Droid Engineer Archive
Thread: Suggestions to the devs from a non DE
I have some hopefull constructive suggestions for droids, which I am sure most have been covered at one time or another.
Astromech droids: For newbies these are the R units. What should they do. Personally I would like to see a few R5s blow their flowerpot shaped heads once in a while like in ANH. How cool would that be, rolling behind you and POP! But honestly, the perfect use for R2s would be to slicers. Artoo-Detoo was always slicing into computer terminals, on Cloud City, Endor's bunker and on the DeathStar. Please give them the chance to assist opening containers and sliceing terminals for smugglers. Also they will be the best repair mechanic when vehicles come out.
Protocol droids: 3PO droid should be the translators. Yes I know this has been covered until death, but I want to add them to the list. They also should be able to communicate with terminals in some way or form. Remember C3PO talking to the computer on the Falcon? Have some form of computer access or maybe crafting station access to them.
Probots: I know, I know people have two views on this. according to the actual ESB script and this is reported to be a deleted scene copming in the DVD, the Hoth Probot killed a lair of snowbeast by it's self. These things were well built by the Empire (one thing you can say about the IMPS, they knew how to build combat equipment) and designed for the harshest of enviroments. Chewbacca destroyed one because, as Han said in the movie, "we didn't hit it very hard, it must have had some sort of self destruct". These things should be the CH's eqivilant of tanks beasts. Not the altoid weak toys they are now. Beef them up some, but also add some sort of scanning feature. They ARE Probes after all. Maybe add some radial button where they will tell you what type targets are at 128 meters, instead opf just red dots.
Battle droids: SWG needs the Trade Federation Battle Droids. We need armies of them moving across the play field. Make them weak as current probots, but cheap too. Like they were in Episode 1. Let 3 shots take them out, but allow players to have 5 out at a time. Make them stupid. Make them Star Warsy, which leads us to the next catagory...
Droidikas and Assasin Droids: Make these the higher end droids. It takes something special to control IG-88 or 4LOM. Give the 4LOM model to the Bounty Hunters to assist them. Let players spend 100,000 for a IG-88, but make them special. Make it hard to take these things out. Maybe have a special certification to use an assasin droid. Droidikas on the other hand should be just basic tanks, the HummVees of the SWG. No cert, just make them more money than a basic battle droid.
Mouse droids: Almost forgot the little things. These should be used to deliever messages to nearby players like a email system. I mean really there is nothing for these things, and the movies always showed them doing deliverys, so lets keep with the theme. They also should be cowardly. Let the Wookie roar send them speeding away.
I am sure that there are more great ideas, so please lets here them. Also Holo, I would invite you to reply here please, as well as any other administrator. Droids play a great part in the universe George created, please honor that ideal he had.
i have3 sugestions.
1 put permadeath back on so more droids would be sold. and people won't own only 1 droid. i get more money for small harvesters than i do for droids.
2 we need a defensive droid so we can send it in and shout from a distance without it dying.
3 there should be delivery droids. both players set up a waypoint to the location to send the droid. money is depositing item is received. this will cut down on people not getting there items because of the *edit*that scam them.
These are well thought out, and good ideas.
Thanks for the post.
Stopher87 wrote:
i have3 sugestions.
1 put permadeath back on so more droids would be sold. and people won't own only 1 droid. i get more money for small harvesters than i do for droids.
NO!
Permadeath was a terrible idea. Nobody was spending 8k for a probot that would die permanently after taking a couple of hits. Permadeath just decreased the value of our droids.
Logan074 wrote:
Droidikas and Assasin Droids: Make these the higher end droids. It takes something special to control IG-88 or 4LOM. Give the 4LOM model to the Bounty Hunters to assist them. Let players spend 100,000 for a IG-88, but make them special. Make it hard to take these things out. Maybe have a special certification to use an assasin droid. Droidikas on the other hand should be just basic tanks, the HummVees of the SWG. No cert, just make them more money than a basic battle droid.
I'll just coment on this part, the 4-LOM series is a PROTOCAL Droid. One of them had a glitch and was reprogramed by Jaba to assist a bounty hunter. It would not make sence to make an entire protocal droid line into bounty hunters. The IG series arecombat droids not bounty hunter droids. As for the IG-88 there was a grand total of four of them! One of those became a bounty hunter. And they were never owned by anyone they ran amuck and almost took over the Galaxy. Although there was one other IG prototype that became a bounty hunter, it was IG-72.
HOLO:
Droids = Starwarsy if you watch the movies.
Creatures = Starwarsy if you read the books and one scene in ROTJ.
I think every player should have "max droid levels", everyone is aloted 25 droid level points (like CH) So as long as your Droids dont add up to over this number you could have as many ((up to 3) out as you want:
3 mouse droids... go ahead.
A 3PO and an R2 sure!
one probot... sure!
but, certain professions get a bonus:
Doctors get +15 so they can have a Surgical droid and an R2 out at the same time.
BH with investigation II gets +15 so they can have a seeker and a Probot out at the same time, Master BH gets another +25 so they can have the IG88 droid out.
DE novice gets +25 and master DE gets +50, So a master DE could have 3 Probots out at the same time!
SWG needs DROIDS! not just the ones that fill the city for "background scenery"
Stopher87 wrote:i have3 sugestions.
1 put permadeath back on so more droids would be sold. and people won't own only 1 droid. i get more money for small harvesters than i do for droids.
NO.. just make them break randomly when it gets below 30% condition:
"the arm of your protocol droid has been shot off"
then you have to go to a DE to get another put back on or he walks around with no arm!... unless you have the ability to have 2 droids out.. then you have your R2 unit fix your protocol droid.