Droid Engineer Archive

By now you all have probably read that the correspondents have been given a private board to help us interact more directly with the devs without the distraction of other posters. We were told to keep certain posts to ourselves. This statement is causing an uproar in the community. Many people do not have confidence in their correspondents and feel that their represenative has their own agenda.

I believe the intent of the statement of keeping things posted on our forum private was only to ensure that if the devs consider something and post it we dont run back here and get your hopes up, and then cause a mass riot if it never bears fruit.

I personally see no reason NOT to tell you guys what I post and what I am saying about us, etc. I will adhere to what the DEVS wish and not repeat what they say unless cleared by them, but what I say is a different matter. Unless of course it comprimises a DEVs post.

That said, the first question by the devs was what our first, top issue was. I am pretty sure I had a grasp on it so I went ahead and posted. I realize that not all people can agree. All I can do is represent a majority, and even then sometimes representing a majority is not the correct thing to do. (Recalling peoples support for slavery and womens right to vote a few hundred years ago as an example.)

This is what I posted, in the format they wished:

Profession: Droid Engineer

Top Issue: (use 1 sentence)There really is not that big of a market for Droids at this time.

Additional Detail: Granted .. we can sell Medical droids and crafting droids but to be honest it is not enough to stay afloat for many DEs. What this equates to I suppose is that Droids really do not do much. Instead of buying a Combat Droid most people will buy a CL15 Pet instead.

Proposed Solution:

Long term: Add more droids and modules. Especially modules that ENHANCE other professions such as Entertainers, Smugglers, Squad Leaders, Rangers ..etc. Make models of droids that only certain modules can go into as well.

Shortterm:Make probots slightly more desirable than CL15 pets. Give us a market back. To be honest we do not understand why the Probot was nerfed when CL15 pets are as strong if not stronger in some instances than the pre-nerf probot.

If you all disagree, by all means please post here. if you agree post as well. It is not too late to change what I posted. As I learn more I will post here. I will only post facts though and not hear-say. And what I post will only be what I am posting unless cleared by the devs.

Please .. as usual .. constructive criticism only please

I think you summed it up pretty well there.

Although it seems a bit short to me. Arent there a lot of suggestions for new type of droids buzzing around here at the board. Such as the surveying droid for example. Which I think is a really good idea.

- Verm

I agree with the idea that we need more droids, however I think it is even more important to fix some of the MAJOR crafting problems inherant in DE. For example: experimentation and resource quality is meaningless as of now, this needs to be fixed BEFORE we get new droids. Thanks for giving voice to our concerns though

Sintrosi let me be the first (unless someone else is replying right now too) to say that was an excellent post! Although they only asked for one issue, you managed to post one "issue" with many smaller issues included. Some might say this is bad because it causes the dev's to not focus on one issue, but I say kudos. I don't want them to fix one issue every 2 months, I want them to make DE a viable class now!

Although the correspondent job hasn't been the most rewarding for you or the community, we all appreciate you sticking with it. It sounds like SOE is actually trying to make this a viable role, and I hope that becomes the case. I don't think that some of the correspondent bashers out there realize that you guys have to spend time outside of RL and outside of your normal game time to do a "job" that you are not compensated for in any way. Thanks again for sticking it out with the rest of us!

On top of that, there's no decay or reason to replace a droid, ever! There's been lots of ideas floating around about this too.

Careful there.

There is no decay to pets, either. Adding a further limitation to droids that does not exist with pets will probably lower sales, even if the disadvantage would normally create more sales in the absence of pets (think permadeath).

I think that pretty much is the main gripe we all share, there simply is no market for us. The little market we have is a non-returning one (you only need one crafting unit for your entire life, and one medic module. The other modules are useless).
I don't care much about experimentation, first give us a market, after that, we can worry about customizing the things we make.
What would be the second biggest problem? I guess the experimentation thing.
Third? Maybe fix the deeds so they show as 'Deeds' in the bazaar and not as misc item -> General
After that? I'd say make it so lower level droids accept only lower level modules (i.e. no mouse droids with lvl 6 medical module), that makes higher lvl DEs kill the market for lower lvl DEs.

I agree mostly, however, i dont think probot's should be uber powerful (ala empire strikes back, wasnt really all that tough was it?) I would rather say that we need to have Droidekas, roger rogers, and those no necked droids from attack of the clones. that would give us a fighting chance against creature handler sales....

totally agree.

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doh yes I use paragraphs! But sometimes I use 'Edit as HTML' and forget to click the convert CR to new paragraphs option

Iss Droidekas should be a DE only pet.

I concur completely. The fundamental problem is the lack of NEED for our products.

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Wolfing wrote:
...Maybe fix the deeds so they show as 'Deeds' in the bazaar and not as misc item -> General...

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Why does everyone propose such a 'half fix' solution? Just create a Droid category (not subcategory but category) in the bazaar.