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Thread: Droid Report: Info on the Color-customization on Droid Chassis 'situation'
/bow
CapnSteve wrote:
Two questions (forgive me for being a little suspicious):
1. Why does this change have to be implemented over the course of two patches?
/shrug
Cause what we wanted to have them change required it, I guess. Anyway, the thing to look forward to here is that, soon, we'll be able to display/color EVERY droid we can make.
Ahhh...my showroom can finally be complete.
2. What would be so bad about being able to customize chassis and deeds?
More Dev. work and less stuff for us, I'm guessing. I don't know how this works yet but I'm guessing that we'll have a "build as display" or somesuch when you try to deed the droid.I guess we'll have to wait and see.
Are you sure they know that we sell decorative chassis?
Yup...I mentioned to them that I do a good bit of my business on this alone. So, they know.
I guess this explains why my answer about decorative droids wasn't added to the knowledge base. Maybe we should try to get patch information from CSRs in the future.
Actually...please DO add something to the KB. It looks okay right now...but I think it can added to for droids and be much better.
It will help all DEs and our clients (and save you from answering 100s of the same basic questions).
Respectfully,
TheRealTK421 wrote:
Actually...please DO add something to the KB. It looks okay right now...but I think it can added to for droids and be much better.
It will help all DEs and our clients (and save you from answering 100s of the same basic questions).
You misunderstood. I did submit an answer about using stationary droids to decorate your house, but it wasn't added. I wondered why at the time, but now it just seems that CSRDavidF had the information before we did.
TheRealTK421 wrote:
/bow
CapnSteve wrote:
Two questions (forgive me for being a little suspicious):
1. Why does this change have to be implemented over the course of two patches?
/shrug
Cause what we wanted to have them change required it, I guess. Anyway, the thing to look forward to here is that, soon, we'll be able to display/color EVERY droid we can make.
Ahhh...my showroom can finally be complete.
2. What would be so bad about being able to customize chassis and deeds?
More Dev. work and less stuff for us, I'm guessing. I don't know how this works yet but I'm guessing that we'll have a "build as display" or somesuch when you try to deed the droid.I guess we'll have to wait and see.
Are you sure they know that we sell decorative chassis?
Yup...I mentioned to them that I do a good bit of my business on this alone. So, they know.
I guess this explains why my answer about decorative droids wasn't added to the knowledge base. Maybe we should try to get patch information from CSRs in the future.
Actually...please DO add something to the KB. It looks okay right now...but I think it can added to for droids and be much better.
It will help all DEs and our clients (and save you from answering 100s of the same basic questions).
Respectfully,
These Publish 8 display droids...
Will we be able to pick them up and use them to complete an emergency order for a working droid, customizing them with modules like we can with the chassis now.
NO, because they are droids that have gone through the final combine.
As such we lose functionality. If my Mayor wants to pick up the protocol chassis installed in the cantina and labelled 'barkeep', thenhave me make him a working protocol he can now, saving credits in the process..in future he cant.
This is just another example of the Devs giving us something we never asked for - what we did ask for is a chassis for the droids that dont have one, what they gave us instead is furniture that has no future potential to be used.
Sorry but I don't like this one either, and I don't like onlybeing told about itafter the event. Will they never learn to communicate? Why did they not tell us they proposed to do this, and have some discussion on the matter? It's not a huge issue like the armour nerf, but it displays exactly the same amount of forethought and consultation..zero.
I think we're making an aweful lot of assumptions here when we really know nothing of how it's going to work when it comes out. I've seen several people saying we'll be required to build final combines for a droid in order to be able to customize it, and I think that's jumping to conclusions. Of course it may turn out to be true but there's nothing indicating that at this point.
Personally I think it's like someone else said (I'm sorry, I'd go look back to see who it was but I'm tired 
), they'll probably be like BE pets where the deed looks like the chassis, so you drop the deed, and voila you have a droid in your home.
However, that doesn't mean that we won't still be able to do the same thing with frames, just like we do now. It's possible that we'll get two chances to color them... once when we make the advanced droid frame and once on the final combine. Or perhaps we don't get the color option on the advanced droids' final combine, since it's already been determined by the pre-built frame. I don't know, I'm just throwing thoughts out.
Just because the customization has disappeared from the frame construction for now doesn't mean it won't be back in the same place later. It could just mean that the system required enough of a revamp to make it work everywhere else that they had to take it apart for now. Who knows? Let's not get all mad and up in arms before we really know what the story is.
OrionsByte wrote:
I think we're making an aweful lot of assumptions here when we really know nothing of how it's going to work when it comes out. I've seen several people saying we'll be required to build final combines for a droid in order to be able to customize it, and I think that's jumping to conclusions. Of course it may turn out to be true but there's nothing indicating that at this point.
Personally I think it's like someone else said (I'm sorry, I'd go look back to see who it was but I'm tired
However, that doesn't mean that we won't still be able to do the same thing with frames, just like we do now. It's possible that we'll get two chances to color them... once when we make the advanced droid frame and once on the final combine. Or perhaps we don't get the color option on the advanced droids' final combine, since it's already been determined by the pre-built frame. I don't know, I'm just throwing thoughts out.
Just because the customization has disappeared from the frame construction for now doesn't mean it won't be back in the same place later. It could just mean that the system required enough of a revamp to make it work everywhere else that they had to take it apart for now. Who knows? Let's not get all mad and up in arms before we really know what the story is.
ooo...ooo... I hope your right OrionsByte.
I think it would be great if this turned out to be the case. Then maybe you could drop the colorized droid chassiz OR the final deed, and both would serve as furniture/decoration.
Unfortunately, I could see the devs changing the art on the chassizs to the default mod component art in order to force people to use the final deeds instead of the chassizs. I'm not sure what the logic would be in doing so, but hey....we're talking about the devs. 
Anyway, my fingers are crossed. I can't finish my droid superstore until I can get my chassiz/furniture colorization back.
Shian_Tavkin wrote:
These Publish 8 display droids...
Will we be able to pick them up and use them to complete an emergency order for a working droid, customizing them with modules like we can with the chassis now.
NO, because they are droids that have gone through the final combine.
As such we lose functionality. If my Mayor wants to pick up the protocol chassis installed in the cantina and labelled 'barkeep', thenhave me make him a working protocol he can now, saving credits in the process..in future he cant.
This is just another example of the Devs giving us something we never asked for - what we did ask for is a chassis for the droids that dont have one, what they gave us instead is furniture that has no future potential to be used.
Sorry but I don't like this one either, and I don't like onlybeing told about itafter the event. Will they never learn to communicate? Why did they not tell us they proposed to do this, and have some discussion on the matter? It's not a huge issue like the armour nerf, but it displays exactly the same amount of forethought and consultation..zero.
We know that crafting isn't "real" - i.e. the color of a chassis is just a HEX type code - a color reference. Why would it be so hard to tell the new system to ignore this color reference, preserving chassis creation as is? It's not like there is literally paint on the metal there...I cant see the case for changing what is already in game (or was)
To be honest I would rather revert to Pub 6 crafing, and have the chassis to sell, it was good and cool, and I made a lot of credits from it. Cisyomers loved it and therefore all were happy. (prime scenario for a nerf eh?)
To have this stealth nerf in order to get a couple more chassis is very silly, and another example to demonstrate that Devs do not actually play DE.
Shian_Tavkin wrote:
I cant see the case for changing what is already in game (or was)
To be honest I would rather revert to Pub 6 crafing, and have the chassis to sell, it was good and cool, and I made a lot of credits from it. Cisyomers loved it and therefore all were happy. (prime scenario for a nerf eh?)
To have this stealth nerf in order to get a couple more chassis is very silly, and another example to demonstrate that Devs do not actually play DE.