Droid Engineer Archive

Dear Devs,

Thank you for giving time to our profession, and for giving us these new modules. They are great concepts, but I (and others) are afraid that many of the droids will be bought once as a novelty when the publish is released, and then no more. Here are some suggestions for modifications that we hope you will consider.

Survey droids - I've seen many requests that the survey emails contain more than just names. Resource stats, maybe even some clue as to where high concentrations are. For example, if u break a planetary map into 4 quadrants, the email can say 2 peaks in quadrant 1, 1 peak in quadrant 4, etc. But resource stats seem to be the most requested.

Barker modules - as helpful as they are, if we need to be nearby, it's a bit of a pain. Perhaps the droids could be on a timer, say every x hours they autostore. Or maybe they use power quickly and need to be recharged every x hours. It would help merchants out a lot. Also, ifthe Advertising 4 requirement was moved to Novice Merchant, many more people would buy the droids. Longer messages than 128 characters would also be appreciated. Lastly, if vendors could be browsed or samples viewed from the droid, that would be excellent.

Stimpack Dispensor - these are great but stim-a's are very weak. Perhaps the kind of stim it's allowed to have could be based on the doctor/medic's medicine use skill. That way stim B's and up could be used.

Structure Maintenance - this is a great module, however if it could check the stats of a structure (maybe even say if a harvester is inactive due to resource depletion), and especially if it could add power as well, that would be great.

Detonation modules - I spoke to several bounty hunters and the consensus was that they don't do enough damage. Also, Tolium Reactive Gas is a very rare spawn. I went to dozens of resource vendors and found small amounts of Tolium, the most with an OQ of 500 (one had an OQ of 2!). If you could help us in this area, I'm sure it will be used often.

Thank you for your time, and please let us know what you can do. All who agree please /sign and post your comments.

Thanks,

Isildur

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