Droid Engineer Archive

Personally I thing the CL 13 business is robust rubbish.

Try calling a MSE droid and a CL10 pet and see if you can do it.

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MachineZed wrote:

And the devs didnot have the time to figure out how to differenciate a droid from a creature.

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Malitevv wrote:

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MachineZed wrote:

And the devs didnot have the time to figure out how to differenciate a droid from a creature.

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The problem with that idea is that theyclearly dohave the ability to tell the difference between a droid and a creature. That is why all CH's are able to control their max number of creatures plus one droid/faction pet.

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Nail on the head, precisely!

We get fed so much nonsense it makes my head hurt.

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MachineZed wrote:

Leeds, you might be right about the no 2 droids, but I think it has to deal with why they wanted us to have a Droid and a Non CH pet out at the same time. My theroy (derived from Object Oriented Programing) a droid is inhereted from a class Pet. That Pet class has all the basic info about Droid, Creatures, and Faction Pets. And the devs didnot have the time to figure out how to differenciate a droid from a creature. That would allow everybody to have either 2 level 10 pets, 2 level 10 droids, or 1 pet and droid. this would hurt the CHs because they have to spend the skill points to use 2 pets.

So instead they opted to make droids level 13, because we were expecting a droid and creature

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Oh i think you're right, espically taking in consideration the 'extra' organic pet options that just showed up for droids. They should have seen this comming and allowed room in the dbf/structure if they wanted to use a common object. This is a good programming design step,both using the common object and allowing for easy modification of said object. What i'm seeing here is not enough on the analysis end. Nothing kills a db orentated program suite quicker than bad db design..... I hope they are not using m$sql on the backend as this would really cause a preformance issue..... But I still object to being 'treated' like we are........

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TheRealTK421 wrote:

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Malitevv wrote:

But that aside, can you clarify one thing TK: is the issue that

1. CL10 droids were too weak so we had to up their stats and doing so meant you couldn't have a droid and a pet out at the same time (what TH said), or
2. that having two CL10 pets out at the same time was determined to be too powerful so we upped all droids to CL13 so it would be impossible to have a droid and a creature out at the same time. (what you seem to be saying)

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Number 2 describes the situation. The hard set CL13, to both give us a 'bump' in combat droid power and to prevent situations whereby players would be able to call 2 CL10 pets.

It was found that 2 CL10 pets wasn't workable from a balance / advancement / 'power' standpoint.


/bow

Respectfully,


Look i'm sorry to do this to you but i'm calling bs here. I'm not buying it and from the looks of things no one else is. We were told that we would be able to call a mount and a droid at the same time with no mention of all of the droid classes going to 13. I'm sorry but a mse droid with a med module in it and no armor does not rate a cl 13 designation. Please convey to the devs that we're simply not buying it and it would be better if they were straight up with us. Remind them,strongly this time, that there are a bunch of programmers playing this game and we know what signs to look for coverups...... This balance excuse is getting way out of handas well as being used too often...........