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Thread: Droid Engineer, Droid Commander, and Droid Cert System A possible compromise
This is a well thought out idea. I have two areas of concern -
1.) This proposal gives combat skills to the DE profession (droid control) but there is still no basis upon which these skills are earned. In other words, all of the DE profession's experience and skills are 100% crafting-oriented, and so do not provide for either combat or pet handling modifiers.
2.) If I read the proposal right, the only requirement for the Droid Controller profession will be apprenticeship points. This would make DC a half basic/half elite profession, with a leaning towards the former. The consequence of this is that all droid difficultly levels will have to be inferior to the equivalent creature difficulty levels. Moreover, this would make combat droids always sub-par to creature pets, since creature pets will alway be more powerful due to the extra skill points required to attain the CH profession.
Eutock wrote:
2.) If I read the proposal right, the only requirement for the Droid Controller profession will be apprenticeship points. This would make DC a half basic/half elite profession, with a leaning towards the former. The consequence of this is that all droid difficultly levels will have to be inferior to the equivalent creature difficulty levels. Moreover, this would make combat droids always sub-par to creature pets, since creature pets will alway be more powerful due to the extra skill points required to attain the CH profession.
The requirement would first be to have lvl 10 in those droid certs, which means "total cost of 600000 Combat Experience, 20 Skill Points, and 3250 Apprenticeship Points", then more combat xp and AP, so just to get up to master droid commander would be 4470 AP.
Ridiculous, I hope this idea is thrown out like everything else we tell the devs.
this overall what i figured would be the best way albiet i think a slight adjustment of numbers is in order, the amount of combat xp to get there is too high, and people can cheese combat xp into app points....so may i suggest lowering the amount of combat xp by 50% of what you have listed there or more. also why re-invent the wheel to much?make the Squad leader(assuming 1 to 10 bought)and the droid commander get the same bonus's (but not be able to stack), since SL's need more purpose and power to be a balanced combat option against the other combat profs of the game. overall a cool system would love to see something like this in game...may i suggest a change in the numbers for in this direction:
Level 1 +1 Max Droid Level
Cost - 2 Skill Points / 500 Combat Experience / 20 Apprenticeship Points
Level 2 +1 Max Droid Level
Cost - 2 Skill Points / 2000 Combat Experience / 40Apprenticeship Points
Level 3 +1 Max Droid Level
Cost - 2 Skill Points / 4000 Combat Experience /60 Apprenticeship Points
Level 4 +1 Max Droid Level
Cost - 2 Skill Points /8000 Combat Experience / 80 Apprenticeship Points
Level 5 +1 Max Droid Level / +1 Stored Droid
Cost - 2 Skill Points /12000 Combat Experience / 100 Apprenticeship Points
Level 6 +1 Max Droid Level
Cost - 2 Skill Points / 16000 Combat Experience / 120 Apprenticeship Points
Level 7 +1 Max Droid Level
Cost - 2 Skill Points / 20000 Combat Experience / 140 Apprenticeship Points
Level 8 +1 Max Droid Level
Cost - 2 Skill Points / 25000 Combat Experience / 160 Apprenticeship Points
Level 9 +1 Max Droid Level
Cost - 2 Skill Points / 30000 Combat Experience / 180 Apprenticeship Points
Level 10 +1 Max Droid Level / +1 Stored Droid
Cost - 2 Skill Points / 40000 Combat Experience / 200 Apprenticeship Points
+3 Max Droid Level / +1 Additional Droid / +2 Stored Droids
Skill - Overload 1
Cost - 50000 Combat Experience / 200 Apprenticeship Points /6 Skill Points
EricTheGreat wrote:
The requirement would first be to have lvl 10 in those droid certs, which means "total cost of 600000 Combat Experience, 20 Skill Points, and 3250 Apprenticeship Points", then more combat xp and AP, so just to get up to master droid commander would be 4470 AP.
u can ignore the fact that a cl50 droid which requiers 210 skillpoints is unbalanced against a cl70 pet which requiers 90 skillpoints. but the devs cant ignore this, and if noone will ever use the droids, why should anyone invest all his skillpoints to just use a cl50 droid with which he cant hunt because its even weaker than creature pets which are only good together with a combat profession.
devs will never do this or will be able, to. i dunno why ur idea cant be changed in anyway, u said its a basis to work on i dont see anything beeing considered. it would be simple, just leave out the combatdroidbonuses from the DE tree so its not requiered to have 2 and a half profession to use the best droid.
whatever ur idea is without any change not possible to implement so we will get back to the current dev plan.