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Thread: Painted my R3 ADV this morning...

darthfodder
Thu Oct 09, 2003 9:56 am
#14

R series wont hold, probots hold, protocols can customize but of course your only color option is gold so I didnt even bother.
darthfodder
Thu Oct 09, 2003 10:03 am
#15

nope talking about my portable crafting been made for over a month c3po. I used the customization tool on him and it gave me the option of the color gold canceled the customization mode because I figured he couldnt get any golder. Have not tried any expermentation on chasis thus far.
Droid_Engineer_Rho
Thu Oct 09, 2003 10:06 am
#16

TheRealTK421,


I am not a master, perhaps things change with that box, but when I attempted to color my protocol (basic-model) this morning with the customization tool, only gold (really yellow in the dialog) was available.





Taking a well-deserved vacation from his successful Droid Engineering business, Master Rho can be found puttering around the galaxy.
TheRealTK421
Thu Oct 09, 2003 10:18 am
#17

Rho,

I'm not a Master yet either.


I also haven't tried to color Protocols (since I have built one of the useless things yet).


If 'goldish' is the only color/hue that you're giving an option to use via the Customization tool, then that is a bug. The tool should give you 64 colors to use to color ANY droid model/type.


Period.


Sounds to me like we have our hands full with a bunch of new and broken features.

"It's like deja vu....all over again." - Yogi Berra


/bow

Respectfully,





TheRealTK421 a.k.a. "Doughbacca"
SWG DE Correspondent
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"I think all right-thinking people in this country are sick and tired of being told that ordinary, decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. ...I'm certainly not. And I'm sick and tired of being told that I am."


darthfodder
Thu Oct 09, 2003 10:47 am
#18

Sure its broken and always hasbeen broken lol, gold was the only color you could use on the protocol chasis to begin with. I thought I also heard that a novice gets as many color options as a master can anyone confirm this? I was really excited when I saw that I could change the color of my R3 untilI stored it and called it again. Why would they even put this on the test server if they werent going to fix it before they released it live? LOL


Wasn't there supposed to be a repair kit in this patch? I didnt here anyone say oops we forgot to include that one, they just pretend like it never happened.

TheRealTK421
Thu Oct 09, 2003 10:55 am
#19

Darthfodder,


As best as I can tell, all DEs that can build/use the Droid Customization tool get access to all 64 colors.


Also, they talk about things they are adding (Repair tools, etc.) as a way to keep people playing on 'hope' for the next patch. If you release info about something that will make someone stay and wait.....more $$$$.


Simple as that.


The only other option is.....carelessness. Ouch.

Anyone familiar with construction has heard the term "Measure twice, cut once". Apparently, no Devs have ever been in the construction field before.


/bow

Respectfully,




TheRealTK421 a.k.a. "Doughbacca"
SWG DE Correspondent
Co-Founding member of Ahazi DENet & SWG DEA (Droid Engineer Association)
"I think all right-thinking people in this country are sick and tired of being told that ordinary, decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. ...I'm certainly not. And I'm sick and tired of being told that I am."


Raleran0
Thu Oct 09, 2003 11:40 am
#20



TheRealTK421 wrote:

Yea...they tested it on the TC.

It worked just as we are all seeing it now (which is to say, broken on some models).


/bow

Respectfully,







What?! ARGHHH!

/starts throwing things around the room

I don't understand...why make something live that's brokens? ARRGH

/breathes heavily

Okay, I'm okay now...really I am.
Kitsunetsuki
Thu Oct 09, 2003 1:12 pm
#21

Interesting thing I noticed when (temporarily) coloring my R4 was that when I changed the Frame Color first, the Trim Color also changed. I made the Frame white and the Trim automatically came out purple.

As far as protocol droids go, that's just weird. I know I've seen protocol droids in different colors (not player pets, of course), so it's not like it's not impossible for that chassis to accept colorization. The ticket collector droids are almost silver, the protocol droid vendors available to merchants are kind of a pink color, and there's an NPC protocol droid wandering around the Rebel theme park that's the same color pink. Okay, that's a pretty limited palette, but it's still more than "yellow." Personally, for some reason I'd like to make my protocol droid green.
SnowDog2003
Thu Oct 09, 2003 2:34 pm
#22






Kitsunetsuki wrote:
Interesting thing I noticed when (temporarily) coloring my R4 was that when I changed the Frame Color first, the Trim Color also changed. I made the Frame white and the Trim automatically came out purple.






I think it works this way, as I've tested it twice now:


1) Choose an R2 with both Trim Color and Frame Color options.


2) Choose Trim Option


3) Select Desired FRAME color. The droids Trim changes to this color.Then Click in the area on the LEFT SIDE. Nothing SEEMS to happen when you do this, but you've just set the frame color.


4) Select Desired Trim Color. The droids Trim changes to this color, though the frame stills shows as the original grey.


5) Select OK.


Both colors apply as described. The Frame AND the Trim have been colored.


darthfodder
Fri Oct 10, 2003 12:03 am
#23




Also, they talk about things they are adding (Repair tools, etc.) as a way to keep people playing on 'hope' for the next patch. If you release info about something that will make someone stay and wait.....more $$$$.




Yes I understand that, but I believe one of the patch notes was "added new schematic for repair tool" for the test center, dont qoute me on thatbut Im pretty sure I read it somewhere anyone else read this? As for the big one for DEs It sounds like that wont be until after the new year.

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