Droid Engineer Archive

Hey all, I'm not a DE but I do own a mouse droid and I'm wondering how can I tell when it needs to be recharged?There's not meter for bateries that I can see. Thanks.

When you try to tell it to do something it will give a "low power". All droids last about 45 minutes before needing recharged or storing.

Have fun and may the force be with you.

Alright then does storing a robot recharge it or will I still need a droid battery?

It will indeed recharge when stored, and in just a minute or so.

Okay, I'm a newbie to droids and any kind of SWG pets. Where can I find a list of commands that you use on any of the droids (plus any of the creatures and/or faction pets)? Thanks in advance!

the commands for droids and faction pets appear under their radial menu (and in the datapad when they've been taught the command). As for CH's, I don't know. I get my pets trained already, and just check the datapad to see what they know and the commands are.

Thanks! I haven't yet had a pet of any kind, so this is helpful info.

I don't want to be trolling your boards, so if I could get the following two questions answered I would appreciate it:

1. What is the deal with droids and losing customization? Why does my droid do that and how can I prevent it?

2. My droid is a post-patch version which was colored by a Master DE. Pulled it out today several times and each time it changes to a new color. Why and how can it be stopped?

Thanks for your assistance.

1) You can't prevent it. If your droid is painted, it's paintjob will fade.

2) Paint your droid.

Sorry, I cannot give you an answer to make you happy, only an answer that's accurate.

2) The entire droid and all of its subcomponents must be made after the patch for it to be stable. It sounds to me like your Droid Engineer used pre-patch components to build the droid. However, painting the droid should make it permanent.

While I appreciate the two responses so far, I would actually like a informed answer. To say that the paint job will fade is pointless without some sort of fact to back it up. Further, why would the paint scheme change with each calling of the droid from the datapad? I mean, it changes to purple, pink, etc. so color fading is not even close to an answer here.

Why does it say "Your droid's customization has faded a little" or whatever that says? Why is it fading and how can I stop it?

I know there are DE's out there who know the real answers and are not just spouting off. Thank you for your assistance.

1. Droids have a maximum of 20 customazation uses be for the paint job fades. Each time you pull a droid out of your data pad it uses 1 customization point and when the counter hits 0 the customization (paint job) fades completly. Then you need a new paint job the number 20 was chosen by the DEVs, who knows why. It can't be prevented though you do not have to have you droid painted.

2. The color changing thing is a bug with customization on some droids and I have not heard of any way to fix this. Ask the DEVs why they did droid customization the way they did.

Hope that helps.

Waren Xim

Novice Droid Engineer

Corellia, Radiant Galaxy

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Waren_Xim wrote:

2. The color changing thing is a bug with customization on some droids and I have not heard of any way to fix this. Ask the DEVs why they did droid customization the way they did.

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this is not compleatlya bug it is thatthe "base color = None" but the game needs a color so it picks randomones. If you paint it the colors will stick intell the droids 20 customazation uses are gone then it goes back to the base "unknown/random" color

if you get it panted and it wont stick ( data base problem? have them paint it 3 - 4 times but store it in between each paintingfor 5 - 10 seconds that should fix a "color stobern" droid.