Droid Engineer Archive
Thread: Droid Invasion.... question from a non DE
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NancyJ
Sun Apr 25, 2004 3:12 pm
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Am I missing something or is the Droid Invasion rather pants?
From what I've heard the combat droids are a pain in the behind to make and certainly more difficult and expensive to craft than a BE CL 10.
As for the new droids in publish 8...
Harvesting Droid - I hear it can only harvest at the rate of a novice scout and its more difficult than just doing it yourself
Surveying Droid - sounds a good idea but no resource stats and limited uses... hmmm, I fear this may go the same way as vehicle customisation
Entertainer Droid - Do they have new special effects that entertainers cant do themselves? Since most entertainers macro their routines anyway I dont see what these are supposed to do
Merchant Droid - battery lasts 1 hour and you have to stay on the same subserver as it. Great for handing out waypoints but I dont see myself using one if I have to go back to it every hour to put a battery in it, plus you need merchant skills to use it so I dont see it cutting out the starport spam.
Medic - havent seen any reports on the usefulness of this - sounds good in principle for high skill point usage professions that cant afford medic but how many stims can it hold? How long till you have to find a medic with a load of stim As to refill it?
Looks to me like you guys got shafted here - DE's have needed love from day 1, you've waited a long time and been patient but have you really got what you wanted?
Have I been misinformed about the new droids, do you think they will be useful? How do you feel about the 'droid invasion'?
From what I've heard the combat droids are a pain in the behind to make and certainly more difficult and expensive to craft than a BE CL 10.
As for the new droids in publish 8...
Harvesting Droid - I hear it can only harvest at the rate of a novice scout and its more difficult than just doing it yourself
Surveying Droid - sounds a good idea but no resource stats and limited uses... hmmm, I fear this may go the same way as vehicle customisation
Entertainer Droid - Do they have new special effects that entertainers cant do themselves? Since most entertainers macro their routines anyway I dont see what these are supposed to do
Merchant Droid - battery lasts 1 hour and you have to stay on the same subserver as it. Great for handing out waypoints but I dont see myself using one if I have to go back to it every hour to put a battery in it, plus you need merchant skills to use it so I dont see it cutting out the starport spam.
Medic - havent seen any reports on the usefulness of this - sounds good in principle for high skill point usage professions that cant afford medic but how many stims can it hold? How long till you have to find a medic with a load of stim As to refill it?
Looks to me like you guys got shafted here - DE's have needed love from day 1, you've waited a long time and been patient but have you really got what you wanted?
Have I been misinformed about the new droids, do you think they will be useful? How do you feel about the 'droid invasion'?
JavelinCatcher
Sun Apr 25, 2004 3:48 pm
#2
We do have these focus threads for a reason. Not to mention links to all of them stickied at the top of the forum. Every question you've asked (with one exception) has been answeredthree times over.
The only question you may not find the answer to quickly is that combat droids are now CL18, not 10 in order to be able to compete with the BE system for non-CH pets.
My own personal opinion is that the majority of the new stuff is usefull, if used in the right situation.
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