Droid Engineer Archive
Thread: I hope all you I only want to be a crafter DE's are happy!
"Ill be doing it this week. I had to push it off until some of internal discussions were finished. The timetable was changed because the Droid Engineers were very clear in telling me they wanted Droid Engineering and Droid Handling as two seperate professions.
Their argument makes a lot of sense too. A good balance is akin to Bio-Engineers and Creature Handlers; BE's make em and CH's use them. Its really two different playstyles. One is crafting and one is combat/exploration. Adding a class of combat droids to the game has to be similar. Combat droids themselves have to stay level 10 or under for the general population otherwise everyone would rush out and get the better pets. That leaves a wide range of powerful combat droids that needs to be in the game, but to get those droids, players have to spend the time and energy to earn them.
So what we'll have is a Droid Engineer profession and a Droid Handling profession. All players will have access to combat droids up to level 10 and DH's will get a wide range of heavy combat droids to handle."
TH
I've been wanting to be a DE ever since I bought the game, just so I could use cool droids. I even created my player as an artisan. Once I played for a while I realized that none of the droids DE's had currently were any good so I started concentrating on my rifleman skills and put de on the back burner. Once I heard a few weeks ago that Droids were going to be more interesting I began grinding artisan. SUrvey 4....not fun by the way. Now that ive almost mastered artisan and am novice DE I just read the above thread. SO now we arent going to be able to use our own droids. I cant understand why you'all were crying like you were. Crying to be left out of combat. If you did not want to participate in combat then fine dont do it. But some of us would have liked to participate in the GCW. Now to me DE is useless again.My idea of fun is not making cool doids so thatonly other people can use them. Drinding DE is the pitts, Ive had enough of these **edit** MSE droids too!
sosusred wrote:
You are the most Elitist group of people I have ever met.
Check the Bounty Hunter Forums. Or start a character on the Test Center.
Here it is in a nutshell. The Droid Engineers did not want to be the ones controlling the mid and high level combat droids, because we (I am a MDE on Starsider named Tsu) felt that EVERYONE should be able to control a droid. They are nothing like creatures, with emotions and instincts, they are machines, who have no such feelings. All they know is programmed into them by who? Droid Engineers.
Basically, yes the Droid Engineers wanted to stay Crafters, but we wanted all Crafters and Combat Professions alike to have the same chance to control Droids. But yet once again, SOE has completely misinterpreted what the players said to them, and dreamed up a dandy solution that sounded good in the conference call, but will probably end up with a player referring to the person who came up with the idea as a "**edit**ing idiot". And hopefully, at the Player Convention thing in Las Vegas, there will be plenty of players who can represent, and present to the Devs a true picture of what will make this game work, what will make it be fun, and what will make it sucessful.