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I personaly have heard rumors that they are thinking about making battle droids a sperate tree, i personaly do not like this rumor.

but i have a cool simple solution, just adjust the tree slightly

here is how it is now: Droid Production, Droid Construction Techniques, Droid Refinement, and of course droid blueprints. (these are the 4 main trees as is)

heres is how they should do it imho: (to alliviate any bad idea of makking another tree for combat):

Droid Service Modules(we all know what this is), Droid Construction and Refinement(Extra Experimentation and armor modules), Combat Droid Blue Prints(duh! what we allll want.), Utility Droid Blue Prints(the same awesome stuff for artisians, harvesters, etc).

Please let me know what you think and maybe shoot a few ideas or flames. thanks again.

Sounds like a good idea.. I just started working my way up the DE profession, and the fact that the probot is the end-all combat droid is a little depressing.. I had higher hopes for droid construction back when I heard about swg. As long as they don't add another Elite-elite profession I'm happy, getting Master now is enough work :\

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CrimsonRyoko wrote:

Not to be a downer, but i seriously dont see them redoing the tree, what will they do for all the people whom have like 2-1-0-4? If they put the combat droid blueprints in the 3rd tree, then no one will have xp in it, and that would get 10,000 complaints

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Speak for yourself, theres several Masters out there that wouldn't mind the third tree being changed to combat droid blueprints Its the only tree that practically empty and would make the best tree.

it sounds ok but try and get the devs to read it.

I like the idea of having combat droids in a different line but I see a possible problem with it as far as where to place droid parts. If a combat droid and a utility type droid both need an advanced droid brain, where do you put the advanced droid brain schematics on the skill trees?

You can put it with one line or the other, but chances are that the droid schematic tree you want to go up first(or went up already)won't be the one that has the parts you need in it. You can put it in a different branch, but that will make you have to go up another branch no matter what you choose, which is more fair. I suppose you can put it in both lines, too, but I can't think of any other artisan trees that have doubled up schematics like that.

The other problem is what Ryoko said. While Master DE's have all their skills filled out and will love the instant access to new stuff, I'd rather not have to stop what I'm doing to go get another line to make the stuff I made the day before the patchand have to start up a new tree to get more schematics.

I think that if if it's what it takes to fix us, then fine, let's go. I don't think this may be the way to go at this point in the game, no matter how much of a good idea it is.

-Lee

hmm or maybe even a second variation: droid construction andrefinement (exper points and modules) electronics and repair(in this you could repair broken stuff and eventually on the tier 4 make small vehicles), then of corse the other two droid blue prints.

i still stick with my frist post but i thought i might through this in for you to chomp on.

What makes you think they are going to change DEs at all? People have been demanding fixes and changes since beta...every other class has been fixed but us.

Droids are so NOT StarWarsy...have you even seen a droid being used in Star Wars movies or books? Noooo. Everywhere you look though you seefighters running around with 3 rancors though. Man that was sooo cool in the movies. Those rancors kicked ass!

But anyways I disgress, I being a Master DE hope and pray for changes...but before we get combat droids...lets FIX what little we DO have.

Please please please fix some of the current DE problems before adding more broken crap!!! Yay! They added combat droids! OMG heavy armor! Sweet! (one week later) Dang, they just nerfed heavy armor. Why was the HAM dropped? Bah this attack sucks! What!? Permadeath again?

Don't get me wrong, I would love to see more combat droids but we all remember what happened to probots. The same will happen to new combat droids if they prove too usefull or powerfull. Let's get some new features or fixes...something that we can hang on to and USE! =)

/rant off

with all do respect, of corse we all want them to fix the current things, but hey, cant we dream a bit too? i mean i personaly know the devs in one way or another have some contact with the forums, weather it be the correspondent or a random made up name just to keep a watchful eye. in any case if this has any chance of getting into the devs view and with alot of people saying "hey thats cool" then i think they will go fix our droids and add some nice ones (combat) this will be a chance worth taking, even though it is small.

i made a suggestion identical to that with specific break down of each skill box on sin's first email to the devs great minds still think alike though

Not to be a downer, but i seriously dont see them redoing the tree, what will they do for all the people whom have like 2-1-0-4? If they put the combat droid blueprints in the 3rd tree, then no one will have xp in it, and that would get 10,000 complaints

They could refund all DE xp used thus far, but i see abou 900,000 bugs that would come as standard as fries with that update.

I dunno what they should do, but i got a good idea of what they wont, and part of that is anything!