OK...sorry if this has been brought up before...I recently hit Droid Novice with my Alt Character (not a holo thing)...so I am a total newbie to the profession...I've been lurking for a week trying to get myself up to speed on goings on...
Anyway...With the direction the game is heading I was wondering what people would think about Enhancement Droids....or in otherwords, Droids that enhance certain skills and abilities of their users (like food or skill mods) but in ways not achieved by other means...
What do I have in mind?
How about a Targeting Droid that improves the user's accuracy...
Or a Smuggler Droid that improves a smuggler'sodds ofa better slice...
Or a Defense Droid that acts much like a Personal Shield between the user and the target...
Or a Calculation Droid that grants the user +5 to +10 Experimentation (make it random each use) and Assembly...
A Medical Droid that (instead of acting as a portible hospital) improves the users healing abilities or medical crafting abilities.
How about a hunting droid that grants a xp bonus and bonus to havesting...
How about a Survey Bonus Droid...or a Damage Droid that once it get's withing 5m of it's target it blows up (that would be funny to see someone chased by a droid)...
Etc...The possibilites are huge...
It seems to me there is a need for more profession targeted droids to enhance the usefulness andmarket potentialof the DE profession...
And to help this...I would suggest these droids work differently then current droids...no HAM...instead have them decay like weapons and armor...or like vehicles (the longer they are out, the more they decay)...This way we also more of a need for Droid Repair and re-purchase....They would also have a requirement that they must be within a range of something like 10m to grant the enhancement to the user (and they must be grouped with)...
My current character is a Commando/TKA...I own a droid...and it's the same droid I bought when I first started the game...I've never had a need to buy another and rarely use it...If I had an enhancement droid, I'd definitely use it (Commandos have poor accuracy, so any little bit helps) and when it decays to much I'd either run to get it repaired or definitely buy another...I would also stockpile different droids for different uses...
I not only see this as a nice selling point for DE's but also see it as a new strategic element to add to the game in that people will have to decided whether they'd rather havea Droid that can attack (or act as a buffer) out or a Droid that enhances the users skills instead...
It just seems to me that in a universe filled with Droids, that they would server more purposes then they currently do in game...Crafting, Healing, Storage, BHand Combat just doesn't seem like enough...but then again I am new to the profession so I make be speaking out of turn....
Please feel free to add to this idea or tear it down...and if it's already been brought up I'd love to hear what resulted from the suggestions...
Garvin Lansdowne
Retired Commando Correspondent - Current Blue Glowie
Master Commando / TKM || Architect / Shipwright / Master Droidsmith
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