Droid Engineer Archive
Thread: So much for new utility droids
progman63 wrote:
Man, you need to relax a little.
I was agreeing with you.......
Perhaps you missed a few other points - "(no offense)" and "didn't seem to make as much sense"
There are plenty of enhancments that would be just plain stupid to consider a droid performing.
All I said was that something didn't seem to make sense, but after thinking about it, I saw how itcould work.
Yeah, sorry about that. It just sounded like you were laughing at my ideas withoutqualifyingthat mockery with a direct response.
I try and be civil most of the time, really I do. But this whole debacle has about put my character in his grave. There isn't much hope left for me, I suppose.And whenever I read some good ideas on the boards anymore, they are either smacked-down by the one-star bandit or they are swallowed in a storm of game mechanics lingo or speculation based on TH's offhanded remarks.
I was a DE in beta, you see, and I am still waiting for the promised land. An ideal that will never materialize, it seems, especially in light of this "droid invasion" train wreck. So when there is call for more patience, I can't seem to find it in me. I don't really care anymore about what the devs or TH thinks. I want droids. Fun, useful, and full of personality. It isn't my job to worry about whether or not CH feels slighted if I have a Droideka following me around, or if Medics are offended that I want a surgical droid to actually heal me. We could have balance and have useful droids too.
Anyway, I apologize.
Solo4114 wrote:
You say that the devs' main problem is that they never really fleshed out the concept of what a DE is supposed to DO in the SWG universe, and I agree. That's a problem that plagues smugglers too. It seems to be a design problem with any profession that doesn't neatly fit into a particular niche. I think, with you guys, they got about as far as "Well, they're supposed to make droids" and then kind of went on to something else, without really addressing WHAT the droids were supposed to do or HOW the droids were supposed to help.
EXACTLY!
Personally, I want utility droids specifically to remove the time sink issues. That's right. I said it. I want a droid to go out to my harvesters, dump power and money in, and maybe pick up the stuff in the harvester. I want other droids to boost slicing percentages, or to do any number of functions that otherwise I have to do. Hey, that's what droids are SUPPOSED TO DO -- make your life easier. The balancing aspect? You have to pay for them initially and pay for their upkeep.
It is like you are reading the pages from my mind. I am glad I am not the only one thinking this stuff.