Development Cycle Archive
Thread: Publish 7 Feedback: Droid & Droid Engineer Enhancements
Malitevv wrote:
His comments are not accurate anyway. Yes the majority of DE's on the forums were oppossed to the DC idea, but so werea lot of non-DE's. And in the end, the reason the dev's gave for not implementing the Droid Commander now was that they realized it was a bad idea to add yet another profession to the game at a time when so many of the existing professions still need serious work.
Sho_Okami wrote:
Shislkah wrote:
This post is for players who want to know how the Droid Invasion publish ended up so weak where droids are concerned. The answer is, Forum Users. The Devs came to the DE forum in January with a plan involving REAL combat droids, including droideka. At that point I was a DE who was thinking of dropping it, and I was totally jazzed to see their plan. Then the most peculiarthing happened, DE's used the forums to collectively say "We are only interested in crafting, combat droids aren't part of the continuity." Overthe course of a week or two some very perplexed Devs (who had been hearing "Give me droideka!" for months prior) listened to the "DE community" (or that 10% of it that makes their voice heard) and decided that the customer is always right. This publish, as far as droids, is exactly what the DE's asked for: no meaningful combat, no new droids, and a couple slots on a the Adv. BLL.
Yet another disappointment in SOE/Lucas. (if true)
Something that impacts the Star Wars Galaxy, as we know it, in such ahuge fashion (Droids are an INTRIGAL part to the Star Wars Universe), should NOT ONLY be decided by the profession that it pertains to. Combat Droids should be a OPEN discussion, NOT relagated to JUST DE's. IF this is true....shame on Lucas/SOE. Something like that should be in the Concept/Development Forums for everyone to see and comment on.
His comments were lies. Lies or extreme laziness in not actually reading any of the full discussion on the DE board.
The DE's said "Metallic CH is not the answer. That makes droids useless to the majority".
SOE responded with "Oh, yeah, that's right. But we won't give you any certs anyway, since we were working on CH without ASKING YOU ABOUT IT FIRST"
The truth is, most DE's wanted combat droids. Check the polls and the threads. We have wanted a cert system for a very long time. Check the archives.
We wanted them for everyone. But, since the Droid Wrassler 'class' was turned thumbs down VERY LATE in development (since the DE forum wasn't fully informed earlier) then the devs had no replacement for it.
So DE's got components for restoration kits that are totally worthless.
Repair kits that used named resources and aren't worth producing past B level.
And every single droid was nerfed that had armor.
GG SOE next map
Reminders
Power Droids still require batteries, Never worked
Droid Armour stll not usefull,Broken this release
Cannot color droids during crafting,Broken this release
Droid handlers wouldnt work, OK
To be a proper Droid Engineer you really need master artisan as well.
SO if you do you cant get much skill for combat and therfore you are weedy as hell.
So why not give us these super droids (Please i beg of you, these two hit droid wonders are just sad) but obly for Droid engineers. Seems fair. Have these in a game, a team to take out an enemy base will have the required professions which all benfit from having great combat skills as well, but allow their trusty DE to come to provide bakup with the droidika or super battle droid.
Normal plaers should be able to have one too, but not so powerfull, normal plaeys should be able to have battle droids or probots. I dont thin iter droids such as the R3 should have combat capabilits.
I cant see this not being unfair and very reasbable as a request.
RIC-920 as another form of transport would be nice.
I dont think Barker droids will work at all unless you you do one of the following.
Ban spamming in cities - repeated tells of the same content stopped.
Allow these droids to be placed in non plaer cities to perfom these tasks
OR
Only allow these in your guild city or building
i must say over professions seem to have a far better deal over DE's, the amoun of effort it takes to get DE and the the little re-ward doestn sem fair
I used to sympathize with the devs. It's a huge job trying to balance all the desires of a large diverse comunitee and fit it into the Star Wars universe. I just don't get this one. How could you guys spend all the time developing this "droid invasion" and not see that you were screwing it up? You're using a hotfix to get rid of an unpopular change in experimentation.....how can you do that in response to feedback and in the same publish take the armor from our droids??!! Their only real benefit up to now was being able to tank. Now what the hell can I do with my probot? What are you going to do in publish 8? Add a battery power bar but then decide droids can't use a range attack? Give a pole arm to a protocol droid? Doesn't sound that much more ridiculous than what happened today.
Did you guys actually sit around a table and talk this out or did you hand the project to some dumbass intern? Do your developers work off of spreadsheets full of player statistics or do they LOG IN AND PLAY THE FREAKIN GAME??!!!! And when I say play the game, I mean the DE team should play a DE, not playing a jedi or commando or teras kasi who might have a droid in their datapad to dust off once a week.
I'm not even going to talk about R3 droids having the highest combat potential. Christ what a joke.
None of you are on the EQ2 dev team, right? just double checking.
Tammerlane, Master Artisan and Disgusted Master Droid Engineer of Gorath