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StrayCat1212

Mon Mar 01, 2004 12:40 pm

I used to be one of the premier pharmaceutical suppliers on Intrepid. Stim and Wound kit components for droids are falling in line with stims and wound kits that are made for pets and players. I know we have alot of parts to deal with as droid engineers already, but arguing over this particular part of our broken profession with Dev is not what we should be doing. We should be channelling our energy more towards the damage output of Combat Modules, HAM for our droids, etc. I think if we continue to bring this point up, they might reduce the number of components and not fix something else that is more important.

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Jenden

Mon Mar 01, 2004 2:50 pm

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I'd have to agree here. I did a pretty long stint as a doc and this pretty much matches up for any other stimpacks. From what I know of BE pet stims those are along the same lines as ours.

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Tal-N

Mon Mar 01, 2004 3:15 pm

#3

I don't understand you droid engineers sometimes. First you complain about not having marketable goods and very little return custom, so now you have what will become a very popular line of items which will be able to susstain a DE and you're complaining about it. Do you want to make money or not here? When petstims were added for BE there was alot of complaints about people moaning that they were turning the profession into vets. Now if you asked any bio-engineer what is the most profitable type of items they'll almost all tell you that petcare is.

You might resist this at first but just wait to see how well they will susstain you.

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Malitevv

Mon Mar 01, 2004 3:17 pm

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/agree

let the stim issue go. the stim packs for droids are a huge boost to the profession no matter how complicated they are to make.

I would go a step further though and say to not even worry as much about the combat potential of the combat modules just yet.

What we need to push down the devs throats and make them swallow is the fact that having combat and utility module slots be completely interchangable in the combat capable droids is stupid. combat modules can be scaled up or down in power fairly easily at any time later. but if they don't put some differentiation between the slots themselves in there now, it isn't going to happen later.

I'm talking about the fact that the probot takes 5 slots and that utility modules can be put into all of those slots. If they keep it like that, then the R2 droid becomes as useless as the Protocol droid.

I personally think that the most important thing is that they have three types of service moduleslots:

Type 1: takes only combat modules

Type 2: takes only utility modules

Type 3: takes combat or utility modules

failing to do this is ridiculous. having some droids listed as "combat capable" and some droids lists as "not combat capable" is insufficient. that combat/non-combat distinction needs to be pushed down to the slot level. The individual slots need to specifically say which types of module they can take. if all combat slots can also take utility modules then the best combat droid will always be the best utility droid and the utility droids will ALL be useless.

The most obvious example of this is the fact that the current TC probot completely obsoletes the advanced R2. That's just so ridiculously stupid that I find it almost incomprehensible.

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Malitevv

Mon Mar 01, 2004 3:20 pm

#5

Tal-N wrote:

I don't understand you droid engineers sometimes. First you complain about not having marketable goods and very little return custom, so now you have what will become a very popular line of items which will be able to susstain a DE and you're complaining about it. Do you want to make money or not here? When petstims were added for BE there was alot of complaints about people moaning that they were turning the profession into vets. Now if you asked any bio-engineer what is the most profitable type of items they'll almost all tell you that petcare is.

You might resist this at first but just wait to see how well they will susstain you.

you don't understand. the stims are fine. but they are the only thing good about this patch. the combat module system is poorly thought out and if it goes live as is its net affect will be to make yet another of our droid chassis' completely useless.

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