Droid Engineer Archive

-assign 'droid level points' to every chassis type and module type.

-limit droid level for non-de's to be X, for de's be 4X.

-allow people to have as many droids out as they want, as long as they fall inside droid level limit.

-allow players to own as many droids as their datapads can hold. droids cannot be stored in a droid's datapad.

-add weapon module slots to all droid chassis. in these slots the DE can put weapons made by weaponsmiths..giving the droid the ability to fire that weapon once every 4 seconds (regardless of weapon speed stats). of course, heavy weapons, charged weapons are excluded. only rifles/pistols/carbines can be used.

-make certain droid chassis have inherent special abilities (aka power droid chassis has power without having to add a power module, le repair can repair other droids without needing a repair module, etc etc).

now, as a non-de i would like to be able to pull out 1 'support' droid (crafting station,storage,data storage...these modules each 'fill' the droid level points up to near the max of a non-de) or 1 'tank' combat droid (one with good armor rating and a weapon loaded on it).. or several 'disposable' combat droids (no armor, very low ham bars (like, 50 ham), 1 weapon) to increase my firepower... or a couple of 'droid support' droids (technically a droid with repair ability, a droid with power ability, a droid with medical rating) that i can use to support a friend's combat droid by repairing it in combat just like i can heal my ch's graul with my pet stims, or powering it up or giving my group's medic some boost with medical rating on my droid.

the droid engineer will be able to pull out one or 2 combat droids and perhaps 1 support droid (or viceversa) and use it in the same way the CH's use their pets and pet stims.

in short, the DE should be like the CH proffession, but with non-de's having broader access to droids than animal pets.