Droid Engineer Archive
Thread: Farewell, my friends...
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DarthRoe
Tue Apr 19, 2005 10:59 am
#1
Many of you know me from my dedication to droid crafting since the launch of SWG in June of 2003. Efon’s Droids has been my passion for nearly two years, but the time has come to hang it up. I stuck it out as long as was bearable, but the time demands of a large-scale crafter (and mayor of a large city) got to be much greater than was enjoyable.
I had held out some hope that there was fun in this game on the horizon. The CURB was coming, and a new expansion included cybernetic parts that I assumed would have to go through droid engineers. A vendor search that allowed global results without undercutting established crafters seemed like it may even increase sales. Those things that could have been a positive for the game have shown themselves to be the bane of my SWG gameplay.
The CURB is a flawed and ugly re-imagining of the game I’ve played since its beta form in early ’03. Beyond the significant cosmetic downgrade, so many things are broken by drastically new rule sets that I want no part of their year-long (or more) cleanup for crafters that will surely follow the CURB rollout.
Cybernetics from the wookiee expansion, which only made sense to be DE built and doctor installed, were announced as a NPC quest reward in a continuing trend of removing the player-based economy from the game. On its face, it was a small slight to crafters, but the big picture reveals a bleak future for crafter/merchant types.
The global vendor search has killed my non-BH droid sales nearly completely. I went from a million-credit-a-day business that had healthy sales in combat, surgical and BH droids to a daily income of a quarter of that which is almost exclusively BH droids. Newbie DEs sell inferior-rated droids at a third of the cost of my droids, and I refuse to lower quality to sell at their price.
I’ll be in and out of the game and forums for the next week until my subscription expires on April 26. To all my fellow droid crafters, I bid farewell.
Message Edited by DarthRoe on 04-19-2005 11:04 AM
Straker_Atrella
Tue Apr 19, 2005 11:27 am
#2
No, seriously no. Both you and Gnome need to stay dangit. Losing you is bad, losing him too is even worse. Not only are you a respected DE from a knowledge point of view, but you always have good input as well.
Trust me I know what you are feeling. It sucks, I can't imagine what I would do if I didn't have my combat toons to play with. Droid sales are way way down, due to poor deed information, people pay 90% less for Droids that frankly suck, they think they are getting quality but they are not.
It sucks that you are quitting, please make sure you fill out that exit poll really well.
We will keep fighting the good fight in the hopes you will be back.
Jenden
Tue Apr 19, 2005 11:57 am
#3
I'm sorry to see you go Roe. We had our fair share of disagreements, but thats just because we are both passionate about this profession.
RasalTheWise
Tue Apr 19, 2005 2:21 pm
#4
Ah, another landmark throws in the towel. I guess it's inevitable for all of us to do it at one point, but it's always sad to see it happen. You've always had passionate input in the DE community, and it will be missed. Safe travels in all you do. Come back and visit sometime. 
Wirebiter
Tue Apr 19, 2005 2:59 pm
#5
Take care and thanks for all the help you put into the community.
TheRealTK421
Tue Apr 19, 2005 3:49 pm
#6
I always hate to see a fellow brother leave...even if he IS my competition.
I hope you'll keep an eye on SWG and consider a time when it will be fun to come back and continue the path of droid 'goodness'.
Ah....a sad day this is....
/bow
Most Respectfully,
I hope you'll keep an eye on SWG and consider a time when it will be fun to come back and continue the path of droid 'goodness'.
Ah....a sad day this is....
/bow
Most Respectfully,
Gron_DM
Wed Apr 20, 2005 12:12 am
#7
Hope some later SWG installed lures you back...You made allot fo great contrubutions to the DE's and SWG (super website!!). It will be a shame to see you go :/
DarthRoe
Wed Apr 20, 2005 9:07 am
#8
Thanks, guys.
I'll occassionally monitor the boards to see if crafters ever get attention again, other than ending up making them all NPC. Too close to call now.
I'll occassionally monitor the boards to see if crafters ever get attention again, other than ending up making them all NPC. Too close to call now.
Cabo-Wabo
Wed Apr 20, 2005 10:07 am
#9
brother I'm right there with ya, its a sad day, already cancelled my crafter/mules, mde 7-30-03 to 4/18/05 rip...
DarthRoe wrote:
Many of you know me from my dedication to droid crafting since the launch of SWG in June of 2003. Efon’s Droids has been my passion for nearly two years, but the time has come to hang it up. I stuck it out as long as was bearable, but the time demands of a large-scale crafter (and mayor of a large city) got to be much greater than was enjoyable.
I had held out some hope that there was fun in this game on the horizon. The CURB was coming, and a new expansion included cybernetic parts that I assumed would have to go through droid engineers. A vendor search that allowed global results without undercutting established crafters seemed like it may even increase sales. Those things that could have been a positive for the game have shown themselves to be the bane of my SWG gameplay.
The CURB is a flawed and ugly re-imagining of the game I’ve played since its beta form in early ’03. Beyond the significant cosmetic downgrade, so many things are broken by drastically new rule sets that I want no part of their year-long (or more) cleanup for crafters that will surely follow the CURB rollout.
Cybernetics from the wookiee expansion, which only made sense to be DE built and doctor installed, were announced as a NPC quest reward in a continuing trend of removing the player-based economy from the game. On its face, it was a small slight to crafters, but the big picture reveals a bleak future for crafter/merchant types.
The global vendor search has killed my non-BH droid sales nearly completely. I went from a million-credit-a-day business that had healthy sales in combat, surgical and BH droids to a daily income of a quarter of that which is almost exclusively BH droids. Newbie DEs sell inferior-rated droids at a third of the cost of my droids, and I refuse to lower quality to sell at their price.
I’ll be in and out of the game and forums for the next week until my subscription expires on April 26. To all my fellow droid crafters, I bid farewell.
Message Edited by DarthRoe on 04-19-2005 11:04 AM
Message Edited by Cabo-Wabo on 04-20-2005 01:47 PM
Handsnake
Wed Apr 20, 2005 10:40 am
#10
DarthRoe wrote:
I’ll be in and out of the game and forums for the next week until my subscription expires on April 26. To all my fellow droid crafters, I bid farewell.
Message Edited by DarthRoe on 04-19-2005 11:04 AM
Your post could have been taken directly from my brain except for the date on my cancelled account is May 10th. I'm not signing in after May 4th.
I, like you, went from 1 to 1.5 million a day to around 100k. I've tested the CU for over 2 weeks and know too much about the shortcomings of stapling a level system on top of a skill system.
I only hope that they eventually remove it, but I'm not going to go through the waiting period while not having any fun at all.
Cabo-Wabo wrote:
brother I'm right there with ya, its a sad day, already cancelled my crafter/mules, mde 7-30-03 to 4/18/05 rip
Sounds like Lowca's going to be missing most of the Master Droid Engineers with stable stock. I know of at least two other pro MDEs tossing in the towel besides you and me.
I really hope they pull the damage multiplier/reduction level thing out completely, but I fear they've used it as a core concept too deeply to do that. But one can always hope that in a few months, they'll pull their heads out and fix it.
'Till then, so long from me as well.
Straker_Atrella
Wed Apr 20, 2005 11:08 am
#11
Jenden,
DE's are used to pain, some may call us Massochists. We also tend to be more level headed and less impulsivethen others. The sanity of our boards normally can attest to this. The fact that so many DE's are abandoning not only the profession but the game should be setting off serious alarm bells.
I'm sure you are passing this information on already though.
11710
Wed Apr 20, 2005 2:45 pm
#12
Awwwww dude dont go, i like reading your posts you always say good stuff. plus YOUR WEBSITE IS AWSOME!!!
DarthRoe
Wed Apr 20, 2005 4:07 pm
#13
11710 wrote:
Awwwww dude dont go, i like reading your posts you always say good stuff. plus YOUR WEBSITE IS AWSOME!!!
Thanks, I'll probably leave the site up so DEs can continue borrowing from it.
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