Droid Engineer Archive
Thread: Master DE Providing Vehicles to Match Master CH Providing Mounts?
Personally, I don't connect the skills very well in my head. Sure, they both work with machines... but, well, I have trouble seeing it.
However, of the existing professions, it does seem the most closely related, followed by Architect, imo.
They may, in the end decide to throw us a bone and give us this so we do not quit, but the last I heard a month ago they were planning on a new profession for vehicles.
Of course they said that creating Player city buildingswould be a new profession as well, but they ended up giving it to the Architects.
It is my belief, based on no facts, that the first vehicles will be Artisan based and any better vehicles will be made by teh profession that makes space craft when they are released.
I don't think that we should be given the ability to build vehicles... we build droids, not just machines...
HOWEVER, how about this:
Why not make DEs have the ability to make certain parts required for vehicles to be built? That way, mechanics (I assume that's what the vehicle class would become) would need to buy from us (or be DEs themselves) to build vehicles. This way, we have another reason for existing, and so we can actually make a bit of money.
CoconutClock wrote:
Why not make DEs have the ability to make certain parts required for vehicles to be built? That way, mechanics (I assume that's what the vehicle class would become) would need to buy from us (or be DEs themselves) to build vehicles. This way, we have another reason for existing, and so we can actually make a bit of money.
I actually like the profession inter-dependance in the game. It's cool that you need an arcky Power Core Unit for the power droid (though it shouldbe light power core) and that you need armorsmithy armor segments for high lvl droid armor. More interdependance is cool.
Dunno about becoming a VE -- Vehicle Enginner. I'm thinking Master Artisan with high lvl components from other professions. DEs make advanced motive systems, advanced droid brains, maybe those should be needed for navigation and motive action.
One additional droid chasis could be a walker chasis -- You saw that in Episode 1 where the occupier from the trade federation was riding some kind of robotic throne. There was a cool variant in Wild Wild West the movie -- that was steampunk, not cyberpunk, but you get the picture.
If DEs make vehicles, they should be droid mounts! How about a mechanical spider mount with friggin' lazers on it? I'd ride that!
There is no reason that DE's should NOT receive a few vehicular droids.
There are Droid Taxi's, Droid Rickshaws, simulated Droid Horsesand even a spacefaring Droid Freighter in the Star Wars extended universe. In our modern day world personal vehicles are slowly working toward automated travel and droid-like capabilities, where you just hop in the car and tell it where to go. As computer AI's improve the car will be able to choose the route it takes.
I think we should be thrown at least one or two bones out of this. I would much rather ride around on a robotic horse creature than ride a smelly organic beastie.
-Vixyn Renault.
Master DE, Master Artisan, Merchant and Pistoleer.
With the Dev logic, they'll probably let Chefs craft the vehicles.
(I'm a little bitter today)