Droid Engineer Archive
Thread: DE: The foresaken prof
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HumanBean
Mon Apr 12, 2004 5:00 pm
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I am relatively new to SWG, and I am satisfied with most aspects of the game as a whole (skill based professions, factions, pretty artwerk, simple interface), but am appalled at what the Dev's have done concerning Droids, and particularly the DE profession; and how some things in the game make it more like futuristic dungeons and dragons than Star Wars.
I thought I was buying a Star Wars science fiction fantacygame (spaceships and robots), but apparently I forgot what MMORG meantto game developers who are afraid to redefine game classes (dungeons and dragons)
I was walking through Theed on the Naritus server the other day and there was an overt rebel with 3 rancors pulled out. So much for the Imperial crackdown, and the droid invasion. What were the devs thinking while they wasted time on these publishes?? I guess they thought it would make a difference. What I see is that the Imperial Crackdown publish made it easier for Rebels to gain faction points by killingthe weak imp NPC'sand that the Droid invasion was really just a name for a cool background wallpaper.
As an imperial droid engineer, the last few publishes have been a slap in the face.
We DE's are desperate for a real revamp or addition to our profession.Currently we are the equivelent of moving furniture craftmen 
. Ifmyavatarweren't a rifleman also, I'd have tolive purelyoff of charity from guild members in order to get anywhere as a DE; and the Dev's unveil the revap coming soon:
. Ifmyavatarweren't a rifleman also, I'd have tolive purelyoff of charity from guild members in order to get anywhere as a DE; and the Dev's unveil the revap coming soon:in Publish 8:We get: spam droids, entertainer droids, and some other usless piece of moving furniture
Thoughts i want to share withdevelopers whocare about making SWG more like SW in the stories and less like everquest with a star wars facade:
If you dont want to let DE's make combat droids that really function as part of the game, why not let R series droids buff harvesters or something so at least we will have some customers?
Why not let us sell our junk droids to junk dealers with droids scattered around them since nobody wants to buy them?
Why let the CH's pull 3 grand maulers, wheni cant even pull my stormtrooper and my droid simultaneously? thats an imbalance
Why not give CH or their high level pets a tef when they pull a high level creature in a town? its only practicalbecause they are dangerous wild creatures set loose in a urban area, and I know that the imperials wouldnt tolerate that kind of stuff in towns that they hold to "protect"
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