Droid Engineer Archive
Thread: Binding Droids to your house
Gavvot
Fri Jul 02, 2004 4:08 am
#40
Very interesting idea.
How would I place it in the priority list, well after the fix the examine window and before the droid decay.
Now, for the power use, how about this :
To place a droid like that in a house, you must place a new architect furniture called 'Droid recharging station' or something like that and you'll have to fill this station with power or money, not sure what's the best. Or maybe it has a limited life time, or need some kind of recharge foritself, something like batteries butharder to do, like the DPG proposal from another thread. except that it would be build by Architect instead of DE.
There could be 2 different kind of those stations : One outdoor ot put in the cities and one indoor to put in houses.
Also, even if we put the droid on patrol, each time he's on low power, he'll go to the station and stay there for x minutes for maintenance and recharging.
I always loved to see those MSE running around at the emperor retreat, and all the different droids running around in different cities OP.
How would I place it in the priority list, well after the fix the examine window and before the droid decay.
Now, for the power use, how about this :
To place a droid like that in a house, you must place a new architect furniture called 'Droid recharging station' or something like that and you'll have to fill this station with power or money, not sure what's the best. Or maybe it has a limited life time, or need some kind of recharge foritself, something like batteries butharder to do, like the DPG proposal from another thread. except that it would be build by Architect instead of DE.
There could be 2 different kind of those stations : One outdoor ot put in the cities and one indoor to put in houses.
Also, even if we put the droid on patrol, each time he's on low power, he'll go to the station and stay there for x minutes for maintenance and recharging.
I always loved to see those MSE running around at the emperor retreat, and all the different droids running around in different cities OP.
Message Edited by Gavvot on 07-02-2004 01:10 PM
_KernMist
Fri Jul 02, 2004 4:39 am
#41
Having aimed for DE since starting this game I have recently been doing the Emperors Retreat with my new alt. account. I have to say that seeing the little MSE's whizzing all over the place does remind me that I'm in the Star Wars environment soooo much more than any of the other places. It's great to see the little guys doing their chores! And being a DE I suspect I appreciate this more than most other profs because we know our MSE's can't actually do that on their own... 
Gavvot
Fri Jul 02, 2004 4:59 am
#42
Hum, they can.
Just put some patrol points in your house, and make it patrol.
It'll be the same as emperor retreat.
And it won't stop when it hit 0% power.
You just have to do it every day and not call another droid ever.(that's the part that sux)
Just put some patrol points in your house, and make it patrol.
It'll be the same as emperor retreat.
And it won't stop when it hit 0% power.
You just have to do it every day and not call another droid ever.(that's the part that sux)
_KernMist
Fri Jul 02, 2004 11:03 am
#43
I know you can set *one* mouse to run around (in a triangle with three patrol points), but it's not as good as the Emperors Retreat with lots of mice wheeling around all over the place. Besides, a DE's house *should* have lots of droids *doing stuff*. And not have them disappear just because he wants to use his maintenance droid...
Boomerbwm
Fri Jul 02, 2004 11:33 am
#44
This sounds like a very viable and useful idea. I'd like to see this before most other things on the DE list. I'm not sure how easy it would be to implement, but it would be really awesome if it could be done quickly.
fatgato
Fri Jul 02, 2004 2:07 pm
#45
as a new DE , I would love to see this feature although a nice power depositing droid for harvester and resouce recovery could be nice 
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Straker_Atrella
Fri Jul 02, 2004 3:08 pm
#46
I also agree that this idea should probably be our top (non-bug) priority. Even above Droid Decay.
ResourceMonkey
Fri Jul 02, 2004 3:40 pm
#47
There could be any number of interesting additions to this. For instance:
The Service R2 in Cantinas (ala R2D2 on Jabba's barge).
Someone who has placed a vendor in a Cantina can place this type of droid.
Clicking on the vendor opens up the trade window as normal but now the R2 unit speeds towards the player who initiated it. When the player has chosen his item, the R2 unit wizzes back to the Vendor then back to the player. In actuality, it does nothing other than recognize someone who initiates with a vendor and then sets two waypoints from the vendor and the player and then wizzes back and forth. It will, however, add a bit to the look of the game.
A more complex answer would be to have the R2 actually BE a vendor that only food and beverages can be put on, but for some reason, I think vendors need to be stationary.
Herbsman
Fri Jul 02, 2004 6:42 pm
#48
This could also bring new life to the house entrance fees that merchants have. Imagine setting up a small shop in the middle of a player city label Repair Facilities. Having repair and power droids in there and sort of have the admission fee reprecent the service fee.
Herbsman
Fri Jul 02, 2004 6:45 pm
#49
Ps. If you want, I can sum this all up and make a version 2.0 thread for you.
Drashk
Fri Jul 02, 2004 7:48 pm
#50
I'm working on putting something together and should have it posted later tonight....If a certain young female I know lets me have a few moments to myself...
Jeryld
Fri Sep 17, 2004 9:14 am
#51
Not sure if the ver.2 of this thread is knocking around, I couldn't see it so I'll post this here....
Something that I think would work well with "structure bound" droids would be macros. We already have macros for players....why not extend this to droids? To my mind, one of the functions of droids is to carry out repetetive / monotonous tasks, so adding the ability to macro droids makes sense. In my opinion,even as the macro system stands, I think the utility / desireability for players to own droids would be greatly increased....with a few more macros added, the value of droids to players would be increased tremendously.
Also it would hopefully increase the "bond" between a droid and their owner. One of the things that dissapoints me currently about droids is the fact that to most players, their droid is just really a mobile crfating station. If macros were introduced in such a way that it took players time and effort to "programme" a droid with macros, this view would change. Maybe a system could be implemented where (if droid decay is ever added) where only droid engineers would be able to fish out macros from a broken droid, and copy them over to a new model...
Cheers
JeCy
Mon Sep 20, 2004 4:45 am
#52
Great idea !
A few things of my own to add
I dont like the idea of them aucally doing stuff like, repair, power ect while your not there.. im for the afk macro nerf too soo there is not much you can say to change my mind on that one : )
Well there is one thing i would love to see um do. it could be used as a mail box.. Yes it would need a new module. but with architects forums being loaded with mailbox push.. why not add it to this too. It would really add to the starwarsyness.. Droping off something with a proticol droid would be really neat : )
Yes a translator module and a language nerd is in order too... soo make that house bot a proticol soo you can be sure to always understand your vistiors.
Power station, arch built.. This would be great, they need some more things to make that are higher on the cool factor : ) Yes i know this is an arch thing,, but how about only allowing say one station in small and medium and 2 in large. You would have to be the house owner to place.. but anyone on admin could bind a droid. Only one droid could be bound to a station at a time, i guess 2 wouldnt hurt 4 droid in a pa, or cantina, or hospitol. A couple of surgicals, and a translator come to mind.. or a few Dz-70 disco balls in a cantina would be really cool.. having 4 disco Dz-70,, aka dancing jawa lazer shows would kick ass single dancer could really open up possiblitlys : )
the Droid could be bound to the station Via the DE crafted restraining bolt. To make the droid work you would need to pay maintance to the power station, when the maintance runs out thedroid just stops working. the droid would go back from time to time for a power up.. say once an hour.. and if you happen to be in the house you would see your little droid head to the station and get some Juice.
This code could be used on ships, as there is already talk that droids will be an big part of using them. I sure hope you will be able to use more than one on um. Send out those astro-mechs to repair that sheild gen like in Epp 1. GO R2 !!
I guess thats all i have to add to this.. but its a wonderfull idea and id love to see it added,, as for high on the list.. you betcha tops baby,, tops
Je'Cy Dax