Droid Engineer Archive
Thread: Idea to make droids for combat professions
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Nieut
Tue Aug 03, 2004 11:34 am
#1
I would likeDroids that you can equip with a wepon that you are certified, you can then teach it one of your specials.
Or Maybe the varoius combat proffesions would be able to train and equip droids with their wepons/specials.
Imagine equiping your droid with a tasty Laser carbine and it having fire KD as a special while you fight the mob hand to hand.
+ The crafter type could use these Droid to protect them on survey trips?
the droids would not have higher hams than they have now would just be cool toy that would add to the starwars feel of the game.
Ni'eut
jangoman8
Tue Aug 03, 2004 3:00 pm
#2
Sounds like fun, would add a nice touch to DE instead of the same crap we craft now lol
Gavvot
Tue Aug 03, 2004 3:29 pm
#3
Equiping weapon is not an option IMHO.
Could be very hard to implement.
Using special on the other hand is probably doable as pets do have specials.
Even if I think it would be cool, I have some serious doubt it will be ever done.
Current combat droid are as good as level 10 pets you know (that's irony)
Could be very hard to implement.
Using special on the other hand is probably doable as pets do have specials.
Even if I think it would be cool, I have some serious doubt it will be ever done.
Current combat droid are as good as level 10 pets you know (that's irony)
BillyBobthe50th
Tue Aug 03, 2004 4:03 pm
#4
Equipping a weapon is likely very possible.
I would like to see some droids be able to use any weapon you are certed for. But it cant be an elite combat profession weapon.
Gavvot
Wed Aug 04, 2004 1:40 am
#5
In the computer world, everything is possible.
There are just stuff that can realisticly be done in a timely fashion and all the other stuff.
Equiping a pet with a weapon do no exist atm, that mean that a whole new system has to be implemented and concidering the love and amount of work the dev have put so far in droids, I do not see this happening.
There are just stuff that can realisticly be done in a timely fashion and all the other stuff.
Equiping a pet with a weapon do no exist atm, that mean that a whole new system has to be implemented and concidering the love and amount of work the dev have put so far in droids, I do not see this happening.
Nieut
Wed Aug 04, 2004 1:54 am
#6
I dont see why it would be that hard to do ? NPC now have different wepons and the game calulates different attack damage.
If you drag a wepon into a droid it just has to change the attack data for that droid according to the wepon?
Im no SWG dev but I know enough about computers and data bases to know that this is entirly possible as you are not changing any of the game mechanics or adding anything new.
Epuip a player with a diffent wepon and he uses it so why not a Droid ?
Nieut
Wed Aug 04, 2004 1:56 am
#7
I understand that it probaly wont happen , but you never know a dev may read this and go what a cool idea.
Ever hopfull with my half full glass 
Gavvot
Wed Aug 04, 2004 2:10 am
#8
Nieut wrote:I dont see why it would be that hard to do ? NPC now have different wepons and the game calulates different attack damage.If you drag a wepon into a droid it just has to change the attack data for that droid according to the wepon?Im no SWG dev but I know enough about computers and data bases to know that this is entirly possible as you are not changing any of the game mechanics or adding anything new.Epuip a player with a diffent wepon and he uses it so why not a Droid ?
If you know about computer programming, you probably know what a type is.
The type of droid is based on pet.
I think NPC are different, but even if they are related in a way, differences are there.
Beside, alot of work would be required to check what weapon is equiped. (A Probot with a PowerHammer o_O).
Also, weapon get destroyed over time, so you will have to take them back for repair or replace them.
For that you need new interface to the droid.
So, to make it you need to :
Pick code from NPC and put it to droid.
Change database to allow droid to have a weapon.
Add quite a few interface to deal with the player/droid weapon dealing.
Test everything.
Test that it is balanced (wich will never happen because current droid are balanced when leveling a combat profession and are a piece of **edit** when oyu're master)
Lots of work.
What does it add to be able to equip a weapon to a droid?
Beside a small cool effect, and alot of possible completely incoherent situations?
On the other side, special attack do exist for pets, adn are cool.
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