Droid Engineer Archive
Thread: Space expansion droids
Other than that its all guesswork
.........................................................................................Yummy.
/bow
Respectfully,
Some questions were asked about JTLS at E3. One of them quite important for us DEs....
How useful are droids in the Expansion?
Droids are very important to your ship. They are how you interact with your ship. In fact, the space UI includes a droid tab to give your droid commands.
Looks like every ship will need a droid! Good news.
Do you think the Droid will be intergrated INTO the ship during construction or will the user have to have a Astronavigation capable droid in his data pad to fly the ship? Either way, will hopefully mean more business for DEs.
Im planning to add Shipwright to my DE and drop everything apart from MA, MDE and a few skill boxes in Merchant once JTS is released.....problem is I think alot of crafters are gonna do the same! I would assume Shipwright will probably require Master Arisan for a prequiste, so MA is staying for the moment.
According to the questions asked at E3, to build the YT-1300 (Millenium Falcon) you willneed Master Shipwright, soadn youcan board the YT1300 as a group and have different players man turrets and fight as a team!Also according to the article, ships are gonna be like houses, and you actually decorate them just like houses!
Full article is on Stratics if anyone wants to check it out:
http://swg.stratics.com/content/intro/faqs/swgssefaq.php#e3
If JTS does come out like SOE are saying, it is gonna be a great addition to the game
R0ZM4N wrote:oo! Can't wait!
Have you seen the lucasarts trailer?
http://www.lucasarts.com/games/swgalaxies_lightspeed/
all lies of course, but beautiful lies none the less
Kisses
Cass
Yeah, they sure made the ground game part misleading, Looks nothing like the actual game, but fast-paced and exciting. It's like in movie trailers, where they show quick cuts of scenes (complete with loud, puzzling "boom" sounds) to make it look more exciting than it actually is. On the other hand, what do we expect them to do.
I'm expecting the SE won't be as good as they make it look there, but it will be interesting I'm sure, and we'll be playing it for a while. If we've all been here this long, something must have kept us.
Rippen
TheRealTK421 wrote:
I hope we'll be able to walk about the ship, rest, craft, etc. during those long smuggl....errr...tourist missions.
oo! Can't wait!
Have you seen the lucasarts trailer?
http://www.lucasarts.com/games/swgalaxies_lightspeed/
all lies of course, but beautiful lies none the less 
Kisses
Cass
I noted that one that trailer, you can see a crew sitting in the cockpit of a YT-1300. I hope we'll be able to walk about the ship, rest, craft, etc. during those long smuggl....errr...tourist missions.
The 'jones' is building now...
/bow
Respectfully,
RE: Decorating
You know those awful, awful Malls you get with Giant Krayt skulls everywhere and Huge Creatures poking their front half in through the wall, if you do that on a YT-1300 does that mean those outsidecouldsee a Dragon's butt sticking out the top?
Feeling frivelous today Cass? Why yes honey thnx for asking
TheRealTK421 wrote:
Welll...not all "lies", just standard marketing. I guess that's kind of the same thing sometimes.
/bow
Respectfully,
You know I read your post this morning and thought nothing of it, TK is always right of course 
but having watched it again (and again and again, it really is a crackin' trailer 
) The more lies I see (this isn't a flame BTW I'm just happy and bouncy ).
Giant battles: Haven't seen any of those since they removed the battlefields. The last time they organised one on Chimmy the local server cluster turned into a molten pile of plastic and silicon.
AT-AT's: Yup, seen millions of those.
Lambda Class Shuttles; Flying!: Ahahahahaha! I've heard about it, but then I've also been to Loch Ness.
Shooting; mounted: Nope.
'Engage in Battle against the Empire': Grrrrr... & they wonder why most of the kiddies are rebs and why all the American servers have such an overwhelming rebel bias *tut*
I submit to you my list of lies 
, let's hope JTL is a gleaming jewel of pure truth
Kisses
Cass
R0ZM4N wrote:
Giant battles: Haven't seen any of those since they removed the battlefields. The last time they organised one on Chimmy the local server cluster turned into a molten pile of plastic and silicon.
I've seen a few base raids which were bigger than what was shown. Used to be a regular, almost daily,occurance but the GCW has died down a bit now. I don't think there is one rebel base on Chilastra.Will probably pick up again after the revamp when bases mean something.
AT-AT's: Yup, seen millions of those.
Well.....eh.... there was that TC test. Suppose we'll see these with the revamp too.
Lambda Class Shuttles; Flying!: Ahahahahaha! I've heard about it, but then I've also been to Loch Ness.
Seen two from from crackdown checks and once there was a raid on Coronet where a number of waves of shuttles came into the bank area and dropped stormies and AT-STs. Ended up with a "big battle". Might have a screeny of it around somewhere, although it could be a just an umbrella casting a strange shadow
Shooting; mounted: Nope.
Can you not do that anymore? Haven't ridden a mount for months, but I thought you can shoot non-specials in combat while not galloping. I remember doing that anyway.
'Engage in Battle against the Empire': Grrrrr... & they wonder why most of the kiddies are rebs and why all the American servers have such an overwhelming rebel bias *tut*
Now they shot themselves in the foot a bit there saying that. More cires of "the devs love the rebels".
I submit to you my list of lies
Kisses
Cass
Anyway...
In this screeny of the spaceflight HUD you can see a "Droid" tab in the lower right hand corner
Maybe as well as repairs droids will be able to "powerup" the ships. "R2 I need more power!"
More screenshots: