Droid Engineer Archive

I mean cant they work on getting droids to do other things? I don't remember seeing any combat droids in the movies at this time, welll there was that bounty hunter droid but.. anyway the point is why not have droids that can do a hopper run for artisans or something? A droid to help with the healing for medics? A droid that can help fill out a band for musicans and entertainers? Or how bout having a droid that can repair your swoop while you are out hunting? It seems to me there are lots droids could do without having all sorts of combat droids running around. Maybe even give up on the advanced combat droids all together and make droids a playable race. That would get more droids running around the galaxy for sure. They could go to DE's to get healed instead of medics ok ok well I dunno i just think that perhaps there needs to be a little thinking outside the box here. I for one dont want anymore pets of the combat tanking kind.

sorry bout the double post had some went a little crazy on the clicking

I'm all for more useful droids, even if we can't get combat droids.

I'd like to see an ongoing list of all the neat things droids SHOULD do, like run macros, play holograms, etc.

Don't think I care much for droids as playable race. After all, why the heck have I been grinding for the last 3 weeks?

O-Jen

ok hey lets get that started....

Why not have a factory require a droid to run it?

Have Droids that enable Harvesters to deposit their output to a predesignated place after a set level has been reached?

Have Droids that can reapair vehicles without needing to find a garage (OR use a bug)

Make the languages harder to learn or make it so some NPC's cant be spoken to without a droid to translate (I mean who really speaks jawa anyway oh and maybe we could have the jawa fortress actually have a bazaar)

I mean is all this too difficult to implement because of the difficult to code it?

My interest is pleasing everyone in this game. I combined many people's thought and my own to create this idea.

Please read the following thread:

http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=droid_engineer&message.id=55037

I have suggested over and over again that droids should help assist the current professions, but the clamor of the DE community for Combat Droids drowned out all other discussion. It has always been "droideka this, droideka that" with only the occassional shout from the pit asking "what does a BLL do"....

Now that DE is getting serious attention, its all about Combat droids and nothing about the rest.

Droids should assist professions. Tracking droids should give bonuses to BH's and Rangers, Repair droids should lessen the chance for a failure when using repair kits, droids that assist crafters should offer experimentation bonuses or reduce or eliminate critical failures.

If droids modified professions skills, everyone would have them and use them. Everyone. Droids would be what they are supposed to be, ubiquitous. We would find droids everywhere. Droids are designed to assist people in day to day tasks, and what better way to do this?

But until the furor over combat droids dies down, it just seems to be a waste of time to try to bring this to peoples attention.