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Completely agree. I have never had a problem making money as a DE. With the new changes I will probably double my bank account (currently sitting at 15 mil).

Oh.. I agree... However, I dont make that much money... Why? because of one simple personal problem....

I flat refuse to manufacture and sell, to the general public, the current crop of "combatant Astromechs and LE droids." I personally think they are a blatant perversion of the original Star Wars Theme. I have, to date, produced a total of ONE of each type.. and I gave them to my business partner. I am not sure that even he is using them as combatants, as he has repeatedly requested Probots instead of replacements for the Droid abominations.

However, if everyone else want's to sell them... more power to them.

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Boy, I completely agree with you. It's all about marketing. If you're too busy telling your customers what droids can't do instead of what they can do, you shouldn't be surprised that you're not a millionaire.

I see a lot of people complaining that weaponsmiths and armorsmiths make millions but no one needs droids like they need those items. The difference with weapons and armor is that they're very visible. They practically sell themselves, because an onlooker will watch someone equipped with them deal out tons of damage or take tons of damage and they say, "Ooh, I want that!"

With droids, their functionality is NOT obvious. There's nothing to make someone say, "Ooh, I want that!" A doctor pulls out his medical droid to start buffing people... but there's nothing that makes it apparent to passers-by that the droid is helping him do that. Someone could be storing stuff in their R2, but you can't see him take the stuff out when he does it. A crafter could be sitting in a cantina with is trust astromech at his side, but you can't even tell he's crafting, much less that he's using his droid to experiment on his wares.

Therefore, it's up to us to let people know that these things are available. We have to tell someone about a feature for them to say, "Ooh, I want that!" So we might not be making money hand-over-fist like other professions in the game, but that doesn't mean we don't have the potential to.

Message Edited by OrionsByte on 04-16-2004 11:29 AM

One thing that has never been wrong with the DE profession is our ability to make money, and I have always said as much. In fact, I would be willing to bet I have made more money than most DE's out there - I don't know many MDE's who have made over 100 million credits selling droids.

HOWEVER, that does not fix some of the core issues of usefulness in our profession. Yes, some of the new modules sound nice - but again, some of them don't.

I have to agree 100% with Mabe on this, even if he is my arch rival from accross the planet . I am a Master Architect, and a Master Droid Engineer (recently), and all I hear on those two forums is about how SOE is messing everything up. I will actually be glad if all the Survey Droids do is list out the resources on the planet w/o stats, although it does need to include the type. I run a decently successful business out of Ratava off my Architect items, and will be adding my DE items as soon as I stock pile some resources for them. I constantly use over 500k of resources a week, and thats if I dont have any orders going, I have about as many harvestors as Mabe, and am growing in harvestor size every month. It would make my life a lot easier if I could trace down what planet the best steel is on, etc., but then all I would be doing is sitting in my house all day. What fun is that?

So.... you're complaining about the complaining?

A lot of DE's have made quite a bit of money, there's no arguing that. A lot of it, IMO, has to deal with server economies and lack of competition (as there aren't near as many DE's as WS or AS). For DE to be considered a "full" crafting profession, we need to have a steady market. DE's do have certain "niche" markets, but our goods are not nearly as marketable as high quality weapons or armor.

Personally, I didn't care much to make a ton of money. I made enough money to get by, sitting in my rocking chair, petting my MSE. I probably made more money selling resources than I did droids. I didn't become a DE for the money, I became a DE because I was (still am) a big Star Wars fan, and a droid fan.

Mostly my complaints were directed towards the fact that this is a Star Wars game, and the majority of droids you see are NPC droids. Players need a reason to own droids, to need droids. Every player, or the majority of players, should have a droid at their side. I see publish 8 helping quite a bit to this end, but more can be done.

my complaint is that BE pets are stronger then Droid pets and they are supposed to be the same level of CL... aren't they? wel thsi patch will help that. and considering a droid is immune to almost everything but postional change attacks. ( yes i use my droid all the time) that alone should say somehting about them

my vednor though out of the way in a cornor of talus.. have alot fo droids and not sjut teh combat but alot of what i could think of and what i could not hat where specail ordered i made two ofand threw one on the vendor. each one has a discription of some type on it. my thing is not that they are not selling my problem is loction.. btu thats me. i choose it to be hwere it is.

it took em 6 hours to fully stock my vendor.. why?becuase i discribed what a lvl 6 med mod does and waht a lvl 4 stroage can do.what repair kits do and what reconsturkits do. and the difference on each.

this publih will help ven more i think... no complaints really here I am going to get droids that i can blow up.