Droid Engineer Archive
Thread: Renewable Droid Markets/More Expendable Droids
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ArdenStarmariner
Thu Apr 15, 2004 7:16 am
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For me personally, the new Survey Droid stands out beyond all the other new publish 8 items. Mainly because its an expendable droid that everyone can use. I'd expect it will have the biggest impact on our markets. While I expect that most of the modules will great a burst in business, the survey droid will be one that keeps us in return sales. Don't know about the bomb droid. Will have to wait and see on that one. So far, Bounty Hunters haven't been such a great market for us Droid Engineers. I've stopped manufacturing Arakyds and Seekers.
So, do you guys want to do a thread on concepts for expendable droids? Some of you have alot more time than I do to write much more detailed post. But I'll throw ideas out to get things started. Have fun chewing them up.
1. Factional Base Probes/Seekers - Your basic Arakyd like droid that that goes out and finds enemy bases. Think about the scene in EP5 where Star Destroyers are lanching probes to seek out and find the rebel base that turns out to be on Hoth. This expendable droid should do more than just find a base. If the base defenders allow it to survive, it will report back what type of base it found and its waypoint, how many mine fields, turrets, NPC's, and even list off the players in the area and their guild tags. So if one shows up, its a good idea for the base defenders to kill it quickly. Just to get people to actually put turrets on their bases, turrets should be given the ability to automatically scan for, target, and destroy these probes. Good chance tho, the probe will successfully transmit back at a minimum the waypoint were it was destroyed. It should be possible to give this droid a list of waypoints for enemy bases the person launching it already knows about. The probe would bypass and ignore the bases at those locations.
2. Overt Faction Seekers - Seeker style droid that patrols a given set of waypoints and reports back if any overt enemy faction players or pets it encounters. Should last a few hours or until it is destroyed by opposing faction players.
So, do you guys want to do a thread on concepts for expendable droids? Some of you have alot more time than I do to write much more detailed post. But I'll throw ideas out to get things started. Have fun chewing them up.
1. Factional Base Probes/Seekers - Your basic Arakyd like droid that that goes out and finds enemy bases. Think about the scene in EP5 where Star Destroyers are lanching probes to seek out and find the rebel base that turns out to be on Hoth. This expendable droid should do more than just find a base. If the base defenders allow it to survive, it will report back what type of base it found and its waypoint, how many mine fields, turrets, NPC's, and even list off the players in the area and their guild tags. So if one shows up, its a good idea for the base defenders to kill it quickly. Just to get people to actually put turrets on their bases, turrets should be given the ability to automatically scan for, target, and destroy these probes. Good chance tho, the probe will successfully transmit back at a minimum the waypoint were it was destroyed. It should be possible to give this droid a list of waypoints for enemy bases the person launching it already knows about. The probe would bypass and ignore the bases at those locations.
2. Overt Faction Seekers - Seeker style droid that patrols a given set of waypoints and reports back if any overt enemy faction players or pets it encounters. Should last a few hours or until it is destroyed by opposing faction players.
Message Edited by ArdenStarmariner on 04-15-2004 08:27 AM
Kollos
Thu Apr 15, 2004 2:22 pm
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I agree - the Survey Droid and Toaster Bomb are the two most interesting new features due to the fact that they are expendable. I'm hoping that the Toaster Bomb will sell reasonably well - I do about 40 crates each of Arakyds and Seekers every week - but without Tolium I may never know. SWGCraft only lists 3 spawns ever on Ahazi, and the last one was really good stuff that is probably very expensive (if people will sell it at all).
I think there is a lot of potential in expendable droids/modules. My favorite - the survey droid - is being added. I like both of your ideas as well.
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