Droid Engineer Archive

Hypothetically, IF we get some good combat droids, and IF they do certifications for combat classes, I think that there should be some kind of encumberance (mind) for using the strongest combat droids.

My aim is not to have droids replace creatures in the pet wars. I want the pet wars to be on a low level now. Put thoughts about droid AI aside, I think that it would have to be mentally taxing on a character to bark commands to a droid in battle and work a weapon at the same time. I had this posted on TH's question thread, but that's a lot to read to find this one little piece.

-***IMPORTANT, PLEASE READ THIS ONE*** - To stop the pet wars, and make sure creatures arent replaced with droids, the certifications for different strengths of droids is a great idea. BUT, that wont possibly stop the pet wars. So maybe combat droids should have their own encumberance, like mind encumberance. It must take some mind power to operate a droid and work your pistol/carbine/vibroblade. The encumberance should be at a value where the strongest of the combat professions, if wearing full armor, may not want to take the extra encumberance at the cost of less special moves, but the cost would be more worth it for lesser combat classes and crafting classes who don't have the good combat skills anyways and a droid would be very good to supplement them, and make them not so worthless when in a group.

The pet wars in SWG is unlike any other MMORPG ive played, and I think we would all enjoy pvp more if this was done on a much lesser scale. ( Well at least I would :smileyvery-happy I really don't like seeing the plethora of sludge panthers, grauls/maulers, and other pets out there. I don't want all the changes to make these pets into armies of rolling droidekas.

Please be constructive, no flaming.