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This is an alternative idea for the combat droid delima that meets the criteria of the devs and the desires of the DE's.

Thunderheartstates the following:

Im reading and gathering all of the ideas put forth and presenting them to the devs. Keep in mind that a bunch of the proposals put forth the idea of a "mini profession" or adding a droid handling tree to the DE profession which is basically what's on the table.

The important thing to remember is that any proposal has to include the following design criteria if they are going to be considered by the devs:

• Any player can handle any pet or droid as long as its CL 10 or below.
  
• Any pet/droid above level 10 has to have a significant skill point/experience point expenditure.
  
  
  
  • Reference CH's and the fact they have to spend points for an entire profession to get those benefits.
    
  • Factions pets (which could be some droids) will be added at a later date.

Keep proposing good ideas and Drashk and I will keep looking for things that the devs and community can agree on.

Now, lets take a look at what the DE's want:

• The ability to craft combat droids (yes, I too would like to see survey, music, etc droids, but that is another can o' worms)
  
• The ability to sell combat droids
  
• The ability to use our own combat droids

This appears to put us at loggerheads. A majority seem to dislike the idea of a Droid Handler (DH) class - but on the other hand, there is the problem that if the droid usage skills for combat droids is placed in the DE tree, this would cause DE to be the flavor of the month, and the crafting DE's would be forced out of business - a sentiment that I tend to agree with.

So, here is my proposed solution:

Create a "mini class" with two trees for Droid Handler. Each tree would have four bubbles, and there would be a mastery. The first tree would be droid control, the second tree would be droid tactics. The bubbles could have something like this for abilities

Droid Control:

1. Advanced power usage (doubles battery time)
   
2. Medium combat droid control (requires medium combat droid tactics to use the medium combat droid)
   
3. Advanced Droid Calling (allows the droid to be called/stored w/o the normal wait period after combat)
   
4. Heavy combat droid control (requires heavy combat droid tactics to use the heavy combat droid)

Droid Tactics:

1. Advanced Droid Tactics (gives a +10% attack modifier for defense for the droid)
   
2. Medium combat droid tactics (requires medium droid control to use the medium combat droid)
   
3. Advanced Droid Attack Tactics (gives a +10% modifier for attack for the droid)
   
4. Heavy combat droid tactics (requires heavy combat droid control to use the heavy combat droid)

Droid Handler Master - allows the use of two medium combat droids at once.

So, there is the DH class. Now for the kicker to make the DE's happy:

Add all the abilities of Droid Control into the existing droid constructon tree, and all the abilities in the DH Droid Tactics tree into the existing droid refinement tree.

In order to make the DH class slightly better than just going DE, do not allow the use of multiple combat droids, as attained at master DH to the DE tree.

Well, that's the best I could come up with the criteria that the devs have posted, and having read all the threads for the last 48 hours.

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Ragemaster9999 wrote:

.... not to mention geting Knocked down and killed very quickly by master tka. ( 5 ft 150 pounds vs 40 ft 2000 pounds )

I am also under the feeling that they will BE BETTER than CH pets.. after all who wouldkill who first at20meters? a hunk of strong, durable alloy metal equipped with laser targeting systems... or a tamed animal who fights with tooth and nail?

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with the whole droid handler thing why dont u just add the abilitys to the ch profession like faction pets were correct me if im wrong but a master ch can pull out 3 at-st if he wants to because he has the ability to to control multiple pets so why make a new profession to eat up the small amout of skill points we already have and do it that way?

I must re-iterate yet again. WHERE ARE THE JEDI DEV'S? There have been no real fixes to the Jedi profession, and all we have now is a correspondant who is trying to get US to do the beta testing. Why can't the dev's talk about this or give us a sign? It took 6 months for them to finally put jedi in the game (of course they were "always there") will it take another six for them to start fixing them? I don't think most people can wait that long, right now everyone is grinding like hell to get ther slots and most people are sorely disappointed when they realize a jedi is a novice brawler who gets to hold a flashy stick and gets greifed by everyone.

Why not make it so that if a bounty hunter gets a jedi you can't play the character for let's say 2 to 3 hours.(but you could go back to your main of course)And the same for bounty hunters.The higher the bounty the longer the time the character could not be used.Or with bounty hunters maybe not being able to seek a bounty for 2 hours.SO then it would involve some risk in the game,.THe battles would mean alot and the best bounty hunter would get a rep in the game yaknow.

Just my thoughts

Qoute "" - Very bad server lag on Chimaera during prime time.

Lag is lag. Sorry about that but when then servers are full, there will always be a drag no matter how much we tweak it though the programming team is always working on ways to improve that. ""

Well just a reminder from a little anoid customer here..... With what is it 200.000 paying customers

you can simply not give the answer " Lag is Lag " and the programmers are working to improve .... not good enough guys pull yourself together and replace that 386 now

Jiker ( the angry guy who hopes that " player city caps " is just a bad dream he is having )

all charecters regardless of profesion should have the ability to use combat droids for certain reasons, such as master artisian/master DE/master medic has no real combat ability but still need things from "dangerous" locations or planets, droids could help protect them. so why not go with the idea that all classes should get levels of droid handeling abilitys regardless of whether they are combat heavy or crafting heavy set a max droid lvl per charecter not skill branch so no matter what you can only get a max droid level of say 25 that way whether you are a dabbler or have your favorite three master skills you still get the same level of droids...this also eliminates brand new charecters from getting extremly tough droids from a friend or whatever

lets say you get 1 droid handler point per skill box not including novice skills regardless of profession to a max of 25 or whatever.. a master marksman would be able to handle a level 15 droid, add unarmed 4 and the first row of medic skills and he/she has two more droid handeling points left to get so they can handle a level 23 droid...... just a thought...thanks

What about a quest system?? You havta do some quest, additional content!!, to get your droid cert's and at the end of the quest you pay "x" amount of skill points to recieve the cert. Also how bout making the schematics to higher lvl combat droids available though doing a quest, ala R.I.S. Armor. You don't see everyone running around in R.I.S. armor, do ya. Just another idea to kick around.