Droid Engineer Archive

Combat droids aren't removed, they are delayed while the Devs figure out the best way to impliment them.

Utlity droids are just what droid in Star Wars are supose to be, something to help with small task. Now as to what the devs will put in i'm not sure but some of the player sugestion include droids that slice, harvest resources, check on harvesters, act as mini factories, repair weapons and armor, and so on.

Utility droids (IMO) need to come first since that will keep them as droids and not just metal creature pets.

As for combat droids, the way thing were about to happen you wouldn't be able to use them as a bounty hunter. Combat droids were to be the sole domain of a new proffesion the Droid Handler. So be happy things are happening differently. The DEs were fighting to get combat droids spread out, the Devs were making it so as a BH you got no more droids than you have now.

To clarify: Probots are not going away, and other existing droids may gain some small measure of fighting ability quite soon.

What's being put off is the introduction of much more powerful droids, while they try to figure out how they can allow players to use them without throwing the entire game out of whack.

The initial plan (strongly shouted down by many of us) was to introduce a new profession, who would have been the sole users of these new droids.

As for utility droids, we've been clamoring for months now, trying to get new kinds of modules into droids, so that there would be some real choice in droids, and real advantages in the more capable droids like the advanced R2 and R3 units.

My Proposal on Combat Utility Modules (CUtM)

I think that's an excellent point, Virtanis, and ties in with a post I made earlier today. I was thinking how nice it would be if non-combatants sought out strong combat-capable droids, while strong fighters might seek droids that aid in other ways than direct attack/defense.