Development Cycle Archive

Wallpaper of the Droid Invasion VS The ACTUAL Droid Invasion in a 10 round fight for the championship:

Wallpaper of the Droid Invasion wins in the first round.

You are going to hear alot of "where is the droids in the wallpaper image"? Publish 7.....very misleading for the non droid engineers. I can live with the publish but I would look forward and by that I mean move forward with a reallll revamp for droid engineer!

Please use this link as a droid reference: http://www.starwars.com/databank/droid

I really like the direction of publish 8 as it hasbeen stated. It definitely integrates droids serving a purpose for sales, dancers, and combat. I think that the purpose of a droid and what it can actually do in the game is what will promote a Star Warsy feel and stabilize our profession. But there is something missing and that is graphic immersion which in my opinion co exists with functionality.

• For example take a R2 unit which is packed with all sorts of tool-tipped appendages that make him a great starship mechanic and computer interface specialist. We dont ever get to see those devices or use them in SWG. Why?


• Protocols droids serve no purpose. They need playability. An example would be Mr. C3PO. He translates.


• Content- make sure it fits with the Star wars Universe- here is an example from just that universe below. Much of the anti-droid sentiment existing in the galaxy is unwarranted bigotry, but even pro-droid activists will find it hard to defend the rights of droids bearing arms. The memory of droid armies is still fresh in many minds, and the legions of mechanized troops used by the Trade Federation and other corporate interests paved the way for legislation that eventually did away with the soulless infantry. Relics from that era still exist, such as the battered chrome war droid known as IG-88. The tall, cylinder-headed and heavily-armed mechanical bounty hunter responded to Darth Vader's call to capture the Millennium Falcon during the events surrounding the Battle of Hoth. Another issue is

Playability

• Droids can fix harvestors. Allow droids like WED Treadwell located at http://www.starwars.com/databank/droid/wedtreadwell/index.html to be able to affect the status payment for a harvestor by fixing the harvestor. This would act as a payment. These droids would become quite common and would help the DE market.


• Med droids- these work great.


• Assasin Droids: Perhaps the oddest being that could ever become a bounty hunter is a protocol droid. Yet it happened in the case of 4-LOM. This droid answered the call sent out by Darth Vader to capture the Millennium Falcon after the Battle of Hoth. 4-LOM is a humanoid droid, with a matte-black finish that is scarred and pitted. It has an insect-like face with large, compound photoreceptors. 4-LOM carries a massive blaster rifle.


• Assasin droids could be made to accompany Bounty Hunters. They could also be used as militia in cities and player cities as well as for space pirates.


• Serv-O-Droid:Type:Communications / business droid /Affiliation: Criminal . A sun-addled humanoid droid found in the streets of Mos Eisley, this particular mechanical has been spotted vacantly meandering through the corridors of the port city. Here is the criminal droid that many are looking for.


• Dark troopers: The dark troopers were first unleashed shortly after the Battle of Yavin, on the unsuspecting Alliance installation of Tak Base. The Empire launched the droids via hyperspace capsules, in a fashion similar to the distribution of deep space probe droids. The inhuman soldiers tore through all resistance, and devastated the Rebel outpost on the planet Talay.


• Have the dark troopers made only by DE's loyal to the Empire.


• FX-7\med droid: The sturdy FX-7 medical assistant droid aids both live and droid doctors in medical procedures. The FX-7 is a cylindrical droid, with a number of retractable appendages. Here we have a possibility to add this droid to medical centers as well as player battlefield med centers.


• Imperial V Mark Sentry Droids; Seen hovering alongside Imperial desert stormtrooper patrols in the dusty corridors of Mos Eisley were these small, sleek probe droids. They are carried by miniature repulsorlifts and their bulbous bodies are packed with sophisticated sensor technology. These could be used for spying.


• Combat droids: I would laugh if a mse droid could attack me. Make them tough- dual blasters.

But what is missing is how do we actually see the functionality without graphic immersion? And what do our droids actually do?