Droid Engineer Archive

Not only should we be able to build strong combat droids, we should be able to use them. Everytime my guild goes out for a hunt, I can't go because I end up being killed and replaced with cybernetic parts that I barely have the money to afford. We should be able to use the fruits of our labor. Not just make money, but use those droids. If we can build a Merchant Barker droid, shouldn't we know how to use it? If we build a CL 30 probot, we should be able to hunt animals at least, right?

I also support the idea of more droid chassis and modules. If we could get a IG-88 chassis, it could be built with an AI Droid Brain and track Jedi well on it's own. Also, they could be used to as body guards for Jedi as well. (Greivous' guards were the first if the IG-100s series. There are so many tasks that droids do in the Star Wars Universe that the Devs haven't even touched yet (although I realize that they can't do everything and I still support them 100%, unlike many people I have seen on the game).

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Ackdel wrote:

It's Ironic, we DE's had 2 publishes devoted to us, and most of us rightly think that the profession's been completely ignored. SW is about the droids, people!

Then again, with how things are going, all crafting professions are hosed. Can't imagine we're any different. Just wait for the publish where the best combat droid in the game is looted by MDefs.

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That may be accurate if they hadn't broken everything they added with each of those pulishes.

Yoda, if you save your clone data at the closest cloning facilty you wont get cybernetic parts.

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Straker_Atrella wrote:

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Ackdel wrote:

It's Ironic, we DE's had 2 publishes devoted to us, and most of us rightly think that the profession's been completely ignored. SW is about the droids, people!

Then again, with how things are going, all crafting professions are hosed. Can't imagine we're any different. Just wait for the publish where the best combat droid in the game is looted by MDefs.

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That may be accurate if they hadn't broken everything they added with each of those pulishes.

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psikobunny wrote:
wow, am I the only one that isn't remembering that stupid turret head droid with rose colored glasses? I was under the impression that the biggest reason we never saw it ingame was because the vast majority of DE thought it was stupid.

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That's the way I remember it as well. When the first pictures of it came out in the newsletter, I recall the majority of droidsmiths hating it. With comments popping up on the forumslike:"They stuck a turret on a R2 unit, and that's it?"

Of course, at the time, many were under the impression that the droid revamp would include the prequel droids. The devs mislead a lot of people with that revamp. I remember all the threads about droidsmiths pulling their hair outwhen the revamp went live, because of all the /tells asking for droidekas and "rodger-rodger" droids.

Personally, I think they were origionallyplaning to put all those droids in for droidsmith with the revamp. But changed their minds at the last moment when nobody liked the ideafor the Droid Commander profession they wanted to add. Which would have made people have to spend skill points to use the stonger droids, similar to how the creature handler profession works.