Droid Engineer Archive

One of the things the Devs and Designers of the game did to help along the player driven economy of this game is to make certain classes dependant on others for their livelyhood. Sure most of the time you can travel down another skill tree and pick up what you need to be a solo character but its still more grinding and takes you away from being able to participate in the combat elements of the game (which are a fun distraction from grinding).

Some of these interdependencies for the Droid Engineer are the Power Core units for power droids that are made bu the Architect. If power droids are ever useful in some way, for instance charging your own droids or charging vehicles in the future then this will provide a transfer of funds between players as intended. Another is the composite armor segments that are used in type 5 and 6 droid armor. Again if the droid armor values are ever fixed so that level 3 and up arent all the same this will create another money shifting inter deoendency for the armorsmith. The master artisan has the only useful one right now in the creation of Control Units, EMM,and GP units and even though I am a master artisan I contract for the parts on a regular basis via a contract vendor in my shop. Another way artisan can work with a droid engineer is to provide Droid Batteries for the DE to sell....the DE can make these on their own but itis a possible money shift...

What all of these have in common is they are all interdependencies between the Artisan,Droid Engineer, Armor Crafter, and Architect. All in the crafting profession or should I say crafting line of skills. What is really needed is a dependency outside this structure where the Droid Engineer can work with another class to provide an item that worlksor where an item outside the crafting skills can be used when crafting a droid to give it some benefit.I believe there is one such item already in the game that couldprovide us with another way for money to go fromDE's to another class... that item is ...Zypolene Droid Lubricant

Zypolene Droid Lubricant is a spice that privides the following boost to players that drink it ...

+250 Health, +250 Strength, +250 Constitution for 10 minutes

My proposal is that either this substance be an optional item in droid construction (which benefits the DE and the Smuggler) or it be something applied to a droid like power that gives the droid temporary boosts (Benefits the Smuggler more than the DE). Here are my two suggestions in a little more detail.

Applied Durring Construction: This would be addedto a droid chassis in the cointsruction phase. The result of adding lubricant would be a permenent increase to a droids HAM score of 20%... Result 810 HAM Probot becomes a 972 HAM probot permanently.

Applied From Radial Menu: The droid would receive a temporary boost to HAM of 20% for 30 minutes. The droid would not have a down time and could be boosted again as soon as the lubricant wore off. Result 810 HAM Probot becomes a 972 HAM probot for 30 minute stretches.

Well there ya have it ... maybee a little stream of conciousness going on in my reasoning but I think that this would be something cool and I for one would make my droids with the stuff and would certainly carry if in my store if useful for droids in some way.

Thanx

--Dolomite

Droid buffs, sounds good but unrealistic imo.. Granted I would love to have em though

Anything that would make an improvement and enchance interaction with other classes would be welcomed. There should be some interdependancy amongst different classes. What if we could geta componentfrom weaponsmiths to give better firepower to probots? We already need armorsmiths to provide for usin order to produce high level armor.

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Panatlee Thillik'arzk
Master Droid Engineer/Sniper/Master Artisan
Naboo, Lowca
South of Theed at -4283, 3379
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