Droid Engineer Archive

Actually, I've rethought the logistics of it. There is no central directory of Droid Engineers, and I don't think the message boards alone would be enough to get the DE's out marching. It could work if we all used the same server, but we don't. Trying to spread the word to all DE's on all planets in all galaxies would be extremely hard. Therefore, I won't even bother trying to get the protest organized. For the time being, I suppose we will have to accept the fact that if Lucasarts had their way, they would go back and digitally remove all droids from the Star Wars movies in favour of big, beasty pets.

Just think what it would have been like...

Instead of C3P0 and R2D2 we have Stinky the Slice Hound and Fido the Dewback. Her ship coming under attack by the Empire, Princess Leia gives Stinky the stolen plans for the death star before running off. Along comes Fido, insisting that they get to an escape pod so that they can go to Tatooine. Stinky and Fido get aboard the escape pod and blast off towards the desert planet.

"There goes another one," says the gunner on the port-side laser turret.
"Hold your fire," exclaims the deck officer. "There's no life forms on board. It probably just short-circuited." At second glance he says, "Oh, my bad, there -are- life forms aboard. Blast it!"

The gunner blasts the escape pod into oblivion, along with Stinky, Fido and the plans for the death star. The rebels have no attack plan, the death star does a drive-by of Yavin 4 and the Empire quashes all resistance in one fell swoop. All this because the devs want to re-write Star Wars history and do away with droids in favour of furry critters.

What is wrong with you people? Extend an olive branch and un-nerf our probots! That's something you can do right now. It will give us a reason to exist until you fix our profession!

Lexx

wow, I'm a master artisan and novice droid enginner with a few skills in that tree. this is the most amazing thread i've read. and here all along I thought I was doing something wrong with the class, unable to make a dime, spending every day running survey missions to keep my harvesters running to gain more useless droid crafting xp to get to yet another tier that will get me not a single thing......i'm the only DE in my PA and no one really needs a single thing from me....

for the love of....please fix this profession sometime within the next year maybe?

*bump*

hmm, after finding and reading the "plan" from the devs, I see a couple things that really scare me:

-we will still only be allowed ONE combat droid out at a time, note I say *we* as in DEs, I could see all other professions limited to 1, but come on.....let the DE's have more than 1 out, ps i like how we have all the formation commands there for *nothing*. glad they work for the multi-pet CH (one ch pet is like what, 5 probots? so allow us to have what, say 10 of our nerfed probots out and then maybe they'd be about equal in combat)

-there is no mention of increasing their HAM or dmg output, adding new weapon types etc doesn't mean stronger..... my droid will "look cooler" though when he goes down fighting that lesser womp rat! woohoo

-what's all this bs about fixing droid pathing bugs? do CH pets have the same pathing bugs? If not why can't this code be shared, makes no sense. and ive never heard a ch complain about pathing. so resuse the d**n code no?

-that last item is a real winner, allow some sort of repeating animation? for what exactly? like a novelty dancing robot we can all setup and let lag people out for no good reason (until its power runs out which would be the normal 30 minutes I guess). putting that in there just compounds most peoples agreement tha they are just novelty toys.

now, IF you truly give us a medical droid that actually heals, a repair droid that actually repairs, and a power droid that actually powers, that would be a start.....but it's already 5 months post launch and we're just *talking* about getting these things. you're going to lose a lot of customers if we go month after month like we have with no changes.

[quote]Thunderheart:

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Thunder, there has been absolutely no communications with THE FIRST PRIORITY listed by so many people being the DE prof. Is this how the communication will continue for this game?

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Im working with Sintrosi on the response to that plan now.

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Should we expect this same result?

If something is in the works why isnt there any communication on it?

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There are things in the works, but to make droids the "Star Wars swiss army knives" that we all want them to be, they are attached to every other game system and because of that, its taking a bit of time. Like I said, Im working with the Correspondents on the Top 5 so we'll have some information to you soon. Its a short week, so I would expect something next week. Sintrosi is thorough and prompt, so I dont expect it will be too long before something gets out.

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Is there some light at the end of the tunnel? O_o

I am considering getting into the profession, about a week into my playing expirence. I've read the problems, but my thought is that at some time they have to fix this. Maybe I can be ready for the time that they do. I've started out going the Novice Smuggler route, and have enough scouting that I'm close to Novice CH, but you know, I hate those big Rancors walking around town. I bought an R5 unit, and it doesn't help me a lot, but it's Star Wars and I just enjoy having one.

That being said, I have some suggestions that probably need to be looked at.

We need a viable combat droid that is every bit as good as the top Creature Handler Pet. Period. End of Story, and the fact that it's not here is ridiculous.

We should go a different route, and be able to "buff" up some stats by adding robotic parts to some players (IE Vader and Luke) There would be a huge market for this, and it would only need some sort of drawback, (sort of like spices) to make it a real choice for people to make. Doctors can do, and we should be able to do it that way as well.

Some sort of Mechanized droid mount that fights and does the things a creature mount will do. DE should be equal to the CH in all aspects.

Just my thoughts. I have a long way to go before I'm there, and my hope will be that the profession will be something when I get there. The fact that I've never met a DE in game tells me that somebody needs to do this job for the good of the universe. Now it's on SOE to let me make a living doing it.

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BriaArtisan wrote:

for the love of....please fix this profession sometime within the next year maybe?

*bump*

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*POOF*...or rather...*GONK* Your wish is granted!! It will be fixed some time next year!

Oh joy!

If Armorsmiths get to have a rare armor (RIS armor), why can't DEs get to make rare droids, maybe schematics of a droideka perhaps? I want to get into this profession and hopefully by the time I get to Master DE there would be fixes and new stuff that makes the DE profession fun.

That's an awesome idea! Maybe even have missions specifically for DE's that would allow us to acquire rare parts, resources or schematics.

Droideka schematics would be at the very top of my wish list. I hope someone makes it so.

Lexx Muskoka

I was half way to giving up on DE and im only a recent player.

But I read this post and it prompted me to start organising the DE's on Farstar.

So far we've had a great response - we've set up our own chat channel and are communicating all the time. This really has changed the game for me - im not going to give up and misery certainly loves company.

I've found all the DE's to be exceptionally friendly except for one (not naming names) if not in the very least round the twist

If we cant craft anything useful then I know that I am in the company of some very exceptional people.

Regards from the newest galaxy on the block

Nikev

Good work, Nikev. A DE chat channel is a great idea. I can remember several occasions when I tried to find another DE, but the search function would find no one in my proximity. With a DE channel we could communicate throughout the galaxy with other DE's about anything (training, resources, schematics, price-setting). I'm going to set up a chat channel for Sunrunner. I'll be back on the boards soon to let the Sunrunner DE's know where to find it.

Lexx

Wow, I am not a DE, but i was researching it. What do you guys think of these concepts for making DE a cash cow.

Suggestion:

Make MDE actually advanced mechanical engineers that not only make droids, but vehicles and eventually when they roll it out space ships. Now i know when they roll out landspeeders the entire Galaxy will be on those like a suburban mom to an SUV. What profession are they going to grant this schematic to?

Even CH will be creamin their pants for one. I hope they are 2 seaters.

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Stinko wrote:

Wow, I am not a DE, but i was researching it. What do you guys think of these concepts for making DE a cash cow.

Suggestion:

Make MDE actually advanced mechanical engineers that not only make droids, but vehicles and eventually when they roll it out space ships. Now i know when they roll out landspeeders the entire Galaxy will be on those like a suburban mom to an SUV. What profession are they going to grant this schematic to?

Even CH will be creamin their pants for one. I hope they are 2 seaters.

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Vehicles will be ENG-IV, so _every_ engineering crafting guy can build them.

I suspect supply will saturate demand in about 8 hours.

I suspect that while DE's won't make vehicles, vehicles will most likely depend, to some extent, on droid crew and repairs.