Droid Engineer Archive
Thread: Made DE in 3 to 4 days, but i dont know how to make a bot
I hope you dont think I'm trying to be mean like alot of the other posters here, but there is no shortcut.
Most of us who chose DE as a profession did not just grind our way up, we stopped at each new skill we achieved and experimented with the new items we could make. This is the only way to truly know a profession. Take a day or 2, and make every droid possible, and every module possible. You will learn so much on your own, you will realized that 100 posts here could not tell you what you need. Only by experimenting on your own can you figure out which resource stats affect which modules and models. Not only that, its the only way you can get a feel for which specific resources you will need, and in what quantities.
For example. Those of us that stopped everytime we leveled and experimented learned that the droids that sell best require Advanced Droid Brains. Mostly from factory crates. Look at the schematic and you notice that each brain will require 4 EGPs and EMMs from factory crates.
In my case, as soon as I found this out, I looked at my skillpoints again and reallocated them so I could hit Master Artisan, so I could make these items. This turned out to be a great decision, for not only do the brains use these, but all the high level modules use them as well. As well as numerous other items we sell.
Or Control Units. Almost every droids you will sell will have an Adv Droid Motive System. Each of these require a control unit. Or the mother of them all, ESSs for Probots. These are Master Artisan items that require 2 (1 optional) master artisan parts to make.
Want to make Armor 6? Have to see an Armorsmith to get the panels you need for it.
This lost goes on, and on. Sorry there is no quick easy guide to being a MDE,you have to learn it yourself the hard way, at least if you want to be competent at it.
skeenee wrote:
Quit DE .. tah't s my advice!!! Don' t ruin the reputation of our respectabel profession! lol
repectable lol droids are completely useless
lol.... took me 7 hours from the time I registered my name ingame... created a character.... and got my final training...
That was back in Oct. And I have been a master DE since
Ouch...
I grinded my way to MDE, after I spent a few days dwelling on the forum taking in as much info as possible. I thought I was well prepaired.
I've been MDE for about a month and a half, just last night I was able to acctually put a good deal of stock on my vendor. It takes alot and just reading here you will not understand it. You need to play with the droids you build, then destroy em to make room for more. You need to build utter crap, and understand why it is utter crap, send it into a lair of mottled wrix and run. Your next assembly will be better. You need to get feed back from the people you provide your droids with. See what works well, and what can be done without.
YOU NEED WEEKS OF FACTORY RUNS, build two factories next to eachother and make your droids right out front. Helps if you are as disorganized as I am, this way all your components are a click away. If you acctually have room in your personal inventory, chances are, you are missing something.
Good luck, you have alot of back tracking to do, IE. Look at your final desired deed, see what components you need. Look at each component, see what components the components need. And yes, components of the components for the components.
wow, such love.... i thought "robot" makers would be alot nicer... but i guess not... ill just have to figure it out on my own. i just didntwant to waist all my rare resources on stuff that wont sell... thanks for nothing....
oh, and come try to find me, i never back down from a challenge.. will take you on anytime jerk...
I can understand that you are angry because you all took your time and he hasn't and you feel he may have cheated himself. But it was his choice from the start and now when he actually gets around to making the droids, he can actually make droids that people will want to buy, he can experiment to the fullest of his ability. I mean you don't have to have made a droid at intermediate to understand that a droid made by a master DE will be better. I mean lets face it, it's not rocket science here, he can spend a few days learning the ropes either by trial and error and have a pretty decent setup going within a short time indeed, especially as he has saved his good resources.
In some senses i don't blame him, the early going of this profession is tedious, in that you grind a level and you can only make crap, you grind a level and you can only make crap. I don't want to sell shoddy made droids so i won't, therefore even at about half way 3-2-1-4, i pretty much have nothing to sell. I won't sell a practically unexperimented probot with only level 3 armour and a combat module in, because i know they can get better. Barker droids can be made by low level DE's and only those with adv 4 can program them, so there's not many sales there. Most rangers/scouts think the scouting droids are a joke and the datapad modules are a joke. So how do I finance my "profession," artisan missions. So far my droid sales have been 1 kind person begging me to make her an r5 droid, even though i admitted it would be sub par (she new about the rigours of DE and took pity), 1 fugitive tracking droid for about 1k for a noob who needed a basic protection droid at a cheap price and an advanced mouse droid for a few hundred creds to a mate lol.
If i actually cared about making virtual credits on mass, i would probably would have dropped this profession. The reason i picked up this profession was because it seemed more star warsy then CH and i wanted a probot at my side (I think you can all guess by now i'm holding out for a battle droid too lol). I'm also a bit of a tinker in real life too with pc's so it spoke to me in that sense too and to be honest i don't care about being a big player business wise, i just want to have fun. Any time a game feels like a job i'm gone anyway, i play this game to relax from college/study.
NEB