Droid Engineer Archive

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Shian_Tavkin wrote:

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Jenden wrote:
R3's can have crafting mods just like always, you just have to put them in combat socket clusters instead of regular socket clusters. No droids lost any functionality, and the probots even gained some.

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Probots gaining functionality is a very very subjective judgement Jenden.

They gained some and they lost a lot, on balance I say they lost more than they gained, but you already know I think that don't you.

Probot didlose functionality, especially (but not only) if you define functionality as usefullness. It is now less usefull in general, but I will concede it is differently useful as well. There is no balance in favour though, quite the reverse.

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Guess I should have been a bit more specific, was referring to the post about some droids not being able to have crafting stations (confusion over needing to use the combat clusters). Only talking about utility. I know they lost functionality in terms of combat.

Jedimy Crickett !

I challenge anyone to come up with a licencedmovie or book precedent for personal combat droids (other video games and comics withstanding)

All you continuity sensors ! Well any way in the one very early very popular original star wars books that I read. A Han Solo trilogy, there was This personal droid of Han's and Chewbacca he had another little data droid hidden in his chest. He was just some stupid utility droid. BUT, On this planet they went to this guy had his own personal Combat 'Battle bot' thing. The plot eventually involved the Combat droid and the utility droid duking it out. and with the covert survelance abilities of the little data droid the utility droid won.

So, Yes, Tommy, there ARE droids in star wars. But LIGHTEN UP.

While were at it,, as far as Jedi Continuity.

I watched the movies Right ?

I Can Tell ! those movies were TEAMING (means alots) with 'Hidden' Jedi. They werent on the screen, they were hidding helping in there little ways behind the scenes. doing Jabbas Theme park and Corvellian Corvette, Etc. Why were they Hidden ? So, they didnt get PKed by Bounty Hunters !!! (Just like in SW,G !)

SO, LIGHTEN UP !!!

DROID HANDLER PROFESSION

DROID HANDLER PROFESSION

DROID HANDLER PROFESSION

DROID HANDLER PROFESSION

DROID HANDLER PROFESSION

Go to the devs and say we made a mistake.

The CH and BE model works.

Combat droids are useful and desirable.

Add the droid handler profession.

What do you have to lose?

not that i am particuliarly loving of all the attn DEs have gotten since day 1...but...my r3 kicks ass, i played around with it and im smokin mean critters way beyond the range of a crafter or even a med lvl fight type, yes i havta use repair kits but my r3 was on melee mode i pistoled and was basically beating up cl 50 critters just me and the droid. maybe this isnt super duper but its alot better then before this patch, and ill admit my prenerf probot can do it all(craft, fight, storage,data, repair...)but that was never intended anyways. dont get me wrong i expect to see more from the devs but i suggest all DE's take a R3 with 500CR or 600CR out and play with him they are not as terrible as you would believe (espcially for thosewhom are cynicsfor what devs have done-or not donewithDE)

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TheRealTK421 wrote:

• Jammed Med Centers and people getting stuck into camps (to heal wounds)
  
  


• All crafters camped around private crafting stations in their house (since they have no mobility)
  
  


• No way to 'front-load' crafting of manufacturing schematics for insertion into your next set of factory runs (i.e. you have to make it, insert, rinse/repeat...)
  
  


• Inability to craft higher-level anything in the wild(or experiment on it)...unless you happen to be with a Ranger that can drop a higher level camp. And, then, you only get a Food/Chem station.
  
  


• No way to prevent item decay on incap/death without facing insurance prices. (Item storage)
  
  


• No way to lessen chance of being successfully scanned when carrying contraband. (Item storage)
  
  


• No way to augment personal character storage (if you happen to be nearly full).
  
  


• etc.
  

/bow

Respectfully,

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