Droid Engineer Archive

In order to make the DE profession useful it needs to become a quasi essential part of the game. To this end here are my suggestions:

1) Luke Skywalker bought droids because the old one broke could not be fixed and wore out. Not because of combat, but because of time. Non combat droids should be like vehicles, in that each time you take them out they degrade, batteries can slow the degradation, but not stop it, and eventually they die. Then you need to go back and buy another one.

2) Droids need to serve more essential/useful functions. These could include:

a) Resource mine maintnenance, as in droids can be loaded with credits and power and go keep your miners filled.

b) Resource Locators, they could be assigned to go across planets and report a general idea of whats there. As in lok as dolovite iron, phrik aluminum, duralloy steel, etc....

c) Slicing of boxes and doors, R2D2 did this way more often then Solo. Allow the droid to open boxes and doors.

d) Base shutdowns. Again droids could be equiped to participate in base shutdowns.

e) Training. Luke learned the light saber from a droid. Have training droids so we dont have so many kook campers.

f) Gambling Droids. Hey let me open a casino with slot machine droids!!!!!

g) Item Repair Droids. Let them fix my guns armor and stuff.

h) Vehicle repair, How many times has R2 fixed a vehicle? A lot.

3) Combat. Ok this is star wars, One of the most feared BH in the galaxy is a droid. If we need to have a Droid Commander make it. But give the game more fearsome droids. This is not He-Man I am so tired of seeing battle cat running all over the planet.

Anywho, this is my 2 credits worth, Sure this has all been said before. But the most important issue is to have droids decay, with no ability to fully repair.

Cheers

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