Droid Engineer Archive

Audio, they are giving the ablity to see all the droids. We just have to make a finished droid. If you dont put any Modules in the nonadavnced droid it the same requirements (for most) as the droid chasis.

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X Machine'Zed X
Obsidian Dagger Squadron

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MachineZed wrote:

Audio, they are giving the ablity to see all the droids. We just have to make a finished droid. If you dont put any Modules in the nonadavnced droid it the same requirements (for most) as the droid chasis.

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I understand that is true component wise, but the addition of the chemical is going to make them more expensive in any case.

You'll have to pardon me for being upset, but I don't see why if this isn't even going in until Publish 8 they had to take one of the few things going for us out.

People LOVED our colored chassis and we could produce them quickly and cheaply. Even if they just added a frame for the Power Droid (the only droid I get asked for that doesn't have a chassis), we could have just been happy.

I fully understand the concept of a means to an end, but in this case - yes, the end is nice and all, but I don't feel it's worth a) not having it for a month or more, or b) taking away one of the few things a non-Master, and even Master, DE could do to make people very happy at the same time as making some credits.

Even if they needed to add this system, I do not understand why the old one had to go. Just leave it in for the chassis and make the droid deed ignore it. They are redoing the deed system anyway, so simply make it view a chassis as a chassis - colored or not.

I have a hard time believing it "had to go" totally; I think it may have been more the case of, "Well, they won't care, right?"

Audio, who still wishes we had just been left alone

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Kollos wrote:

So they're removing our ability to provide a low-cost display item for people's homes?

Gee, thanks. I think. 90% of the display chassis that I sell have been customized with the customer's desired color... now I'm going to have to tell them that they have to take the default color or else buy a full droid to use as furniture.

A warning ahead of time seems like it might have been wise. This is EXACTLY the kind of miscommunication (or lack of communication) that upsets us so much. Yes, it will be nice to be able to drop all of our droids and have them displayable at some unknown point in the future, but we should have been warned about this nerf ahead of time.

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You aren't losing anything, in the long run. A "Chassis" is the same as a full non-ADV version of the droid... Presumably, under the new post-Push 8 Scheme, you'll be able to craft a cheap version of a droid (a non-ADV droid with no modules), customize it, and give it to the customer. In the end, it will be exactly the same as it is now, except you'll be able to do it with ALL droid types.

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Kollos wrote:

So they're removing our ability to provide a low-cost display item for people's homes?

Gee, thanks. I think. 90% of the display chassis that I sell have been customized with the customer's desired color... now I'm going to have to tell them that they have to take the default color or else buy a full droid to use as furniture.

A warning ahead of time seems like it might have been wise. This is EXACTLY the kind of miscommunication (or lack of communication) that upsets us so much. Yes, it will be nice to be able to drop all of our droids and have them displayable at some unknown point in the future, but we should have been warned about this nerf ahead of time.

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I agree. This is aperfect example of a case where SOE has failed to communicate a fundamental and very important piece of information in a timely fashion. If it has to be, so be it. But that doesn't change the fact that silences on changes like this are exactly why the community is sometimes livid at SOE regarding this game.

The standard is clearly different for us, and I don't like it. If a change was made which made it so the entire concealment tree of the rifleman profession was going to be broken for a month, they would have told everyone up front. The degree to which this affects the DE profession is identical.

This is the sort of thing that belongs in the patch notes. This information is infinitely more valuable than the information about droids that is currently in the patch notes.

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Malitevv wrote:

This is aperfect example of a case where SOE has failed to communicate a fundamental and very important piece of information in a timely fashion.

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Throw it on the heap....

Two questions (forgive me for being a little suspicious):

1. Why does this change have to be implemented over the course of two patches?

2. What would be so bad about being able to customize chassis and deeds?

Are you sure they know that we sell decorative chassis?

I guess this explains why my answer about decorative droids wasn't added to the knowledge base. Maybe we should try to get patch information from CSRs in the future.

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Vampiric_Hoshi wrote:

I just hope this doesnt become another aspect of DE thats "we'll add this now and never get round to finishing it" like so much of the profression

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TheRealTK421 wrote:

Okay...so...I know the deal on this now.

Let me state the problem first, just so we are all on the same page:


Droid chassis (LE Repair, R2, Probot, etc.) used to have a color-customization step right when you'd actually make the item (before Publish 7). This allowed DEs to create 'furniture'/display droids (in custom colors) for their clients. These would not function as regular droids...they were only something you could drop in your house for show.


Publish 8 will include a new 'display model'-like option for building ALL droids (not just the versions we had before).


As part of the work for getting to this feature for Publish 8, the color customization step got removed (since, I'm guessing, it will work differently down the line...and had to go).

So...we're unfortunately in a tight spot.


They have removed this step as part of getting to the new feature coming in Publish 8. But, that is some unknown amount of time in the future. It is not, I repeat, not a "bug".


For now (as best as I'm currently aware), this step will not be getting added back into chassis crafting. This means that you will not have the ability to custom-color chassis that are sold as 'furniture' again (until Publish 8 is released).


This is gonna hurt (it hurts me pretty good, as 'furnishings' was a good size of my business) but after having had it explained to me, it doesn't make sense to force them to backtrack on this. It's yucky we got stuck where we did with this...but there it is....


So, this isn't a "bug" as much as it is a step on the way to the new feature that had been requested.


Sorry to be the bearer of bad tidings on this one, all. Obviously, I wish it were better news.



/bow

Respectfully,

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