Droid Engineer Archive

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This petition has made me seriously rethink becoming a DE. Since I am not a DE yet, I cannot totally agree; however it seems that this is a reasonable request of SOE.

I agree with Bantaar, make the droids much more complex and give more XPs.

I feel the SWG Staff did everything right with the Architect Class. It takes 55,000 XPs to get the first levelup, however building a house gives them ~7,000xps. They have to craft a few components to make the house but by my computation they have to craft about 90 items to level up. The DE has to craft ~350 MSE droids to enjoy their first jump.

The Architects get to enjoy the benifits of the harvestors to gather all their resources and then simply have to craft a few times. ie an Architect can level up while spending most of their time off line. The DE can not, they have to grind.

As for whoever said the crafted for 5 hours and only got ~15,000xps, all I have to say is you are doing something wrong. With two or three crafting tools going you should be able to spit out at least 3 a minute. 3 a minute times 140xps * 60 mintues * 5 hours should yeild you about 126k xps. But who wants to spit out 3 a minute for 5 hours, hell we all did that with GCXP and the market is flooded with CDEF Weapons, Axes (the best PL item btw (80 xps).

Thats my 02.

I am forced to agree. After taking Novice Droid engineer and seeing what I have to craft to get to just 1 tier 1 box, I am slightly discouraged. I don't mind it taking a long time, but the idea of crafting all those useless mouse droids is staggering.

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i agree totally with this. I don't have alot of time to play so when i do come on i don't want to be at the same spot as iwas 4 months ago, and yes this is the profession i've wanted to be for so long. basically i don't have the time to master this profession in 2 weeks like the people who have already got this high stat, it's a big waste of time.

I'm about 3k away from novice DE and from reading through the posts I started to thinkmaybe this wouldn't be a good profession to go through..

but thenMichelaSundiver and JonasBlackmoormade me see the light.

They are not attacking other DE's or are angst-driven..I personally think that have some pretty lucid comments and are looking at things in the long term forthisMMORPG and how to play the game. I seriously doubt they are against making imporvements that make sense.

I also think the devs are working as hard as they can to the best of their ability (being a dev at a different company myself I know what they're going through) and we'll see improvements.

I say to all the people on this petition read their posts again and let it sink in.

Itzha Traawp - Lowca

Master Artisan/Novice Droid Engineer

Signed. Lots of work yet to be done before DE is reasonably playable and fun.

Itzha Traawp,

From what I gather their biggest issue is with changing the XP requirements. As I said, Iagree with them on this point and thinkthe XP requirements are fine.

There are other issues with this profession, you can read the posts and seem a common theme. It's the majority, not the minority.

Until, you actually become a DE, which you haven't by your own admission,you really have no basis for comments like: "I say to all the people on this petition read their posts again and let it sink in. "

We are trying to make the profession better. That in no way affects you adversely. What is the issue?

I think the current XP levels are fine. I was surprised to find out I had over 2000 XP only minutes after attaining DE status!

What I DON'T want to do is be forced to GRIND. Make all of our droids (much) more complicated to create and require them to be built with PLAYER MADE components rather than just AFK macro'd ore. Offset the additional time / componenents / credits required to build these new droids with additional XP.

The net effect I would like to see is droids that take longer to build, but are more rewarding XP and credit wise. A galaxy full of MSE droids because of grinding is not good for SWG.

I wholeheartedly agree with the needed change in EXP, the needed larger selection of droids, and better novice droids.... my alarm clock is more usefull! Anywho wonder if we will ever see a change.....

All they really need to do for you guys is add an explosive module for the MSE , I take 10 of the little guys, and tell them to /follow "playername" . They charge in and blow up. I'll be buying them by the hundred.

HEAR HEAR droid exp is to **edit** slow. I mean honestly between crafting modules and droids I am getting general crafting faster than droid exp. 48000 is way to harsh for a level 1 slot when all you get is 100-200 a droid and the droid doesnt even sell! I am pratically giving them away as it is and in order to make money to keep my harvesters going I need to make bone armor and harvesters to sell which takes away from droid engineer. All in all I am somewhat disappointed in the exp curve and usefullness of Droids. I mean at LEAST let us have a low level combat droid at novice. and add more combat droids to the tree. People want Combat Droids like crazy and the 2 or 3 there are is not cutting it. One is even BH only.