Droid Engineer Archive
Thread: New Droid Engineer needs guidance
Loads of info in there.
If I understand you correctly (English is not my native language) you grinded through to Master DE without making any "real" droids. I dont understand it. (Please take no offense, Tim, I waited for an opportunity to expresse this ;-) Why do people grind through the DE skills? With almost every skill (except Droid Refinement) there are exciting new modules or chassis one can play with. I tested each of them or looked for ppl who were able to test them for me (like effects modules). Grinding through to Master DE would have killed me without those sweet feedbacks.
K, this doesnt answer your question. But what is your question? Experiment with the chassis you can make. Put the weirdest combinations of modules in them and look it they are any good. Give away your droids to people and let them report if they benefit from them or not. Finally, find a friendly Master who has seen it all and whom you can hammer with questions.
Concerning the complexity: yes, you feel lost. That's ok. Any DE does so in the beginning. But sooner or later you will start to love it - if you have what it takes to be a De ;-) I have piles of sheets with notes on what module/chassis take which parts/resources. I even consider purchasing a notebook for this. :-)
May the DE spirit with you.
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wotz - Master DE in Hammerhead/Tatooine/Naritus
But I have to admit that DE without at least some grinding is not good for your mental health.
It's just too low xp for each droid, and too low request for droids.
I didn't grind all of it, but I did grind much more than to reach master artisan.
JinxKurai wrote:
Crates of advanced droid brains.
If I could offer you only one tip for the future, advanced droid brains in crates would be it. The long term benefits of having tons of these things readily on hand has been proved by DE's everywhere, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience…I will dispense this advice now.
Enjoy the power and beauty of your pre-nerf probot; oh nevermind; you will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until it has lost all its vitality. But trust me, in 2 weeks, you’ll look back at screenshots of your probot and recall in a way you can’t grasp now how fun that thing was and how much ass it really kicked. You’re not asgimped as you imagine.
Don’t worry about the bugs; or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to fight a Krayt with a CDEF. The real gamebreakers are apt to be things that never got mentioned on the forums; the kind that make your shop disappear every Tuedsay at 4:03 PM exactly.
Do one thing every logonthat scares you .
Tip.
Don’t be reckless with other people’s droids, don’t put up with people who are reckless with yours.
Experiment.
Don’t waste your time on whining; sometimes things work, sometimes they don't…the game can be fun, and in the end you know that DE will rock.
Remember the good customers, /ignore the idiots; if you succeed in doing this, send me your list.
Keep your old modules, throw away your old schematics.
Grind.
Don’t feel guilty if you don’t know what a data module is good for…the most successful DE's I know never sold a one.
Get plenty of steel and fiberplast.
Hoard extrusive ore, you’ll missit whenit's gone.
Maybe you’ll get rich, maybe you won’t, maybe you’ll get patched, maybe you won’t, maybe you’ll be stuck making MSE's, maybe you’ll be cranking out droidekas by the factory lot…what ever you do, don’t congratulate yourself too much or berateSOE either – you might be the flavor of the month one day, and get nerfed 5 minutes later. Enjoy your skills, use them every way you can.
Dance…even if you don't have novice entertainer - people love dancing engineers.
Read the FAQs, even if you don't believe the answers.
Do NOT read the creature handler forums, they will only make you feel useless.
Get to know your fellow DE's, you never know when they’ll be gone for good.
Be nice to Bio Engineers; they are the one other crafting class we can look at and say "Thank god I didn't go that route."
Live inAnchorhead once, but leave before it makes you insane; live in Theed once, but leave before it makes you forget that some shuttles have waits.
Travel.
Accept certain inalienable truths, dupes will happen, devs will overpromise, you too will become bitter and cynical, and when you do you’ll fantasize that when you were a newbie, duped didn't happen, the devs did what they said, and l33t sp34k3rz were rare.
Don't sp34k l33t.
Don’t expect everyone else to help you. Maybe you have a 70% ore spot, maybe you have a great guild; but you never know when either one might disappear.
But trust me on the droid brains...
Ah, the power of insomnia+boredom.
Somehow this seemed fitting
Message Edited by Eaca on 09-07-2004 04:42 AM