Droid Engineer Archive

NOTE: I am not a DE so I am still for the most part uneducated about what DEs and droids are capable of doing.

With that said, here is what I believe droids should also be capable of in this game:

Harvester work/maintenance – Treadwells, R2s, R4s, and Protocol droids should be capable of ‘repairing’ harvesters and running them in your absence.

Repair – If a droid is within a certain distance of a harvester, the consumption rate of the maintenance pool decreases.

Working harvesters – A setting on either the droid or the harvester can command the droid to ‘set’ the harvester up to look for another resource or the next highest concentration when the current resource dries up.

The further away from your home the droids are the faster the droids decay and will need repair kits or DEs to fix them.

Power droids could be loaded with power and replenish harvesters when they run low.

Load lifters can be given a large amount of storage and extract resources when harvesters are full or when a factory is done crafting a crate.

Medical droids are capable of storing medical components and, when commanded, heal or buff a given target. Obviously the owner will not be given XP for the droids healing.

Probots can be used for their original, Old Republic use – surveying! The owner sets the droid just like a survey device and tells it to send back a certain amount of waypoints or one waypoint for the highest concentration.