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This is exactly the situation I dreaded. Basically nothing except their own Droid Handler will be acceptable.

I'm going to bow out of DE now, and re-use those skill points somewhere else. It only takes 2 weeks to grind to MDE, so maybe I'll be back if things change, but theres no point holding onto the points for 6 months.

All the best to those who stick it out, but I've just had enough,

Fool me once, shame on SOE,

Fool me every month without fail, Drop the skills!

<<It's still "Droids Rebuilt" (at least that's the name). It's all about utility, which we asked for when DH got dropped. They heard us say we wanted more utility too, so that's what Publish 8 is supposed to be all about for us.>>

Publish 8 isn't "all about utility" at all. There will be no harvester-checking droids, there will be no surveying droids, there will be only an "Entertainer" Droid with 10 *possible* modules for different effects, from which the Entertainers will have to choose the six they want at a maximum to put in an R3 (gee, hope they remember to make the entertainer modules "combat capable" lol), and a barker droid. Boy, is that going to make today's Coronet and Theed starport entrances look tame! Half a million barker droids running around with their messages spamming on top of the AFK @$$holes spamming! Nice touch, Devs!

Wouldn't it be just terrible if someone put hella spams on all five of his droids, then called them out one at a time, ran out across a server line, called another one, had it follow him back into town, rinsed and repeated til all 5 of them were spamming at once? Then shuttled out to another starport and did it all again? hehe Serve the Devs right, and us too, for bending over and spreading 'em for a freaking barker droid as a "treat" to keep us happy 'til after Space Expansion when they MIGHT look further into our mile-long list of bugs, fixes and ideas.

Well, I'm learning CH with my extra points, and if the DE profession, which I joined SWG to do in the first place, doesn't pick up, it may be you'll be kissing my sorry @$$ good-bye too!

I LOVE Droids! There is so much potential there! This isn't just another shoot-em-up, who's-got-the-FOTM-template MMOG (forget the RP, that's nada any more). Oh wait, yes it is, it's all about the FOTM template, NOT Droids, which the REAL Star Wars was ALL about! Sheesh!

/rantoff

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Kniol wrote:

and a barker droid. Boy, is that going to make today's Coronet and Theed starport entrances look tame! Half a million barker droids running around with their messages spamming on top of the AFK @$$holes spamming! Nice touch, Devs!

Wouldn't it be just terrible if someone put hella spams on all five of his droids, then called them out one at a time, ran out across a server line, called another one, had it follow him back into town, rinsed and repeated til all 5 of them were spamming at once? Then shuttled out to another starport and did it all again? hehe Serve the Devs right, and us too, for bending over and spreading 'em for a freaking barker droid as a "treat" to keep us happy 'til after Space Expansion when they MIGHT look further into our mile-long list of bugs, fixes and ideas.

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LOL!!!!!!!!! I was thinking something similar to this last night... Generally, it is always the same people spamming over and over, so I just add them to my ignore list to cut down on the spam.

Question: How do you add a barker droid to your ignore list?

It's bad enough that I have to dodge Rancors, Fambaas, and Tortons named ("Visit-My-Armor-Shop-South") while trying to get in and out of the starport, now I have to listen to their future counterpart (the barker droid) talk as well. I am pretty disgruntled about the barker droid...

I REALLY wish they would reinvent the barker droid to be a tag-along vendor that merchants could bring along with them. Even better...make it like a bazaar terminal: You can use the droid to search and buy that person's wares, but would have to visit the person's shop to actually pick the item up. Anything is better than worthless droids that do nothing but spam...

I can see why the Dev's said "No" to Soldan's proposal, it was a really great idea, but I can see where the Dev's are coming from. However, to just toss it out and "It's gone for good, **edit** n00b" pretty much translates too "Darn it, stop being smart, we'll fix this profession how we want to, when we want to, until then shut up and be happy with what we decided to throw you." They could have just said what really was blaringly impossible, and it could have been revised. With Soldan/DE revisions so far,I can honestly say we don't lack creative/productive talent; perhaps too creative and too productive? Watch your back Soldan, you might get recruited or knocked off!

Message Edited by SkyeDarkangel on 04-08-2004 03:42 AM

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