Droid Engineer Archive

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PanzerGR wrote:

A month or more ago when i first learned that barking modules were coming out I gave the DE's a warning about them. Wow! With such insight and cunning you are my newest hero!

The warning was about the amount of unfiltered spam these would cause.....most peopel agreed that if improperly designed barker droids could be an extremely high nuisance with their spam, etc. Many suggestions were given. (and just as promptly ignored by the devs)

TO my knowledge none of thos esuggestions were listened to. Barker droids are SO annoying i refuse to even go to some starports now. (And this hurts me how?)The spam is absolutely intolerable. (This differs from yesterday and the day before?)Unlike a player, you cna not put a droid on ignore (that im aware of) and as such theres no way to filter out the spam from these things. (Hmmm...if you were ignoring all the spammers before, you must have an ignore list like no-ones business. Seriously, this is day one, how many have you REALLY heard so far?)

PLEASE get this fixed (Sorry, wrong forum noob. Try the In Live thread or PMing TH. We can't do anything about it.)

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Actually yoru correspondant CAN address the issue with the devs.....thanks bub.

Secondly this is a problem and theres alreayd been a few posts on my forums about it.

No one can say DE hasnt needed new stuff and hasnt needed fixes.....this is not a very good "fix" to anything however. It only annoys peopel to no end. It may not hurt you that people refuse to go thru soem starports now, but I believe there ar emore peopel out there who hate these things than liek them.....and sure as he!! more of us that disliek them than there are Droid Engineers.

I ignore anyoen in the starports who spams messages more than every so often and of such and such a length..and yes my ignore list is kinda lengthy.

However the point is i had a CHOICE before whether or not to ignore sum1......with these stupid droids i do NOT get a choic eint he matter and I am FORCED to listen to their sputter and have their chat bubbles fill my screen. And That, my friend, is not right.

This needs to be fixed and it needs to be fixed fast.......even soem of your fellow DE's wer eont he same page a month ago GnomeAd...i cant help it DE's have been shafted so long that your unwilling to compromise.

you people arent getting it

if i want to buy soemthing i ask around for it.......i dont liek having to listen to incessant spam at starports......i dotn block everyone, just those peopel being exceedingly nanoying with their spam.

Granted it is good business for soem people.....

but the POINT is i SHOULD have a CHOICE as to whetehr or not i want to listen to it. It hsould not be forced upon me and nothing I can do about it except tget the old "live with it" routine from inconsiderate businessmen. Sorry.

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Last i checked i pay to play this game.. this isnt public broadcast tv where i should be forced to endure commercials. A real crafter and/or reputable seller doesnt need to spam at all, honestly. I sold meds for a long time and never spammed once, and was probably one of the busiest if not the busiest on bloodfin during that time.

droids dont sell prodcut, good product sells itself.a good rep is worth more then 1000 droids, and droi barkers are going to ruin theirs in my eyes.

guess you folks don't go to Cnet.. at least on Starsider, the barking was ridiculous. I have a huge ignore list, yes, as I am a master doc on one of my characters, and it's hard to see customer's speech or whatnot if I have spam scrolling my text box. So I ignore a lot of people. But these droids.... ugh. Don't get me wrong, I like the combat droid updates, those are great, but barker modules are a pain. Scout harvester modules are mostly worthless.. Oooh, I get maybe a bonus to harvesting from a well built droid.. so what, not really worth the hassle. Entertainer droids are ok (tell your musician customers to have the playback droids do bandflos to get them to work) survey droids are completley worthless, I can travel to a planet in less time and just pop open a survey tool for the same reason, and I don't use up a charge on a droid, or lose my survey tool in the processs... this publish was a great rework to combat droids, but everything else sucks.

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Itren wrote:

Whine, gripe, moan, complain, b!tch, pout, etc etc...........

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fixed?

Basically, replacing PC spammer that spam every 3 seconds by Droid that spam max every minute is very very bad for you?

The Devs did listen. You must have advertising 4 to use them, and the droid won't bark faster than 1 per minute and only if new players are coming in the area.

Honestly I think the dev shouldn't have change the requirement so you need Advertising 4 to use it.
Because that limit alot the number of people that will use them.

And so that won't reduce the spam that much.

As for the ignore list and coronet spammers, personaly I don't even bother put them on ignore, there are way too many.
I just cut my local when I have to stop at this spaceport.

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PanzerGR wrote:

all i know is i want an option to turn these buggers off.....i buy based on rep and people I know. People have sold their products long before these things came out, im sure they could have done without these and still sold products.

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