Droid Engineer Archive

The major point is the relationship and balance you wish to have. The best pet a non-ch can use is CL10.
So this brings about many questions for me, it seems your asking for something along the lines the CH's want: customized droids/pets that would fill some niche for every profession, make your own UBER weapons (we also feel we should be given our great pets back), certs, or a DH profession.

1) Would be nice if this could happen for both professions, No offense i would rather you have your cookie cutter bots and use gain this niche than run missions. We could train pets to drag corpses for medic as an example. But if you mean you want to make Chefs a bot that looks like Grill Master 500 and has a Food/Chem crafting station built in and the person vends outside the Cantina im all for it.
2) The idea of solo professions where you have pre-nerf like rancor-bots running through cities is not gonna fly with SOE (forced grouping mantra). Noone will solo far in any SOE game.
3) This is a slippery slope to the CH profession because if you say people can dabble in bot control, then you have to reinstate CH or just hand them pets as well without any training in CH. Then you can just say let people only have one out as long as the are CL certed. Pets/Droids/Faction. Trust me this will hurt your market in the long run.
4) the DH profession to me is more likely. One it gives you a ready made market. Trust me wild pets are ok. If i want to solo missions again sooner or later i must visit a BE. I must visit for vit packs and stim packs. Tame shirts are a must.

Maybe if someone could rationally and calmy show me the finer point i may be missing im open to listen. I want to appendix that none of this means i dont empathize with the current state of DE but if SOE is willing to give you something i would jump on it ask for changes later if it seems its not working out. Devs avoid our forum because their fix for us was a nerf. We are back to last on the list. I am not saying you dont deserved fixed. But i will say be lucky you still have a market for anything. As a CH the only tells i get now are can you train me or my pet, not do you have creature X?

Oh I wish they would put in an edit button some days.

The reason we wanted a fix is because the majority of the droids we make are nothing more then Surgical droids. The only droids that I even bother making are Surgical droids with level 6 med mods and a Food/Chem crafting station, Seekers, and Arakyd probots.

No one wants a R2/R3 with a worthless Storage/Data module in it. LE repair bots don't work even if you put a repair module in it. Power Droids won't work unless you have a backpack full of battery crates. Oh and did you hear they are finnally going to put a General module in to a Binar load lifter. Wow, now it is just a useless as all of the other junk droids that no one wants.

Thunderheart and the rest of the programmingfolks think that the only reason for this game is to provide a DOOM/Unreal game in a Star Warsie universe. Some of us could give a flying flip about the GCW, Me I'm trying to earn a living so that me, my friends, and guild mates can go on a hunt, take down a few creatures on Dant and in general enjoy a great night of hunting.

Unfortunately, I have to rely on my brother who is an architech to help me out with maintainance on my house and harvesters, because I sell only batteries and the occasional Surgical Droid.

What I would like to see is that combat droids are a work in progress have the dev team work on that problem and get back on the real problem. FIX THE DROID ENGINEERING PROFESSION

LOL.

OK so you dont want CL11 and above combat droids. You just want LE Repair and power droids fixed. I have not clue what the use is for a Binary Lifter.

i believe pets are equal to weapons.
I believe droids are equal to weapons.
I believe droids are equal to pets.

As a CH if i want 3-4 weapons out i had to use skill points.
As a non CH if i want weapons i dont use skill points.
As a CH i have a range of weapons i can use.
As a non CH i have CL10 weapons.
As a DE i dont believe i have to spend skill points to have 3-4 weapons.
As a DE i believe everyone should have what weapon they choose.
As a CH who worked hard to have 3-4 weapons i believe others should do the same.
As a DE who wants to have 3-4 weapons i blame pets on americans and dont realize that asking for 3-4 droids is like the BE asking for the same thus eliminating both the market i want and neutralizing the CH profession.

Am i reading all the replies correctly so far? Really i want to understand your point.

Pluto9Moon - I am a DE and I agree with your assesment. The Droid Handler profession is completely consistent with the current combat system, as your explanation infers. Moreover, this new profession should make Droid Engineering very viable, because I think DH will be one of the most dabbled professions in the game. Even taming (capturing) droids in the wild could have a benefit to DE's, e.g. it will take a DE to fix or enhance wild droids.

Eutock,
I am glad to see someone can see the logic that SOE will ultimately use is sound, and possibly the most valid plan exsiting. I will keep taking the one star ratings because i know that this is the course of action the Devs will take.