in droids then? It took 5 years for Anakin to make a single protocol droid. I wouldn't mind it taking 2 weeks to create a Droideka.
-Raystonn
Some ideas I was tossing around .. if the devs are reading 
Combat Droid certs that can be bought from a DE with the droid that have a decay rate
rather then an actual skill point/tree cert system.
Anyone can still use their combat droid for as long as the cert lasts but needs to revist the DE
to recertify.
New Combat droid modules and frames would be added to allow for multiple damage types and special attacks.IE: stun , Acid.
These could also be dropped items like skill enhancements AKA droid enhancements and a DE could install at build time.(or socket system)
Frames of course would include Droidekas (some past blueprints descovered) or SWG devs could get creative and give us something not seen before.
Just some ideas I thought were cool.. someone else probably thought of them first.
I also don't want to see you guys turned into CH clones. Diversity is a *good* thing.
Advanced weapons require training (certifications) to use despite all weapons being inherently the same - point and shoot right?
So wouldn't it make sense that advanced droids would require some training to use? Perhaps they are experimental models of some sort, or something. As far as continuity, sure you saw civilians running around with service droids....but those are service droids, not combat droids. I would expect service droids to have an interface designed for laymen, while a combat droid would not necessarily have said interface. Anybody can use a VCR because it was designed to be easy to use - but try to use, say, an engineering system designed for professionals when you have no related skills or concepts at all.
Perhaps design a new module type to put in droids - a slot for an interface type. If we include:
-Simple user interface:Has less functionality, and is weaker, but is useable by anybody without any required skills.
- Advanced interface user interface: There is some skill required, but it is stronger than the simple interface, and with added functionality (more commands - perhaps some special attacks?).
- Professional interface: Skills on par with other droid engineers - must have a certain level of droid engineering to use and comprehend the interface. Stronger than advanced, but weaker than custom.
- Custom interface:Made to be used by the engineer that made the droid. Provides the strongest abilities, and the best functionality, but can only be used by the DE that created the droid (no transfer command, not tradeable to others, and can only be 'tamed' by the DE). Most likely a master DE creation.
Droid Engineers are crafters, not a pet class. So putting any or all droid certificates exclusively in the DE tree would be like moving half the pistol certificates into weaponsmith.
We make droids for anyone, so anyone with the right droid certification will be able to use them. Personally i hope that all the combat droid certificates are included in each ofthe combat profession trees.
i would be perfectly happy if combat droids were open to everyone, but SOE has pretty much decided they are going to have some sort of certification system for droids, and there is no way im going to stay a droid engineer if i would have to spend another 56+ skill points to use the droids... if they were to make a seperate profession to use combat droids, then they should remove the ability of creature handlers to tame creatures, and force them to buy the creatures from bio-engineers.
JonasBlackmore wrote:
You should repost your original post in a readable sized font
Quoted for emphasis. If you ever want to be taken seriously don't make it harder than normalfor people to read your post. The only reason I read it was becuase after I highlighted it, it looked a lot nicer.
As to answer your post, yeah heavy combat droids would be great. And they will put destroyer droids in the game for the simple fact that everyone wants them in there but if you think they will be put in before the space expansion you are sadly mistaken. Don't expect to see them untill the space expantion or the expantion after that.