Droid Engineer Archive
Thread: My most embarrasing MDE moment
oh man, well i enjoyed your story for the sake of a read, but of course this is a common occurance. One thing to the little droids credit, the geo cave IS a bit of a stretch for any pet at the level that droids are currently at. Now the rancor is a pet that can last at least a while there.
But im not surprised by the outcome. My business thrives from the sale of powerups, even my guild weaponsmith makes them. So dont feel bad about making them, you can supplement your losses to droid sales.
But this brings up a larger issue really. Its that the combat level of droids does not reflect the price (which equates, of course, to the cost of production). The best cutsomer from a customers standpoint is a player working on the marksman or brawler tree. Unfortunatly these are the customers that dont have much in the way of creds (at least compared to adv combat professions). Now the customers that can easily afford our products, those with adv combat professions who can generate more creds thru higher level missions, dont need a droid. The mobs that they are likely to encounter (im thinking dantooine and dathomir here) are gonna be able to easily take down the LE (with highest HAM). And yes there are repair kits, but they run out eventually. So what are we left with? Selling a tool to level faster, perhaps, but where is the return business in that, where is the lifetime customer?
AvalinSabine wrote:
Yeah. I just became an MDE, as well, and have had the same experience. "Hey, I made the best droid ever!" Hah. That's like saying "I spent thousands of dollars and hours and hoursand made the best bedpan ever! ... But everyone uses toilets these days."
Well, droids aren't quite that bad, but so much effort for such little reward...
I can't possibly imagine how the veteran DE feels.
Ohh, you really, really, dont want to know. Believe me.
Shian_Tavkin wrote:
AvalinSabine wrote:
Yeah. I just became an MDE, as well, and have had the same experience. "Hey, I made the best droid ever!" Hah. That's like saying "I spent thousands of dollars and hours and hoursand made the best bedpan ever! ... But everyone uses toilets these days."
Well, droids aren't quite that bad, but so much effort for such little reward...
I can't possibly imagine how the veteran DE feels.
Ohh, you really, really, dont want to know. Believe me.
come on now... a little taste.... bitter, resentful, angry, pissed off, outraged ( I could go on... but you would notice a pattern... its all negative)
Squygxicus wrote:
<snip> a worderfully telling tale
And then said :
Sorry if this doesnt make sense, just had to vent somewhere where people might feel a bit of sympathy!
You do have my sympathy, but it's a tale I have heard all too often, and it really makes me weep for all you keen new MDE's. It genuinely does.
Such high expectations and such low reality.
I too once thought there was some kind of equality in mastering an elite crafting profession, sadly this is not so. The DE is not anywhere close to being as useful and as wanted as your WS guildmate, ar an AS guildmate come to that.
I'm sorry it is so, and worse, it looks like it always will be so.
We tried to make it different, God knows we tried...and we finally failed. It will never be what you want it to be.
You do have my sympathy, lots of it.
I know how you feel. Soemthing similiar happened to me a few weeks ago. How about pulling my "battle droid" with sense of pride, and then see a CH pullout a matching set of rancors and one of my own droids. The only thing he wanted me to do was resurrect the droid.
This past weekend I began to research Weaponsmithing and Architect. I want to feel that my character has useful features.