Droid Engineer Archive
Thread: Probot Armor...chuck me a bone pls!
Squegul wrote:
I am not trying to make it harder for you. Do you not agree a master should make better stuff than a novice? You're a master DE, would it not irk you to know some guy can get half the skills and still evenly compete with you in the open market? You've wasted 30 some skill points.
Sodan-droiddreamer wrote:
Squegul wrote:
I am not trying to make it harder for you. Do you not agree a master should make better stuff than a novice? You're a master DE, would it not irk you to know some guy can get half the skills and still evenly compete with you in the open market? You've wasted 30 some skill points.
I am a master DE and I don't want to make it harder for anyone else, unlike you. My sense of fairness is not purely governed by something's effect on me.
There are two armor slots. It stands to reason that if putting double the amount of armor would give you double the amount of protection.
Just like stacking medical modules gives you bonuses. stacking armor modules should too. Two lvl 4 medical modules add up to a lvl 6 and consume more space in a droid, making less effective overall than what an MDE can build.
Do you need anything else explained?
There are craploads of DEs out there with useless crates of lvl 4 armor modules. ("Useless" in the sense that no on wants a probot with 15% armor). Do you think its fair to punish their preparedness?
I'm submitting a ticket for a refund on this.
We seem to be in agreement. Stacking should work. When it is working, a master should always be better than a novice. We are in agreement.
Should people who stock up on "mid-quality" parts be "punished" cuz now they are making "mid-quality" droids? I wouldn't call it punishment, I would call it being put back into place. What is gonna happen when they fix the stack problem? They will go back to making 2 lvl4 armor droids with 40% resist, all is well and good, but now Masters can stack 2 lvl6's and get 55% (just picking a #), well, noone will want a droid with 40% armor cuz they can get one with 55% armor. The same boat they are in now. Point is, they are making 2nd rate droids out of 2nd rate parts and upset they aren't the best. It's not that hard to get Master DE, so if you can stock up on so many lvl 4 armor mods it will devastate your character if ya can't use em, then you could prolly afford to grind up to master and make the lvl 6's... Sounds to me like they were taking advantage of, i wouldn't say an exploit, but a massive oversight in the droid engineer design, and now it is being fixed.
And yes I understand, 2 lvl4's = 1 lvl6 but the guy using the lvl6 gets an extra module slot. That's the MDE's advantage, as you put it. It doesn't make sense that you can stack 2 lvl4's but cannot stack 2 lvl6's... maybe that was more of my point in the beginning...
Sodan, if you saw my post...pre-patched crated level 4's work fine.
Or were these level 4's that you've got crated post crackdown-patch?
No they are pre-patch.
JavelinCatcher wrote:
Sodan, if you saw my post...pre-patched crated level 4's work fine.
Or were these level 4's that you've got crated post crackdown-patch?
Ok, well at least they didn't ruin our inventory. I still don't like it. Two lvl 4s should equal a lvl 6. Two lvl 6 armor mods should have soem kind of advantage for MDEs.
AudioOrgana wrote:
JavelinCatcher wrote:
Sodan, if you saw my post...pre-patched crated level 4's work fine.
Or were these level 4's that you've got crated post crackdown-patch?
I can confirm that droids that were created before the patch indeed have M40% with two Level 4's.
Audio
Sodan-droiddreamer wrote:
Ok, well at least they didn't ruin our inventory. I still don't like it. Two lvl 4s should equal a lvl 6. Two lvl 6 armor mods should have soem kind of advantage for MDEs.
AudioOrgana wrote:
JavelinCatcher wrote:
Sodan, if you saw my post...pre-patched crated level 4's work fine.
Or were these level 4's that you've got crated post crackdown-patch?
I can confirm that droids that were created before the patch indeed have M40% with two Level 4's.
Audio
JavelinCatcher wrote:
Sodan, if you saw my post...pre-patched crated level 4's work fine.
Or were these level 4's that you've got crated post crackdown-patch?
I can confirm that droids that were created before the patch indeed have M40% with two Level 4's.
Audio
It makes things more difficult but the right people will profit from it. The droid engineers that are willing to go that extra yard.
What I do not like is the lack of information flowing. While I understand that they would not announce this before the patch, there is no excuse for not telling us right after the patch. Since there is no way of knowing the armor rating unless you tame the droid I would not have figured this out for a long time.
Eventually some angry customer would have accused me of being a cheater, because I labeled the droids as 40% medium armor probots, when in fact they only had 15%. This kind of information must reach us directly and without delay!
Obo_alCan wrote:
Tried two level 5's in an adv probot. Came out as 25% Medium.
This would seem to confirm that the game just isn't recognizing more than one armor slot, so I'm assuming it's a bug. Although why they were messing with droid armor for this patch is beyond me...