Droid Engineer Archive
Thread: Ideas from someone new to SWG and the droid profession
Well im new to the game and didnt read in detail the posts listed but heres some ideas i have..
Droids are a major part of SW and this should be reflected in the number of uses they have.
Droids atm only provide a use for their owner in a direct sense - e.g. you have to be at the droid to use its functions.
Why not, if you are considering binding droids to specific buildings such as shuttleports, also enable owners of droids to bind them to specific tasks...
The key idea for droids portrayed in SW Ep 4 is that droids are basically used to releave the workload. so why not be able to send your R5 droid to run collections from your havesters/factories and return the hopper contentsto you or your home. these same droids could also carry status information about any harvesters/factories you have. The more advanced the brain of the droid - the more harvesters/factories they could maintain.
to elaborate more on the potential of having droids running errands think of these little gems that would make the game more interesting...
Risks to droid for taking the journey to your harvesters alone...
Eaten by a creature, kidnapped by jawas, caught in the crossfire of a firefight
The further out the harester the more risk involved to the droid, you could even include wandering sandcrawlers on Tatoonine that would seek out lone droids
Protocol Droids main purpose was communication between the races (interrpretators) The language system in the game as it currently stands offers NO roleplaying aspects at all.I would suggest resetting everyones languages back to first creation then limit everyone from only knowing1 other language.
If you look at the SW films the only people who could communicate with chewiee throughout the films was Han and Lando everyone else didnt have a clue. The fact that everyone in the SWG universe understands wookiees is just so wrong.
Protocol droids should be there to help others communicate with people (and other droids), Luke only could understand R2 when he used his starships computer.
Ithink Combat droids should be Solely useable by Droid engineers. why? because i feel these droids will provide droid engineers a more "Front Line" side to the class.
Combat droids could come in 2 aspects... Medical Droid and Artillery Droid
The medical droid would essentially turn the droid engineer into a combat medic - providing all forms of medical healing on the battlefield - care should be taken to not make them more effective than a normal combat medic or doctor.
The Artillery Droid should provide the engineer with additional artillery (similar to how a creature pet works)
Consider the droid engineer as a versatile jack of all trades and master of none.
Multiple droids operating at once i dont feel is necessaryin regards to this aspect of droid engineers.
Overall i feel the class has ALOT of potential yet its current state is limited to an almost Beta type level 
Im looking forward to the space expansion when (hopefully) all starfighters/starships will require droids to work.
Droid_Engineer_Rho wrote:
I recommend you spend a little time perusing the sticky posts at the top of this board, and reading the (often LONG) threads Sintrosi has linked to. Many of your ideas are similar to ideas posted here before, and I believe you'd find it very worthwhile.
What he didnt have the heart to tell you is that your great ideas, much like ours, fall on deaf ears. The dev's have only promised some low and medium level droids sometime in Jan. or February. Of course they have promissed us things before and NOT A SINGLE thing has been done positively to our profession. Welcome to the DE forum.