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For my optimistic compromise proposal, check here:

http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=droid_engineer&message.id=53933

Now I'm going to allow myself a bit of pessimism, apologies in advance.

TH said in the following post:

http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=droid_engineer&message.id=52500

"We WANT Droideka's in the game, but since they arent going on the DE tree, they have to go in some Skill tree that makes sense. Players MUST spend points and skill boxes to get this "Droid Handling" ability.

The devs intend on adding a "Droid Handler" profession (which would work like Creature Handlers) but thats a "next phase" thing and isn't going to be considered until Summertime (July-ish)."

My question is regardless of the compromise solution that is chosen, are we still talking summertime before these high level combat droids are going to make it in the game? The reason I ask is back when it was January, it sounded manageable, but July? Besides being over a year after the game shipped it is 6 month from now. I'm sorry, I can't sell 800 HAM probots, surgical droids, and BH droids for 6 more months. I've always thought adding combat modules to existing droids was a mistake (no desire for a protocol droid with a gun). Perhaps if we were given the ultimate freedom in chassis design to make lots of unique strange looking droids it would make sense. However, since we are being held to the continuity of the movies, 3P0 shouldn't have a gun.

I'm left with only one conclusion, drop the profession. Can a more optimistic DE talk me out of this please? I really like the idea of droid engineering, but I can't do the same thing for 6 more months.

Thanks,

Ywi Odiwovvi
Master Droid Engineer
Corbantis

If it were me and I was still wanting to play this broken game, then yes, drop the profession. When summer comes, you know they're going to delay until Fall, then Winter, etc. I am going to be going to a different MMORPG game in the near future, just haven't decided which one yet.

I'm also caped as far as DE boredom. I think I'll drop DE t'ill it's fixed and fun again (was fun for the first 3 months of discovering the profession and Droid market, then 3 months of utter boredom). Time to explore other aspects of the game, and the FS slot, then come back to my first love: DE.

I seriously doubt you'll find experienced DEs with a lot of optimism at this time. Sorry

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Buni wrote:

Time to explore other aspects of the game, and the FS slot, then come back to my first love: DE.

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Buni,

This is pretty much my personal plan. I'll try to do it such that I can keep the Droid shop open the entire time. That way, I don't have to worry at all about credits or doing anything in particular for money.


/bow

Respectfully,

Its kinda hard to encourage you to hang on. The game lost lots of fun once I hit master since I no longer had a goal. That was late october, and I figured that by February we would have some fixes andnew content so I didnt mind. Im patient.

But to drop this DH idea? and give us nothing out of the list of utility droids and we wait 8 months for it? Let some other poor **edit** take my place as a DE.

Im just waiting for some solid direction from SOE. I want to know for sure my profession is fubar before i drop it. Thats the worst part. If they would just tell us the plan we could make a decision. Not knowing is infuriating.

If the plan doesnt end up with everyone being able to use droids. Im dropping DE.

Ironically, im strongly leaning towards BE. Why? From what I understand you can mix different creatures and come up with unique creations. Thats a 1000 times better than our cookie cutter droids that no one wants. or rather, everyone wants but has no use for. Though i thank all the medics out there who have been my main customers.