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How about this, when you are ispired, you can give mini buffs to droids to make their healh regen or something. Nothing big, just a small little thing to help make combat droid even better. While you have this buff, you keep steel copper and some chemicals on you to adminster these buffs. Just a few per buff, nothing major. I would NOT like to see more colors, colors arent used much as it is anyway.

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Straker_Atrella wrote:

it would be cool if being "inspired" unlocked extra color options.

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Extra Colors or an Extra Texture style would really work for me. The action figure for Kenobi's R5,from Episode 3, has a different paint style then the standard Astromech.

The Devs are currently looking for ideas on Inspirations that will be useful, but not *absolutely* necessary.

So, what are some benefits you can see as useful to you, but would not detract from you being a "whole Droid Engineer" if you didn't have the Inspiration?

Thanks!

Here's the original thread if you wish to post there too.

I would love if there was a buff that cut crafting time in half.

how bout a entertainer buff that raises a crafters combat level up to a max of 25 for like an 1.5 hours, so we could clear our own factories or a buff that lets us wear armor for a bit for a run to the bottom of the death watch

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Straker_Atrella wrote:

Can you "Inspire" people to buy droids?

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I just got through reading the AS version of this very same thread. While the first page was mostly " GO AWAY! HAVE THE DEVS FIX OUR BUGS FIRST!" I have to say that I was tempted to post "now you know how DE's feel!" in response. However, I thought better of it.

More colors, different textures, less resources to be used in crafting, bonus to module's abilities that are crafted in that time period.

I like that quest thing. Have it be 1 of 12 new chassis AND 1 of 12 modules. Having it that a DE would give more attention to entertainers to go back and get every one.

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Straker_Atrella wrote:

However, I thought better of it.

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Umm, probably a good thing you restraind yourself.

Thanks for the ideas so far, everyone. Good stuff. I've started putting together the information I've gotten from all these Inspiration threads, but there's still time for you to submit more ideas in this thread if you have them!

Message Edited by Tralmek on 07-07-2005 11:30 AM

Hmm...how about an Inspiration that allows a DE to give all droids in a group a boost in health or damage? Or repair rate? It wouldn't be a necessity, considering how much combat droids are used in actual combat, but would be a nice-to-have.

I think decreased crafting time and decreased resource usage would be reasonable. But I'd really like to see the quest idea.

Perhaps resources gaining an increase to their quality while you are inspired?

Personally, I'd love to see minor variants made accessible for existing chassis through the inspiration process...nothing radical mind you - the "bug head" option for the protocol droid, or the serving-tray head for the R-series. I really don't see color variations as viable given the already large selection available at master.

IMO, the inspiration XP bonus is great for the developing craftsman - but there's no reason to get "inspired" as a Master. I think that master-level inspiration should be handled differently and the XP bonus should be sufficient reward for the non-master.