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dropped CH and went DE . DE is my first holo. Kinda feels like i jumped on the bandwagon at the wrong time. ohh well =)

Busy. Spent all last night doing factory runs...making bombs...and telling people that I couldn't make survey droids =)

Message Edited by xRavX on 04-28-2004 08:42 AM

Well, almost too well in fact. Although I've got to find out if one of my friends actually managed to land me a big contract that he called me in the middle of dinner to ask if I wanted him to try or not.
I ran out of R3 adv Chassis and started a run of EMM and EGPs just for those chassis.

I've been making alot of stim bots and harvesting bots, and of course entertainer bots.

I have to say one thing though. Wow those entertainer effects are cool looking.

I can't wait to see the cantinas full of dancing jawas.

Oh and the exploding MSE droids make big explosions. Much bigger than I was expecting.

A friend and I used my first two on a bunch of Kaadu. I was watching the one that the droid was nearest and then BOOM, and one that I thought was out of range fell over. I'm trying to decide if I'm going to sell these for cheap or not since they're so much fun.

Same as Korrack except I already have a shop.
Just had my first factory yesterday.

Already have some orders, that I'll try to do ASAP.

Removed my title until I have the ressources to build droids.

After that, as I have da killer skill combo(musician, DE, merchant), I'm gonna make an ADV protocol droid, black with red or green eyes, a barking module and an entertainer Foam module and have a lot of fun with it in front of Theed spaceport. Well, that's the plan.

I logged on yesterday and began to study the schematics and functions of the new modules, but within 5 minutes, the tells started coming in. After making a few droids for people and then taking about 4-5 orders, I took down my tag, and it took me most of the day to fill those orders. I think I made close to a million credits (I lost count after a while), and I don't even have a shop yet. It was just me and my little R2 with his crafting station out amongst the people, and all of my sales were walk-up orders. I was able to avoid selling things requiring certain skills to people who didn't have them (although I came perilously close to selling a barker droid to a guy who did not have Advertising 4). I became a Master DE a little over a week ago, so I have been hard-pressed to learn my profession after grinding it for a holo (although for the record I had always wanted to try it anyway).

The main thing that has plagued me so far has been the requirement for 3-4 "identical EGP/EMMs from factory crates." After buying up lots of crates to make certain parts like advanced droid brains, I was left with a bunch of crates with like two EGPs or EMMs in them. And you can't make many factory runs of parts requiring several identical EGPs because they come in crates of 25. This is SUCH a pain. I finally threw up my hands and just started buying expensive crates of advanced droid brains, just to help me keep up. Good thing I have a good supplier of Master Artisan parts, who is also a Master DE, and who was thus able to give me a lot of helpful information. Thanks Plump. The moral of that story for new DEs is: find someone like this who can keep you well-supplied with EGPs and EMMs -- don't try to rely on the odd crate off the bazaar. One other thing: MAKE SURE YOU HAVE GOOD CRAFTING TOOLS AND STATIONS.

One other thing that I am learning is that there are so many subcomponents to make, and the complexity is so great, that the pressure to make these things on the fly for a customer is immense. I was terrified that after getting together all the resources, crafting all the previously mentioned subcomponents on the spot, experimenting on them on the spot, etc., I would have a failure in the final experimentation, or even an outright critical failure in the final assembly (ack, it's time to press that final assembly button!). And then I'd have to tell the customer that I'm out of those blasted EMMs. Fair warning: don't do this profession if you have a weak heart.

Having said all that, I LOVE this profession! I love putting all the parts together, and then being able to sell it to someone and watch them run off happy and giddy, playing with their new droid. I made a lot of sales the first day with promise for return business from very satisfied customers, who have told me they were passing my name around. I started to calculate one guy's price for two R2s and some survey droids, and he just suddenly says he'll give me 200k, lol. Needless to say I was on the job right then.

I think the devs did an excellent job with this publish. There are a few issues that can be fixed by slightly changing a few number values and requirements for things, and adding a little more usefulness to survey and harvester droids, but overall it is a success. But I've learned my lesson not to let myself get swamped!


Rippen Tuck
Master Droid Engineer
Starsider

I was ready!

And I still got swamped!

I for one enjoyed the patch, although I was in tell hell! 2.5 million credits in under 3 hours.

It went great. DEs finally getting some love from our customers. I was swamped so much I had to change my profession tag to keep the number of /tells down.

It went well for the 3 hours I was able to play. I had prepared ahead of time with various parts I would need, but couldn't get home from work fast enough to get in on the "first wave" of sales and interest.

Even so, by the time I got home I had a queue of about 20 orders and another 20-30 questions to answer. An hour later I actually started making droids, and managed to fill about half of the orders while dealing with seemingly constant tells. I had to put up an AFK message stating that I was only accepting email regarding droids (questions or orders) because if I accepted /tells I'd never get any droids made!

I'm really glad that the 100-odd unit run of Advanced R3 chassis work to make post-patch droids... that's about all anyone has been ordering. I started a run of Survey Droids and tonight I'll have to start another run of GP modules.

Ive had several customers asking about a harvester module that harvests ore and chems and stuff like that...we cant make those can we? or have i jus missed something?

last night i got some vertex and tollium (lucky me!) and i made a few mouse droids with the stim module, my friend Need made one with the bomb module, I had a lot of requests for the survey droid. Sence i had just gotteen DE i gave up on selling and spent the few hours i was online attempting to understand HOW to put these things into droids. Clusters, modules.. very confusing for me!