Droid Engineer Archive

Thread: OH MY GOD YOU HAVE TO BE KIDDING ME!? NEXT PROFESSION TO CHANGE, Sheesh!

Alleis
Tue Jan 20, 2004 2:25 am
#1

Okay, I stuck with DE, I toughed it out. You DEV's told us they'd get better, they'd get more useful, they'd start being real and reflect the Star Wars Mythos!



You're a bunch of liars!



I'm sorry, I don't mean to sound like a jerk or anything, but flat out, you are! I can't imagine how many of us have just toughed it out with X amount of skill points invested in this USELESS profession, waiting for the moment that you've promised would finally deliver us from hell into a good time!


You said you'd make changes, but the changes you propose SUCK! No, you're not adding to the Droid Engineer class by suggesting a new Droid Handler profession. DROID HANDLER!? MY GOD PEOPLE DO YOU EVEN -THINK- about what you're talking about? How does that make -ANY- sense?


Droids don't need to be HANDLED, they need to be built and used, unfortunately only the being built part works, you've done a good job of making sure nobody wants to use them.


You say we're top priority and yet we're not getting any real love until sometime in JULY!? No thanks, not sticking with this profession any longer. I've hung on for about as long as I can stand to. Since the moment I started playing this game I wanted to use droids and build them, but there's just no purpose to it, and you're not making it any better.


So, in closing..


Shame on you for yanking us all around, shame on you for lying to us, shame on you for absolutely defiling one of the most beloved things about star-wars.


Have you ever thought that it's easier to become a Jedi than a useful droid engineer? Heh, good heavens. My heart aches for this profession, and for those that continue to tough it out. I hope something actually improves, but don't count on it.




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Sumus
Tue Jan 20, 2004 6:16 am
#2

I havent been this lied to sence my last girlfriend.




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Alleis
Tue Jan 20, 2004 9:37 am
#3

Okay, y'kno what? I should at least be constructive in my outage right?


Here's my suggestion, not that I believe that anyone is actually being listened to on these forums, but what the heck.


First off, ditch the droid handler Idea, it should've been ditched since the moment the ill conceived concept was hatched.


Secondly, certification should be simple for using advanced combat droids. Mirror creature handler, everyone in the game can use level ten droids. At novice DE, make it so you can use a level 15, then take the third from the left skill tree (forgot the name) andthat's where you put the future level ups, after all that tree is just experimentation and assembly anyhow, why not throw the Droid Use +10 or whatever thing there if you want to implement it? From there you just increase the number in whatever incriments you want up to the master DE slot where it hits the ceiling. Easy as pie.


Now this at least would make us DE's happy, but to be true to the genre you have to allow everyone to use droids at whatever level. I understand that people can't use pets higher than level ten. It's one thing to have a dog, an entirely different to have a tiger. However droids don't need to be tamed or trained, just built and used. THey're like cd players, universally understood and operated.


So to be TRUE to the genre, DE's should be able to build them, and EVERYONE should be able to use them, maybe giving DE the perk of being able to have 2 out at once or something like that, or to be able to use 1 kind of droid that others can't, THAT is how it should be.





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Barfalomue
Tue Jan 20, 2004 10:45 am
#4






Alleis wrote:

Secondly, certification should be simple for using advanced combat droids. Mirror creature handler, everyone in the game can use level ten droids. At novice DE, make it so you can use a level 15, then take the third from the left skill tree (forgot the name) andthat's where you put the future level ups, after all that tree is just experimentation and assembly anyhow, why not throw the Droid Use +10 or whatever thing there if you want to implement it? From there you just increase the number in whatever incriments you want up to the master DE slot where it hits the ceiling. Easy as pie.





This would not work. This would mean everyone would become DE, like the tons of CH out in the world. I hate seeing CH every time I turn around. It makes me sick. You need to keep DE an elite profession. I have a wonderful alternative for this Certification stuff. It would be good because it means ANYONE can use them if they want to, but it also takes SOME TIME and EFFORT to have the best ones:


http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=droid_engineer&message.id=53337




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BriaArtisan
Tue Jan 20, 2004 11:00 am
#5

Alleissays it best, good post




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Ablon
Tue Jan 20, 2004 11:04 am
#6

I think they are trying to implement a star warsy kind of feel. I would like to see the plan they will implement. It is very difficult to understand at this point but lets wait and see what they have planned.



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Virtanis
Tue Jan 20, 2004 11:22 am
#7




Sumus wrote:

I havent been this lied to sence my last girlfriend.






LOL... SOE isn't even giving us a reach-around.



(not referring to your girlfriend, ofcourse...)





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dpbad
Tue Jan 20, 2004 12:33 pm
#8






Alleis wrote:

Okay, I stuck with DE, I toughed it out. You DEV's told us they'd get better, they'd get more useful, they'd start being real and reflect the Star Wars Mythos!



You're a bunch of liars!



I'm sorry, I don't mean to sound like a jerk or anything, but flat out, you are! I can't imagine how many of us have just toughed it out with X amount of skill points invested in this USELESS profession, waiting for the moment that you've promised would finally deliver us from hell into a good time!


You said you'd make changes, but the changes you propose SUCK! No, you're not adding to the Droid Engineer class by suggesting a new Droid Handler profession. DROID HANDLER!? MY GOD PEOPLE DO YOU EVEN -THINK- about what you're talking about? How does that make -ANY- sense?


Droids don't need to be HANDLED, they need to be built and used, unfortunately only the being built part works, you've done a good job of making sure nobody wants to use them.


You say we're top priority and yet we're not getting any real love until sometime in JULY!? No thanks, not sticking with this profession any longer. I've hung on for about as long as I can stand to. Since the moment I started playing this game I wanted to use droids and build them, but there's just no purpose to it, and you're not making it any better.


So, in closing..


Shame on you for yanking us all around, shame on you for lying to us, shame on you for absolutely defiling one of the most beloved things about star-wars.


Have you ever thought that it's easier to become a Jedi than a useful droid engineer? Heh, good heavens. My heart aches for this profession, and for those that continue to tough it out. I hope something actually improves, but don't count on it.







Welcome to SWG Beta.


If you are going to create a Droid Handler profession, please bring back the Miner profession.




Arkin' Gethae
Artisan 4/4/4/4
Droid Engineer 0/0/0/1
Marksman 1/0/0/1
Scout 1/0/0/1

Falling asleep February 3, 2004 . . . and death following soon.
Puck_Starfire
Sun Jan 25, 2004 6:38 pm
#9

Okay, I stuck with DE, I toughed it out. You DEV's told us they'd get better, they'd get more useful, they'd start being real and reflect the Star Wars Mythos!



You're a bunch of liars!





You go! I'm with ya! Hey I hear they're improving the Chef profession. Imagine that, the Chef.
TheRealTK421
Sun Jan 25, 2004 7:07 pm
#10






Alleis wrote:

<< A lot of comments amounting to "I don't like this." >>






Welcome to about 6 days ago. Things are a bit different now.


/bow

Respectfully,




TheRealTK421 a.k.a. "Doughbacca"
SWG DE Correspondent
Co-Founding member of Ahazi DENet & SWG DEA (Droid Engineer Association)
"I think all right-thinking people in this country are sick and tired of being told that ordinary, decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. ...I'm certainly not. And I'm sick and tired of being told that I am."


DuckMaestro
Sun Jan 25, 2004 11:43 pm
#11

http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=droid_engineer&message.id=57315


let me know what you think about that idea above. i think it might be close to what everyone wants, dev's and de's included. (reply there plz, to keep things organized).


-duck



- Duck
I give up.
nakedw00kie
Mon Jan 26, 2004 6:28 am
#12

Man so true...pity SOE dont give a toss about it all though. They havent grinded DE and played a pointless profession when they could be Jedi by now.



Do or do not...there is no try

Emok (Europe-Chimaera)
Master Droid Engineer (At last...and what a waste it seems)
Lotek Droidworks - New Sparticus - Corellia (-187 4707)
RETIRING MDE AND SWG IN 2 MONTHS.
Sodan-droiddreamer
Mon Jan 26, 2004 1:34 pm
#13






Alleis wrote:

Okay, y'kno what? I should at least be constructive in my outage right?


Here's my suggestion, not that I believe that anyone is actually being listened to on these forums, but what the heck.


First off, ditch the droid handler Idea, it should've been ditched since the moment the ill conceived concept was hatched.


Secondly, certification should be simple for using advanced combat droids. Mirror creature handler, everyone in the game can use level ten droids. At novice DE, make it so you can use a level 15, then take the third from the left skill tree (forgot the name) andthat's where you put the future level ups, after all that tree is just experimentation and assembly anyhow, why not throw the Droid Use +10 or whatever thing there if you want to implement it? From there you just increase the number in whatever incriments you want up to the master DE slot where it hits the ceiling. Easy as pie.


Now this at least would make us DE's happy, but to be true to the genre you have to allow everyone to use droids at whatever level. I understand that people can't use pets higher than level ten. It's one thing to have a dog, an entirely different to have a tiger. However droids don't need to be tamed or trained, just built and used. THey're like cd players, universally understood and operated.


So to be TRUE to the genre, DE's should be able to build them, and EVERYONE should be able to use them, maybe giving DE the perk of being able to have 2 out at once or something like that, or to be able to use 1 kind of droid that others can't, THAT is how it should be.




/agree big time



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