Droid Engineer Archive
Thread: a possible DE revamp
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Strudle
Sun Dec 12, 2004 3:35 am
#1
Some New droid ideas. I am sure some of these have already been broguht up before. But some may not.
-Probot: Make probots the spy bots that they should be. DEs should be able to make "Spy" modules specially for probots.
With a spy module, an owner can place the waypoints in the droids search list. The spybot will then go to the location... record the names of all players and NPCs there as well as an overhead map view of the place. This is usable by factioned people only and when it arrives at the location...it is attackable by oppossing factional personel. It is wise to place combat modules on the drodi so it can defend itself, but if it is destroyed...the droid will decay and reprot back this it was only attacked and destroyed.
The amount of scoutable WPs at to be places in the module and the range that probot will scout at the location will be experimentable.
-Protocal Droid: With the new chat system where most people will know 2-3 languages, it will be vital will protocal droids have the new ability to have a translation module. Language chips can be programmed by a speaker of the language and inserted into the craftable translations module. The owenr can activate module and indicate which languages he wants translated for him.
You can experiment how many chip total can be inserted to the droid and the droid personaltiy chip will effect his translation
-ME mouse droids: moise drodis were originally designed to delivery items from oen location to another. therefor all droids especialyl mouse droids should be given the ability to transport items to a location waypoint. The owner can also now get a "waypoint vendor" this option will appear when you visit the vendor and it will be a datadisk given or sent to you. In this way you can use a droid equiped with this module to drop an item at a vendor for a designated price.
-Merchant droids. The ad barking module is useful, you should also have the "mobile vendor" option that allows you place a limited amount of items on a vendor for sale. Limited to 25 items and to be used by a master merchant.
-The treadwell droids are useful for fixing, they should be used for mantaining structures and visiting harvesters. Treadwell and R series droids should be able to be equiped with a harvester module. when you place a harvester you will haev an option of "download harvester maint data". This data can be loaded to a maintnence droid and you can customize what you want the droid to do from adding power, grabbing resoruces and adding maintnence. The module can be experimented for how many maint data it can hold...essentialyl yuo can experiment on how many it can do in one round.
That it for now, perhaps droids will have entirely new line of uses with this
Jando64
Sun Dec 12, 2004 9:08 am
#2
Strudle wrote:
Some New droid ideas. I am sure some of these have already been broguht up before. But some may not.
-Probot: Make probots the spy bots that they should be. DEs should be able to make "Spy" modules specially for probots.
With a spy module, an owner can place the waypoints in the droids search list. The spybot will then go to the location... record the names of all players and NPCs there as well as an overhead map view of the place. This is usable by factioned people only and when it arrives at the location...it is attackable by oppossing factional personel. It is wise to place combat modules on the drodi so it can defend itself, but if it is destroyed...the droid will decay and reprot back this it was only attacked and destroyed.
The amount of scoutable WPs at to be places in the module and the range that probot will scout at the location will be experimentable.
I love it!
Though would it be possible on swg to make pets such as droids travel long distances on their own? I can think of 100 things that could go wrong en route. Maybe if you make them go really high.....
Oh and what about if their destination is on another planet?
wabicajo
Sun Dec 12, 2004 12:05 pm
#3
If you go into the Tavern in Mos Taike, you'll see an r2 droid with a serving tray like in ROTJ. That would be pretty nice if you are having a party on your yacht and you want to serve. A mobile merchant would be nice, a droid that could show off your wares out front of a starport and hold a waypoint for your vendors. There should be inherent functionality in certain droid chassis. Of course astromechs can do most anything, a med droid should have a med bonus, a treadwell, LE repair droid, and a binary load lifter should have repair abilities. It would be something to add to the diversity of droids. I would like to see a torture function in the dz-70 droids, or maybe not.
KappaStang
Wed Dec 22, 2004 2:41 am
#4
What I'd really love to see is a survey droid that brings you back samples of the resources on any given planet. To some its not a big deal since many resources spawn on different planets, except for floral which is unique to each planet. Searching around is a huge time sink. But then it may make things too easy. Any suggestions or opinions on this?
CTRL_ALT
Wed Dec 22, 2004 6:51 am
#5
Good ideas, but, we already had our publish. I don't think we will be getting any major changes soon.
CuoreDE
Wed Dec 22, 2004 7:15 am
#6
Strudle wrote:
Some New droid ideas. I am sure some of these have already been broguht up before. But some may not.
-Probot: Make probots the spy bots that they should be. DEs should be able to make "Spy" modules specially for probots.
With a spy module, an owner can place the waypoints in the droids search list. The spybot will then go to the location... record the names of all players and NPCs there as well as an overhead map view of the place. This is usable by factioned people only and when it arrives at the location...it is attackable by oppossing factional personel. It is wise to place combat modules on the drodi so it can defend itself, but if it is destroyed...the droid will decay and reprot back this it was only attacked and destroyed.
The amount of scoutable WPs at to be places in the module and the range that probot will scout at the location will be experimentable.
I think the Spy Droids should have a certificationat NoviceBH and SL. Other than that, this would be a great addition.
-Protocal Droid: With the new chat system where most people will know 2-3 languages, it will be vital will protocal droids have the new ability to have a translation module. Language chips can be programmed by a speaker of the language and inserted into the craftable translations module. The owenr can activate module and indicate which languages he wants translated for him.
You can experiment how many chip total can be inserted to the droid and the droid personaltiy chip will effect his translation
The only problem I see here is that we can only have out one droid at a time, so if you want to talk to people and use a droid with effects (for an entertainer) your out of luck. Plus you couldn't converse with people in combat, because the Protocol Droid will run.
-ME mouse droids: moise drodis were originally designed to delivery items from oen location to another. therefor all droids especialyl mouse droids should be given the ability to transport items to a location waypoint. The owner can also now get a "waypoint vendor" this option will appear when you visit the vendor and it will be a datadisk given or sent to you. In this way you can use a droid equiped with this module to drop an item at a vendor for a designated price.
I would love to have a MSE droid with item storage deliver items to someone. Just think of it, I'm at my shop in the middle of nowhere on Naboo. Someone sends me a tell asking for a droid special order. I make the droid, place it in the MSE Deliver Bot and send it to his location with his name on the access list. Then he has to secure trade with the droid for the specified amount. If you use an LE, Surgical, or Protocol droid it would converse with the recipient (greeting them).
-The treadwell droids are useful for fixing, they should be used for mantaining structures and visiting harvesters. Treadwell and R series droids should be able to be equiped with a harvester module. when you place a harvester you will haev an option of "download harvester maint data". This data can be loaded to a maintnence droid and you can customize what you want the droid to do from adding power, grabbing resoruces and adding maintnence. The module can be experimented for how many maint data it can hold...essentialyl yuo can experiment on how many it can do in one round.
I think it would be good to have a structure maintence droid with an item storage (for power) to add power to harvesters, and retrieve resources. I see harvester runs as a design time sink to keep you doing something.
That it for now, perhaps droids will have entirely new line of uses with this
Cuore
RasalTheWise
Wed Dec 22, 2004 5:18 pm
#7
The protocol droid idea would have been good if it were implemented during the game's launch.
I think they should not have made all languages free to learn from anyone, and should have costs skills points (like one each). It would have then made protocol droid considerably more valuable. But now, most toons have learned all the languages, and even for those who can't learn or speak them (wookiee language, for instance), it's not a blocker.
I think they should not have made all languages free to learn from anyone, and should have costs skills points (like one each). It would have then made protocol droid considerably more valuable. But now, most toons have learned all the languages, and even for those who can't learn or speak them (wookiee language, for instance), it's not a blocker.
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