Droid Engineer Archive

<Wolfgang> *MrJaffo* now that vehicles are in and allmost working :0 Is there any info you can say about 'the DE plan' other then we are working on it.. time frame or combat droid types maybe?

<justG> We are going to add weapon capabilities for existing droids, as well as some new combat droids, in the first quarter of next year. We are going to be devoting ALOT of energy to Droids.
<justG> :-)
* justG loves Droids

Hope springs eternal!

In 3 months from now, nothing will be fixed, 3PO will be walking around with a broken scoutblaster, R2s will have daggers glood to thier domes and every droid engineer in the galaxy will be in an uproar because the latest patch wiped out the color pallet for Probots and the droid battery schematic isnt shoing up in the crafting tools.

Then some red name will put down thier crayons, wash down the rest of thier cold pizza with flatt 7up, log into the forums and burp up some completely lame post about new MSEdroid animations in the next publish and all the droid engineerswill forget thier worries anddance around as if thier profession is suddenly fixed......again.

My prediction based on 6 months of SWG experience.

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Ellewen wrote:

In 3 months from now, nothing will be fixed, 3PO will be walking around with a broken scoutblaster, R2s will have daggers glood to thier domes and every droid engineer in the galaxy will be in an uproar because the latest patch wiped out the color pallet for Probots and the droid battery schematic isnt shoing up in the crafting tools.

Then some red name will put down thier crayons, wash down the rest of thier cold pizza with flatt 7up, log into the forums and burp up some completely lame post about new MSEdroid animations in the next publish and all the droid engineerswill forget thier worries anddance around as if thier profession is suddenly fixed......again.

My prediction based on 6 months of SWG experience.

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Yeah! lmao funniest thing ever!

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Kurt_Mendel wrote:

*MrJaffo* now that vehicles are in and allmost working :0 Is there any info you can say about 'the DE plan' other then we are working on it.. time frame or combat droid types maybe?

We are going to add weapon capabilities for existing droids, as well as some new combat droids, in the first quarter of next year. We are going to be devoting ALOT of energy to Droids.

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But that isn't saying anything, really, that hasn't been said before.

I too have concerns about the R2's with blasters duct-taped to their domes, and karatai chopping 3P0's.

Ah, well, we can hope for the best...

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Sketh wrote:

I too have concerns about the R2's with blasters duct-taped to their domes, and karatai chopping 3P0's.

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Sketh wrote:

But that isn't saying anything, really, that hasn't been said before.

I too have concerns about the R2's with blasters duct-taped to their domes, and karatai chopping 3P0's.

Ah, well, we can hope for the best...

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It's funny how they keep telling us the same things isn't it? Maybe they keep saying the same things because that's what they intend to do.

As I keep saying, they're announcing what's in the January patch next week. Can we get a temporary embargo on negativity until they do that and we see what's actually coming?

I for one continue to believe that the days of the naysayers are numbered. Quick, be negative! While there's still time...

I am all for giving the Devs a chance, good things have happened to BE's. But I still stand by my statement:

R2 + Gun = I quit the game

I'd temper that statement that "good things have happened to BE's." If good things have happened...no one can really figure out what the hell they are. Hope to hell y'all get some more documentation on how your stuff's supposed to work when you get it. Try and get that in now as part of the package...documentation!

For all I can figure out with the cloning changes, I may have to hop around on one foot while I play the kazoo. Without documentation, who can tell?

Talk about negativity. I for one wouldn't mind seeing an R2 with a blaster module installed. Would really put an interesting spin on the droid to have it suddenly chime in and fire an energy bolt at the enemy.

One has to realise the importance of droids, and that is for them to assist their masters, not replace them in something. Therefore, I see no problem with the weaker droids getting combat modules as they'd be an assistant to me in terms of doing damage, while I won the fight (just like the probot assists me in taking damage now but not doing much else, only in reverse).

Not saying I don't want combat droids in addition, but the weapon module also has great selling value as well. The gimmick of having the ability to put weapons in any droid will increase sales of droids, mark my words. Everyone will want to have the weapon module included standard.

Adding a combat module in the form of a weapon to say... a power droid, does not follow the role of this droid.