Droid Engineer Archive

Well the idea of just doing seekers is because there is no leverage with any of the other droids, nobody needs any other droid we make, those are the only ones that people actually have a use for, thats the logic behind it, but your right singling out the BHs isnt the example that would be good to set, we shouldnt sell any droid in that case.

If you want to make a 100% strike its still not going to get the desired effect but its a heck of alot more palatble for me cause that means you guys will also be losing a boatload of cash on the strike.

Well the problem is if a 20 page post on just asking the devs to communicate cant get a response and is closed, then we dont know what will, Im still going to strike...on all droids.

I think I agreed with you already fig, maybe you overlooked my post.

I don't remember who organized it, but there was an 'event' on testserver not too long ago where droid engineers from different servers gathered at a particular spot to protest...I have no idea how it went.

But whatever. If you think striking will get you heard, I can't exactly ask anybody to stop considering the pathetic direction things are going in. I wont but I completely understand you for doing it.

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Bleda wrote:
I am not a DE i am a BH. I depend on DE's to produce my droids or guess what i am screwed. Not the devs, not the DE's, not anyone but the BH's. If this really happens i wouldn't be suprised if the vendors started working again to make up for the lack of DE's willingness to be part of the game.

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DE's willingness to be part of the game? ROFL you have to be kidding me. **edit** off

Yeah, I have the habit of replying to people who agree with me with re-iteration sometimes.

I was going to write another post saying I understood you agreed, but I decided against it.

I made another bad decision - kind of like choosing DE apparently.

I think that some of the DEs are missing the core economics of this change.

For the same materials that you were making a single seeker, you now make five.

Where before a BH would wince to pay 600c for those materials, you will now find us willingly paying 1000-1500. Easily doubling your profit per build.

Where before you would spend time struggling to keep up with demand, you will now find yourself more able to supply droids to all your BH customers, make double the profit per build and still have time to do other things in game besides crafting droids.

*shrug* Sounds like a win-win to me. Look at it like this.

Say you can make 10 seekers a night.

Pre-Change:

10 seekers at 600c each = 6000c and maybe 1 BH customer order filled.

Post change:

10 seekers at 1500c each = 15000c and 5 BH customer orders filled

Yeah...I can see how this will hurt the poor DEs. You have the choice of more profit or more time to explore/hunt because of this change. What a poor position to be in. DEs have been granted full control of the only non-stagnating crafting market in the game.

Umm the only droids I sell are seekers and probes.. doesn't look like DE are in demand for anything else really i've sold a few other droids but not many..

i haven't yet decided.. though if i stop i'll stop selling everything..

yeah, thats my point on seekers, although it singles out BHs, the point is those are the only droids people really use, not having them available to BHs will cause a fuss like it has to the few BHs that have posted. But I agree with Fig, in order for BHs to not be singled out we should strike on everything, even if the only droids that really help the cause are the seekers.

Don't expect BH posts to do anything ours are even more invisible than DE's. Our corrospondants (sic?) first list of issues hasn't even been recognized.

not a good idea imo. making the bh's lives harder will do nothing for us. they are not the source of our problems. and as stated above, IF this was actually done, the droid vendors would be back in faster than you can say bantha poodu. what we did today in the discussion board was huge. they know we are here, they now we're pissed. now its up to them. nothing we do will help beyond what we've done. just my opinion.

*holds cigerette to the flame*

Believe me - it will help you the first time you turn down a BH order too.

They will be MUCH less likely to flame you if they find out you are on strike because of the general state of droids rather than just what happened with the seeker/arakyds.

Not that flames would be very effective at the moment...but it helps relieve stress here and there. Perhaps you could still serve some existing customers to make some money during the strike - just let them know you will take no new customers because of whatever reason, and they will still grasp the situation.