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Thread: Player Correspondent Opening: Droid Engineer
Player Correspondent Opening: Droid Engineer
· Are you knowledgeable about theDroidEngineerprofession?
· Are you a community leader?
· Can you objectively identify relevant issues and distinguish them from simply passionate arguments?
· Do you like organizing information and corresponding with other members of a community?
The Development Team is looking for a volunteer correspondent for theDroid EngineerProfession. Participation is completely voluntary and you can stop helping out at any time. We’re just looking for someone who can help us sort through the various issues for this profession.
Some things that you need to consider when applying:
· Developing online games takes a long time. Results happen with long time involvement.
· Player Correspondents should be leaders in their community and set a positive tone.
· Player Correspondents should understand the technical aspects of playing the profession and the needs of their community.
· Player Correspondents should be in touch with the communities concerns, understanding the essence of why players pursue their chosen profession.
· Please include your forum name in the letter
If this is something you are interested in, please write a short paragraph on why you think you would be a good candidate and email it to [email protected]. Please putDroid EngineerCorrespondent in the Subject Line. By submitting this email to us, you agree to allow us to contact you in connection with Star Wars Galaxies and agree that all correspondence with and material submitted to SOE will be the exclusive property of SOE and SOE may use such materials without limitation and in its sole discretion.
After we have reviewed the submissions, we will pick one person to be our correspondent. We will set them up with a special community title here on the forums and ask them to help highlight for us the relevant issues relating to this profession.
We will still continue to monitor the forums and read as many threads as we can. The correspondent is just to help us focus on the top issues and community concerns of the profession.
Thank you.
*Note, please make your letter the main body of the text. E-mail attached items are automatically deleted as part of our spam filter….
. Which are you?"
TK made a post about it here...He's leaving the position, but not the DE Community...
Worthless1 wrote:
Wow the DE corespondent is leaving.
Phazorn wrote:
hmmm, correspondents been dropping like flies
What do you expect for a position that is a lot of work and no pay.
While DE may get a boost in terms of initial sales to JTL the lack of Decay will mean once again that the market will saturate and DE will return to status as one of the weak crafting professions.
The fix to DE as a business is to have a decay system implemented that is effective. That means a decay system able to flush the products from the market at a rate that makes the DE profession sustainable. It also has to take into account that most droids are not used in combat situations but rather passive "helpers" that never get killed.
Usage of a droid should cause them to decay and either require complete replacement or a rebuild kit worth as much as the droid should be implemented. The latter is to deal with the inevitable complaints that people want to keep their old droid. I say no problem, but continuing to use him is going to cost you as much as a new one. You can have your attachment to your old Chevy, but that does not mean you can continue to drive it without a complete engine and transmission rebuild, not to mention the suspension, body work, paint, new interior, etc...Nostalgia is not free.
Droid engineers need to call for no more free lunches with their products and demand equal standing to the professions with effective drains like WS, AS, Chef and Doctor.
It is simply a question of balance. Droid engineer as a business is not balanced with other crafting professions. If you compare combat XP to crafter credits as the measure of advancement the DE profession is like telling rifleman that there is only a certain amount of XP out there and once it is gone rifleman will only get XP when new players come in or people drop their rifle boxes.
Just like there needs to be a combat balance coming there also needs to be a crafting balance done to bring those professions without effective product drains up to a similar level to those with effective product drains.
Message Edited by WookieBounty on 09-27-2004 09:48 PM
