Droid Engineer Archive

I'll be the first to admit it, I dont spend all of my time here in this forum, as I am a recent addition to the DE community. I know there are a ton of threads beating this horse to death, but from what I've gathered reading them, its still not done.
For some strange reason, this game seems to have one common theme: everything requires sacrifice.
My main toon is a master ranger. I wanted to be able to hunt things on my own. Unfortunately, as I've found, unless I change my combat style once a month, its going to be impossible to do that. (I'm getting to the droidstuff, be patient.) So I dabbled in CH so I can have some good help that I can control (cant control other players unfortunately... jedimindtrick is limited to, well, jedi). That leaves me with enough skillpoints to stop bleeding, and one tree in an elite ranged profession. I'm fairly self sufficient out in the wild, but I need to return to town when I get wounded, or too much BF etc. Unfortunately, that all is about to change (with the CH change).... I still have no idea what I'm going to have to sacrifice to be able to keep up my playing style.
Being a maxed character, I decided to create another. I wanted to try the crafting side, so I made a droid engineer. Can't get much more star wars than droids (shame the developing community seems to only be able to /nod about that one and not /code). I looked around, and decided to master artisan before starting my work up the DE tree... that would at least help fund my path, because a lot of architects out there likecheap power conditioners and energy distributors. I'm nearly through my way up to master DE, and master merchant is almost there too. (Yep you guessed it... i'm just about out of skillpoints.) No room for a combat class. Fine. This is an alt, I wanted to try crafting - I have a combat character.
Should we all have to play two characters if we want to try everything? Maybe. If not, then we'd have to go back and forth. The point is, in order to have a functioning game, someone shouldnt be able to do everything. My master ranger cant survey. I rely on finding good meat/hide to stay afloat. Everything is about sacrifice. One character cant have it all, thats the way this game was designed.
Of course combat droids will allow anyone to participate, even the probot allows anyone to participate in combat. That's whats so great about droids. You dont need to be a CH or anything to control them, they're designed with the owner-interface in mind.
Take a look at Anakin, for example. He had to give up his droid engineering when he went to train for jedi. And yes, I know jedi is the ultimate sacrifice, but that's part of my point, this game is about making a sacrifice, to play a part. A part in the saga.

Yeah. You can also make other characters on different servers for other styles of play. Too bad its only one character per server (not including jedi), but for those that HAVE to have their alt be on the same server, if its THAT important to them, they can buy another account.

I know it would be nice to do everything, but then it would get boring pretty fast, and the economy would fall apart. Part of what makes the game fun (well ok, its fun in theory, in practice, well... at least its better than homework) is the interconnection of the classes. I like having to have a medic on my combat team, with a leader, a sniper, a hacker, etc. Once they get bases and pvp fixed it should be cool. (IN THEORY) In practice, well, the devs can't blame super powerful characters farming Krayts because its the most exciting thing left in the game for them.

If the devs didn't want all these nerf headaches, then they should have balanced the*expletive* broken *expletive* game before they went live.

But hey, we like to pay to be beta testers.

I ***E you sony!! (You can figure out what word goes there. HINT: Its either love or hate.

Darius2,

I don't quite follow you. In one sentence you say "Too bad its only one character per server." and in another you admit that being able to do everything would get boring and ruin the economy. If you could have more than one charcter per server, you WOULD be able to do everyting your self --- so by your admition the game would be boring and the economy would be ruined --- then why "Too bad its only one character per server?"