Droid Engineer Archive
Thread: The same old Droid Questions
I'll try and answer your questions but don't buy anything based on my comments. One of the more experienced DEs will be sure to correct me.
Droids have recently been fixed (well by Dev standards anyway) and one droid can do all the things you require. However, a harvesting droid will collect fewer resources than you can. (Is this a bug or working as intended? anybody know?)
A multi-task droid will perform just as well as a single purpose droid. And you are not limited to a probot, you can use and R2 and an R3 (and others but I don't know for sure which ones so I'll stop listing here).
If you decide to have your droid do your harvesting for you, you may want to have a 10 Item storage module installed, that way whatever the droid collects it will store in itself and not put it in your inventory.
Hope that helps, I'm sure someone else will give you more details but hopefully I saved them some typing. 
Yes you can get a multi use droid - however trapping modules are one of the things that stack, so as there is a limit on the number of modules a droid can take then you start to limit the number of traps the droid can hold.and the same for the harvesting module - the more there are the bigger the bonus (however as far as I know it's still not working properly...)
Ragao wrote:
I'm sure many people have asked these questions and got their answers, but I couldn't find any when I searched, so I decided to add another redundant post.
I'm an up-and-coming ranger and I've been thinking about getting a droid to help out with some harvesting, trapping, and/or fighting. What I know so far (or think I know)is that you can only have one droid out at a time, it's possible for a droid to attack, harvest, and throw traps, and all things droids can do aren't working right at the moment.
Can I get one droid that can do all three of these tasks? If so, does a multi-task droid do all its tasks worse than a single-task droid? Also, which droid body-types can perform which tasks, if there are restrictions? I'd rather not use the probot,simply because that seems to be the most common.
Sorry for the long noob-question post, but it's kind of hard to find information about the way this game works.
Yes you can get a droid with all these functions. you would need a droid that holds at least 3 modules to start with those would be R4 = 3, LE = 3, R2 = 5, Probot = 5, and R3 = 6. all the droids but the probot fight in melee and are rather slow moving, probots fight at range and melee and since theyhave repulsor locomotion they have great terain negotiation.
harvesting is a bit broken if you group with any one other than the droid if you do group the droid will harvest lessthan you would. additionaly the number of harvesting modules inside will determine the bonus harvesting ability of the droid. I belive that if the harvest rating of droid is over 100 you get a 20% bonus, which would require you to get a dedicated harvest droidbut anything lower will not deminish the amount. When either you or droid harvest something it is nolonger harvestable by you or droid.
trapping modules will hold up to 10 traps at a time and are stackable to hold more.
combat assistance in a droid currently only requires 1 combat module and a level 6 armor or one 97 rated combat module and a level 4 armor, it all depends if hes got the armor segments to make the level 6 or not. either way this will get you a cl 30 droid with max armor. **WARNING** Armor is currently bugged when first called armor effecevness will read up to 9k, but when stored and called again armor will be reduced to 1217.
So depending on your droid chassis selectionI would go 1 each of combat w/armor,harvest, and trapping. to fill the rest of the slots i would recomend putting in additional trap modules and/or a level 6 medical module if you got medic to suplament your combat skills.
Message Edited by Corran950 on 08-18-2005 01:45 PM
- Rebel Pilot 4/4/4/3
Kejid wrote:A multi-task droid will perform just as well as a single purpose droid.
Just keep in mind that harvest modules stack, so the more modules you can put in a droid, the better the harvesting rate will be. However, I guess it's a moot point since droid harvesting is not really functioning well...
Kejid wrote:If you decide to have your droid do your harvesting for you, you may want to have a 10 Item storage module installed, that way whatever the droid collects it will store in itself and not put it in your inventory.
Are you sure about this? I will not shoot down this statement because I have never made/tested a harvesting droid with item storage, but my understanding was that harvested resources are placed in your inventory at all times.
Also, even though the harvesting rating is not great right now, it will still allow you to harvest resources from a distance and can help you multi-task while fighting. It's one of it's few good selling points that still works.
Straker_Atrella wrote:If the Harvest droid has a storage module, it goes into the droid. I havn't tried it since they first came out though, but it should still be like that.
A perfect example of an old DE who's still learning!
Thanks for the clarification, Straker.
