Droid Engineer Archive

Could you possible post here the mail you've written?
I do not feel confident enough to express in my poor english all the changes coming and the ones not coming at all.

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Lasume wrote:
With publish 7 almost upon us and the inevitable flood of incoming /tells and mails from friends, guildies and random strangers alike has anyone considered deflagging themselves as MDE??
I'm certainly not gonna be 'searchable' for a while and i know i'll cringe when i see the 'Droid Invasion' splash screen. I already have a nice mail drafted to explain armor nerf and 'new' features, but mostly i just want to do a factory run of combat modules and hide in my house til it all blows over. :-(

Lasume Okarr
MDE,MA,Gunfighter Extraordinaire

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Rightly or wrongly, I told my PA I was digging a commlink-proof bunker last night, and since it's now completed I am definitely going to go down there with the tag off, and see what I can make and or not make.

I might sneak a trip to some out of the way place to try out the various 'battledroids (patent pending lol) but until I know myself what they can and cannot do, I am selling absolutely nothing. I can do without unhappy customers.

A few days of experimentation and testing is in order I think, before I dare take anyones credits.

If anyone feels differently then fine, but for myself the idea of a trip to Coronet with the MDE tag up is too horrible to even contemplate *shudder*

I do wish all fellow DE's the best of good luck.

Booo and i wanted to call my new R-series crack force BattleDroids TM ( i wonder if i can patent it in a different galaxy :-p)

I don't have the letter i use in game on me but it's something like this..
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First off i want to apologise for the huge misnomer by the devs- this is less an invasion than a bug fix and despite the new splash screen there are no new models available at this time. Those battle-droids shown are for a new dungeon to be released a couple of weeks after pub 7.

Unfortunatly (against the DE community's wish) the devs have removed medium armor from droids and capped resists at 20%- in an unprecedented move they have applied this change retroactively resulting in ALL droids in game(deed or datapad) or newly crafted to have much less tanking ability, even with the increase in HAM values the EFFECTIVE HAM of all droids is reduced.

On a more positive note droid 'stims' have been introduce allowing 'white bar' healing during battle in addition to wound kits allowing for healing of wounds, battery life has also been doubled.

Combat
In addition to the previous combat droids (probot, DZ70) the R-series and the LE repair bot have been given limited combat functionality- though it should be noted that this is not inherrent and using combat modules in ANY droid now will reduce the space left for normal utility modules.
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Hope this helps- it's a rough outline of what i said and will be sending out to people in game.
/invisible
/afk
/make combat module and insert into R5
weeeeee time to take on Worts :-)

Call me an opportunist but I should mention that the dmg increase on combat capable droids has risen satisfyingly (whether it is enough to validate the armour nerf is unlikely but also a matter of opinion).

You do want to sell some droids still...right?

Deafening Blows

MDE - Chimaera

i have already loaded my AFK responce with the answer to the droidika problem and have directed ppl to the co-ords of my vendor. I'll be "afk" for most of the day.

With publish 7 almost upon us and the inevitable flood of incoming /tells and mails from friends, guildies and random strangers alike has anyone considered deflagging themselves as MDE??
I'm certainly not gonna be 'searchable' for a while and i know i'll cringe when i see the 'Droid Invasion' splash screen. I already have a nice mail drafted to explain armor nerf and 'new' features, but mostly i just want to do a factory run of combat modules and hide in my house til it all blows over. :-(

Lasume Okarr
MDE,MA,Gunfighter Extraordinaire