Droid Engineer Archive
Thread: To the Devs
psikobunny
Tue Apr 27, 2004 11:15 pm
#27
No need for name calling, he has a legitimate gripe with the Survey Droid design. I have the same gripe, on the simple grounds that the cost is too high for the payoff. I have to use my precious Vertex, and also I have to begin watching for and harvestingHigh OQ radioactive (when previous focus has solely been PE). The payoff for what we expend is adequate at best. Enough Griefing from me. I have things I wish were better about this publish, but those are in other threads.
To the Devs- Thank you for the things we received today. I am 75% happy, which is a lot more than I thought I would be when the original Patch notes came out. If these new items make it past the Oooh Ahh stage, and DEs can make a survivable living, then I will become more and more happy as time goes on.
Lastly, please please please do not call us good and move on. I know we've had 2 publishes, and I know there are many other classes in need of care also, but please keep a bit of focus on us. Give serious consideration to taking care of a few more glaring issues for us (Conversation Droids and Schematic Organization are at the top of my list). I don't want to be dominant, I just want a fighting chance when the glamor has passed.
Foobunny
Tue Apr 27, 2004 11:58 pm
#28
I have to admit I was rather upset with the survey droids too.. from a lot of people the useless comment comes up. Not only are they on the more expensive side to make, but they east your survey tools too. They only go to one planet for one survey tool type. You get no info about where on the planet that this stuff is, no sampling for quality levels, none of the things we thought we might get out of them. I sell them for 3k for now on Bria, but for that price I can easily go to the planet and survey for all the things I need, find quality and locations for less. These things need some help. Maybe have them go to all the planets rather than just one.. give the surveyors some extra benefit out of them.. like locations or quality. It is easier to just check online and see what people have reported than to waste money using these things. It is ashame due to all the money spent traveling for this sort of time and the waste of time locating resources. Would have been nice if it worked closer to what was envisioned.
The rest of the modules I have not had time to play with. They do sound great though.
Xix13
Wed Apr 28, 2004 3:09 am
#29
Great publish, but I too am concerned with the survey droids. Vertex hasn't spawned on Lowca in 3 months AND is used in Stun Layers for Comp armour. Did you HAVE to pick a highly sought after armour rare for this extremely useful droid? We're already fighting ASs for decent Neutronium.
Also, I can't seem to find the Structure Maintenance thingie. Did it not make it to the publish?
Also, I can't seem to find the Structure Maintenance thingie. Did it not make it to the publish?
Malitevv
Wed Apr 28, 2004 3:32 am
#31
I am also very happy with this publish. But I have to concur about the survey droid. It is a great idea but itoffersthe user a horribletradeoff. It is very expensive to make and costly to use because it eats survey devices and requires multiple named resources, power, and multiple MA components. That would be fine if it did more than give me a list of resources. But since it only tells me the names of the resources, it's not really worth the expense. Oh well, some things are useless. So be it.
The other massive problem with this is that all the modules and sub-components are arranged in a single, massive, poorly ordered list in the schematic. It was bad before publish 8. Now, the schematic list in the crafting tool is completely insane.
I do like the entertainer droids. I like the stim dispenser too, but most of my customers are uninterested in them because they only hold stim A's. the maintenance module is awesome (though I hope it gets upgraded with a little more functionality later). the others are all cool as well.
NoobieWorm
Wed Apr 28, 2004 3:38 am
#32
I love this publish and all the new modules. Had so much fun crafting new droids last night I even forgot to eat dinner 
ButI have to say surveying droids are useless. SinceI can get better information from www.swgcraft.com about the resources.
Tumbs up for the devs. 
overbyte
Wed Apr 28, 2004 4:06 am
#33
This was a great publish!!
yesterday i went from being down to my last 1k (seriously!) with a bunch of r3 chassis that i made before the publish to have almost half a mil (300k more than i'd ever had before) by the end of a hard (read /tell hell aaaaarrghh ) but great day.
thanks devs - droid engineer seems worth having again.
yesterday i went from being down to my last 1k (seriously!) with a bunch of r3 chassis that i made before the publish to have almost half a mil (300k more than i'd ever had before) by the end of a hard (read /tell hell aaaaarrghh
) but great day.thanks devs - droid engineer seems worth having again.
Mr_Wibble
Wed Apr 28, 2004 4:22 am
#34
Before this publish I only had need for one little R5. Now it looks like I'll be getting 4 more droids
Cudos to the devs on this one.
Elmseeker
Wed Apr 28, 2004 4:23 am
#35
Pirracca Wrote:
I am sorry but the survey droids are really worthless. So I use one and get a list of the resources, it tells me nothing bout their quality or concentrations. I STILL have to visit each planet to to get ANY of the stats that matter. Sorry DEVs but the survey droids are a total strikeout.
Boy, have I got news for YOU! I sell these at 3500 each and have made over a mil off of them already and I can't make them fast enough to keep up with all of the orders flooding in on them. Apparently the playerbase disagrees with you...so do I since I am currently laughing my way to the bank thanks in great part to this "worthless" little droid!
glory
Wed Apr 28, 2004 4:30 am
#36
The new modules are just awesome and my sales are through the roof for the first time ever. /thumbs up to the dev team.
Daisame
Wed Apr 28, 2004 5:45 am
#37
Now if they can fix all the stuff they broke with this publish.
1) Rubber-banding. Back and better and LONGER then ever!
2) Mob warping. Well maybe they don't get stuck but damn they are warping all over the place, no matter if they are stuck or not.
3) Player warping. Maybe related to number 1. Stop moving, warp to outside buildings, warp out of combat range, warp from long to melee range. You name it, you warp it.
I would like to start a vote that we call this game Star Warps Galaxies.
4) Cannot gain xp. Have to log out and back in to see what XP you earned. At LEAST it is not lost into the ether.. the xp is there, you just have to log out and back in to see it.
5) Cannot unequip weapon or use thrown weapons. No.. my pack was not full. I could not throw traps nor unequip my weapon. A few minutes later, I could.
Thats the big ones. I know of some others only by what others told me so I cannot really comment on what happens there. But one big one.. speeder all of the sudden is disabled. Not cool.
So.. hopefully this will be fixed sometime before the next plublish. I don't know if I can take another.
Labecca
Wed Apr 28, 2004 5:50 am
#38
Who do I ask about ? " why wookie can not wear the new skill aprons." Being a master tailor i can make all this stuff but can not wear it, not to complain but it seems a bit unfair that all other players can wear these and yet wookies can not, it needs to be equal for all players, thanks wookie hugz to ya
neinnunb
Wed Apr 28, 2004 5:54 am
#39
Yes one other thing as someone else mentioned: Please let us Master DEs be able to have more than 5 droids in datapad. That would be great!