Droid Engineer Archive
Thread: A DE's notebook, and some questions..
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Starphire
Wed May 05, 2004 6:55 am
#1
Okay first for those who said to experiment on the chassis because it decreases fails on the final build well there isn't even a mechanical rating on those buggers so maybe it was nerfed.
Next I had read here stacking 2 armor lvl 6 modules was a waste of time and indeed it apears to be because I always get 20% no matter what I do. However not 2 nights ago my friend Need got 40% on an R3 he has stacked fully with scout modules so I have NO IDEA how he managed to get 40% on the bugger when rumors are flying that 40% isn't possible anymore..
I have managed to get a detonation rating of 9 and a harvest rating of 18, go me! I love the harvesting droid most as well as the survey droid. I can get 103 units on a ranchor and I would be getting 60 units with my novice scout. I am not ashamed to say I have been marking up my droids. People will only ever buy one and I don't think my prices are to rediculous. I have however not been pricing up the droids that don't last forever.
The entertainmaint droids don't shock people the way I thought they would. I thought people walking by the foam would be all "WHOAH! whats that??" but I don't see that to much.. only one guy yelled "What the heck is going on here??!"
Gavvot
Wed May 05, 2004 7:15 am
#2
For the chassis I have no idea.
For the armor, if you store and call a droid a couple of time, it'll show 40% even I think without armor in it.
I didn't had the ressources to make level 4 or even 6 for a while, so I made level 3 (most of my droids are non combat anyway), they say 20% at first call and 40% after.
Until someone is giving me clear understandable answer on what's going on, I'll but 1 level and 1 level 4 on each droid I make that go to fight and warn my customer that armor rating of droid is FUBAR.
Detonation module, I made only a couple so far with crappy tolium (made a 34 Adv MSE). Now good one as spawn I'm waiting for my miners to try to make better one.
My harvester module aren't that great atm, I can make Bonus 14 with a full Adv R3 rating 89.
A friend of mine is almost master ranger told me he was only harvesting 1 unit more than him, so not very good.
For the entertainer module, I made 1 very funny droid :
Black Adv Protocol with red eyes, a foam module for smoke and a barker module, with a fun message 'Resistence is futile. All your base are belong to us'.
As I'm novice musician and merchant adv 4 so I can use both module at the same time.
I put it in front of Theed spaceport with both module activated, I can tell you it bring a lot of attention.
For the armor, if you store and call a droid a couple of time, it'll show 40% even I think without armor in it.
I didn't had the ressources to make level 4 or even 6 for a while, so I made level 3 (most of my droids are non combat anyway), they say 20% at first call and 40% after.
Until someone is giving me clear understandable answer on what's going on, I'll but 1 level and 1 level 4 on each droid I make that go to fight and warn my customer that armor rating of droid is FUBAR.
Detonation module, I made only a couple so far with crappy tolium (made a 34 Adv MSE). Now good one as spawn I'm waiting for my miners to try to make better one.
My harvester module aren't that great atm, I can make Bonus 14 with a full Adv R3 rating 89.
A friend of mine is almost master ranger told me he was only harvesting 1 unit more than him, so not very good.
For the entertainer module, I made 1 very funny droid :
Black Adv Protocol with red eyes, a foam module for smoke and a barker module, with a fun message 'Resistence is futile. All your base are belong to us'.
As I'm novice musician and merchant adv 4 so I can use both module at the same time.
I put it in front of Theed spaceport with both module activated, I can tell you it bring a lot of attention.
Jenden
Wed May 05, 2004 7:18 am
#3
Starphire wrote:
Okay first for those who said to experiment on the chassis because it decreases fails on the final build well there isn't even a mechanical rating on those buggers so maybe it was nerfed.
Next I had read here stacking 2 armor lvl 6 modules was a waste of time and indeed it apears to be because I always get 20% no matter what I do. However not 2 nights ago my friend Need got 40% on an R3 he has stacked fully with scout modules so I have NO IDEA how he managed to get 40% on the bugger when rumors are flying that 40% isn't possible anymore..
Right now all the armor is buggy. No matter what the droid has (even if you don't put any armor in it) it will show 40% resists after storing and calling it back out. not sure if we ever figured out whether it was a display bug or if they actually got that much armor.
I have managed to get a detonation rating of 9 and a harvest rating of 18, go me! I love the harvesting droid most as well as the survey droid. I can get 103 units on a ranchor and I would be getting 60 units with my novice scout. I am not ashamed to say I have been marking up my droids. People will only ever buy one and I don't think my prices are to rediculous. I have however not been pricing up the droids that don't last forever.
While droid sales aren't quite what weapon/armor sales are, I will disagree that people only one. I'd say about 80% or more of my business anymore is repeat sales, since I don't do any form of advertising and don't have much of a vendor set up. People like the droid, and they either want one of a different type or they gave the one they had to a friend or sometimes they just want another of the same type incase something happens to the first one (even though I tell them nothing will happen to it...)
The entertainmaint droids don't shock people the way I thought they would. I thought people walking by the foam would be all "WHOAH! whats that??" but I don't see that to much.. only one guy yelled "What the heck is going on here??!"
Starphire
Wed May 05, 2004 7:58 am
#4
well with the scout droids the best you could want is an R3 to stack them so its not like they can get another droid, and for the first guy that responded these scout droids in MY mind are not really for rangers with high level scout skills. It's more for somene who just has 15 skpts left to spend on novice and nothing else (like my doc, and my freinds chef!).
I dunno jenden I don't agree, many do come back but not for particular droids that are stacked. Yeah I get repeat business but its for another droid not the one I already sold them, in particular when i t's an R3. I think it's cruddy that's the only droid for the most part that can hold it all for like MAX stim dispence and MAX harvest.. but when they made droids we didnt have these things so it probably wasn't clear this would happen.
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