Droid Engineer Archive
Thread: Some input from a Droid Customer
I have purchaseda lot of droids. Probably more than any other single person. Why? I bought droids for my whole guild in the beginning thinking they were an important part of the SOE universe. silly me.
Its not just the droid MAKERS that are dissapointed with current droid abilities and designs. The customers BADLY want to see some "neat stuff" in this field.
And no my Giant red lifterbot doesnt really cut it.
Honestly the only people who have any real necessity for a droid are medical people. Other than that the rest of us have no reason to have one at all.
IMO what needs to be done:
1: Sales Droids. I thinkDEs should have the ability to make droids that move and talk to customers for merchants. .
2: Obviously a viable combat droid. Current combat droids are in line with your normal CL15 critter. They are. But they are NOT in line with the BEST cl15s. I realize that when the non ch pet nerf comes in the probot will certainly be better than a CL10.
My opinion: there needs to be droid certs in the CH tree or perhaps in the DE tree itself. DEs should be able to build droids that meet or beat creatures at each of the CL Stop points in the current CH Tree.
Realistically:
CL 15
25
30
35
40
45
50
Entertainment:
What if Droid Engineers were able to craft special AI modules for instruments? What if a Dancer could be certified to use a troupe of Dance Droids and do choreography?
There are plenty of niches for better and fun droids. it doesnt have to be combat. although personally I would love to see some grauls go by the wayside and use a CB4X Destructodroid at that CL40ish level 
This from someone who keeps a protocol droid for fun. later.
excuse me for the shortnes, but a Droid Engineer is not a fighter class, its a Crafter at all. So if you like to get the DE moving along with Super Battle Droids imho there is something wrong.
We really need a kind of Battle Droids in the game, but not for the DE. The fighting classes should be able to command them with the appopriate certification. They should be craftable, not commandable by the DE.
What the DE really need is a bugfree Skilltree and some usesfull Modules for ALL other Professions, like the Architects that are able to make Homes for every other profession.
Thank you very much for your Posting anyway, it shows that other than the DE are interested in this Profession and maybe one day we are an important part of the Game.
With kind regards
Whelben Mystmir
Useless Master Droid Engineer, Gorath
I like this idea, but I would take it one step further. If we could buy instraments from the entertainer and put them into our droid as an entertainment droid. Not actually do any of the healing mind you, just playing the instrament so we have some music playing in the house when someone walks in. That would be a useless, but neat little addition.
CrollBothanBattleBunny wrote:
Entertainment:
What if Droid Engineers were able to craft special AI modules for instruments? What if a Dancer could be certified to use a troupe of Dance Droids and do choreography?
I think it would be cool if we DE's had a droid that only we could control, we are crafters indeed, but we also run into some pretty nasty things while we are out looking for good harv spots, or simply operating our harvs. A super tuff droid to protect us would be great.
It might be fun to join a hunting party as well. If we had a droid with unique abilities we might be actualy a good bonus to a party. Then I cold drop my carbine and sword skills so I could concentrate on armor crafting and make my own composite segments for my droids.
Good post CrollBothan, thanks!
WookieWangler I think his point there wouldn't make CH any more powerful it would just give them some more options to discourage so many pets running around.
When it comes down to it I'd like to see some Droid Engineers be able to use a few of the combat droids they make. To me this wouldn't really turn them into a combat class necessarily. Think about it...when a CH tames a pet it might as well be crafting it. It appears in the datapad, you train it, and then you use it to fight. Most CH also have a weapon skill of some sort..THAT is their combat class. Another example would be armor crafters, they can make armor and use it in battle 5 seconds later after it pops out. Does this make them a combat class even though the armor they just made will help them stay alive longer in battle? Not necessarily.
Perhaps there should be a Droid Controller class added too...that way you could compare Droid Engineer to, say, Bio-Engineer as Droid Controller would be to CH. Personally I think DE would still work ok with some combat certified droids but the good ones should obviously be far up the tree and comparable to a CL 40, 45, or 50 critter. The idea here is to prevent flavor of the month characters although I doubt you'd see that too much in a crafting class.
Just my opinions...take them as you will since I'm not a DE. The almighty holocron told me Commando so thats where I shall go although I really had hoped it had given me a crafting class and I also had hoped for DE I'll reserve judgement till Thunderheart's professions post but I think DE would be a really fun crafting class if they just had some more options....at least till ship designer comes out 
Dotren
Well, the reason I picked the ch tree is there already are certs there for creatures.
And my perception is the reason that a combat droid will NEVER be stronger than cl15 or so is that it takes no cert to use one.
Putting certs into the high level combat proffesions doesnt fix that, it doesnt cause that combat person to spend more SKILL POINTS thus weakening them elsewhere.
Every game needs balance, The CH is ALREADY using critters at those levels. Having the option of using a specially crafted droid instead wouldnt be unbalancing.