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I have an R5 unit that changes color everytime I call it. Also, I get the message "Your droid's customization was completely lost" when it's called. I'm guessing that since the customization was lost, the last color was lost too, and that's why it now a random color. Plus, it refuses to learn it's name (a I've gotten my probot to learn it's name, so I know how to do it - four commands with it's name before the command.)

Is this a known issue with some R5 units? My search didn't turn up anything.
Or is the droid missing a component that keeps that stuff?
Or is this just something weird?

Thanks for you help!

For the colors, all you need is to have a Droid Engineer to change the colors with a Customization Kit. Shouldn't cost much at all.

As for the name, it should remember it's name. All non-personality droids should. It must be a bug of some sort.

Thanks Joeshie!

I managed to get it to remember it's name, guess it just didn't like "grape" - which now that's color keeps changing doesn't make much since.

FYI: Droid customizations wear off and you will have to get it colored again.

Y'know, this actually smells like a bug to me:

• Droid customization code checks droid when it's called


• Find that droid customization has faded (# of calls left = 0)


• Assigns random frame and trim colors to droid

The problem seems that the code isn't recognizing that it's already randomly reset the trim and frame before. Solution? Easy:

• Droid customization code checks droid when it's called


• If # of calls left = 0, then assign random trim/frame color and decrement # of calls left to -1


• Else NOTHING


• On use of a customization tool, reset the counter to 20 calls

It'd drive more people to get their droids painted if they got stuck with colors they really despised (OTOH it might drive less people to buy droids altogether). Alternately, they could reset the droid's colors back to its old default colors when the counter reaches zero (this actually makes more sense).

Yes, this is a bug. I have a droid made by my partner, and I've made at least one droid for a customer, that has this bug. (The changing color)

I have never customized it so I don't know what the result would be. I don't see this as a problem. I have sat and called the droid over and over while waiting for a shuttle just to see what colors it would come our as. LOL

There is nothing wrong with the droid. These may be female droids, sence they are always changing there clothes.

And I wish SOE would put the droid customization explenation in the manual. maybe We'd avoid some of the questions.

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Kurt_Mendel wrote:

• Droid customization code checks droid when it's called


• If # of calls left = 0, then assign random trim/frame color and decrement # of calls left to -1


• Else NOTHING


• On use of a customization tool, reset the counter to 20 calls

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It seems to me that the idea was to set the colors to grey and white, like the pre Oct 10 droids, once they lose customization. However, they didn't follow-up on the bugs when they added the customization code, (as usual), and we get random colors. It's a bug, and they need to fix it.

One of the reasons I'm upset about this sort of thing is that it demonstrates poor development technique. On Oct 10, they added customization code. Then they added one hot fix on the following Saturday, which prevented droids from being crafted -- at all -- for three days, and then they didn't follow-up with the remaining bugs, including this random color bug. The work they do is really shoddy.