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Thread: Publish 8 (Droids Rebuilt) Test Center Reports, comments, opinions and discussion

Mosati
Mon Apr 12, 2004 3:11 pm
#14
Barfalomue, I never hope to see any info until TC get's back up and running with the Publish. The patch notes and forum focus threads rarely get posted till after the publish is verifiedup and running on TC as there have been instances where they had to pull it from TC for a few days at the last moment due to unexpected problems with the servers handling the new code.



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Kaldeth
Mon Apr 12, 2004 4:04 pm
#15




Mosati wrote:

Barfalomue, I never hope to see any info until TC get's back up and running with the Publish. The patch notes and forum focus threads rarely get posted till after the publish is verifiedup and running on TC as there have been instances where they had to pull it from TC for a few days at the last moment due to unexpected problems with the servers handling the new code.






Hmm... First you are saying they wont post any update notes until it is fully patched to TC, and then you say they might have to remove stuff a few days later from TC if they run into problems.


So does that mean they wont post any info until a few days after it hit TC? if they plan on posting the publ. 8 notes as they fire up TC with the new content, why not post the new info as they patch? THat way people can discuss it and dont have to wait for the TC is up. I am not on TC myself but I am sure that those that play on TC wishes to know what to expect when they log on.




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Thunderheart
Mon Apr 12, 2004 4:05 pm
#16

The Patch notes for Publish 8 are up!


The DE related issues are here:


*** Droids Rebuilt ***


Profession: Droid Engineer


  • Added an Interplanetary Survey Droid - This droid is capable of using survey tools and traveling to other planets to report on the resources present on that planet.
  • Added Merchant Barker Module to the DE skill tree: This module allows for the owner to input a short message that is continuously transmitted to nearby players. It also allows him or her to place a waypoint in the droid that is given to any player that requests it via the radial menu on the droid.
  • Added Structure Maintenance Module to the DE skill tree: This module will allow a player to pay maintenance on structures they own from a remote location.
  • Added Auto Droid Repair Module to the DE skill tree: When this module is activated, it sends out a "healing pulse" which repairs every other nearby friendly droid within a 15' radius. The pulse fires every 10 seconds and heals an amount equal to the droid's Auto Repair Power. The more auto-repair modules that are added to a droid, the higher this attribute will be
  • Added Stimpack Dispenser Module to the DE skill tree: This skill allows a player with Pharmacology IV to load up a properly equipped droid with Stimpack A's. Once loaded, any player within the droid master's group may issue a /requestStimpack command to receive healing.
  • Added Musician Playback Module to the DE skill tree: This module allows an entertainer or a musician to record a musical track onto the droid. The droid will then be able to play back the music that was recorded as accompaniment in the player's band. Multiple modules of this type will stack and allow multiple musical tracks to be recorded, although only one track can be played at a time
  • Added Entertainer Lighting Effects Module to the DE skill tree: These droid modules can have up to 5 unique lighting effects that can be used by dancers and musicians.
  • Added Scout Trap Module to the DE skill tree: This module will allow any player with the novice scout ability to program and arm a droid with player made scout traps which will then fire when given the command by the player.
  • Added Creature Harvester Module to the DE skill tree: This module will allow any character to program and control an equipped droid to advance on the look-at target of the player and harvest the resources on the creature. The player can preset the droid to harvest one of the three types: meat, hide or bone. Or the player can just let the droid pick a random resource type.
  • Added Detonation Module to the DE skill tree: This module grants Bounty Hunters and Smugglers the ability to destroy his droid causing damage to every enemy target nearby. The destruction is ordered by the /detonateDroid command or via the droid's radial menu.
  • Droid deeds now have the appearance of the droids they represent and are customizable. The customization will carry over to the droid pet when generated. (Correspondent Issue)
  • Fixed Droidsmith Tool Belt schematic to use the proper item in the Tool Set slot
  • Fixed a problem with installed modules not displaying properly when examining droid deeds and control devices. (Correspondent Issue)

    Pets
  • Anyone can use a droid customization kit on a droid pet (although experienced droid engineers will have more customization options available). (Correspondent Issue)
  • Droid customization kits now have an extended lifespan before the custom colors fade. (Correspondent Issue)
  • Displaying remaining battery power when examining a droid pet (Correspondent issue) Increased the effectiveness of combat droids so that they are more effective.

    • Ill be back tomorrow to look at everyones post. Please take some time to get involved on TC and give TK your input.


    Thanks.




    Kurt "Thunderheart" Stangl
    Community Relations Manager
    Malice2025
    Mon Apr 12, 2004 4:06 pm
    #17
    Wow -- huge changes were made -- didn't expect more than barker droids and ent droids. Still don't understand why the devs were extremely tight-lipped about the changes made -- but I'm really excited about them.



    Avedan Senas //

    Master Droid Engineer, Sometimes Master Merchant, Master Swordsman
    Kaadara, Naboo
    Malice2025
    Mon Apr 12, 2004 4:07 pm
    #18
    omg -- thunderheart posted on this board.



    Avedan Senas //

    Master Droid Engineer, Sometimes Master Merchant, Master Swordsman
    Kaadara, Naboo
    Thunderheart
    Mon Apr 12, 2004 4:07 pm
    #19




    Malice2025 wrote:
    Wow -- huge changes were made -- didn't expect more than barker droids and ent droids. Still don't understand why the devs were extremely tight-lipped about the changes made -- but I'm really excited about them.





    Because there are a lot of difficult changes here and we didnt know what we would be able to finish. A lot of people pu in a lot of extra time and came up with some pretty cool stuff





    Kurt "Thunderheart" Stangl
    Community Relations Manager
    Obo_alCan
    Mon Apr 12, 2004 4:09 pm
    #20

    Beat ya to it TH


    And these changes look very nice.






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    Deidre_DE
    Mon Apr 12, 2004 4:11 pm
    #21

    Thunderheart, thanks for posting.


    TK, thanks for fighting for us.


    Devs, thanks for the new stuff.


    Wow! I'm really pleased!



    Deidre



    Thunderheart
    Mon Apr 12, 2004 4:12 pm
    #22
    Nice job Obo! I was going to make a thread, but lithium is being cranky with me today...




    Kurt "Thunderheart" Stangl
    Community Relations Manager
    bennybanglong
    Mon Apr 12, 2004 4:12 pm
    #23

    the additions sound great. Especially this one


  • Added an Interplanetary Survey Droid - This droid is capable of using survey tools and traveling to other planets to report on the resources present on that planet.

    • Jenden
    Mon Apr 12, 2004 4:14 pm
    #24
    The list looks awsome, many thanks go out to the devs for this one



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    Malice2025
    Mon Apr 12, 2004 4:15 pm
    #25
    I especially like the remote-maintenance droid. Now I can say how back in the day -- I used to walk 30 min over steep dathomirian hills to make sure my harvester didn't burn down.



    Avedan Senas //

    Master Droid Engineer, Sometimes Master Merchant, Master Swordsman
    Kaadara, Naboo
    TheRealTK421
    Mon Apr 12, 2004 4:16 pm
    #26




    Deidre_DE wrote:

    TK, thanks for fighting for us.



    I've only yet begun to fight, Deidre.



    /bow

    Respectfully,






    TheRealTK421 a.k.a. "Doughbacca"
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