Droid Engineer Archive
Thread: Droids: Where we were and where we’re going.
I think most (me anyway) want powerfull combat droids. And maby other certifyable utility droids, Over lev 10 !
When I said I didnt want a 'DH' profession I meant the cert should be inherant to DEs.
I suggest the distributed and inherant, certification scheme linked to in my Sig. (see 'The Answer')
But, If a 'DC' profession is the only way to get +lev 10 droids. Then It would be better than no + lev 10 droids at all.
outtacontrol wrote:
here goes thunder this could have been said but i didnt read all 11 pages. will there be a utility driod that will tend harvesters? that would be so cool.
Outta Control Industrial
Valcyn
Thunderheart wrote:
outtacontrol wrote:here goes thunder this could have been said but i didnt read all 11 pages. will there be a utility driod that will tend harvesters? that would be so cool.
Outta Control Industrial
Valcyn
That is definately something we want to do, but technoligically, its very difficult. If the opportunity arises, Im sure it would be considered, but this is most likely a droid we wont see for a long time.
I'd be happy with a droid that would do my creature harvesting. Make it only work when grouped to enforce that 60% harvest penalty, and have it store it in it's own compartment. God that would be nice.
Thunderheart wrote:
outtacontrol wrote:
here goes thunder this could have been said but i didnt read all 11 pages. will there be a utility driod that will tend harvesters? that would be so cool.
Outta Control Industrial
Valcyn
That is definately something we want to do, but technoligically, its very difficult. If the opportunity arises, Im sure it would be considered, but this is most likely a droid we wont see for a long time.
Thunderheart wrote:
outtacontrol wrote:
here goes thunder this could have been said but i didnt read all 11 pages. will there be a utility driod that will tend harvesters? that would be so cool.
Outta Control Industrial
Valcyn
That is definately something we want to do, but technoligically, its very difficult. If the opportunity arises, Im sure it would be considered, but this is most likely a droid we wont see for a long time.
Fine, fine. Will you be answering any of the questions on the other 10 pages?
Thunderheart wrote:
outtacontrol wrote:
here goes thunder this could have been said but i didnt read all 11 pages. will there be a utility driod that will tend harvesters? that would be so cool.
Outta Control Industrial
Valcyn
That is definately something we want to do, but technoligically, its very difficult. If the opportunity arises, Im sure it would be considered, but this is most likely a droid we wont see for a long time.
Thunderheart wrote:
outtacontrol wrote:
here goes thunder this could have been said but i didnt read all 11 pages. will there be a utility driod that will tend harvesters? that would be so cool.
Outta Control Industrial
Valcyn
That is definately something we want to do, but technoligically, its very difficult. If the opportunity arises, Im sure it would be considered, but this is most likely a droid we wont see for a long time.
What is the status of slicing droids? Either that give a higher min to slices (i.e. a Master with one would get say 20-35% instead of 15-35%), which doesn't make the droid required but desirable, or that helps in the process, i.e. perhaps with a droid with a slicing module nearby you only go through one laser knife charge per slice, instead of two.
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I am also sorry if this has been mentioned before but I do not have the patience to read the previous 12 pages 
I would love to see an entertainer droid. For example, I have a nalargon in my shop with a C3P0 chasis behind it in order to give the illusion that the piano is beign played. It would be great to have it, or any other type of droid, provide entertainment for my customers while they browse my vendor.
The costs of these droids would be dependant of the level of the entertainer module placed in them by the droid engineer. A basic module would allow the droid to play Novice Entertainer level songs whereas a higher level module would give it access to high level songs.
Of course these entertainment droids would have no bf or mind wound healing abilities thereby avoiding the wrath of the entertainer community. They'd be strictly for amusement purposes only.
Well there's my 2 cents, thanks for listening.
Kungfujohnny wrote:I am also sorry if this has been mentioned before but I do not have the patience to read the previous 12 pages
I would love to see an entertainer droid. For example, I have a nalargon in my shop with a C3P0 chasis behind it in order to give the illusion that the piano is beign played.
If you go to a merchant trainer in one of the city buildings they have a device that plays music. I'd kill thousands of pixels for access to a vendor droid that played music
Thunderheart wrote:
Kilarny wrote:
Can a Doctor reach the full potential of his class without the extra 10% bonus a high-quality medical droid provides?
Better remove that ability, and those mobile crafting stations that make travelling crafters possible are also a bad idea. Droids already exist to enhance the existing abilities and classes...I think, OrionsByte, that you should not advocate the "no checkers" concept. Are you sure you play a Droid Engineer?
Ultimately, this is the problem. Slicing droids and any kind of droid module that augments a player's innate skills isn't going to happen. Its basically "free" skills and abilities and I can't sell that unless we also agree to lower everyones innate skills to balance it out...and I can't see everyone saying, "lets nerf everyone so we can have cooler droids".
The other thing is that harvest maintenance, surveyingand another class of abilities isn't a viable alternative because of the technological limitation. However this DE effort has let the devs lay the groundwork to add more modules in the future.
This was a strong start and like everything else, it will continue to develop.
Then what about a more practical use - as I said above, if a smuggler has a slicing droid out, they only go through one laser knife per slice instead of two.
I think a lot of people would appriciate anything that smugglers could do with droids besides craft like everyone else. Droids and slicing go together like doctor buffs and vassarian brandy.
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