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Are you nuts, these ideas are way to good to ever even be read.

nice post to bad its wasted here.

Interesting ideas, but way too many.

First, it's better to talk about modules than droids. Making loads of specific droids would be a pain and take ages. Here is my personal list:

- Medic module : give bonus to heal, allow heal wound/buff outside hospital

- Entertainment module : same as medic but for ent profs (but no BF heal outside cantina).

- Crafting module : allow experiment, reduce critical failure rate.

- repair module : allow droid to repair other droid and vehicles.

- Combat module : 1. offensive : damage dealer (req cert for serious damage, DE only cert, no new prof)

2. deffensive : stunt/slow/distract target but almost no damage (no cert).

3. support : give small combat bonus.

- Translation module : 2 way translation between target and you. Useless, but fun and related to movie.

Beside that, only DE would be able , after some skill point spent, be able to have out more than 1 droid out at a time, but not allowed to have 2 droid with combat modules out at the same time.

And of course, all those modules working properly.

My 0,02 €

/agree and support 100%....

but I dont think it'll happen. the "Invasion" will be more likea "small expiditionary force" I'm sure...

REALLY cool ideas, but too cool for SWG at this stage. just my opinion.

/applaud

Wonderful work here

Hey...hey devs...look over here /points to this thread

Gavvot--

I agree there's a lot of droids here, that was the general idea. I highly doubt it'd come in time for the droid invasion (if it indeed comes with publish 7).

I read these boards a lot more than I post in them...I usually try not to comment unless I have anything to say I think would be constructive for the topic or useful for a player. I've seen a lot of themes in the discussions over months, and I really think you guys--the Droid Engineers--are a huge way to solve these issues.

The biggest one--which I've felt everytime when I Mastered Artisan, Commando, Creature Handler, and Politician--is the lack of accomplishment or use for the Master title. Sure, abilities get a little higher and you get the cool title above your head. A LOT of players feel this sense of lacking though, as I've seen in posts and in the game. I think crafters are the only ones who have a REAL reason to stay, because they can make the best stuff in their profession, in both experimentation and schematics.

I still couldn't do much more as a Master as I could 4-4-4-4 or even less in my professions. CH I was able to call bigger & badder pets, but that got old quickly for me. Commando I had fun throwing my proton grenades for a bit, and Flame Cone 2 was great, but it wasn't much different. Artisan let me craft vehicles, which was awesome...that did give me a reason to hold onto it for awhile. Politician...useless, nothing new with it.

These droids are an answer to that (in my mind). Bring in a form of the certifications I've seen mentioned over and over. These certifications aren't as good as pure, 100% combat droids once they arrive (I do agree a system needs to be worked out for that, which isn't the Droid version of CH), but if used right they can greatly "compliment" your profession as a Master, not greatly enhance you or make you all-powerful.

The second thing this could fix, in my opinion, is diversity with droids. When you look at the number of pets in the game, and then take all the pets that can be used as player's pets and put it to the side, you see that these droids aren't that overwhelming a number. Like I said, the artistic side of creation wouldn't be difficult at all. Humanoid (player and NPC models) models have to be seamless. There's no "forearm piece connecting to the upper arm piece with a ball for the elbow" thing we used to see in games a few years back. The model is, for the most part, one solid mesh that is "bent" by a bone system, very similar to human bone function.

Droids ARE jointed. Look at R2-D2...two leg meshes slapped onto to cylinder mesh, with half of a sphere mesh on top of it. C-3PO...each limb is a mesh assembled altogether to make the model, bending at joints. They're much simpler, there's no worry about a texture being able to wrap around the entire character, just the mesh objects.

The programming would take time, though the fundamentals for it are there in skill tapes. Some of the more advanced abilities (a Merchant droid's auto-order ability, for example) would have to be from scratch.

And the third problem, though close with the second, this could fix is that Star Wars feeling. I expected to see droids all over the place when I started, just like the films, books, comics and games. That was Star Wars while not in space to me. And the basis is there...astromechs making repairs in starports or faction bases, running the shuttles, etc. Throw this list of droids into the game though, balancing the overwhelming popular pets you see everywhere with droids, and suddenly you see droids popping up everywhere. Because they're useful.

I think modules are a GREAT idea personally, and a wonderful way to gurantee every player can have (for the most part) the same usefulness for a droid as a whole. My proposed ideas are to create diversity with those droids (the certification for them is only required for their secondary abilities...anyone can use them as a normal droid with modules), and use that diversity to enhance the Star Wars feeling in the game and a player's ability to customize their experience even more.