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I think that a Master DE should be able to make specialized droids, that are fully customizable via a character creation type ability (Head, arms, legs/hover device, weapons, color, overall appearance, etc etc).

The droids would be makeable only by Master DE's and only controllable by their specific maker. Experimentation would be the key to make the best personal droid possible. You could have the option to build in weapons (which would be powerful but limited), or give them the apposeable appendages to weild any player weapon.

Ranged droids would be Armored and tough, and made to draw fire for the DE, and could take a beating. Due to mainly having to stay in one spot they could be tougher and slower. But their frame would most likely be weaker due to having to carry ammunition and more power. Highly succeptable to melee precision.

Melee droids would give up much armor in return more high manuverability, and a better built frame. These would be tanks used for speed and prescision, but could be take out from a distance by heavy weaponry which would throw them off balace and possibly shatter their more fragile joints.

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Every droid of this type could be named as a character would be - but only one could ever be in existance at a time for each DEdue to the upkeep and devotion needed to keep them up to par.

New AI chips could be made with a set of commands made by the DE himself in a sort of macro chipset. You could put in specificresponces and actions in reaction to certain commands and situations. And each timea DEwanted to reporgram them they would have to be taken in for maitenance.

Unlike most droids these could be upgradeable and adjustable to fit the current technology. If you wish to define it as such this droid would be for lack of a better term, a DE's child.

Upon eventual destruction, whether it be in battle, or by choice, the Droids memory could be taken from its corpse, and placed inside of a new droid via either chip transplant or download transfer.

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Making one of these droids would require MANY resources, and much upkeep in order to maintain its unique psysiology and makeup. You would have to create almost every item in the DE line to a specific % of effectiveness, along with a TON of rare specific resources in order to make the droid "right". But of course there would be versitality and experimentation due to it being your "personal" experiment.

There would be no base model to begin with, but a generalized template in which you specialize the droid to do as you wish. Such as you could not give it legs and a hover device, but you could give it one manipulator arm, and one built in gun arm, it just wont be as effective as if it had a pair of each.

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This is my dream, and hopefully one day we could get something like it.

So if you like my idea, bump it and maybe we can get noticed

This sounds great!!! I truly hope they incorporate something like this in game!! This really sounds like something that every DE would enjoy. Good luck in your request and dream.

Thanks for the support Darklord, maybe i shoulda waited until AFTER people got thru fuming over the probot nerf, seems like no one cares atm

Ok so im bored at work - sue me - i just had a brainstorm of other USEFUL droid ideas

1) Survey Seeker Droid - goes out on the planet your on to search for the highest conentration of said resource, and gets a sample (say just 1 unit of it) and brings it back for you along with a downloadable waypoint of where that % is located. Great way to find the best resource quality for your needs! (not exploitable due to only brining 1 of said material max)

2) Ad Droid - These are rentable only, and only useable via DE certification. DE's can use them at a maitenance cost much like a harvestor, and have to be powered every so often, but they will randomly run around said city spouting (like once a minute max-- in a neat pink/blue/purple color or so) Your said message. Other classes can use them ONLY via purchasing a temporary certification from a DE. This price should have a minimum, and must go straight towards droid maitenance to help keep DE's from "permagiving" the droids to others. Only 3 of these droids can ever be active per DE at any time either rented out or used by them. They also have a 12 hour cooldown period after their initial 6 hour powerspan.

3) Simple Crafting Droids - These droids will be able to mass produce "Simple" objects that are used in other crafting (MUST BE COMPONENTS). Such as firberplast panels. They have a High maitenance cost, which would be roughly 150% the price of factories which could do the same thing, and you must still provide the materials, but they would do it at a rate of one per minute. These are also only useable by DE's, But can be Rented out as well. (This would have to be balanced better then i could do right now, but i think if it was faster then a factory, and portable, then it would be worth it)

4) Political Droids - This is the tougher one to balance and figure out, but i thought it was a cool idea. These droids could be sent into "hostile" factioned areas (ever get your thug rating to -5000?) and have a % based chance to make friends with the hostiles in order to grant you passage to make good on your reputation. Say you send the droid in with 5000 credits to a Thug leader type, and ask to please have a meeting with him. Then you would be able to take missions from him as long as you kept bribing him in order to make up your standings. It would be a slow process, but it would be a fun way to make good on past misdeeds. These droids would be rather cheap to make due to the say 90% chance they would have to fail at a -5000 rating, whereas a -1000 would only be a 30% chance of failure, this also scales with bribes. If they are killed thou, you still lose your credits.

Thats all, hope yall enjoy my ideas, i need to tell someone

Morning Bump. . . . as if you all cared or anything

Well since the probot nerf huff n' puff is over maybe someone will care now

/bump good ideas

Hehe this is the first time I saw this post (man they fly off the front page quick)

Great ideas Crimson !!!

-Kralis

I agree with this idea.I would also like it if this were implemented and given the ability to be sold.

Oh, btw. Will our Droid Engineering representative to SOE please reply to this post with your thoughts?

that is a really intense idea.... the whole "child" thing. i love it, i really do. despite that, there are already many calling this game "pokemon galaxies" and im not sure if this would make those types of people happy. but if it was only available to masters, and considering the difficulty for master de as opposed to master ch, id say it wouldnt cause much of a problem. otherwise i think its a great idea, definitely worth trying to get a response about.

Thanks for all the support and responses! I appreciate them all.

I think they should be unsellable because they are tailor made to the carachter they are created on, for their specific needs, and made to help that person out - and from an RP standpoint - it is your constant companion, and ultimate creation, would you sell it?!

And to that whole "pokemon" issue, think about it, a TON of people in SW used droids to do the dirty work for them, that bounty hunter in Ep2, and all the probots for the empire.

Itd be cool too if you could have imperial/Rebel bonus modules depending on faction. But thats another thing to add later when i revise it all

Great idea ... /bump