Droid Engineer Archive

>> but you truley are one of the most worhtless, unneeded professions in the game. Players all feel sorry for you and mainly buy DE products due to the sympathy. It begs to question though, what type of personality would stay in a situation like that. Is it a codition that some enjoy?<<

That's not true at all - there are lots of medics in need of med droids and crafting station droids are a big hit too. Before they nerfed probot those buggers sold like hot-cakes, I get orders for over 200 seekers/arakyds a day and people love chassises (Especially R2 and protocol) to put in their house as decoration. I don't think our profession is worthless at all even with all the really crappy bugs. Once they fix the bugs and add new DE content it will be totally kick butt. All I know is I have lots of customers and I'm totally rich and having fun running my shops! I hardly call being in the profession worthless!

Mr. Moo

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Phhantom wrote:

You will find probs with folks you keep pushig this issue on giving up on Droidka. I mean you post a good post. Then attack people for wanting a deent combat droid....

That is two faced crap and you just lost decent support from someone like me in the future.

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First off, there is a big difference between supporting a post to fix a huge bug that is preventing Droid Engineers from making droids and supporting a debate regarding the addition of new content. I think having this bug fixed should be everyone's top priority. Yes, some people want a "decent" combat droid, but I think most people want to have this issue with not being able to make most droids corrected.

That being said, what exactly is "two faced" here and how is it relevant to this thread?

I'm glad to see that we finally got some response. In the past I've always really just been a lurker in here, reading all the posts just to keep my knowledge of the current ideas and bugs that plague our class.

Lately though I've been a bit more active.

As for the addition of new droids debate, this is how I see it.

Yes, they can add new droids, combat or otherwise, however if they are bugged or broken, won't they just be like the BLL or Protocol? I don't think we should add to the list of useless droids, until there is a definate purpose to the ones that exist now.

Yes, Master DE really isn't all that useful with their schematics, mainly because of those listed droids that serve no current function. That can be changed around by giving them a purpose. I'd much rather see that then having to deal with yet a larger list of disclaimers I already have to broadcast to my customers.

So basically, I support fixing what we have, then adding to it.

Good job. Hopefully they'll finally fix not only the current bugs, but add more droids for us to build.

Also...

I think the devs should apologize for the other broken profession called Jedi. For some reason I can't seem to become one.

I kid I kid.

It was a nice gesture and all, but an apology does not createbattle droids.

*shakes his head*

Phhantom... re-read my post if you intend on calling me two-faced and picking points. It had nothing to do with adding Droideka in general, it was about people screaming "add this .. add that" before we are even FIXED. What good is adding a droideka going to do to anyone? It's not going to fix any ofthe problems we currently have that is making DE useless .. it will only add yet another bugged droid to our already criticaly buggedlist. Especialy when it has ALREADY been stated that adding new combat droids will mean adding a cert system ... adding a cert system will undoubtably mean either adding anew profession for those certs OR placing those certs in a profession OTHER than Droid Engineer.

My question to everyone that is constantly demaning combat droids:

Are you demanding it because you want to BUILD these droids, or are you demanding it because you want to USE these droids. If its just to build ... hang in and wait. If its to use... go to different forum. This ISN'T a combat profession and it never will be. We ARE NOT creature handlers. By allowing us to use combat droids, we are just becoming what people on this board hate most ... pet wars.

Why does it annoy me and other DE's so much? Because people that want to have those ubber all powerful one-shot-kills droids are ruining DE for the rest of us. Screaming "ADD DROIDEKA" everytime there is a fix isn't helping anyone.

Here is the thing that concerns me about the whole "Droideka" issue. We are not focusing on fixes that the DE could really use. Okay so our probots aren't that great when compared to some CH pets. But I would like to see one of their Grauls allow a medic to heal away from cities or camps. Or allow crafters to create away from home. There are so many useful things that we can create. This game is not solely aobut combat and nor do I think it should be. If you want combat all the time go be a Commando or Bh or what have you. Please lets try and focus on the great things that we can already make, and the improvements that can be made to assist us.

Those are my two Experimentation Points.

Fearghal the B.F.W

The reason we stay with our chosen profession is because we actualy like our proffession.... Cant say that for most people....We will get fixed when I dont know, but with the acknowledgement form the thred. They at least now know how big of problem they now have........

Well done my friends Well done.

Raige Eternal valcyn

Master Art master De,,,,,,

IMHO, I wouldn't care if Droika's were hopelessly nerfed, worthless, non combat...whatever.

Since this profession was announced as being one of the elite professions a character could be I had dreams about runing into battle with 3 of them rolling by my sides.

oh well...guess I'll go build some more mobile craft stations...

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FeartheMullet wrote:
ps. Why the heck are they called "Droideka's" anyway?? They're friggin Destroyer Droids! and "probots" they're Probe Droids...I'm so mad....lol

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Dostroyer Droid = type, Droideka = name

Probe Droide = type, Probot = name

FeartheMullet, you've just proved exactly what I was saying.

What is the name of this profession? Does the "E" stand for? Where does it say "combat"? Where does it say "ability to control an arnmy of droids?"

Droid Engineer is a CRAFTING profession. No other crafting profession allows the crafter to build exceptionaly powerful weapons and USE them. Not even a weaponsmith can use the majority of the weapons they can build.. those that CAN are only able too because they've learn a combat profession giving them the certs.

Not even a Bio Engineer can use the high-level creatures they can create ... so why should Droid Engineers be totaly different to the rest. What makes us special enough to build AND use combat droids? You all want ballance, you all complain about the commando ... if they give Droid Engineers the ability to make and use combat droids, we will become the UBBER combat profession. What the hell has building droids got to do with combat?

Sure, Droideka's would be cool to build. They would be cool to own, too. But the fact is, we need what we already have fixed and improved first.

and I agree here. I could care less if they don't add any combat droids. I want more utility droids!

Simply put, players are already WAY too powerful (to the point that the 'con' system is meaningless, pretty much anyone can take on reds). Adding more powerful combat droids that can be out *at the same time* as creature pets will just add more to the combat power of players, and I don't think we need that.

So, I'm all for more choices for utility droids. There have been soooo many great ideas for this, and yet people keep just thinking 'I want droidekas I want droidekas' please, give me a break.