Droid Engineer Archive
Thread: A few words about a crafter only profession
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DarthBukai
Fri Jan 23, 2004 6:31 am
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Many have stated that DEs are crafters and should not be Droid Handlers a la Creature Handler clones. This opinion works great when you have items to craft that almost everyone wants/needs. Example: Weapon and Armor crafters make things that few people go without (especially on harvester runs). Unfortunately we are in a far different situation.
Most of what we make sells for under 50k and never degrades. There is little repeat business except in people upgrading the best droid they can afford and then it's usually the last droid they buy. This severely limits our ability to make consistant sales.
It seems that so far, the Devs have proven their inability to add functionality and fix existing bugs. All I can remember getting is a probot nerf and bugged colorization. All they can seem to program with any reliability is combat. So now we get to the argument of adding/not-adding combat functionality to DEs.
The way the Devs seem to be leaning is to take "Crafter-only" opnion as the majority (though I would argue they are wrong) and pushing for a separate Handling class.
We now have one of three paths being arbitrarily decided for us:
1) Build combat models and hand them to a new Handling class.
2) Build combat models and Handle them ourselves.
The original preference of "Build Combat models and hand them to everyone or almost everyone" is roundly scrapped by the Devs as a freebie like CL15 pets. They don't want a repeat of Koster's pet fetish.
Personally, since I believe we are weak as a crafting class, we should take on the Handling ourselves. Controlling droids should be a no-brainer for one who builds them. I would also like to see high level certs given to Squad Leaders and Bounty Hunters but mostly I would like to control creations far superior to Probots. CHs are able to obtain pets independently of BEs so theres precedent for this form of hybrid.
Most of what we make sells for under 50k and never degrades. There is little repeat business except in people upgrading the best droid they can afford and then it's usually the last droid they buy. This severely limits our ability to make consistant sales.
It seems that so far, the Devs have proven their inability to add functionality and fix existing bugs. All I can remember getting is a probot nerf and bugged colorization. All they can seem to program with any reliability is combat. So now we get to the argument of adding/not-adding combat functionality to DEs.
The way the Devs seem to be leaning is to take "Crafter-only" opnion as the majority (though I would argue they are wrong) and pushing for a separate Handling class.
We now have one of three paths being arbitrarily decided for us:
1) Build combat models and hand them to a new Handling class.
2) Build combat models and Handle them ourselves.
The original preference of "Build Combat models and hand them to everyone or almost everyone" is roundly scrapped by the Devs as a freebie like CL15 pets. They don't want a repeat of Koster's pet fetish.
Personally, since I believe we are weak as a crafting class, we should take on the Handling ourselves. Controlling droids should be a no-brainer for one who builds them. I would also like to see high level certs given to Squad Leaders and Bounty Hunters but mostly I would like to control creations far superior to Probots. CHs are able to obtain pets independently of BEs so theres precedent for this form of hybrid.
N0RAX
Fri Jan 23, 2004 6:41 am
#2
The Devs did a lot of jumping to conclusions. Back when we had the poll where the outcome was "pure crafter" there was no mention of a Droid Handler profession.
Basically we were asked "Do DEs want to be the only ones to use the new combat droids?" So of course we said "No!" Most of us want everyone to use them. We were never consulted about anything since.
-norax
Basically we were asked "Do DEs want to be the only ones to use the new combat droids?" So of course we said "No!" Most of us want everyone to use them. We were never consulted about anything since.
-norax
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