Droid Engineer Archive
Thread: Proposed Reconciliation for Droid Engineers and Smugglers
TheRealTK421 wrote:
electricnomad wrote:
Educational purposes.
GnomeAd wrote:
The why come here?
I'm sorry...but I don't know how that makes sense. What exactly are you trying to educate here?
The fact that droid item storage would avoid scans has been know (via reports from TC) for some time now.
I'm still confused as to why DEs are being waylayed over this.
I want DEs to know why this is a big deal for Smugglers, basically.
The issues are being whitewashed, and many people here seem to think that 1) this was a Smuggler fix Publish and 2) Smugglers are slicers and spicers rather than contraband specialists.
This issuecuts us to the core. I just don't believe that some people here are seeing that, and I wanted to give perspective.
I wish you luck on this.
However, to be honest, the plight of the Smugger vis a vis this issue will not in anyway affect how or when I market or sell item storage.
If it happens to help people avoid scans, you better believe that I'm gonna use that as a sales pitch if I need to do so.
/bow
RaiCella wrote:
It's sad, really, that a profession as borked as yours doesnt recognize when another profession is getting shafted. It's too bad that so many of you are unwilling to compromise and attempt to save what will otherwise sooner or later disappear.
Actually...no one knows whether or not this will disappear. I know that you hope it will but I'd hardly say this constitutes saying that it "will". That is up to the Devs to decide.
Droids that completely avoid scans will not last.
Again...this is a statement of hope on your part, not fact. You do not have any way to know if this will or will not continue to be the case. It might actually continue. You simply do not know.
I and the other smugglers will contiinue to fight this, but I for one will do it in other, more public forums. If you wish to participate in a cooperative discussion, please visit the smugglers forum. We will welcome your ideas and input. (Most of us anyway)
I'm not really sure what you want from the DEs in this forum. We had nothing to do with this specific issue coming into play. Why would you ask for us to take up the charge (and cooperate in any kind of discussion) on something that we didn't ask for...but got anyway?!?
It sounds very much to me like the Smugglers have decided that there isn't much to discuss and you simply want this to go away.
Believe me...we wonder the same thing about battery life, droid paint, experimentation meaning something to our products and about 800 other issues. You're hardly alone in having a beef about the state of your profession.
I think it's better that you not try to enlist DEs in your cause since we had nothing to do with this in the first place (and most DEs that I know have bigger issues they'd rather work to address, to be honest).
I wish you luck....all the same but I simply don't see the DE forum as a place that will hold much benefit for this discussion.
Respectfully,
Or how about we just leave it like it is?
Sounds like a plan to me
/salute - agree
I have the perfect solution.....
sell no droids to smugglers- get back to your own forums i'm sick and tired of you rich and useful professions complaining every single time DE has something to sell "OH BUT YOU ARE TAKING MONEY OUT OF MY POCKET"
who cares- go discuss it with a rancor
Anyone need a droid with Item Storage? Send me an email ingame I'll craft it for you
Sirgleno wrote:This issue will not go away, I happen to read the smuggler board quite often and I know they are frickin rabid about this, and honestly there are far more Smugglers than there are Droid Engineers. It really isn't fair to the Smugglers for anyone to be able to have a dimentional pocket thereby avoiding detection. Smugglers should be the smugglers, and in an attempt to reconcile this issue I have presented this compromise, you can one-star me all you want (please don't), this issue will not go away. FYI this thread was concurently posted on the Smuggler board, and most of them are equally unwilling to compromise. Compromising is the basis of democracy, and although this is more like a monarchy, there are genuinely democratic debates here in the forums that do, hopefully, influence SOE's decisions.
Would that be the same "dimensional pocket" that your speeder disappears into when you store it? Or your pack of rancors?
Why come to us asking for a "compromise"? It's not like we can do anything about it. "Please, mister Dev! Take away some more Droid functionality!" Yeah, that'll fly.
Take it to the Devs. It is most likely a bug or an oversight anyway, and will likely be "fixed" in the next push. Find something more useful to spend energy on (like Underworld).
It's clear that the system cannot track items in a stored droid (technologically).
If it were, items in our droids would decay and be insured as normal since being able to store up to 50 decay-free items - when most people don't even have that many decay-able items on them - surely isn't cool with the Devs.
So DE's have smugglers (and architects) in the DE forum yelping about how horrible we are when we have absolutely nothing to do with the situation - and it's a non-issue here.
If smugglers have an issue with it (and I am one) it should be brought up with the Smuggler correspondent, as I am sure it has been.
Neither issue is any skin off our backs, and it's not worth the forum space. That does NOT mean it shouldn't be addressed - but this is not the place.
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darkmane wrote:
I'm still confused what the issue is.... I mean is ANYONE trying to smuggle? Period? All I've seen is Rebels FP farming, I haven't seen any smuggling with smugglers or droids. I put 15 10 unit storage droids on my vendor at 1500 each. I'm in a mall and I told all my guild mates about them. I still have 11.
At this point it is a non-issue. NO ONE IS SMUGGLING
That's an entirely other matter as well, LOL. I've played a lot since the patch, and have yet to even be scanned even though I have traveled to practically every city on the five starter planets. I have been trying like all heck to get scanned - and carrying at least 15 items of contraband on me - like the oldsaying goes, "I can't even get arrested..."
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With utmost respect I have to say, just because your profession is utterly broken, dosn't validate the fact that this hurts the smugglers future. If you noticed, there are a lot of very unhappy carbineers at the moment. They also are a very broken profession. They just lost the only shot that made them effective, chargeshot1. Saddly for them it really had to be done as that shot was ridiculous. Droids that 100% conceal contraband are obviously not intended and needs to be adressed if smugglers are ever going to be able to smuggle.
I really hope you guys get your fix soon, but remember that by endorsing these storage droids you are effectivly stealing our future.