Droid Engineer Archive
Thread: Tell your home servers of THs tretchery!
Hillslayer wrote:
We haven't seen hide nor hair of that promised thread and suddenly we get told of DH plans. This has got to stop! Tell the people on your server, have them write messages to every last red name there is! This is wrong and there is no way TH can't know it. He had even said that he wouldn't screw us, but what is this? This is about the worst thing he could have done to us.
I already alerted Intrepid Droid Engineers Association (IDEA) members.
I figure this will describe the situation enough to post on everyone's galaxy boards.
Regarding potential upcoming changes to Droid Engineering
Ladies and gentlemen, I am a Droid Engineer. Some of you may be the same now, or some of you may have been so in the past. Others have had little experience with the frustrations we've faced. The profession has never been in 100% working order, nor have we been properly balanced. You may have noticed this fact by any number of hints: droids that exist are useless in combat, aren't the assistants they are meant to be, and are outnumbered by creature pets. In the Star Wars universe, creature pets are a rarity, yet the universe we see in SWG is not teeming with droids!
The developers have promised radical changes to the profession since June of 2003... in fact, since before that time in the Beta. So far we have gotten nothing but a handful of bug fixes. Regardless, the Droid Engineering forums have been well populated, putting forth extensive discussion of potential changes in the hopes that we would stumble across the perfect solution for our quandry. So far, we have not found that solution. We have, however, identified a number of solutions that would not solve this problem. Amongst them was the idea of a 'Droid Handler,' much like a creature handler. It has been decided that this solves nothing: it does not take special experience to work with a droid. That runs counter to the PURPOSE of a droid.
Today the most grievous insult to our profession to date was delivered: the announcement of a Droid Handling profession. Droid Engineers and Droid Handlers would work the same as Bio-Engineers and Creature Handlers. Rather than work to make the existing droids useful, the developers are choosing to add more droids specifically for the purpose of combat, and requiring certifications for their use. While it may be nice to see someone walking around with three Droidekas at their side, your R2s and 3POs will remain as useless as they are now.
It has been stated that it will take until July to put these changes into place. The Droid Engineer community is already crying out against this. An informal poll shows the ratio of people approving the change versus the people against the change at close to 3:200. WE DO NOT WANT THIS CHANGE.
As such, I ask you, the people of <your server here> to join us in fighting this change. Droids should not be reserved for special classes! You astromechs should have more purpose than standing there acting as a crafting station! Protocol droids should not be useless! The mighty Binary Load Lifter should be able to load something! Please join us on the Droid Engineer forum and help us fight this travesty!
NO DROID HANDLERS! DROID EMPOWERMENT NOW!
Reposted on Radiant.
Hope you dont mind the copy/paste you put it much better than I would
Sraecru wrote:
Reposted on Radiant.
Hope you dont mind the copy/paste you put it much better than I would
Such was my intention, knowing that not all can call forth such eloquence upon command.