Droid Engineer Archive

Just a thought, which involves both smugglers and droid engineers. I know both professions are interested in increasing their usefulness and overall play in the Galactic Civil War and, especially smugglers, in the Imperial Crackdown. I think there may be a neat addition to the game which would profit both DEs and Smugglers.

Obviously, with the Imperial Crackdown, smugglers will have a chance to have their contraband escape detection. Droid Engineers, on the other hand, could use some more "neat" things to stick in their droids, to give them variety and so on.

I believe a smuggler should be able to craft a droid component which is a magnetically shielded compartment! He would then sell it / give it to the droid engineer who would use the component in a droid, and that droid would then have what qualifies as a "secret" compartment. Items placed within the compartment would be undetectable by contraband scans.

There would need to be limitations, otherwise this would reduce the usefulness of smugglers (only slightly, please remember smugglers slice, spice, and dice =). For instance, the compartment may only hold 6 items [numbers adjustable, of course, this is just an example]. Most of us hold many more sliced items, but it would dramatically reduce our chances of being caught.

In this sense, smugglers provide yet another valuable resource to the world. Such "components" could be added to vehicles, space ships (when the Space Expansion is released), backpacks [smuggler backpack!], and other items of similar interest. The potential for these small components, which by no means would reduce the overall potential of a smuggler, is vast.

Droid Engineers, tailors, and other professions could all be involved. I would gladly carry around an R2 unit which holds a few select items for me, in case the Empire starts sniffing around...

I mean, uh, I'm not a spice addict! I SWEAR, I ONLY HAD 2 MUON WHEN I CAME IN HERE!

=) If you like this idea, let me know, but more importantly, let the developers know! I honestly know it's not "easy" for the developers to add things like this in, and it would require a fair bit of coding as far as inventory space (hence the limitation on the number of items each could carry), the chances of avoiding detection, etc... But I also believe it would be a valuable addition to the Droid Engineer and Smuggler professions, increasing demand for specialized droids.

Thanks.

Sroduss
ACRID [Naritus]

heh heh... I had some similar ideas - they are posted in the thread entitled, "Friends, Countrymen, Droid Engineers, lend me your modules" started by Drashk