Droid Engineer Archive

What HAMs are you all creating for certain droids?

I'm especialy curios about the Probot, as I don't seem to be able to get it over 820 no matter how much I experiment with any resources...

Experimentation effect was effectively cut in half with the publish, or at least those are the numbers I'm hearing. This is supposedly how the system was intended to work but the Devs left it so long we figuredthe buggedsystem was what was intended.

Best I've heard of or seen so far is an 827 HAM deed, which is, of course, an 820 HAM probot when tamed. It was reported that the droid was at 99% effectiveness, so there isn't a lot of room for three more points and an attempt at finding out if the cap is simply rounded.

Yeah Rho, thats what I was afraid of

Yep, I'm making 99% effective advanced probots and getting 827 out of them during creation... and yes, it still comes out as 820 when tamed.

got a 85% and 825 ham still came out as 820 :/

Someone else pointed this out: DE's are prone to chronic underselling because experimentation is meaningless and leads to cookie cutter droids. Experimented motive systems don't make droids faster; better droid brains don't make them more responsive; and so on.

The only thing it makes a difference on is Crafting Station modules and even then the jury is out on what that means. You can also experiment low lvl modules to make them a bit higher; say, a lvl 4 item storage experimented has more stroage slots than a non-experimented. But if you're using lvl 6s the whole way, it doesn't matter much.

So one DEs droid is the same as another DEs droid when loaded with the same modules(except for crafting stations).I wish we were more like weapon smiths and armorsmithies. That way we could hawk droids by their stats (as viewable in the deed!). This serves all market segments well. Allowing us to make cheapo droids with cheapo resources/components and vice versa with the high end goods.

The new experimentation points are nice, but apart from making +11 crafting stations, they don't help much.