Droid Engineer Archive

I just finished reading the CH changes. In my personal opinion it looks good. I came back to the DE forums and two posts were started, one saying it may be good for DEs and the other bad for DEs.

The bad, anyone not a CH can only call 1 pet, therefore a person cannot have his rock beetle AND a probot. The assumption here being that a creature is still going to be preferred over our droids and therefore no more sales.

The good, Non-CH pets are reduced to level 10. This means non-ch pets will be more in-line with probots and in fact, the probot may have an advantage.

Without having seen what they plan for DEs yet, I still think the changes they propose are good ones, although we may need to wait to see how it pans out. (Go check out the full post on the development forum). It would seem to limit the dabblers in the CH tree who only get enough skill boxes to take maximumadvantage of the pet aspect. It also reduces the level of non-ch pets, in my hopes making them not quite so desirable.

There was apparently a LOT of thought put into this plan. If as much thought is put into the DE plan, then I can see very good things on the horizon.

Anyone else's thoughts?

I think every change is good, except for the one pet only stipulation

It will reduce the Pok e Mon attitude, and will make probots more attractive as alternatives

I personally only use one pet at a time right now anyways, so if I can have a probot with decent combat stats + med mods and a crafting station, i will be very happy.

It's good if they mean one pet of each type (creature, droid, faction)...but if it's just going to be one pet, then we'll still only see creatures and faction pets and few droids.

Especially when mounts come out...who'll want to waste their one pet out on a droid when they could have a dewback that'd not only carry them around but also fights decently?

They've already stated that mounts will not be able to attack, yet they can be attacked.

As for number of pets out, it sounded to me that the limit of 1 was maximum, whether or not it was a creature, droid, or faction pet.

yah i'm worried about the one pet thing. What if you could only have one pet out, be it driod, beast or faction?

ugh and if its only 1 faction... i have 2 atsts that will be gathering dust, sigh. And callin a creature? hmm atst vs rancor or even Driodika, wonder which i'll use.

-Azerin Dangerflirt
Colonel, Imperial Army

The changes to Non-CH are very, very, very, bad. Gamekilling bad.

Forcing Non-CH's leaves the Player with a choice between a faction pet, a low level pet, and a probot(Currently). The Probot is absolutely useless with it's very low HAM against most creatures. Even with it's Armor & resists, it's HAM condemns it to a quick death. If you doubt that, I recommened going to Lok, and sending it out to tank anything there, and that's the lowest planet. God knows it doesn't do sufficient damage to kill a Nuna. Not even a sick one.

Similiarly low level pets will be useless. Which leaves only Faction pets as something usefull.

Where it gets really ugly, is it's going to start amounting to forced grouping, which most people are very tired of already from other games.