Droid Engineer Archive

Just posted on the annoucements. Publish 19 has NOTHING for DEs. If you saw something for DEs, please post. Let's hope Publish 20 is more DE friendly.

I didn't see anything either.

Personally, I'd just like to see the armor issue on droids fixed. I didn't see anyone post/ask about that on the Pub 19 discussion (or any posts about it in the items leading up to Publish 19). Not that I've read every single post.

I don't understand why some of these 'little' things can't be fixed. If I were to give my customers a broken product, I would have to fix it (plus get yelled at by my boss) in a timely manner. If I constantly sent out bad product, I would be fired.

No one is perfect, I make my share of mistakes, but I get them fixed. If they can fix the lights going on and off, why not the armor?

I suppose each Publish does fix something in the game. I wonder if they could stop breaking things at the same time?

Note: I have no idea what it is like to be a Dev (where various pressures come from etc).

Sometimes I tell myself it's just a game.

Sometimes I tell myself it's a game that I pay for on a monthly basis.

Sorry for the rant.

Player of: Kalara Salio (Master Artisan, Master DE, Nearing Master Pilot, Slowly moving through Rifleman)

You didn't rant. You just stated our perdictament. For some unknown reason (I don't mean to be rude), candles are more important than droids. We get CL 30 droids that die because they can't use armor. One fix leads to 5 bugs. Although I'm sure the Devs work hard to make the game bug-free, more hotfixes would be welcome. Not for candles, but more like the Clone armor quest fix or the Kashyyk Space mission bug. This thread my seem like I'm whining, but I think the Devs need to step up their game. Am I right?

We just need to except the fact we are the backend of crafting professions, second fiddle to BE. Combat professions and most crafting professions get priority over us. At least it has seemed this way since i been playing, which goes as far back as beta 2. For this this to change, itwould be some sort of miracle.

On a side note. What is this Scavenger droid i have been hearing about? Will this be a new droid schematic we will get?

I think the end is near for me as a DE.

i can only agree....hell of a way to be brought down...

lets put a positive spin on it... nothing was nerfed or dumbed down.

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Dariane_Kamutsovy wrote:

Can any DE confirm if this has been seen on droids on TCs?

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Found, confirmed, and /bugged on the first day that it hit TC-Prime.

Its a conspiracy I tell you. They want all the good crafters to quit so they can introduce NPC vendors. Okay, maybe not, but I too am amazed at the apparent apathy toward DE. Allow me to clarify.... "Apathy" is the right word. We dont KNOW what they think about DE because they wont POST about it. So then they ARE apathetic about our profession. Who are they NOT apathetic about? jedi. Its obvious that jedi are their golden children. Thats where their big bucks are at, and so its all they care about.

What is needed is a Dev strike. If we can get most or all of the SWG Devs to walk out unless LucasArts gets the f**k away from this game,we will never see the improvements we deserve after 2 friggin years. SOE seems to run EQ pretty well. Theres only one reason I can think of that SWG has so many problems.... LucasArts. But thats fine. I play EVE Online too, and it very well may take over for SWG. Crafting there isn't as complicated, but they have a decent player-run economy. And theres always A Tale in the Desert. Their craftign blows away SWG, but its MUCH slower, and no combat.

One developer posted over in the CH forums and acknowledged the CL 1(0) problem, and claims a fix is in the works. Since the pet code is the same as droid code now, expect a fix for both at the same time.