Droid Engineer Archive
Thread: Proposal for Battle Droids and a new Profession
Zbus you should just really find another game if you don't want to have any kind of social or economic interaction with others.
First off you can't assume that people are going to get all those extra skills, you have to assume someone is going to get the bear minimum skills required. If you give DE's the ability to wield multiple battle droids everyone and there mother are going to spend the 92 points to get MDE and whatever other uber combination will work with it.
I just ran a config and came up with Master DE, Master Pistoleer, novice medic with first aid IIIand still had 42 skill points left over.
Fine you can thumb your nose up at this, but I'm telling you now that Raph is under the gun to add more of a star wars feel to this game and droids is one of the areas they are looking at. Don't even think for a moment that he's going to give DE"s that much power for 92 skill points. Ifwe don't start comming up with a solution that works for everyone, he'll do it for us.
Ok to start with Zbus can you please use paragraphs? I'm not forcing myself to read another one of those. First off this was not a post to bash BE and CH. Please leave the nerf crying and bashing out of this thread please.
The reason a lot of people don't buy droids is because they don't do enough damage compared to pets. This is a way for every class to be able to use one battle droid that will match up against a creature of the equal level. Second this provides for a class that would be more powerful than a CH.
That power comes at a cost. That cost is skill points. I said that the Droid Commander class would be a hybrid profession just like BH/CM/Commando and would have aprox. 33 skill points left over.
You said in your first post the idea behind the class you want is to be just like the CH class.You are the one drawing the segway between the 2 classes not me.You also made a comment on number of points spent not me.And to be honest thisidea has been thrown around again and again here.What makes you think its going to get any better response this time. Its a dead horse. Very few if any DE want it as a option so spend your time posting somthing else instead of raiseing the corpse of anouther dead horse to beat. Have a good night.
zbus wrote:
Oh by the way you said BH/CM/commando you cant master all those. When I said CH/BE with 52 points left thats master of both plus 52 to spare.And yes it covers Scouting and Med needs of both you and you pet. Plus is self reliant needing little in the way of other classes or in Maint for just picking and doing what the class does.But im glad to see your still worried we might become uber with a few droids lol.
sigh. BH/CM/Commando are all Hybrid classes which alll have very few skill points left over when you master them.
I've tried avoiding starting a flame fest on another profession, and I'm not going to start now. You can't heal droids anyways so that's not even a fair comparision.
Sorry to be rude but didnt read most of ya post as was a bit long, but one thing I will say is that a new proffesion would be an incredibly bad idea........
It would piss off every DE out there, and just make DE suck more.
NO, Imador
NO droid handlers
NO droid commanders
NO droid "insert description here" whatever
Droid engineers should be able to control they designed and built.
Jedicart wrote:
Sorry to be rude but didnt read most of ya post as was a bit long, but one thing I will say is that a new proffesion would be an incredibly bad idea........
It would piss off every DE out there, and just make DE suck more.
I agree with Jedicart.
Who wants to be a droid engineer and not be able to command and control their own droids???
P.S. Give Master DE's ability to weild 2 battle droids and a utility droid, give non-de ability to weild one - like they already have...........
Quite frankly I dont care if everyone will rush to DE like they did CH, who cares, DE is no easy grind as im sure you will all know.......most wont bother, besides the fact they prolly already spent their points in skills they are happy to keep.
I started DE not to make droids for people, but to make droids for myself, so that whenever I needed one I could wack one up easy. As it happens I love DE, just want some combat droids and ability to weild more, now if SOE put that into a seperate class, every DE will likely disapear. I dont wanna flame ya mate, really, but are you actualy a DE? coz I cant see many DE's having the same opinion as you......it basically makes DE worthless........................
If I remeber correctly Devs said recently that they wanna balance DE with CH, thats pretty damm simple, give DE combat droids and ability to weild more +)
I can see where you coming from, seriously I dont wanna be rude, it just makes me panic when I see posts relating to DE that push for making us worse that we are =))
Yes I am a DE. The purpose in my suggestion for a seperate "class" of droids is to allow a DE to have many active utility droids and one battle droid at once. Everyother class would be able to call one of each with the exception of a droid commander class which could call multiple battle droids. If the DE class itself cost more skill points I'd be fine with DE's being able to call more than one battle droid, and yes I do feel that CH's should cost more skill points than it currently does.
I thought about the option of having an elite-elite class based off of DE's for the droid commander profession, but my fear was that people would then go that route just for the droid commander profession and not need the service of the people who only want to make and sell droids.
Sorry about that I posted on a friends account. The post from Remmington was me.