Droid Engineer Archive
Thread: So I Picked Up Knights Of The Old Republic
Nice sig, Lonkey 
Mine used to be, "My droids go BEEP" but I don't know how many people caught the cynicism in that sig... 
Heck, yeah, give me my checkers too! SWG ain't checkers. There is an artificial scaricity in DE action; ironic to any nine year old who has seen the films. Dev response? Fix chef! And those guys did need the love "those poor bastards" wasa common addition to the mention of the chef profession.
That said why are their so many USEFUL droids in KOTOR but diddly-squat droids in SWG? In KOTOR, there are temporary use droids scattered allover the joint and you can hotwire them and use them limited purposes on the fly, not to mention dope @ss crazy utility and combat droids -- Droids with stories lines and content that go with them.
Droidless SWG? Bah.
I'm mean honestly, W.T.F?
Hello? Fun is what games are for. I already pay lots of taxes on a large salary for RL "balance" purposes. Why the fizzuck does SWG seem as much of a drag and yet not as fun as RL can be?
Sodan -
The technical answer is that the suits pushed the game out the door too fast, and therefore, droids weren't part of the basic structure of the game. Hence, it is hard to make it part of that basic structure and ballance now.
However, this is no excuse.
I haven't seen such spin since Pravda was the newspaper of the USSR (well, I never read it, but ya know...) Basically, the devs have done nothing but lie and make excuses not to fix the horribly broken code that defines droids - and hence, DE's.
It is kinda funny - being a guild leader, this is not unique to DE's. There has been a change in the guard in my guild as well. We are still a tight, fun guild - but a lot of the peeps who came here with me from AC2 are now gone. To whit, the churn rate is pretty high here... and it will be for a while, I fear.
One other thing -
I have said it before, and I'll say it again - the checkers annology is horrible. It should be a chess analogy...
Maybe he meant Chinese Checkers....
Ooooh! Ooooh! I wanna be green!
be quiet meatbag!
sorry i couldnt help myself...great game, i beat the nice path and a friend beat the sith path what a great game 
basically a modified balders gate into 3d SW and great writing.
speaking of great SW games, anybody play Rebellion?
Sketh wrote:
One other thing -
I have said it before, and I'll say it again - the checkers annology is horrible. It should be a chess analogy...
How about this analogy: SWG droids are like droids in star wars: voice activated, usable by all, very expensive, and subject to the laws of the empire and used by both the empire and the rebellion.
Deal with it. If you have to boost creature stats accordingly, it ain't my fault you set those stats incorrectly to begin with.
Conversely, having useful and combat-able droids is lots of fun for DEs and non-DEs alike.
Sodan -
You know better than that I am not defending the devs - just pointing out my hypothesis on the why.
In all candor, Sodan, I think you do make some good contributions to these boards. Hope you stick around - if not, have fun
One other thing... I'll beat TH to the punch onthis one:
Sodan, but what do you really want?
Heh - one thing I should say - and this may be sacrilige on these boards.
I do have fun in the game - there is a lot there. Though DE's have been... ermmm... insert the verb of your choice here - there is fun to be had.
I wouldn't bother being here otherwise.
It is sad, though, that such great potential has been driven so far into the ground for our class.
Ah, well, if there are any dissolusioned peeps on Chilastra, give me a tell in game... I have some Java beer and some ID friends we can go hang out with
TH has a nigh impossible job but the responses ive read lately from him on DE make me beg the question: "What......and are you sharing?"