Droid Engineer Archive
Thread: DE's I need two things from you please
I got so excited I almost forgot one thing I agree with.
We definitely need to be able to call more than one droid. It's rather silly that I can't repair my own droids.
Second I think we should be able to store more droids in our datapad. It's much easier to sell a customer a droid that they can see. Most DE's accomplish this by having chassises strown throughout their stores. Unfortunately not all droids have advanced chassises. It would be great if I could hold all of the different typed of droids in my datapad and be able to call them and show customers.
One other thing I liked in the plan and would like to expand on is the possibility of having "stationary" droids assigned to buildings. How cool would it be to have a repair droid with a Home Maintenance module in it that is permanently assigned to your house that can then do minor repairs thereby lowering your maintenance costs.
there are volumes of posts here
yes there are and on every board. thousands and thousands of posts. Which is why I am coming to you for help. I am trying to find out what the key points are. You guys are telling me you are the experts and my job is to find out what your thoughts are on things.
The *effective* people will get heard and will have impact ... and the ******** who ranted will get ignored.
Exactly and not for any other reason other than the fast I can gather good information, the faster I can compile it and put it in a form that can be pulled internal and acted upon.
THat would be waiting four months and counting
My clock started just over 2 1/2 weeks ago. To make changes fast, I need your help and cooperation and then together we can have a positive impact on your profession.
Now i hope and pray that BH is next on THUNDERHEARTS list... because my interest in this game is fading....
I hope to be hitting all Professions next week.
Have a great night and Ill see you in the morning
TheRealTK421 wrote:
I'm pretty sure that you know not whereof you speak, friend.
All the info that's needed on this is contained in a few select threads in our profession forums.
The DE forums have been rife with constructive posts, ideas, opinions and feedback.
And...by the way, they have been here (more or less) since release...and even before. By saying "all day", you seem to act as if any of our concerns just popped up today.
Nothing has fundamentally changed since release, boss.
Again....calling it like I see it.
/bow
Respectfully,
Again ... he has labeled the threads and asked you to vote on them.
TH will tally the votes and then progress from there. Geez ... you just don't get it ... maybe if i hit you over the head with a large trout enough you will finally *see* the light.
Your missing your chance to vote on the important questions. Here is/was your chance to vote on "MSE Bombs" ... but your missing it ... or have already missed it ... or really don't care and only want to stir up trouble ... either way ... it sucks to be you ...
Stall tactic from TH to give us something to do so we don't all yell that he did not get us the answer yet, but I will participate.
1) I agree completely with Sintrosi's summation of the state of the profession. I have been in this since the beginning of beta 3 and Sintrosi is right on the money. She has my total confidence to represent our interests to you if you would rather just get her input on proposals instead of wading through the forum. Please get her phone number and just conference her in to one of your planning meetings.
2) The plan that Sintrosi posted at your behest had some fun sounding things in it. However, it seems to miss a lot of the points we all want and think would be easier to implement. Droid pathing and intelligence improvements sound awesome. More modules sound good. A few droids that only droid engineers can use, ok, that could be fun. Better combat droids would be nice. More droids than 1 out at a time would be great. Functions for power, repair, and surgical droids would be cool too. Lots of good things in the plan, but lots left out. For instance, protocol droids and binary load lifters.
By the way, adding combat modules to existing droids is just silly with their 100 HAM. Making probots stronger and them giving them options for different kinds of attack would be very cool though.
TH, please take the time you need to get a decent response to us. No one will commit suicide if we don't hear today. My house has 30 days of maintenance in it before I cancel my account...
please take the time you need to get a decent response to us. No one will commit suicide if we don't hear today.
Maybe you folks are misinterpreting me. There is no big post waiting in the wings here, I am gathering information to find out where we go from here. There was enough resistence to the rough plan to warrant reassessing things and thats what Im doing.
The information is on "input", not "output" atm...
1. I need to know if you agree or disagree with Sintrosi's Plan
2. I need to know if you agree or disagree with the rough DE plan in general
1: Yes I agree with Sintrosi's State of the profession post 110%
2: I do not agree with most of the "rough DE plan"
3: Do not try and make exisiting droids that are obviously not designed for combat, combat droids. (ex; No le repair droids with blasters) Introduce NEW Chassis that are specifically designed for combat roles and nothing else.
A) Do not require repair capable droids to have an item charged based system.
B) Droids should not take power damage. At their current broken rate of power consumption they already use more batteries then they should.
-Iphlpapi (Master Droid Engineer)
Sabacc Legends <SL>
Corbantis galaxy
I agree with pretty much everything Sintrosi's has said.
2. I need to know if you agree or disagree with the rough DE plan in general
I like the ideas that are planed. A good combat Droid is badly needed. I also think maybe an Android would be a possable idea.
Right now though we really just need to have stuff to work properly and then the updates planned might actually work right.
I have tried many of the professions, Ranger, Doctor, Brawler, Bounty Hunter and each has its share of problems, but the DE I find has got to be the worst. Please Fixed!!
This one:
http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=droid_engineer&message.id=32086
Sintrosi's State of the Profession is evidentally not part of the discussion.
http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=droid_engineer&message.id=34117#M34117
Thunderheart wrote:
please take the time you need to get a decent response to us. No one will commit suicide if we don't hear today.
Maybe you folks are misinterpreting me. There is no big post waiting in the wings here, I am gathering information to find out where we go from here. There was enough resistence to the rough plan to warrant reassessing things and thats what Im doing.
The information is on "input", not "output" atm...
Well maybe you should read Xahns posts on the discussion board then, he taughted all this great info you were gathering for us. Maybe you guys should get your stories straight before postiong ?
1. I agree with what Sintrosi has said.
2. I think the DE plan is flawed in many respects. We DON'T need an influx of players taking up DE just to have the ability to use the combat droids. Other combat professions need to have appropriately matched droid certifications tailored to the functionality of the class. The highest level combat droids should not be useable by everyone. That being said, there should be at least 1 combat droid that only DE's can use (I know - a bit contradictory... but if the certs are spread out amongst the professions... there's no need for someone that wants to play a combat class but also use droids to be stuck with taking up DE).
I really love the ideas regarding enhancing the functionality of the utility chassis. Medic professions being allowed special access to Surgical droids. Power droids actually being useful for enhancing harvesters. DE's actually being able to call out more than 1 droid so we can heal our own droids (WHAT A CONCEPT!!). There are some nuggets of goodness in the DE plan [tm].
One last thing I'd like to mention before I end my post... the BEST comments I've seen in the majority of posts throughout this thread advise you to READ THE STICKY POSTS in our forum. Seriously... everything is here. Our bug list faithfully maintained by Gorantoth. The great idea threads. Sintrosi's state of DE post. Just spend a bit of time here.
So, priorities (imho):
- Fix our bugs... please.
- Add effective combat droids and droid certs
- Add more usefulness to our utility droids (what the heck is the vision for theBLL anyway?!?!)
Thanks for reading, TH!
DE doesnt need to be a starwars answer to CH, it can be a artisan profession but give the masters their dues and give them some breaks.
Once you make drois on par with wild mobs then you will be going in the right direction, then pet wars can be droid wars...