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so how are you supposed to know when they need recharging?

they tell u they have LOW POWER if u try to order them to do anything thats only way i know to tell if they need power

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Kamaru wrote:

I sell them for 5 creds a charge.. so usually 400 or so *shrug*

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I sell each battery, (with 4 charges), at 250 each, or 2500 for a crate of 10.

In my opinion, this will kill the market for droids. Many people will just not buy/use droids because they now have become power-hungry (pun intended) money sinks. I had one guy tell me today that he had to use 4 (4 charge) batteries, just today. Now if this keeps up, people will just not use droids.

I LOVE the fact that droids eat up power at stupid rates after this patch! I've never been asked so many times to sell batteries before. And its also cool for roleplaying when I have to *feed* my beloved droids

duncge,

I tend to agree with you. The droid market is NOT going to be helped by this development. I LIKE the idea of droids requiring battery use, stored or not, but with a few caveats:

First: I should be able to purchase (honestly it should be a standard item) a POWER INTERFACE for my home, that will let me recharge droids around my house without anything extra. It's really stupid that I can't get an AC adapter! There's a small power core in my home, surely it can power my droids.

In fact, my droids should be smart enough to seek and use the nearest usable power coupler when they encounter a low power situation.

Then I need the droids to run at least half an hour, but preferably a full hour on a single charge.

If players try to make excessive profits on a consumable like batteries then yesit will put people off. If people are sensibe with their prices then it should be no different than buying stims.

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Shaladim wrote:
If players try to make excessive profits on a consumable like batteries then yesit will put people off. If people are sensibe with their prices then it should be no different than buying stims.

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If batteries were only needed as a consequence of taking action, I'd tend to agree with you.

But as it stands, I can tame a brand new droid, start dealing with a customer, and having him telling me 'low power' by the time I get around to teaching him how to patrol around the house.

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Shaladim wrote:
If players try to make excessive profits on a consumable like batteries then yesit will put people off. If people are sensibe with their prices then it should be no different than buying stims.

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If batteries were only needed as a consequence of taking action, I'd tend to agree with you.

But as it stands, I can tame a brand new droid, start dealing with a customer, and a bit later I have the droid telling me 'low power' when I finally get around to teaching him how to patrol around the house or something.

Less then half an hour is pathetic, and without them doing anything... that's like having my flashlight batteries die after 20 minutes even though the thing is turned off.

Droid without battery can still move around and follow you = no power needed

Droid with battery and only follows you and the battery dies shortly after = power used

They should have like a charge system where each time you treat an injury or something it drops the power 5% or something. I'm sure I would be using batteries fast with a charge system cause I'll know I'll be using it. With the way it is now I don't want to toss a battery in when I know I'll be only using it 2 minutes of the charge and the rest seeps away cause the droid is just sitting.



Tailors should be able to make pink bunny suits with a drum for the power droids too. ;-)

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Zanzer wrote:


Tailors should be able to make pink bunny suits with a drum for the power droids too. ;-)

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Only if we can attack them.

*goes back to trying to pawn off crates of MSE's for skeet shooting*

Less then half an hour is pathetic, and without them doing anything... that's like having my flashlight batteries die after 20 minutes even though the thing is turned off.

Droid without battery can still move around and follow you = no power needed

Droid with battery and only follows you and the battery dies shortly after = power used

They should have like a charge system where each time you treat an injury or something it drops the power 5% or something. I'm sure I would be using batteries fast with a charge system cause I'll know I'll be using it. With the way it is now I don't want to toss a battery in when I know I'll be only using it 2 minutes of the charge and the rest seeps away cause the droid is just sitting.



Tailors should be able to make pink bunny suits with a drum for the power droids too. ;-)

I'd like a warning or something before my droid go into their "low power" state. Even though droids will follow you with low power I'll find that mine stops following me and I have to reissue the command. Annoying because sometimes I'll lose the droid while traveling. I'm also waiting for the time my probot decides to run out of power half way through combat.