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Thread: Master DEs should be allowed 2

Mojopoly
Tue May 25, 2004 7:05 am
#1

I recently became a Master Droid engineer and was disappointed to find out i could only control one droid at a time. Wouldnt it be cool if droid engineer was treated like CH and you were allowed to have two droids at your side?
raygellenbeck
Tue May 25, 2004 7:18 am
#2
Before I dropped DE (just before Patch7), there had been discussion from the devs about creating a new profession, Droid Handler (or some related name). There was enough of an outcry that it was dropped. The idea was that droids above a certain level would be exclusively controlable by the handler class like pets are to CH's.



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Malitevv
Tue May 25, 2004 8:25 am
#3
In my opinion,all players should be allowed to have two pets at their side, with the restriction that only one of them can be a combat enabled pet. The only reason I say pets and not droids is because, I think the player should only be able to have one droid out if he already has a creature out. This would mean that a player could have 1 creature and 1 non-combat droid out, or 1 combat droid and 1 non-combat droid out.


Apparently that is one of the things we are told we should stop wishing for because it isn't ever going to happen.


I do wish someone would explain why. There is nothing unbalancing about having 2 pets out if only one of them is combat capable. One of the most annoying things about this game is that it forces me to use vehicles even in those cases where I would prefer to use a mount because I cannot call my crafting droid while my mount is at my side.


The only thing I can think of is that its "too hard" to add the ability for the game to tell the difference between a combat droid and a non-combat droid. But I've never seen that offered as a reason for why they won't do this either. So who knows?




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KotoraDE
Tue May 25, 2004 8:32 am
#4
Ah its this old chestnut again *frowns*


2 droids would be a bonus for Master droid engineers but the question lies in the fact that with the new droids (CL19), should we be allowed to call 2 combat droids to fight for us, making us the Droid CH. I think not ..whilst i agree with you MDE should be able to call 2 droids i think there should be limited to what type of droids can be called.


1 fighting droid and 1 service droid - IE 1 R3 Combat droid & 1 Protocol Droid or Humaniod (service) (non combat module droid) .

Reason for protocol only well with the new auto repair modules we dont want a Combat Droid paired with a R3 90+ auto-repair droid...


but then this subject leads to the other subject "why can MDE only store 5 Droids?"
ASHRID
Tue May 25, 2004 8:55 am
#5
I think a novice DE need to be able to have 2 droids out, never mind master DE!
Malitevv
Tue May 25, 2004 1:45 pm
#6
any potential abuse of auto-repair should be simple: classify any droid that can potentially be abused as a helper in combat a "combat droid".That's my take anyway.



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MrWizzard
Tue May 25, 2004 8:13 pm
#7

dont forget about power droids and the fun you can have with those......


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Malitevv
Wed May 26, 2004 9:19 am
#8




NoseNugget wrote:

Maybe you should make it 3 at MDE and 2 somewhere in a tier 3 thing. And let someone else build the droids. And be CH clones.


Shuddup already. You are making money. You want to be combat, go a combat class.








you are missing the point and apparently aren't even paying any attention to what most of the posters tothis thread are saying.


most of us want two droids out butfor non-combat purposes. that is we want two non-combat droids out at a time. In my case, I want to be able to have two droids out so I can have a non-combat craftingdroid out in conjunction with my creature mount. but that has already been said above so I won't say anything further.




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TheRealTK421
Wed May 26, 2004 9:21 am
#9
Just to let you all know...

The 19 answers question we are waiting on asks about this issue. I think you'll all be sort of encouraged by the answer (not immediately though).



/bow

Respectfully,




TheRealTK421 a.k.a. "Doughbacca"
SWG DE Correspondent
Co-Founding member of Ahazi DENet & SWG DEA (Droid Engineer Association)
"I think all right-thinking people in this country are sick and tired of being told that ordinary, decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. ...I'm certainly not. And I'm sick and tired of being told that I am."


_KernMist
Wed May 26, 2004 9:27 am
#10



Shuddup already. You are making money. You want to be combat, go a combat class.


Someday all the little kiddies will realise that not everyone is playing this game in order to make money or kick someones head in. Some of us actually ENJOY running a successfulbusiness in the Star Wars Galaxy...




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NoseNugget
Wed May 26, 2004 12:08 pm
#11

Maybe you should make it 3 at MDE and 2 somewhere in a tier 3 thing. And let someone else build the droids. And be CH clones.


Shuddup already. You are making money. You want to be combat, go a combat class.


Totlich108
Thu May 27, 2004 4:25 am
#12
If any thing we should most certanly be able to have more droids in our data pad ( like CH)



Elder jedi, Rodian, Master pilot....
JumperRay
Fri May 28, 2004 5:15 am
#13
Why shouldn't we be allowed to have two droids out? It's annoying to store one droid, just so that we can call another just to that we can craft. Especially now that we have barker droids for advertising. As far as the issue concerning DE's or MDE's being able to use 2 combat droids.. Why not? Most CD's are slow at firing anyways and if a covert DE get's tef'd the only defense they have is the use of combat droids. Just like the CH's theoretically. Should we not be able to defend ourselves?
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