Droid Engineer Archive

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Drashk wrote:

I've got two different items that I am in the process of working right now and had a mjor set back yesterday with my computer taking a crapper on me. I've pulled all of the questions that have been asked so far and will get right to work on the list as soon as I finish the first item that was requested of me, which was..... *Low Power*

/target self;/tellpet Recharge;/chuckle

I'll check up on this thread one more time after I finish my first project and will pull any new questions and post the list either later tonight, or tomorrow. Sorry about the delay, but I had to reformat yesterday and its taking me a little bit to get every thing tweaked out just the way I like it.

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See...he's not only a DC advocate...he's also a.....*GASP*....Windows User! That's it....someone get the tar and feathers!

Q 1) Could a few Charged Droids be made for us to sell that does a few Low Level Basic Profession skills/commands (i.e. the Survey droid, The Tanning Droid {harv a corpse}, or a Forage Droid) ?

Q 2) Power droids would be very usefull if they could power Harvs and Factories. Let the quality of the Power Core Unit be a main determination in the total one-time-filled power capicitor of the droid. We'd also need to see that amount of power in order to determine the droid's deed's price.

Q 3) could you make the uber-uber Combat Droid a M. DE Certed droid and use over 50k in resources to justify letting the droid take 1/5 of the HAM from a Kryat Dragon?

1. When will droids with personality be nameable?

2. When will droids with personality talk?

3. When will the LE repair droid be able to repair and other related stupid mistakes fixed?

1. What plans are there to make experimentation matter for droids?

2. What new utility functionality is planned?

3. What plans are there to more fully incorporate droid personalities into the game (I would like to see spontaneous droid comments based on personality)?

1) Who isintended to benefit from the 'Droid Invasion' plan? DEs? Combat characters?

(Or, rather more impertinently...)

2) Hypothetically, if the DE community on the forums declared with one voice that they wouldprefer tohave no combatdroids above CL 10 than for a 'Droid Handler' profession to be implemented, would it still be implemented anyway?

Sorry folks.Real Life Strikes Back

I'll be back on Sunday or Monday to compile the list.

my questions to them: do they realize how little they have done for the DE's in general ? how much most DE's that play the profession quit it or hate it?

I have a new question: How on earth is it impossible to schedule seven or eight weeks in order to do what we've requested since the game went live? We've been screaming louder and harder for useful droids and modules than we have for combat droids, and our pleas appear to have been swept under the proverbial rug.

This reminds me of the old developer joke: Go code something while I go find out what they want it to do...

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Droid_Engineer_Rho wrote:
I have a new question: How on earth is it impossible to schedule seven or eight weeks in order to do what we've requested since the game went live? We've been screaming louder and harder for useful droids and modules than we have for combat droids, and our pleas appear to have been swept under the proverbial rug.

This reminds me of the old developer joke: Go code something while I go find out what they want it to do...

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I want to trade one of my questions for this one. No "more" development time for 2004 for the DE, yet we haven't had anything we asked for yet?

Can we have a factory module for droids? To keep things fair for the artisans make it work slower. Maybe at 1/4 the speed of a regular factory. It also won't work unless it's out, so that's limiting too.

Survey modules would be nice too. Make them expensive, or even one use and burn-out or something.

It would be nice to be able to store waypoints in droids, and make it so that droids compartments can be set to public. That would facilitate using them for some fun events, like treasure hunts.

And, of course, combat droids. But how about making them faction items, and faction-point expensive? Give crafters a reason to get into the GCW.

O-Jen

My questions:

1) Since DE takes the most xp to get anywhere, why is it that Master Droid Engineer does not reward us in any way?

2) DE requires Master Artisan parts as other proffessions do. I have tried to work without have MA and it is proving most difficult so i am now thinking of retraining MA. This will diminish my chances at have a good combat ability and i believe that DE should get some kind of combat droid. Not an uber all powerful droid, but maybe somthing like a DL 20 droid dekar. We understand droids better than any of the proffessions and i believe we should get some recogntion for this.

3) Can we please please please get a droid dekar!!

Well the last days have been a roller coaster ride for us DEs. First it seemed that TH had finally heard our screems, then we get a hard slap in the face. DE has to remain the one profession that is not allowed to affect the game in any way because it would be unbalanced.