Droid Engineer Archive

Dudes!!

You all gotta check this out! We're the top of the list!!

http://starwarsgalaxies.station.sony.com/team_comments.jsp?id=59306&page=Team%20Comments

WOOHOO!!

Lets just hope it's just not another hot air bubble.

Since it was posted on the front page of the official site, and not just passed down to us here, it looks like we are at least on SOMEONE'S to do list. I notice no mention there of BEs and they have been promised a fix for their clone line for months now, so maybe we are getting closer.

One of the things that struck me aobut that was that the one guy (whoever it was they interviewed) said they mey woth LucasArts and the coorospondents.

LucasArts, I am sure, had somehting to do with that, as well as how sporked we are. But, having said that, I don't know whow bad a shape we are in in relation to other professions, I only know how broke we are.

There is a producer's letter from Gary Gattis on the SWG home page. In Part:

<snip>

There is a lot on our plate, and we are regularly going to provide you with as much information as we can about what is going on. Our priorities and tasks feed in from a variety of sources, and there are very many items on the design priority list. We will not be able to get to all of them with the next few pushes, but we want to take on a number of things that will make the game better, immediately. These include:

• Professions Augmentations
  Droid Engineer
  Smuggler
  Merchant
  Chef
  
• Creature balance pass
  
• Combat pass
  
• General Loot pass
  
• MOB AI revamp
  
• Loot pass on themeparks
  
• Jedi Bounty Missions
  
• Junk Dealer revamp
  
• Dynamic POI's
  
• Expanded Theaters

<snip>

We really need to thank our correspondent Sintrosi (yeah!) and TH for without their patience with our grumbling even this wouldn't have happened. I am optimistic that at least the devs are trying to fix us.

OA

MA/DE 0/0/0/2

I am glad that this is coming. However what bites my backside is that these repairs are beta level. We are paying to play a beta game. Oh well, I have been shafted before and it won't be the last time. I now have a wait and see attitude. We have been lied to so often I am wondering if they can even tell the truth now.

We shall see.

Goss

Not gonna hold my breath or anything here. We've all been waiting months and months for droids to become a more active and interesting part of the game and have been disapointed patch after patch. I for one have stuck with the profession in hopes it would be "fixed" to what it should have been to start with. As time passes, I'm begining to lose hope.

I have to agree with Graeme on this one. It would be a mistake for SOE to add the information to the front page of the offical site and not do anything about us. Things have been said before by DEVs in interviews regarding fixes and added content for DEs, but never have they actually so plainly stated that Profession Augmentations are in the line up. The question is, what are they talking about in regards to Augmentations and will DEs be happy about them.

That nice little list that has us at the top also comes AFTER vehicles have been implemented (currently slated for December), and presumably also after the vehicle patch has been patched a couple of times to get it working. So realistically, we're looking at Jan-Feb before we see anything.

It's nice to be at the top of the list, but keep it in perspective. We're still a long ways off.