Droid Engineer Archive
Thread: protocol droid head variants
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ringo-starrkiller
Fri Feb 18, 2005 4:07 am
#1
I'm not a droid engineer - yet. But I'm working on it. I love droids and are the main thing I love about star wars generally.
One of the things I'd like to see would be head variants for protocol droids (like 4-LOM, the death star droid, and the silver droid in the sandcrawler). It's a little thing I know, but I feel every little variant and customisation make the game a lot more fun.
By the way what do protocol droids actually do in game? Apart from annoy people outside starports? Although the fact that I get irritated by a 3PO droid is also very star wars.
Another point (probably been raised before) is that I feel that players language learning should be limited to a few, while others would require the presence of an interpreter droid. The language barrier should be a big thing.
Sorry if this has all been said before.
Corran950
Fri Feb 18, 2005 7:37 am
#2
You know what that is about one of the neatest ideas iv heard of in a while. make it like a option in crafting like the gungan head statue, where you can chouse how it looks in the customisation screen.
- Rebel Pilot 4/4/4/3
YodaMac
Fri Feb 18, 2005 7:55 am
#3
Yeah, you would think there would be some way to program it where a droid owner could target another player, and if the player speaks in a different language, then the droid would automatically "speak" the same thing in basic. (only if the player targeted speaks in a different language...to avoid the whole "stop making that droid repeat everything I say!" "stop making that droid repeat everything I say!" grief) 
The only thing would be what to do if you were standing around a group of players ALL speaking different languages... Anyways, if something like this could FINALLY be implemented, I think you would see a lot more folks taking advantage of their specieslanguage.
When implemented, all players would just have to revert back to their initial language state, and "re-learn" the couple of languages that each species would be allowed to learn. (maybe 2 additional ones to their native) For the rest, they'd need a protocol pal.
RasalTheWise
Fri Feb 18, 2005 11:32 am
#4
YodaMac wrote:Yeah, you would think there would be some way to program it where a droid owner could target another player, and if the player speaks in a different language, then the droid would automatically "speak" the same thing in basic. (only if the player targeted speaks in a different language...to avoid the whole "stop making that droid repeat everything I say!" "stop making that droid repeat everything I say!" grief)The only thing would be what to do if you were standing around a group of players ALL speaking different languages... Anyways, if something like this could FINALLY be implemented, I think you would see a lot more folks taking advantage of their species language.When implemented, all players would just have to revert back to their initial language state, and "re-learn" the couple of languages that each species would be allowed to learn. (maybe 2 additional ones to their native) For the rest, they'd need a protocol pal.
This is something I've been tossing around for a while. It's an excellent idea, and it gives protocol droids a purpose in life. Remove everyone's non-native languages and make them either spend 1 skill point per language they want to learn, or buy a protocol droid. And its not like it inhibits people much...they can still /tell someone w/o the language barrier.
11710
Sat Mar 05, 2005 3:09 pm
#5
I think that would be so awsome. So i could have kewl lookig bug eyed proto droid ^^
Message Edited by 11710 on 04-11-2005 11:47 AM
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