Development Cycle Archive
Thread: Publish 8: Droids Rebuilt Feedback
PLEASE!!!!
Put the turret terminals on the middle or the lower part of the large bases!!
To have them at teh top lvl of the base and right near the door, also in a row is stupid. a guy can run in and burn all 4 of the people standing their with flamecone1 or 2.
Having just said that i also would like to see 2 on either side of the room NOT in a row where fan shot, flame cones, or any of the other AOEs wodl take out the entire base security in 1 fell swoop!
AudioOrgana wrote:
Added Structure Maintenance Module to the DE skill tree: This module will allow a player to pay maintenance on structures they own from a remote location.
Another one people misunderstand.
Every other post seems to ask, "Needs to give power!"
People don't seem to get that this is a structure maintainance droid, not a HARVESTER maintainance droid. A harvester droid is a great idea - but this isn't it.
People that call this "useless" haven't had a dozen or more buildings under their care at once, or only own structures in one spot in the galaxy. To those of us who own structures on multiple planets, locations, and have admin and manage others structures, this one is invaluable JUST because you can see the maint presently on the building.
So ask for a harvester maintainance droid - in the meantime, managing my house, factories, and shops just got a whole lot more pleasant.
AudioOrgana wrote:
Wonderful. There are a few people crying about this one as well, but it comes down to this - advertising in a game like this is absoultely 1000% unavoidable, no matter how much you complain - and this helps seperate the true crafters who need advertising from those spammers who yell because they are desperate.
I can't tell you how many people have THANKED me for having mine out at a starport - other DE's on my server don't seem very on top of things, and they all said how much they appriciated having the patch day droids available to them.
People seem to be in a snit about starport advertising, and they need to either learn how to get over it...or learn how to get over it. Turn off spatial if you don't like it. When you choose to go to Coronet or Theed, you know what you are in for. There are lots of options to avoid it if you want, but some people like to cry that their hand is getting burned while the other hand holds it over the fire...
Spatial is the default chat channel and is also the only way one can communicate to a wider audience. Spatial should not be the sole domain of sellers/buyers/spammers. Unfortunately that is what it has become in high traffic areas. That's not fault of the player, it's simply poor game design.
I agree that sellers (both crafters and non-crafters) need to advertise but spatial advertising is not a sensible solution and droid ad barkers simply make a bad situation worse.
Thunderheart wrote:
Profession: Droid Engineer
Added an Interplanetary Survey Droid - This droid is capable of using survey tools and traveling to other planets to report on the resources present on that planet.
Hello Thunderheart.
I expected much from those droids. In fact they do pretty... nothing?
Well, they allow th know what are the resources available on a planet but... they don't give the waypoints to the resource location...
Thast's a bit... disapointing. It surely is a good idea to add such a function on those droids. Resource surveying is a damn boring task, and I really don't understand why you didn't add a real planetary resource locator.
Thanks for your time, this publish is a pretty good one.
Damoulinette Lemarcheurdusky@Kauri
(French Player)
To some of the so-called MDEs:
You should experiment more and not give up after the first time.
Its not a problem to shorten the survey time to 20 minutes. There are some things called high end ressources. This is what you need for it and then do not experiment on the charges. I asked some people who would those droids. All say that is better to have a shorten time then more charges.
Someone asked for a droid with 2 general module cluster? For what the hell we need them? You can add all modules to the combat cluster and then put it in a R3 unit. And don't say: But it needs more ressources...
Someone said that the MDE only gets 64 droid custom, maybe this give sense to attachments.
Someone said that we have now about 30 different special ressources. Everytime I speak with our WS she is laughing about me and say: you dont need many different resources. Thx to the guy who explained the exact stuff WS need...
The new modules are quite nice. The problem is that everyone expects the super module which can make all. Well, no comment on this...
The entertainer modules have impressed our entertainers in town. They love it and they start to advertise them and show it to other entertainers so I got some additional work on this point.
The survey modules have been overrated. As I say all wants the super module which shows you the ratings (maybe with an extra module or a different setting in the current module) and the best spot (if this should be in a new module then only on the planet you are on and it should take some time)
The barker droid is nice but not so effective because the droid vanishes after a time.
For the other modules I had no time yesterday to test them, maybe today.
A last point that I would like to see and I think all crafters would like it:
How about a new structure called "warehouse". Its very difficult to store all those things somewhere. Only chance is to use vendors. Maybe it should have the same interface like a vendor but only accessible for the owner and people on a friend/admin list.
At the end I like to thank you, TH and all the others, for the good work.
Many are moaning and whining, but its not related to the game, its related to their minds. This game is what they make of it, you the developers, gave us just "only" the platform.
Sincerely
okay so let me get this straight,
the spamming wasn't bad enough in starports now theres DROIDS to do it for people?!?!? please oh please tell me someone had a few too many brandy when they thought this one up cause it is the absolute worst idea u guys have ever come up with.
I mean on a weekend it can take 3 or 4 minutes to log into coronet do to the player spammng, luckily we were able to block those bone heads out. u should at last make an option available to block out dorids.
if nothing else then for fairness to us combatant players. yes i buy weapons and armor but rely on word of mouth as oppossed to who is the most annoying in any given starport.
If there is a god please remove this rediculous idea. I hopnestly thought it was a joke when i first saw this on the in development page. now to my horror i see it is not. don't be surpirsed to read this post in several places on the forums as i will be spamming it in mock of the droids.
BAH
Starphire wrote:
also i think the barker droid is a great idea, and I have never spammed myself and I hate the spammers, but i think the droids will improve the spaming!!
no because you have to have Advertising 4 in the merchant tree. Anyone with advertising 3 doesnt really spam all that much since he is already advertised on the planet map. Another downfall is the batteries wear out in an hour. So basically anyone who is currently using their character AFK to spam either lacks the skills to use this droid or hates the fact that you have to go recharge its battery every hour.