Droid Engineer Archive
Thread: THIS PUBLISH WILL MAKE OR BREAK THE DROID ENGINEER
Well, if you are in it for money, might as well not even wait.
DE is still a labor of love.
Might as well say goodbye because none of the other things will be addressed.
Why is it that all of you just focused on the income part of my statement. 300k or 5 billion a day its still more than I spend. Did any of you bother to even read the rest of my statement? Do any of my other statements even register with you...
Yousee my post as a personal attack on everyone that is a droid engineer. What I was trying to do was show how much work and effort a droid engineer puts into a droid, and the return they get on it is practicly nothing. You call it a labour of love?your in denial. How often do you get people telling you they love your droids.
Droid engineers deserve a product with functionality and qualitythat is just as in demand as those an armor smith makes. They also deserve to have a product based on resource quality and experimentation. Right now both mean almost nothing in a droid. I would love nothing more than to compete with other droid engineers on who could make the best combat droid. Or who could make a droid with the most storage.
Unfortunately these things dont look like they will come to pass. But I will wait for patch 7&8 to find out and see what happens. I am hopping for DE's to be able to control more than one combat droid at a time. Become a crafting/droid handling class.
b10tch wrote:
#2. Appreciation for your skills/product. When armorsmiths make a good product, everyone thanks them, and still pay a half mill to a million credits for a suit of adv composite. People actually get excited for good armor. When we make a good adv probot and sell it for 40k we are told we over charge, and we dont ever get recognition for having a made a top level droid. And when was the last time you saw someone get excited over the new batch of probots you were making?
"I think that depends on what your looking for with appreciation. Being a great armorsmith will earn you fame, but, from my experience, not necessarily appreciation. As a DE I get quite a fw comments every day from people who love the droids I made for them, this is what I see as appreciation."
True you will get some appreciation. But you dont get appreciation for making a better product. Each master DE will make the exact same droids. The modules will be different, but the ham and the quality will be the same. That is why no one gets excited over a new batch of droids you make. They may appreciate the droids you build, but when was the last time you a customer came in saying they were able tosolo a krayt becausethey had thierprobot out?
Jenden wrote:
Eh, everyone else is going for the credits statement, so I'll go for this one...
b10tch wrote:
#2. Appreciation for your skills/product. When armorsmiths make a good product, everyone thanks them, and still pay a half mill to a million credits for a suit of adv composite. People actually get excited for good armor. When we make a good adv probot and sell it for 40k we are told we over charge, and we dont ever get recognition for having a made a top level droid. And when was the last time you saw someone get excited over the new batch of probots you were making?
I think that depends on what your looking for with appreciation. Being a great armorsmith will earn you fame, but, from my experience, not necessarily appreciation. As a DE I get quite a fw comments every day from people who love the droids I made for them, this is what I see as appreciation.
Heh - I wish. Last night I got a mail from someone I'd made an Advanced Probot, max armour and medical, some 10 days ago. He'd decided he'd been ripped off because there were droids with higher HAM (about 3 points) and anyway, he could get them cheaper now. I could rest assured that I'd never see any of his money again.
I told him that the droid was about the best he could get, I'd made him aware of the relative value of the droid in combat, I'd built it to order within half an hour of his request, I'd spent another half an hour teaching him to use the **edit** thing, for which I got the impressive sum of 40k. What did he want? A refund of the difference?
"Just foolin ya m8."
Player Bounties. We need Player Bounties and we need them now.
I just started DE and after crafting through numerous MSE droids now have 0/0/0/2. I have made enough Advanced droid frames to get a couple more boxes, but more and more I get frustrated with this profession. At my current level in DE I can make absolutely nothing salable in this game except seeker droids. As I look through the skill tree I can see that there is really nothing salable for quite some time. Playing a BH on another server I have four droids, one is medical with 10 storage, and the rest I have all for storage. Granted I dont need crafting stations and such as a BH, but I have paid no more than 50k for all of my droids. So where does the novice DE come in and make any money? I mean I picked up novice architect to dabble a bit and have made some houses, furniture,and crafting stations. All of these have complex schematics requiring similar components, but fairly simple resource requirements. I have gotten more XP and money (over $100k) dabbling in architect than playing casually as a DE. As a novice architect you can make multiple house types, 8+ types of furniture, an equipment factory, and crafting stations. So where is the fun in DE? I love droids even if they just follow me around and do nothing, but give us some salable products. For instance rather than having tiers of modules just make them standard or experimented to good levels. Who in this game is ever going to want a Level1 item storage module? I have dabbled in a lot of professions and find that almost every other profession at least has fun beginnings and I have never felt the need to grind through a profession until now. Novice medics can sell Stim As and Bs, woundpacks, and novice artisans can sell clothes, personal harvesters, etc. and these are basic professions. I cant sell a single Novice DE item, cause you know everyone lines up for an advanced MSE droid with a medical capability rating of 55 and a one item storage compartment.
Maybe I am seeing this all wrong, so please let me know, because this profession seems like it will only be fun when I get master, so I will keep grinding.
Redondo wrote:
I just started DE and after crafting through numerous MSE droids now have 0/0/0/2. I have made enough Advanced droid frames to get a couple more boxes, but more and more I get frustrated with this profession. At my current level in DE I can make absolutely nothing salable in this game except seeker droids. As I look through the skill tree I can see that there is really nothing salable for quite some time. Playing a BH on another server I have four droids, one is medical with 10 storage, and the rest I have all for storage. Granted I dont need crafting stations and such as a BH, but I have paid no more than 50k for all of my droids. So where does the novice DE come in and make any money? I mean I picked up novice architect to dabble a bit and have made some houses, furniture,and crafting stations. All of these have complex schematics requiring similar components, but fairly simple resource requirements. I have gotten more XP and money (over $100k) dabbling in architect than playing casually as a DE. As a novice architect you can make multiple house types, 8+ types of furniture, an equipment factory, and crafting stations. So where is the fun in DE? I love droids even if they just follow me around and do nothing, but give us some salable products. For instance rather than having tiers of modules just make them standard or experimented to good levels. Who in this game is ever going to want a Level1 item storage module? I have dabbled in a lot of professions and find that almost every other profession at least has fun beginnings and I have never felt the need to grind through a profession until now. Novice medics can sell Stim As and Bs, woundpacks, and novice artisans can sell clothes, personal harvesters, etc. and these are basic professions. I cant sell a single Novice DE item, cause you know everyone lines up for an advanced MSE droid with a medical capability rating of 55 and a one item storage compartment.
Maybe I am seeing this all wrong, so please let me know, because this profession seems like it will only be fun when I get master, so I will keep grinding.
dhcpSilicon wrote:
I didn't know they were planning any DE fixes this publish...
No ...
there is nothing for DE in the publish 7 or 8 , they are adding a new profession and the basics objects that are necessary to them, you can be sure that the next fixes for the DE will be none of the one listed by Gorantoth but will be brand new one and all realtive to the Droid commander...