Droid Engineer Archive

One of the biggest problems I think is about the lack of things to sell for us up and coming Droid Engineers. Most people who want a droid want it for storage, medical, or a crafting station of the highest quality, and only master DE can give this to them. Sure we might sell the occasional chassis or probot, but that isn't enough to get by. Not to mension all the resourses we have to use just to level up. In order to do this, we need to get harvesters which over time can leave us high and dry. I've used up enough resourses so far to make a large village. The only way to easly level up is to get a PA to support you, or have enough combat skills to be able to do missions that can actually give you good money.

I don't think this one is specifically mentioned (or maybe it was):

There is no way to tell the effectiveness of an installed crafting module. You can experiment up the mech. quality but how this is related to the effectiveness is unknown other than as mentioned, making it more complex therefore more prone to CR.

On a related note, droids (and deeds) still doesn't say what crafting modules are installed in them.

Wow that's the greatest post ever. I have to say I agree with everything in this post. I really like thedroid module ideas.

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Issue 6 - Droid Cert System - Many months ago, hints were dropped about a droid Cert System. Many DE are concern that this will limit droid sales if handled incorrectly, or could hurt the DE profession if only DE received these certs. Allowing for more than just Combat Professions gain access to Certs for different droids is something that the DE community would like to see, since it would open up more sales, which is an area that is very lacking for many in the profession.

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/climbsonsoapbox

Hi. I'm a broken record:
ALL USERS SHOULD BE ABLE TO USE ALL DROIDS. Droids aren't guns. They aren't even vehicles. They're bloody darn near sentient machines. Not quite. More like just pretty darn Good AI. But still, why would you ever need a CERT for these? Think about that! These things are as common and widespread as a TOASTER! In order for us to be able to reach that kind of market penetration we need to be useable by anyone! The only limiting factor on the widespread use of high level droids OUGHT to be the prices we charge.
Right. Thanks for listening to my rant again.

/climbsoffsoapbox

Thank you, Drashk, for posting such a well put together list of issues. The only problem I have with it is that it is correct to assume that all Droid Engineers don't want to be metallic CHs or that all Droid Engineers are interested in being just a crafting profession that sells a product. I'm not saying that I, as a Droid Engineer specifically want to be a metallic CH, but I like that option being available, especially if it means that that would bethe only way we would have combat droids that aren't utter gimps.

Just my own two cents.

Thanks for the good work.

absolutely awesome ideas!

We never even got a token post by runesabre here... *cries*

"5 Reports of Seekers not using their final charge of Bounty Hunters with Investigations III have been made. Kind of hard for DE to test this one out and I'm not up-to-date on BH fixes, so I am not 100% sure of its validity. "

It's not the final charge, it's any charge. Once a bounty hunter trains Investigation 3 a new option appears when a seeker or Arakyd droid is used: find and track target. Choosing this option with seekers results in the seeker tracking the target and updating a number of times before losing track of the target. Once it loses track of the target a charge on the seeker should be expended, but isn't. There is no bugged effect on the Arakyd droid. Even though it has a 'find and track' option the result is no different than the 'find' option and charges are correctly used up on the droid.

This was reported by the bounty hunter community months ago and was brought back to the devs attention in November by both the DE and BH communities.

Absolutely outstanding, Drashk!

If I could give you a 10 I would. I'm floored. That was perfect.

Justsome Droid ideas to make them more fun...(I've beenDE since the beginning..still am.. [don't ask why )

1. Perhaps they can be used to remove buildings " cheaper " For instance to remove and replace your harvesters with lesser removing costs (or better.. use builders to remove the harvesters automaticly when the resource run out!!! and return them to your home!!!!)

2. Use them as building maintenance droids.. to reduce building maintenance.

3. Get Seeker droids who can find certain type of resources.. (seems easy enough) the droid will return a mail when he found a spot above the percentage it was programmed to find (probot function?)

4. Get battle droid with faction scanners!

5. give a city patrol droids (who stay when logged out) let them belong to a house..or the city itself

6. Entertainer droids (hey, why not? just an idea..)

This is why I became a DE.. should be possible (perhaps not easy) droids with these abilities will be FUN! Star Warsy! they should be expensive.. but hey.. they'll make star wars live!

PLZ SAFE US FROM THE DROID HANDLER!!!!!

a droid handler.. its to rediculous for words.. and not star warsy at all.. Perhaps droids are servants.. but most of them are intelligent..some LIVE! and its against continuity! Ever seen Luke having an r2 freshup coarse? so he can CONTROL his PET.. argh....

Given today's event, I think the issue list has changed somewhat:

#1 Get devs to listen to the DE community
#2 see #1
#3 see #1
#4 see #1
#5 Fix bugs.

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Rotcaf wrote:

Justsome Droid ideas to make them more fun...(I've beenDE since the beginning..still am.. [don't ask why )

1. Perhaps they can be used to remove buildings " cheaper " For instance to remove and replace your harvesters with lesser removing costs (or better.. use builders to remove the harvesters automaticly when the resource run out!!! and return them to your home!!!!)

2. Use them as building maintenance droids.. to reduce building maintenance.

3. Get Seeker droids who can find certain type of resources.. (seems easy enough) the droid will return a mail when he found a spot above the percentage it was programmed to find (probot function?)

4. Get battle droid with faction scanners!

5. give a city patrol droids (who stay when logged out) let them belong to a house..or the city itself

6. Entertainer droids (hey, why not? just an idea..)

This is why I became a DE.. should be possible (perhaps not easy) droids with these abilities will be FUN! Star Warsy! they should be expensive.. but hey.. they'll make star wars live!

PLZ SAFE US FROM THE DROID HANDLER!!!!!

a droid handler.. its to rediculous for words.. and not star warsy at all.. Perhaps droids are servants.. but most of them are intelligent..some LIVE! and its against continuity! Ever seen Luke having an r2 freshup coarse? so he can CONTROL his PET.. argh....

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Those are some really awesome Ideas. I think content should be one of the main priorities

thx KoenmaAtago..

and I even forgot one of the things I always thought there should be... DELIVERY DROIDS.. Wouldn;t it be great to get your new blaster delivered.. from the bazaar or from a player? and even if youll have to pay 5k to get it delivered... I would gladly pay!! and I'll see the droid ariving with a smile on my face...

and if I'm offline before the droid is there (should take a while I guess...) then just drop it in my bank... or even home (guess that;ll be harder to program) thinking about deliveries.. shouldn't houses have DROPBOXES! (perhaps permission granted..) that'll make some interesting things possible for merchants,etc.. but that is another story...