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> What does that spell for us (Master) CH? O-B-S-O-L-E-T-E

Good. They shouldn't have been in the game in the first place, and definitely not as common as they still are today. Star Wars is big story ultimately focused on the redemption of Anakin Skywalker, that is set to a backdrop ofspace, droids, varying races, mystical force powers, an opressive government,and the struggle to overthrow it. Look at this list and count how many are prevalent in this game. Count how many timescreaturesare in this list.

My wife doesn't play Galaxies, and she is only vaguely familiar with the Star Wars movies. Thesix things she does recognize about Star Wars are Storm Troopers, Darth Vader, C3PO, R2D2, Ewoks, and Chewbacca. I CRINGE every time I have to explain to her why I am playing a dinosaur computer game.

Creature Handlers were a horrible neccessity when the game first launched because probots were nerfed to the point of uselessness,however, creatures still made hunting much more tolerable. I am a Master Creature Handler myself, and it's clear nowthat the profession is being made distasteful to get players to migrate away from the class. As long as they beef up droid handlers to fill the void I am all for it, because at least the game will start to feel more like Star Wars.

Tensions are running high TH because you either a) lied directly to the playerbase, or b) are so out of touch with the issues that you are here to gather information on that we all have wasted our time even bothering to attempt communication. We went through three rounds of, "What do you want," and were completely ignored.

You clearly said, that "The timetable was changed because the Droid Engineers were very clear in telling me they wanted Droid Engineering and Droid Handling as two seperate professions." That simply was not true, and you have yet to either apologize for misrepresenting us or admit that you were not correct in the first place. Instead, you say we "had a change of heart".

Again, for the third time, I ask you TH - to show us where we were so very clear - because I sure as heck missed it.

I'm taking "for those that want to keep at it" as meaning it's futile at this point. You guys are going to do what you are going to do, and the criteria you set forth above by it's very nature can only be accomplished by a new profession.

If only a tiny percentage of players are going to get to use these droids - don't bother adding them. Do what's best for the WHOLE playerbase, and add content for EVERYONE, not just a few players who may or may not pick up this profession, which will be admittedly sparse and content-free.

If those are the only options, then drop the idea. Fix our profession. To heck with combat droids. Give us the slicing droids, the entertainer droids, the survey droids that we have been begging for to give Droids something to benefit professions other than crafters and medics.

It is an insult to our profession that you are even considering creating a new droid profession before the first one is even 3/4 complete.

It's a shame that it's come to such a point - but after waiting all this time, I'm not just unimpressed, I'm pretty disgusted. I have wasted a monumental amount of time supporting the droid profession, both in and out of game, waiting for the promises to be kept. Now I'm told that you guys want to concentrate on a new droid profession instead, and the one I have been championing and playing for so long is going to remain in the same state it was when we launched. On top of it all, we are told that we wanted this - just insult after insult.

Six months is a very long time, TH. I know you haven't been in your position that long, but we have been in ours. You can call this anything you want - I just call it fed up. To be asked, "what do you want?" at this point, again, after all of this - just doesn't have words to describe it.

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