Droid Engineer Archive

We are proud to present to you the official log of tonight's House of Commons chat with the Developers of SWG:

[17:02] [Brannoc] Good evening and welcome to another great Stratics house of commons chat, tonight our guests are none other than the Starwars Galaxies developers! The topic for chat tonight will just be around the upcoming droid invasion and Pubs 7 and 8, then moving into a little general content. Please no space questions tonight though.

[17:09] [Brannoc] *Ryu_KnT* what kind of droids are in the works? and about the rumor of the Droid Handler class, is it possible or just rumor?

[17:09] [Blair] We are discussing a lot of options for the droid commander. We have floated a lot of ideas by the community but I don't think we've come up with what the "right" solution is. We want to get high level combat droids into the game for you, but not unbalance what we have.

[17:10] [Brannoc] *Shiggins* Hi Devs , Just Wondering How Many New Driods do we Expect is Publish 8 if any?

[17:11] [Runesabre] Publish 8 will see the introduction of several new and interesting droid utility modules. We also have some new droids coming up in some of the new adventures we are developing.

[17:12] [Haden] The "blastromech" you've seen in the newsletter will be showing up eventually as part of a dungeon.

[17:15] [Brannoc] *puddy* Hi, with the implementation of the Droid Invasion, many DE's feel cheated. The "combat droids" are much lower than BE'd pets, and more or less useless in all but the lowest level combat, what can you say to the DE's that are dropping the profession because they feel let down ? Thanks

[17:16] [Keldarin] We know that level 10 BE pets are still overpowered. We are still trying to tweak the power levels of the low level cloned pets.

[17:16] [Keldarin] The goal is to get the droids to be comparable in power to those cloned pets.

[17:16] [Keldarin] Situationally they will have different advantages but neither should be straight out better than the other.

[17:17] [Brannoc] ·Dhashian· Are there any plans to restore the Probot medium armour, because right now it has no tanking abilities, which is the main point of the combat droids.

[17:18] [Runesabre] In order to maintain the proper combat balance of the game, it was necessary to reduce the probot armor to appropriate levels. The current probot armor was akin to what a level 150 creature would have.

[17:18] [Brannoc] *Valeria* When are there going to be new player controlled droids added to the game?

[17:18] [Blair] We have plans to implement new droid modules for the next publish. Additionally our art team is hard at work on new droids. We rolled out additional combat droids wiht publish 7 that you will see in a few weeks.

[17:19] [Blair] With each publish more droids will be released.

[17:20] [Brannoc] ·K[r]u|aw|· Have you ever considered addind some kind of looted or quest rewarded droid components/modules that could bring the droids up par to, let's say a Bio-Engineered non-ch pet ?

[17:21] [Blair] We really want to add additional high level combat droids to the game. It's fun, it's Starwars, and I love the idea of having a droid in combat.

[17:22] [Blair] The key thing is to make sure we aren't unbalancing the game as a result.

[17:22] [Blair] Just handing high level combat droids to players, even on a limited basis, wouldn't be a good idea.

Don't know what to think ... still absorbing it all.

Saleena
DENet Admin Chilastra

So, according to that we will see more combat droids within a few weeks... now is Blair confused or am I missing something here?

Who can tell anymore what they mean - its an advanced form of Marketese I think, but who really knows

Ahh Well

[17:10] [Brannoc] *Shiggins* Hi Devs , Just Wondering How Many New Driods do we Expect is Publish 8 if any?

[17:11] [Runesabre] Publish 8 will see the introduction of several new and interesting droid utility modules. We also have some new droids coming up in some of the new adventures we are developing.

[17:12] [Haden] The "blastromech" you've seen in the newsletter will be showing up eventually as part of a dungeon.