Droid Engineer Archive

I don't know if this has been posted before, but it just occured to me. We dont' need certifications, we need Droid Repair Packs that only a Repair Droid can use. The cost of these packs should act as a deterent for abusing Droid Armies. Yeah you can deploy a Droid army, but the Droids should suffer significant wounds/battle damage. This blackbar damage should only be able to be repaired by a repair Droid who should require repair packs.

This is StarWars. If I have the money to deploy a Droid Army I should be able to. Just make me pay a heavy price for the battle damage.

Also make sure that the Droids take a minimum amount of damage just being "deployed", to avoid abuse. In this way people won't abuse them due to the pure cost.

Maybe no damage just for being deployed, but I would agree with droids having a different vitality system than pets.

Something that would require a repair droid, when a droid gets incapped, it cannot be used again until repaired by a repair droid, and the repair droid can repair it to full use again, however like weapons and armor, it can take a max stats loss (mainly vitality).

I.E.: Repair a weapons, and it goes from 1000 / 1000 condition to 975/ 975 condition.

Do something like that for droids.

No one likes this idea? I thought it would be great!

I rather like this idea, with only one caveat... I fear the consequences of anything that might make people less willing/eager to use droids. Just a thought purely from the business/PR/marketing side of things.

While I like the idea in the sense of having something other than vitality packs to replace droids I think the proposal goes a bit too far, asking that droids take massive wounds in combat and even being deployed.

The reason this is a bad idea? It makes the droids less desireable than animal pets. Unless the system is changed so that animal pets take massive wounds in battle and when being deployed there is absolutely no reason someone would chose droids over them.

This argument assumes that combat droids are brought up to an equitable level with the CL15 pets. If they aren't, as is the situation now, there is even less incentive. If they are stronger than CL15 pets then it could be a balance point, but I doubt the developers want to grant even more power to the newbie playing field.

again, you will have people with no higher training than novice marskman with droid army's, how? Ebay.

there needs to be a way of forcing people to actually earn the droid army