Droid Engineer Archive
Thread: A drop of hope
Question: can you let us know what the Dev Teams' collective take is on the fact that so many view the current incarnation of SWG as 'Pet Wars'?
Answer: Well, basically, the feeling is "this is going to be hard to fix."
Our first thought is to enhance droids so that it can at least become Droid Wars, which is Star Warsier.
Now, note he just said it was their "first thought", not that it was their decision or that they would be doing it in my lifetime. Just that they've thought about it. I guess that's something.
http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=Developers&message.id=1085#M1085
Ocu_Lus,
I wrote the question he answered (so I probably saw his answer first).
Being in Beta, and being familiar with Holocron's responses on such things, I wouldn't actually call this a drop of hope.
More like a drop of "spin".
It's my guess that they miscalculated wholesale the effect that they themselves have put in place vis a vis the creatures vs. droids situation. I simply wanted to see what Holocron (and the team's) mindset was on this. I didn't really expect him to answer this and certainly didn't think he'd allude to trying to turn DEs into the next CH class.
...though....that's worth a shot. 
/bow
Respectfully,
I MUST disagree... here is ANOTHER quote from Holocron that looks mighty good for us:
http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=Development&message.id=533717&highlight=combat+droids#M533717
"...there's not enough combat droids, which we are going to be working on fixing soon."
Careful, Holo, that's close to giving out dates. How soon is soon?