Droid Engineer Archive

This is crossposted from the Discussion forum, but got buried there. Besides that, I think it would be more apropos in this forum. Let me state that I am not nor have never been a droid engineer...
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So there I was ... looking at my brand new spat mount and thinking "Man, this is supposed to be -STAR WARS-". Well, a few ideas came to me that would, I believe, make this more like Star Wars.

First and foremost... leave CH's alone. Yes, that's right, this is not a CH bashing post. They've had their troubles. Let them be =).

That being said I think that if Droids were brought up to be on par with (Or, really, slightly better than) non-ch pets then we'd see alot more droids and thus a more star wars-ish atmosphere.

How can we do that? Well, here's a few suggestions:


1) More droids - I think this is obvious to everyone and their kid sister. We especially need more combat droids. Granted, we won't see any "special" droids like IG-88 but a droideka would be nice.
Currently the droid selection is pretty poor, honestly.

2) Upgradeable droids - We can powerup our weapons... slice our weapons and armor... why can't we modify droids?

3) I would like to , in the combat droids, -optional- slots for DE's:

Blaster Power Handler - increase droid damage, decrease speed ... HAM costs applied to droid as it fires.

Personal Shield Generator - Droideka anyone? PSG would have a certain # of hitpoints as it does now and, eventually, wear out. At that point the droid becomes more vulnerable to attack. Perhaps DEs could fix that with another shield generator or a Shield Battery craftable only by DEs.

Armor Segments/layers - Give you droid some permanent (until it hits 0 vitality that is ;-)) protection. PCs can have armor but we can't affix it to droids? Why not?

All of the above items will create inter-class relationships... Isn't that what the multi- in MMO is supposed to be all about? =).

4) Experimentable damage and HAM for droids. Combat droid ranges should be increased to be on par with a "decent" pet (Sand beetle or cu pa for instance).

Well, just a few ideas for the DE's and hopefully dev's (Thunderheart, ya out there bro?) to gnash their teeth on.

Beuhler? Beuhler? Anybody? =)

I'm hoping I didn't get responses because this got buried and not because you all think it's lame ....

Not bad ideas, no

However, you might want to add to some of the existing threads.

There is a list of some of them here:

http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=droid_engineer&message.id=37931

The thing is, for months this forum has had a bazillion great ideas, and the devs have not responded to a single one.

So, you will find that some of the DE's who have been around here for a while tire of typing out the same ideas over and over again, and not have them heard

Thanks =).... I really wish that the DEs got some love from the devs alot sooner than this.... Droids are one of the things that -make- Star Wars. That and, you know, spaceships =D Ah well...

Well, here's a THANK YOU to all you DEs that are sticking with the profession... =). When the devs give you some love I'll be in line to check out the new stock ;-).

there always were mounts in star wars.