Droid Engineer Archive
Thread: Tell me I did the right thing...
Um, I'm NDE... brand new in fact. The functionality modules I can make are, well, lousy. But I need practice. And I can't see using up resources with the practice option on and getting nothing for it but experience, valuable as that may be. What do I do? I purchase better instrumentation (modules) than I can craft, put them in my lousy little MSE's and CHARGE MORE. The better modules make them worth more, so I can get away with higher prices. There is absolutely nothing wrong with this approach.
As one person put it, I would not expect to pay 500 dollars for a 2500 dollar computer.You know what? The two computers may be identical in appearance, the only difference being what went into them. Similarly an MSE with a level 6 storage module LOOKS just like a newbie MSE... but its not! Its a high end droid. So you just charge accordingly.
Another person stated that this would not be star-warsy, because he couldn'timagine a little tiny MSE carrying all that stuff. As if being able to carry tons of resources in your backpack is? Pu-leez.
I am not saying that what you did was wrong. It was your choice, and you made it. But all those who posted replies suggesting that putting higher level modules into lower level droids is somehow unethical, wrong, or damaging to the profession, need to get a reality check.
What I would have done is agree to build him his crates of droids, priced as if they were fully tricked-out upper level droids (as they actually would be, since its the modules that make a droid useful). If he then wanted to sell them to others, he would have to charge accordingly,to recoup what he paid for them. No harm in that. If there were a problem with his proposition to you it would be that he didn't want to pay you what the upper level modules were worth, not that he wanted them installed in MSE's... Refusing because of that is just cutting your own throat.
Anyway, thats my two cents worth. If anyone has a cogent, thoughtful argument to show me I'm wrong somewhere, I'll listen. Until then, this will be my SOP.