Droid Engineer Archive
Thread: Okay, this one droid out limit needs to go...
I've been running Rebel missions around Moenia past few days, using my probot Complaints to help out. He was dinged up a little bit, so I went into the cantina and found someone to hold him briefly so I could repair him. Well, when transferring him back, he accidentally had an afk macroing entertainer targetted, so now, I'm waiting for an AFK entertainer to read his e-mail so I can get my Probot back.
Fun fun fun...
O MY THATS HILARIOUS!I MEAN I WAS LAUGHING FOR 5 MINITS!LOL ANDHRJSR........LOL STILL LAUGHING!
THATS SO FUNNY.
Yeah, why can't we have more than one droid out? CH's can and do.
The answer:
There is no reason. They just don't change that one number in their code from 1 to 2 or 3:
#define DROIDS_ARE_LAME_MAX_NUM 1
#define CHS_ARE_SO_L337_I_JUST_LOVE_IT_MAX_NUM 3
Why? Why should they? Like I complain about every other day, we can't even COLOR our droids. Red and Gray R2 units need to go in the scrap heap!
Yes, again another post the Devs will not respond to. Another good post with good intentions made by a person that cares enough about SWG to take time away from the game to post.
One person is all it would take to make hundreds of people feel better, to inspire hope for their beloved class. One person to take 3 minutes of typing time to tell us whats happening. One person, Sony. One person LucasArts. Just one person, in this specific situation, CAN make a difference. One person.
Heres a few ideas Ive had for Multi Droid Control, which I think would help the DE cause..
Multi-Control-Chip & New Battle Droid
This idea would enable the DE or other profession's to control and use more than one droid at a time but only with certain types of droid.
Firstly the DE would have to make a Multi Control Unit, which would be complex and possibly expensive to make and of course decay, these would allow people to control and use 2-3 droids at any one time for certain droid types.Only one of these could be used/activated by any one person, and would be hand held.
Example Droid Type:
Light Humanoid Battle Droid(Some thing like the Trade Federation Battle Droids as in Phantom Menace). These would be lightly armoured and easly destroyed but by using the multi control unit would gain the advantage of numbers.The droid its self would be cheap and easy to make.
This idea could be expanded upon by making larger Multi Control Units which are static and perhaps the same size as the large harvesters or factorys. These could be set-up around player made buildings or player cities and would allow the area/cities to have a number of automated droid defenders on patrol ie 4-5 light battle droids, a few draw backs could be if the unit was destroyed all the droids would be disabled but not dead, another point to make would be the unit would have a control range and only one unti could be used with in the area. Part of the units could be made by Architects and Part of it by DE.