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Thread: Droid Module Focus (Structure Maintenance): Information, discussion and bug-reporting (04/24/04)
To bad i was looking forward to this droid. Maint is not all i worry about its power to and until they add that to the programming of the droid i think that the mager crafters will not get this droid.
I for one will not. Good idea good job and i hope the dev team reads this becuse unless it dose both its a usless item to me.
Now a droid id pay $$$ for is one that finds the best spot on the planet to place my harvisters
lees wrote:
To bad i was looking forward to this droid. Maint is not all i worry about its power to and until they add that to the programming of the droid i think that the mager crafters will not get this droid.
I for one will not. Good idea good job and i hope the dev team reads this becuse unless it dose both its a usless item to me.
Message Edited by ArdenStarmariner on 04-19-2004 10:37 AM
TheRealTK421 wrote:
xRavX wrote:
Never saw an answer to this...
Just wondering, does experimentation affect the structure modules at all? And are they stackable? Like will 6 level-3s allow me to pay 54 items?
That would make this module very handy to me and many others. Oh please say this is possible =)
We'll have to check but I don't think this has been tested yet.
/bow
Respectfully,
Just tested it
YES - they do stack - i put two level 3's into an advanced MSE - and ran out of buildings to put into it at around 16.
Ok this may sound stupid, but I want to verify. I know you need to be on the same planet to "launch" the droid. Yet what happens if you change planets before it returns? Meaning, you launch the droid on Tat to take care of structures, then you go to Naboo. I am assuming the droid has "interplanetry travel" to return to you, which is ironic.
Now you also said you can pull another droid from your pad, can this be another maint droid? Is there a limit?
I agree with everybody else, sicne I need to head out to the harvesters anyway, I would find it much more useful to just be able to check the status of each. While paying Maint is great, it's not really enough.
I don't really care about it controling resources, I can easily see if the resource is still available by opening my tool, since I do need to be on the same planet anyway.
Jenden wrote:
Most of the major crafters I know would kill for this droid.
Straker_Atrella wrote:
Ok this may sound stupid, but I want to verify. I know you need to be on the same planet to "launch" the droid. Yet what happens if you change planets before it returns? Meaning, you launch the droid on Tat to take care of structures, then you go to Naboo. I am assuming the droid has "interplanetry travel" to return to you, which is ironic.
So... i guess what your trying to say is that you want to have to return to the original planet to retrieve your droid? Careful, because the devs are more likely to make that an option if you push thatline of thinkingtoo far...
Its better to say at this point - that this droid is useful to the point that we can touch down on the planet - launch the droid and pay for any buildings on the planet, and head off to the next planet saving a bit of time in the end. Yes, it would be helpful for it to be interplanetary and to hold power - but i think we need to be thankful for what we have so far. (its already saved me a few times from having to pay charges on my houses decaying on TC)
Now you also said you can pull another droid from your pad, can this be another maint droid? Is there a limit?
No limit to the number doing runs at a time. The droid is in a state as if it was stored - but cannot be called until the timer runs out. The maintenance is done instantly and the droid is in its storage untill you can call it again.
I agree with everybody else, sicne I need to head out to the harvesters anyway, I would find it much more useful to just be able to check the status of each. While paying Maint is great, it's not really enough.
I don't really care about it controling resources, I can easily see if the resource is still available by opening my tool, since I do need to be on the same planet anyway.
Kollos wrote:
Jenden wrote:
Most of the major crafters I know would kill for this droid.
No one I know is interested in it because all it does is maintenance. Virtually everyone I have polled on the subject has responded with some form of "you mean it doesn't do power? what good is that?"
I maintain about 15 buildings in my town, but I add about a month's maintenance to them when I do my rounds. Why on earth would I want to consume one of my 5 droid slots for something that I only need to use once a month?
guess we tend to hang around different people. I know quite a few people that have lost structures do to lack of maintenance, not everyone is on top of it enough to hit up every building. Even those that are miss them from time to time, much easier to just go down the list.
Questions:
- Can I launch 2 seperate maint. Droids at the same time. (Set one off on Lok and then travelt o Naboo and set one off there?)
- Whats the Maximum number of structures that can be maintained by 1 doid using stacked modules? (Sorry, I'm not a DE and dont understand this part)
Concerns:
- Is there a way to /macro the addition of a structure to a droid?
- When I plant a harvester I have a macro that, renames, pays maint, adds power, updates admin list, and opens status window. Can I somehow assign my doid via this macro?
- With a seperate macro, it takes me .3 seconds to update the maint/power on a harvester. With the COUNTLESS shuttle ports we have on all the planets now and my swoop bike... I can update all aspects of all my harvesters in 15 minutes TOPS once I touch down on a planet. If I have to go to that planet myself to use this droid I might as well swoop over there and make sure its ok on power as well. This droid (to be usefull at all) NEEDS to be interplanetary.
SaberSWG wrote:
Questions:
- Can I launch 2 seperate maint. Droids at the same time. (Set one off on Lok and then travelt o Naboo and set one off there?) I have answered this a few times already - please read the full post
- Whats the Maximum number of structures that can be maintained by 1 doid using stacked modules? (Sorry, I'm not a DE and dont understand this part)54 presumably (6 in a R3)
Morturr wrote:
SaberSWG wrote:
Questions:
- Can I launch 2 seperate maint. Droids at the same time. (Set one off on Lok and then travelt o Naboo and set one off there?) I have answered this a few times already - please read the full post Well you answered it once before, and I missed it, sorry...tho I did read the whole post. (btw if you're going to bother to respond to a question "yes" is about 52 less letters for you to bother with.)
- Whats the Maximum number of structures that can be maintained by 1 doid using stacked modules? (Sorry, I'm not a DE and dont understand this part)54 presumably (6 in a R3) Sweet, Thank you.
Anyone tried anything like:
SaberSWG wrote:
Concerns:
- Is there a way to /macro the addition of a structure to a droid?
- When I plant a harvester I have a macro that, renames, pays maint, adds power, updates admin list, and opens status window. Can I somehow assign my doid via this macro?
Honestly I probably wont use this droid for harvesters (see quote below). I MAY use it for houses / factories...but all of those are within 500 m of each other in my home town so I might not use it for that either. I'm not complaining... but I would think the DEs would be rather concerned about finally getting more modules...only to find they aren't valued/desired by the player base. I really hope (both for my sake and the sake of the DE market) that they make this droid interplanetary.
SaberSWG wrote:
Concerns:
- With a seperate macro, it takes me .3 seconds to update the maint/power on a harvester. With the COUNTLESS shuttle ports we have on all the planets now and my swoop bike... I can update all aspects of all my harvesters in 15 minutes TOPS once I touch down on a planet. If I have to go to that planet myself to use this droid I might as well swoop over there and make sure its ok on power as well. This droid (to be usefull at all) NEEDS to be interplanetary.
Jenden wrote:
guess we tend to hang around different people. I know quite a few people that have lost structures do to lack of maintenance, not everyone is on top of it enough to hit up every building. Even those that are miss them from time to time, much easier to just go down the list.