Droid Engineer Archive

Issues per Module

2. Crafting stations - Does not require power.
4. Detonation Module - If you don't do some damage other than the one done by the droid before the mob is killed you don't have access to loot. (basically, if the boom kill the mob all by itself = no loot)
5. Droid Armor - Stacking does work for me (pre-publish 9 armor module). 1 level 3 armor = 12%, 2 = 20%. Correct number is only displayed at first call, after that it always display 40%
8. Date storage & 9. Item storage - Doesn't require power.
10. Medical Module - I think the effect on stimpack is by design.
13. Playback Module - Doesn't work on talking droids (Protocol, surgical & LE). Work only on first call, after that doesn't work.

Issues per Droid Type

6. Probot Basic/Advanced - I may be wrong, need more testing, but I think combat speed on combat probot is not correctly applied. If probot is attacked by 2 mobs, he does hit twice faster, and this is more like the rate displayed in the datapad. With only one mob, it is much slower.

7. Protocol Droid Basic/Advanced - Chassis cannot be color Customized but Deed can.

You forgot
16. Survey droid - None Reported

Needs Clarification

1. You cannot call a droid when inside a static city structure but you can ready one, and it will spawn right where you are. Same in combat, you cannot call a droid from datapad, but you can ready one (but no risk of exploit on BOOM droid, it does need about 10 seconds to initialize).
3. Harvesting Bonus : not a bonus, what is it?

Hope that help.

Message Edited by Gavvot on 07-07-2004 11:35 PM

The seeker droid bug is actually worse than you list here. I've been playing with a MBH on TC2 and when you use the "Find and Track" option for the seekers (which you get at Inv III) the seeker doesn't use a charge at all.

The way it works is that the "Find" option will give you one waypoint to your mark, but the "Find and Track" option will continually update your mark's location for a period of time. As you can imagine, once you get this skill, you most certainly will not be using the "Find" option anymore. This means that a BH can buy one seeker from us and use it over and over again forever. Guess we know why we aren't selling seekers anymore, huh?

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2. Issues per Module


3. Issues per Droid


4. General Issues


5. Removed


6. Wish List Items

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Issues per Module

1. 
   
   Auto-Repair Module - None Reported.


2. 
   
   Crafting stations




• Does not require power to use.


3. 
   
   Creature Harvest Module - None reported


4. 
   
   Combat Module




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  Experimention lists as having 2 lines, Effectiveness and Misc, when it only has 1, Effectiveness


5. 
   
   Detonation Module




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  If the detonation module kills a spawn without having been damaged first by the PC, loot is unaccessable.


6. 
   
   Droid Armor




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  Resists listed in the examine window change from 20% to 40% after the first call. This is only a display change however.


7. 
   
   Repair Module - None Reported


8. 
   
   Effects Modules (6) - None Reported


9. 
   
   Data Storage Module




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  Can only hold Manufactoring Schematics.


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  Does not require power to use


10. 
    
    Item Storage Module




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  Does not work in basic and Advanced Surgical Droids.


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  Can be used to store Manufactoring Schematics.


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  Does not require power to use


11. 
    
    Medical Module




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  Effects Stimpack usage. Stims heal at 55% to 110% effectness, depending on the Medical rating present.


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  Random reports of 'broken' Medical modules. The modules break and remain broken even after recharging the droid. (Re-calling the droid sometimes helps if this problem occurs)


12. 
    
    Structure Maintanence Module




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  Module becomes useless if a Listed structure is deeded or destroyed, without first being removed from the list.


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  Possible work around to borked module listed here.


13. 
    
    Merchant Barker Module - None Reported


14. 
    
    Playback Module


15. Scout Trap Projectile Module - None Reported


16. 
    
    Stim Pack Dispensor Module - None Reported


17. 
    
    Personality Chips - None Reported


18. 
    
    Droid Chassis




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  Experimentation Effectiveness is listed as SR/UT, but should be OQ instead.

Issues per Droid Type

1. Binary Load Lifter Basic/Advanced




• Basic BLL has 0 Service Module slots


2. DZ70 Basic/Advanced




• Ranged/Melee Toggle no long appears.


3. LE Repair Droid Basic/Advanced




• Can not be named.


4. MSE Basic/Advanced - None Reported


5. Power Droid Basic/Advanced




• Must be recharged, though a Power Core is a key item in construction.


6. Probot Basic/Advanced - None Reported




• Attack speed is dependent on distance from target.


• Damage output has become sparadic. Under certain circumstances, the damage output of a Probot will be equal to a Probot with a maximum Combat rating, reguardless what the actual combat rating of the droid is.


7. Protocol Droid Basic/Advanced




• Can not be color Customized with a Customization Kit


• Deed color does not show up to anyone but the owner (need confirmation)


• Can not be named.


8. R2 Unit Basic/Advanced




• Ranged/Melee Toggle no long appears.


9. R3 Unit Basic/Advanced




• Ranged/Melee Toggle no long appears.


10. R4 Unit Basic/Advanced




• Ranged/Melee Toggle no long appears.


11. R5 Unit Basic/Advanced




• Ranged/Melee Toggle no long appears.


12. Surgical Droid Basic/Advanced




• Can not be named.


• Storage module menu radial does not show up, nor can you drop an item into the storage container.


13. Treadwell - None Reported


14. Probe Droid - None Reported


15. Seeker




• After a BH hits Investigations III, the "Find and Track" option allows a BH to use a Seeker without ever expending a charge.


16. Interplanetary Survey Droid - None Reported

1. Droids do not give UXP.


2. The standard name filter applies to droid naming. This keeps our customers from naming their droids with numbers.


3. Droids often stop following without reason. This is a generic pet problem as it happens to all pets, not just droids. Pets seem to get stuck on invisible zone boundries. Walking up to about 10-20m from the pet and re-issuing a 'follow' command fixes it (most of the time).


4. Droid Customization skill only goes to +64 at Master. (By Design?)


5. Some experimental values for a droid and droid components have 0 perceivable effect, such as Durability and Quality. Effectiveness appears to be the only useful field of experimentation. Please remove Durability and Quality Experimentation from the crafting window if they are erroneous.


6. EXPLOIT: By telling a droid to stay, running approximately 800m (zone boundry?) away and calling another droid, you can effectively call all your droids at once. You can also call multiple instances of the same droid as well.


7. The number of charges per battery is not listed on a Factory crate, or during the crafting process. This can create a buyer beware problem.


8. Experimentation on subcomponents has no perceivable effect on the final droid. There are even signs that suggest that highly experimented parts create a higher chance of Crit Fails on a Chassis or Deed experimentation.


9. When crafting a Combat Cluster Module with the last item in a factory cate, the system error message "You may not destroy a factory crate that is being used during a crafting session." appears, however the crafting session is successful. This is just an annoyance factor.


10. Experimentation on certain modules, such as the Creature Harvest Module, have produced odd results. The intial experimention step has shown to wield a slightly higher overall result on random occurances. See this thread for details.


11. The number of charges perDroid Customization Kitis not listed on a Factory crate, or during the crafting process.


12. Probot Combat Sounds and Animations have gone wonky. More info to be added later.

Message Edited by Drashk on 10-17-2004 04:25 AM

Wish List Items

1. List all data, in deed form, in a way that our customers will understand it. (IE Combat rating = Damage, Speed, & To Hit. Storage rating = # of items storable. Interplanetary Survey droid Mechanism rating = Length of survey time. Armor installed = listing of armor rating.)


2. Add a module that will benefit the Smuggler profession.


3. Allow us to drop batteries into the droid's inventory and have it recharge itself as needed until the batteries run out.


4. Change the naming process, so that droid owners have a 'Set Name' tab on the datapad radial.


5. Change the way that items are listed in the crafting tool, so that kit components, modules, and subcomponents have their own categories. Community Suggestion


6. Add some form of a Decay system. Community Suggestion


7. Allow droids to be bound to Player owned structures/Cities. Community Suggestion


8. Additional active Droid for a Master Droid Engineer.


9. Allow used droids to be re-deeded by a Novice Droid Engineer or increase the number of droids that can be stored in the datapad. Not having the ability to call one of each droid, without destroying droids in the process, makes it difficult for a DE to present his wares. Add a Makers mark to the droid Examine window so that anyone can see who made the droid.


10. Create a more diverse crafting system for Droid Engineers, so that installed subcomponents, modules, and deed experimentation have a more pronounced effect on the final droids abilities. (IE Krayt dragon tissue produces higher rated armor. Loot modules change damge output.)


11. Allowing subcomponents to effect things such as movement speed, battery charge life, and increased stats would give DEs a more complex crafting system than we currently see. (IE Chassis experimentation would offer additional HAM or damage bonus. Higher than 0 rated Droid Motive System would allow the droid to hold a charge longer.)

Message Edited by Drashk on 07-17-2004 05:51 AM

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Drashk wrote:

General Issues

6. EXPLOIT: By telling a droid to stay, running approximately 800m (zone boundry?) away and calling another droid, you can effectively call all your droids at once. You can also call multiple instances of the same droid as well.

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I just tested (twice) this tonight on Live and was unable to make it happen.


I tapped someone to watch for me and on both occassions that I tried to pull my Probot, the Merchant BLL I had out barking was auto-stored the moment I hit the Call command.


At least for me, I couldn't make this happen. I'd say it might be dead. Anyone else still seeing this?