Droid Engineer Archive

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Gorantoth wrote:

I have two questions...

1. When is a dev going to go point by point through the current issues post and address each and every point in plain english (no devspeak please)?

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That's myfirst as well.

2. Why would it be so bloody hard to merely take the CH/pet handling cert ALREADY IN PLACE(ie - non CH's can only handle a level 10 pet) and implement it across the board for non DE's, with, of course, a few minor tweaks? (ie - upping the CL appropriately for the TYPE of droid used and all.)

3. Why does droid customization have to fade? Yes, I understand the theory behind "wear and tear", but c'mon folks - the color wouldn't fade completely. ((I keep thinking it's the same line of thought as the Whole DH Profession idea - "Well, they can build them, but they're too stupid to be able to program them and use them" - "Well, they can paint them, but the quality of the paint job is poor, because they're too stupid to use the proper enamels."))

1. When will the programers fix Experimentation?

2. Since our fixes have been moved to publish 7 & 8, what are we getting in publish 6? They can still try to fix some bugs not just implement combat droids!

3. Fix our current issues with all of our droids. IE. Fix droid modules.

1. Why was the profession focus this publish (6) on the chefs and not DE's. Although we were not promised anything, but it was at least mentioned that we would be the focus in January. At least tell us that we wouldn't getting anything signficant this month sooner, so we would be mentally better prepared.

2. When will we be able to tell by examining the deed or droid, all that is installed in the droid.

3. Is it too late to shift the priority away from combat droids to utility droids.

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Gorantoth wrote:

1. When is a dev going to go point by point through the current issues post and address each and every point in plain english (no devspeak please)?

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/agree

This would be extremely nice to see. Maybe even have the DE Dev respond to it... with brutal honesty.

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Ackis wrote:

Maybe even have the DE Dev respond to it... with brutal honesty.

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1. Will our experimentation on items ever be usefull in this profession.

2. Will we see "stimpacks" or some kind of repair kit for our droids that go into combat and get their white bar damaged?

3. In your opinion, why should any of us continue to play as DE's in this game when the profesion has been broken for so long and not seeing any substantial fixes in the near future?

If only one of my questions get answered, I would like to see it be #3.

#4, How many people are registered and still playing SWG? We have not seen any numbers on that for a long time. Last I saw was 250k or so.

#5. When will we see an answer to these questions we are submiting here? From the looks of things there will notbe many DE's left to read the answers.

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Gorantoth wrote:

1. When is a dev going to go point by point through the current issues post and address each and every point in plain english (no devspeak please)?

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You're kidding, right?

I can answer this....no Dev needed.


Answer: "Never"



/bow

Respectfully,

KISS Q. : Please detail the hidden agenda for droids.

I know it sounds harsh but it’s more painful to us because we know that there is one. On somebody’s desk at SOE sits a nice pile of paper stating what the DEV’s are hoping to do with droids and when they hope to have each major component ready for publish. This will be someone’s job, trust me, somebody knows. Now how about letting the rest of us in on it so we can discuss on facts rather than a whole community shooting in the dark… it’s been kinda messy

• Are you aware that talking droids still cannot be named? This is the surgical, the LE repair, and the Protocol droid. This happened when the personality chips began to "work" - is there any intention of increasing/finishing those as well? They currently do very little, except when you are programming the droid.

• Are you still aware of our over-dependence on Master Artisan parts, and are you still keeping your plan to either increase it for other professions or reduce it for ours?

• It's gotten buried by the combat droid issue, but when are we getting multiple droids out at once as DE's? It was said that we would always be limited to one combat, but once upon a time it was high on our list and was responded to as "we are working on it". Now that the 1-pet limit has been imposed as you said needed to happen first, when will you begin rebalancing it so that DE's at least can have multiple utility droids at once? A DE should at least be able to repair their own droids, or have his R3 and Protocol out at the same time. And, will you increase our cap of stored utility droids for demonstration purposes (especially since we have no way to preview color)?

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