Droid Engineer Archive

Please keep this thread politely and constructively bumped on the Developement boards. (URL is here: http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=Development&message.id=411807&highlight=#M411807)

Thank you.

Sherry

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Droids have so many problems and need so much more work:

1) Fix them so that multiplecrafting modules don'tcause them to become broken. Perhaps droids can have a toggle in them so that the owner can switch between which effect they want at any given time.

2) Near as I can tell, the only droids which can heal players are NPC droids. This should be corrected. If nothing else give the droid a heal target command so that players can shout "heal" and the droid will heal the target. This should only be an option if the droid is outfitted with stims, of course.

3) Droids with combat options cannot take anywhere close to the beating that an equilevel monster can. Please make droid armor and HAM comparable with creatures. Failing that, make droid damage higher.

4) Droids cannot be equipped with an option which allows camps to function as cantinas do. (So thatdancers and musicians can heal fatique in camps.)

ImageDesignersshould craft the cantina effect modules.

5) Droids cannot project holograms as they do in StarWars.

This would be a great way to give entertainers a marketable product. Entertainers buy a droid with a recorder option and then they can sell recordings of themselves dancing with a playback option. Holograms should only be usable in healing wounds in a camp, not fatique. Fatique healing should alwaysrequire an entertainer.

Dancers should craft the recording module, musicians should craft the playback module.

6) Droids perma-die when their corpse should always be able to beput in your backpack and returned to a droid engineer for repairs.

7) Droid engineers frequently get less than 2 xp per unit of material used in crafting. This should be corrected.

8) Droids need data storage moduleswhich can permanently hold information. The data storage modules should hold waypoints andprograms.

Programs should be craftable by various artisan-basedprofessions. Theprogramsshould do such things as paying maintenance on houses, harvestersor factories; and collecting products in such things or simply giving people rides between cities and houses.

So android engineer and a surveyormay craft a set ofprograms whichcould send a droid which has a storage and a data storage module outtoa personal mineral harvesterwaypoint, 700 units of power and 700 creditswith a program to deposit power, a program to desposit credits and a program to pick up the hopper contents. After doing this, the droid would need to return to you.

A merchant could craft a program which allows a droid to function as a travelling vendor.

Any artisan should be able to craft "go" progams that would allow a droid to function as a taxi (using auto-follow) to get players from a city to their business waypoint.

Needless to say, an owner would not want to send such a droid out through dangerous territories.

Smugglers should be able to craft slicing programswhich have a specific number of uses.

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Right now, Droids are useless compared to the droids which proliferated in the Star Wars movies and a Droid Engineer has to effectively be a Master Artisan. Please correct this, devs. (Preferrably before my husband quits this game which I've been enjoying so much.)

Anyone else care to comment on how you think droids could be fixed?

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I agree!

9) We need more assault droids.

and speaking of more...

10) Droid engineers should be able to call and control at least 2 droids at the same time.

Precedence is there... watchthe movies.

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Sadly, I think the oil spilled out of the bath on the language barrier. But for roleplaying servers, that would be great.

Delai (master architect in progress - lowca)

Trai (master image designer in progress - corbantis)

Please read my "Hints of Love from Holo" post, it does address alot of these.

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Delai wrote:

Please keep this thread politely and constructively bumped on the Developement boards

They have proven again and again, that they do not read these boards, I will bump as asked as i am willing to help any idea to further DE's but do not expect a result.

Yes, I know the responses in the past have been rare to none... that is why I'm posting this. My husband is a droid engineer. He bought SWG to make and control droids. That's it. He's going to quit the game very soon if he doesn't see something out of the Devs to indicate droids will be worth making and controlling.

bumping..

Please read the "Fixes in Upcoming patch" post as it addresses many of these.

There are droids in this game?

That's funny, I never see any...