Droid Engineer Archive
Thread: WHY ARE THERE NOT MORE DROIDS?
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Wonkster
Mon Aug 08, 2005 3:55 am
#1
Excactly as above.
Droideckas?
Better combat droids please.
jesus. there are SO many droids in swg, why do we only have cruddy droids? r2 yes, c3po, yes, med droid r2 r3 r4 r5 r6 yes but where are the hunting droids.
Probots are ok but more friggin choice pleez.
A droidecka would be cool, and not to overpowering. Most de are combinations ie master art, master ship, master de/master shippy, etc. which means ourt cl is WAY below 80. Which, in turn, means you die collecting things like resource, etc.
But will this post make any difference. Nope
The only way the 'customer support' (HAH!) team will pay attention is if you marched over to their offices with a shotgun and erected a 50 foot neon sign saying "WE DONT LIKE THIS" above their heads. Then they would say 'we are aware of the problem.' or, translated, ' go away you horrid little man. you are unimportant. give us your money. look at my finger. go and swivel'
Having played many other MMorpgs, and worked in the programming/coding field, i have NEVER come across a shoddy, mismanaged waste of space software as SWG. It appears that these ppl have never heard of BETA TESTING. O well
Sorry for the rant, but if i do rant enough, eventually SOMEONE in the dev team will listen. Do not fob me off as some nooby idiot. I have over 15 years experience in coding from C(yes original C),C++,Pascal, Forth, Visual(ptah!)C++, and many more.
God Im angry
Droideckas?
Better combat droids please.
jesus. there are SO many droids in swg, why do we only have cruddy droids? r2 yes, c3po, yes, med droid r2 r3 r4 r5 r6 yes but where are the hunting droids.
Probots are ok but more friggin choice pleez.
A droidecka would be cool, and not to overpowering. Most de are combinations ie master art, master ship, master de/master shippy, etc. which means ourt cl is WAY below 80. Which, in turn, means you die collecting things like resource, etc.
But will this post make any difference. Nope
The only way the 'customer support' (HAH!) team will pay attention is if you marched over to their offices with a shotgun and erected a 50 foot neon sign saying "WE DONT LIKE THIS" above their heads. Then they would say 'we are aware of the problem.' or, translated, ' go away you horrid little man. you are unimportant. give us your money. look at my finger. go and swivel'
Having played many other MMorpgs, and worked in the programming/coding field, i have NEVER come across a shoddy, mismanaged waste of space software as SWG. It appears that these ppl have never heard of BETA TESTING. O well
Sorry for the rant, but if i do rant enough, eventually SOMEONE in the dev team will listen. Do not fob me off as some nooby idiot. I have over 15 years experience in coding from C(yes original C),C++,Pascal, Forth, Visual(ptah!)C++, and many more.
God Im angry
Badname0291
Mon Aug 08, 2005 6:12 am
#2
how about an IG series assassin droid? that would be pretty cool.
Zenoee
Mon Aug 08, 2005 7:00 am
#3
That's what we're screaming!
For a Star Wars game to be "star warsy" you have to have droids. We have a TON of compenents but those are pieces in a bigger puzzle. The chassis selection needs a major overhaul. Look at the end use components from other crafters. I'm not knocking them a bit, DEs could switch professions. We just like the droids. We just need more end use chassis. More choices for people to use. They could easily come up with 20 newchassis for droids. EASY.
I hate to always be knocking the devs of the game I love so much. It gets real frustrating sometimes. They have such a good base for an awsome game. I love playing SWG and do play nightly. Lately I spend more time with my 2 combat toons than my MDE because of the bugs and no place for her to go. All she can do is build stuff that doesn't work and stick them on a vendor. There is no 'play' there. It is fun building droids but it's not adventure, there is nothing other than building for her to do. More droids would give everybody in the game something new. Fixing the bugs would bring back fun to crafting.
Devs please listen. People may not have or use many droids and there may not be many DEs out there. Thing is there is a reason for that. DEs are dropping like flies because of the bugs, lack of content, and lack of money in the profesion. The lack of money is due to lack of usable products by everybody else. Make droids more usable, let us offer more models, and make a big deal out of it. Throw some pizzazz to droids. Make them interesting enough to want. People will use droids more and more people will come back to DE.
RasalTheWise
Mon Aug 08, 2005 10:27 am
#4
Werd, bro. Even if they just added droid chassis once in a while, I'd be happy.
RichB
Mon Aug 08, 2005 3:42 pm
#5
I'd be happy if they fixed the ones we have for starters. For me, making quality actually matter would be a much bigger priority then adding additional droids. Reward the people who actually grind for the extra experimentation points, and who are willing to take the time to find quality resources.
Rich
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Rich
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Yoda-5499
Mon Aug 08, 2005 4:05 pm
#6
Why aren't there more droids?
I can only come up with two answers.
1) Droids and creatures are tied so close together that adding to the system after the recent Publish would throw pets into a bug frenzy.
2) The Devs have a "Droid Revamp" coming and want to surprise us with a an extreme ammount of fixes and new content.
The second one is coming from that little place inside of us that's making us stay DE. The first is the most likely problem. If they were to add new droid/modules/content, let them ask us here on what we want. I really don't want them to give us droids they made like the Freelance ships in JTL. We all have great ideas and it's sad that we might not get to use them.
I can only come up with two answers.
1) Droids and creatures are tied so close together that adding to the system after the recent Publish would throw pets into a bug frenzy.
2) The Devs have a "Droid Revamp" coming and want to surprise us with a an extreme ammount of fixes and new content.
The second one is coming from that little place inside of us that's making us stay DE. The first is the most likely problem. If they were to add new droid/modules/content, let them ask us here on what we want. I really don't want them to give us droids they made like the Freelance ships in JTL. We all have great ideas and it's sad that we might not get to use them.
DarthSillyPants
Mon Aug 08, 2005 6:30 pm
#8
I think a skinnybattledroid with a gun (just for looks) would be great. It would be silly to see a battledroid attacking something by just swinging its arms at it lol. They should make droids more combat ready too. Make their CL go up to 60-70 max. But make those have to be more expensive so there wont be a noob ruinning around with a high level droid to all the damage. I would love to have a droid fallow me around and help me out in combat if I couldnt find anyone to group with. I remember having an old R3 model being able to help me out pre-cu but after I mastered 2 combat profs there was no need for a droid except to take up space in my datapad. I really hope you DEs get a well deserved upgrade. We bounty hunters are happy and we only hope that all the other nerfe, borked, or whatever professions get their fixes/revamps to help make this game more enjoyable and worth playing. 
Kevin Kereth
Yoda-5499
Tue Aug 09, 2005 4:13 am
#9
There are a few ways to get your skinny Battle Droid and my IG-100 MagnaGuard complete with Electrostaff.
1) Create a new profession allowing player to command "battle" droids that is similar to Creature Handler
2) Allow only low level characters to use them (CL 1-5(?)
3) Allow only Master Droid Engineers to use "battle" droids
4) Or both 2 and 3
At least, those of some ways I see you could have them. The Devs may have something else in mind.
Not: When I say "battle" droid, I mean Battle Droids, Super Battle Droids, droidekas, and IG-100 MagnaGuards
1) Create a new profession allowing player to command "battle" droids that is similar to Creature Handler
2) Allow only low level characters to use them (CL 1-5(?)
3) Allow only Master Droid Engineers to use "battle" droids
4) Or both 2 and 3
At least, those of some ways I see you could have them. The Devs may have something else in mind.
Not: When I say "battle" droid, I mean Battle Droids, Super Battle Droids, droidekas, and IG-100 MagnaGuards
RobinOsaka
Tue Aug 09, 2005 5:33 am
#10
Please, anything but droids from E1, E2, or E3. Or anything from those movies in SWG. There's enough "classic star wars" stuff to fill this game.
Zenoee
Tue Aug 09, 2005 5:36 am
#11
Don't forget the old fashion IG88 series.
Yoda-5499 wrote:
There are a few ways to get your skinny Battle Droid and my IG-100 MagnaGuard complete with Electrostaff.
1) Create a new profession allowing player to command "battle" droids that is similar to Creature Handler
2) Allow only low level characters to use them (CL 1-5(?)
3) Allow only Master Droid Engineers to use "battle" droids
4) Or both 2 and 3
At least, those of some ways I see you could have them. The Devs may have something else in mind.
Not: When I say "battle" droid, I mean Battle Droids, Super Battle Droids, droidekas, and IG-100 MagnaGuards
patchman70
Tue Aug 09, 2005 6:39 am
#12
shhhhh don't ask for anything new... it's not allowed.... NO FREE CHECKERS.
starcraftWS
Tue Aug 09, 2005 9:38 am
#13
As much as I'd love to see ANY droid chassis added as craftable, I tend to lean towards the less popular oddball chassis on my want list:
- Pit Droids
- R1
- RA-7
- "BettyBot"
I'd also like to see more "inherent chassis bonuses" (like the MSE droid gets with the exploding modules). Storage bonus for BLL? Medical bonus for Surgical? Creature Harvest bonus for R4?
*goes back and dreams of combat Pit Droids whooping up on a Falumpaset*
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