Droid Engineer Archive

Haden Blackman recently posted this in the Team Comments section of the fourms. The following are items that were listed by the Producer for LucasArts.

Shug_Ninxwrote:

After the New Year, however, you can expect us to be back at work updating and improving the game on all fronts. From our perspective, there's still a lot we want to do, from revisions to existing systems to the addition of new Star Wars-specific "dungeons." As always, we will strive to fix any urgent bugs, add new content at a steady clip, and continue to work on balance issues (and none of the below will prevent us from doing so). But, we're also looking at some special programs and key updates that will help us to grow the game. Some highlights for the coming months (and no, this doesn't include everything we have planned...):

We are going to continue to give love and attention to all of the professions. Those at the top of our list include all of the core combat professions, Chef, Droid Engineer, Merchant, Squad Leader, and Smuggler. At least one of these is a leading candidate for a publish theme...

Along with changes to the Droid Engineer, we'll be adding combat droids and giving combat capabilities to existing droids.

Shug_Ninx's Letter to the Community

I just saw this myself. My first hope was that the leading candidate profession for a publish theme would be Droid Engineer. Basing that on the clue we've been given before about the extent to the droid changes. Then I decided to shelve those hopes to avoid future disappointment. I still have faith they are actually doing something, but expectations set too early can lead to despair.... and we all know where that leads

Note the second bullet point. I think I'm going to have to set up a new macro:

/shout WTB Bulk rolls of Duct Tape: 1000cr per roll! PST

ohmygawd!

If we aren't the theme for the next big publish... :'(
That would be really, really ashame

Thanks for the info Drashk. Like almost everything from the devs its disheartening.

We are going to continue to give love and attention to all of the professions. Those at the top of our list include all of the core combat professions, Chef, Droid Engineer, Merchant, Squad Leader, and Smuggler. At least one of these is a leading candidate for a publish theme...

So thats what, about 50% of the professions ? And the first to name are "all of the (core) combat professions" ? Abandon all hope....

I would like to say that I maintain the belief that we will be receiving more than just the two things included there. I also expect that in the process we'll see a fair amount of bug squashes as they come across them and realise it. Of course, there will be new ones to go with the new features, but I am 90% certain we'll see repair kits (which are all I really think are necessary to bring probots up to snuff), new droids, and some nifty new features as well.

Here's a line from a movie that pretty much sums this discussion up....

"Show me the money!"

I have to go with the old saying.. "I'll believe it when I see it and til then, they are still full of chit "