Droid Engineer Archive

One of the things that depresses me about the droids in the game (and like I said in a post long ago, makes me feel very sorry for you DE's ), is that while there is a somewhat wide variety of droids, they dont really do anything that no one barring medics and BH's want or NEED. There is no PRACTICAL variety.

So, as someone who would like to buy some useful droids, I would like to see DE's be able to make:

- Utility Droids.

These would be like the medical droids. Just make more utility for them. Make droids do what they are supposed to do for people in the SW movies and books : Make life easier! .

I'd like to buy a droid that can take care of my installation's maintainance and power needs for me. That is, it will go and pay maintainance, and deposit power and turn them ON if they are off.

I'd like to buy a droid that gather's my harvester's hoppers and brings them to my house and deposits them in a specified container of my choosing.

I'd like to buy a droid that will harvest a specific resource from every creature I kill.

I'd like to buy a droid that acts like a big friggin' lightbulb & illuminate everything 50m around me like it was daytime. I'd kill to have one of those in my dathomir hunts. I keep smashing my nose against those trees & brackaset toenails.

I'd like to buy a DELIVERY droid. One that has a storage compartment, and you program to give access to that storage device to *playername*, then droid flies out, finds that player, sends him a private tell that he has a delivery for him, other player can then open the compartment, and take his stuff. Once the droid no longer has anything in his storage compartment, it sends a tell to the droid owner that delivery is complete and automatically stores itself.

-Combat & In-the-Field Droids

You've seen them in the movies. You've read about some droids fighting in the books. Put them in game.

I'd like to buy a droid that fires only at what I fireand when ifire..anddoes not have an 'attack' command.

I'd like to buy a droid that I can use as a homing grenade (call, issue attack order, droid flies to target and explodes).

I'd like to buy a droid thathas a sort of permanent 'mask scent', is very small and flies,that can fly ahead of me about 100m and feeds meinfo through an extra 'radar'on my screen.

I'd like to buy a droid that can 'stalk' targets.. this is done by a droid getting the order from owner to 'stalk' whatever the owner has targetted, and every 2 minutes the droid 'reports' his position (aka : 'Target is in Talus, Nashan, -232,4343' ) via private tell to players the droid owner has programmed it to report to. This droid would be very useful once player bounties come out, since rangers and BH's could be hired to FIND the player, and they can use that droid to stalk the target and have it report target's location to the person that hired them...or to the person they hired as the hitman or whatever. In PVE this is useful to keep track of certain creatures... like for example the one BE's and CH's would like to get their hands on, so they hire scouts to go out and find them, but the scouts cant be expected to stay chasing the creature until the CH/BE gets on a shuttle and hops 5 planets to reach the place..just leave the droid in place!

I'd like to buy a droid that can interfere with the performance of other mechanical things.A 'jammer' droid that can make AT-ST's, other droids and why not, some weapons, not respond to commands 50% of the times or fire/move slower or do less damage with attacks.

I'd like to buy a counter-jammer droid to fight against the droid mentioned above.

-Entertainer and Crafter Droids

I'd like to buy a droid that can be programmed to craft a certain item for me (without getting xp for it of course). This would be heavenly for multiple component items.. like stimpackb's and above. If I could have a droid just make me the 10 biological effect controllers while I make the 10 chemical release mechanisms it would cut my final product crafting time in half (and save me a lot of carpal tunnel pain). Think of it as a mini-factory..but this droid can only produce single items, its not like a factory.

I'd like to buy a droid that does tricks and cantrips for dancers and musicians. Moondancing C3PO! These droids would reduce the stamina cost of using instruments/dancing for the entertainers.

I'd like to buy a droid that can act as my personal 'mission terminal'. As in I can park the droid anywhere in a city and people can access it likea mission terminal... missions like 'I need 2000 units of X hide, get it for me and you get 20k cash' .. cash is deposited on droid, when mission taker gets the hides, he comes back to droid, deposits it (like a 'sell item' in the bazaar screen) and instantly receives the money as reward. These droids are permanent and cannot be stored or destroyed until 6hrs have passed.

For all droids:

Id like to be able to *really* ask for a costumized droid.All droids should be able to hold weapons, those weapons being made byweaponsmiths and 'attached' to the droid.

If I want an arakyn droid carrying a launcher pistol, then heck, ill ask the DE to make the droid and to put the launcher pistol as part of the weapon slot component.

dual lightning cannon/pistol launcher firing Binary Lifter Droid anyone?

/rant off