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Does anyone know whether or not it matters how recently a medical droid was charged when buffing?

Up till now I had assumed that if the droid was either charged or it wasn't and if you could buff it was charged. Recently I saw a post in anotherforum that made me suspect myassumption might be wrong.

If the charge does matter is there any indication of what it is? I only buff irregularly and don't want to charge the droid each time I pull it out unless it is necessary.

Thanks in advance for any information about this.

There have been soem very strong indicators that when a droid would normally go into a Low Power state it will still let you buff, but it will very heavily effect your buffs, they will be much worse. It used to be that when they went Low Power you could not buff at all, but that just doesn't seem to be the case anymore.

I've spent the last few days buffing PvP raids of 30+ people with a 110 medical rated droid and +25 wound treatment clothing, and there is definitely still an ON/OFF switch when a droid runs out of power. However power consumption seems to have changed in the last big patch.

Prior to the patch, I never had to recharge my droid if I was buffing or wound healing constantly while it was called. If I allowed it to stay called while I was not buffing or wound healing, it would run out of power and require a battery charge. If I stored it immediately afterI finished buffing or wound healing, it seemed to start fresh with a full charge each time.

Now after the patch, it seems to run out of power after a fixed amount of "called" time. I use a six-buff macro with a 17-second delay (enough time for /healenhance to refresh and allow for lag). My droid will now run out of power mid-macro and I will get the "you must be in a hospital" message halfway through the buff set.

The one thing you must realise is that if the droid runs out of power, the game will look for the next available medical modifier. For example if you have placed a Novice Scout camp to call your droid, you can buff with 110 medical modifier as long as the droid has power. If the droid runs out of power while you're buffing, the game will use the 35-ish medical modifier of the novice scout camp.

This can lead to the impression that low-power droids buff for less. I really don't think it's true -- in my experience it either has power or it doesn't.

Intersteing. Most of the time I don't buff with camps or anything. Just out in the middle of town, for example. Yet I have noticed that after about 20 minutes, or so,of called time my buffs drop dramatically in level, but I am still buffing. Previous to the last publish I would just be unable to buff at all at that point, but for some reason I have been able to still buff aftger that time, just poorly. I also noticed at those times I could give the droid an actual command and have it come back to tell me *Low Power*. In such a condition I should never have been able to buff at all, yet there I was buffing away, just very poorly.

Perhaps there is a 2-step cycle on droids now? An interim level where Low Power is reached but healing actions are still allowed and then a further step where healing actions are no longer allowed?

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coronula wrote:

Does anyone know whether or not it matters how recently a medical droid was charged when buffing?

Up till now I had assumed that if the droid was either charged or it wasn't and if you could buff it was charged. Recently I saw a post in anotherforum that made me suspect myassumption might be wrong.

If the charge does matter is there any indication of what it is? I only buff irregularly and don't want to charge the droid each time I pull it out unless it is necessary.

Thanks in advance for any information about this.

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Not that I have noticed...I really don't think that anything affects the buffing is all just random....

I have buffed everywhere with everything I can use....Outside with my droid, in the Med center on Endor, in a camp on Yavin IV, at my house, in a player city med center. Hit crap with a health pack at 900 then bang 2500 to constitution. I don't think it matter where you are or what you use its just the roll of the dice that determins what you will get.

I can buff one person in 2000 of every stat in camp on Endor then the next person below 2000, its all random IMO. Theres not enough consistancy to determin what works and what doesn't for buffing.

I don't think that it matters either. I have done really bad buffs when the droid was just recharged and good buffs when it was low on power. IMO it's just totally random.

When I do my buffs, and I am really wanting high numbers, I always recharge my R2-unit before..its probaly nothing, but I swear I get higher #'s and more consistant when I do that...

I really never noticed/tested this, but if this is even remotely true, looks like artisans will have fun supplying all of us alot more batteries (note to self, get lots' more crates of droid batteries when back in game)

I believe that it's all random. I too, have had great buffs right before getting "you must be in a hospital, moron, blah blah", and horrible buffs right after recharging my lazy, bugged 2-1B. (bugged because he was built with an item storage module that I can't access)

It would be great (hint hint Traigus) if we could get some developer's word on this. It'd be one of those really profound things if it was important. I would have to push for a power indicator on the datapad interface and a spacial "low-power" notice immediately upon the droid reaching that state. OR, and this idea just occurred to me, a status indicator when the droid reached low-power! I doubt that's a unique idea (no idea is truly unique) but I've never seen it recommended before.

Of course, those things would be pretty spiffy to have anyway.

Ruda, Master Doctor, Naritus

As ZeligTheLiar siad

a power indicator would be great...at the moment though I tend to charge my droid after every buff set just to be sure the power level stays up, just in case a low power droid does affect the buff.