Droid Engineer Archive

I been seeing threads for over a year on changes that need to be made to improve DE. As far as I can tell everything that everyone has said has fallen on deaf (SOE) ears.

I know some people would view this as whining but I've beena DE for over a year. I keep hearing that changes are coming that will make it worth while. It hasn't happened. But moreover, I think the SOE has missed one of their own prime directives. And that is that the SWG is to be a player driven economy. Aside from the fact that droids are limited in useful functionality within the game, they don't have draw that would cause the typical player to purchase them. Way back when CH was uber (and droids didn't do anything -- oh wait... nothing has changed in that regard) a nerf was put in place to cut back on the ability to handle more than one pet at a time. DE was a recipient of this nerf even though you couldn't damage a baby womp rat with a supposed combat Probot. Then, instead of driving the GCW into high gear (I still remember with fondness the initial battles that used to take place in the battlefields when the game was new -- good time those) and giving droids some power to assist in the battle SOE nerf's the Imp and Rebel ranks so you couldn't go past Colonel and the GCW died. Now, with JTL you would have thought that droids would finally come into their own and provide DE's with a small portion of the hugh player ecomony (don't even get me started on how much Weaponsmiths and Armorsmiths have made in this game), droids are left as an afterthought. And what little funtionality they do provide is so minimal that the typical player can effect a complete bypass of the DE professionignore the need for an Astromech altogether since the "commands" that can be programmed into chipsare laughable at best.

The bottom line is that SOE is watering down the "system" of this game in a manner thatwas intended to create a balanced playing experience for everyone but more simply creates a drab environment that doesn't excite most true gamers. No wonder so many players have left the game over the last eight months and more are leaving every day for more exciting quests. You know why lots of kids like X-Box? Cause the games are hard to master. Not so with SWG.

SOE (or maybe Lucas Arts) needs to step up to the plate and make this game what everyone thought it was going to be. Life isn't fair. This game shouldn't be fair either. It should be something that provides a challenge, some excitement because you don't know what will be around the next hill, and an occasional thrill because you can sometimes, if you are very lucky, find (or create) something unique and worthwhileenhances you enjoyment of the game. Otherwise, a couple of years down the road SWG will be gone (Those of you who are laughing shouldn't.I predicted the demise of DIVX two weeks after it hit the streets).

So what's the point? Not sure if there is one. I would suggest changes but I believe 1) most have already been discussed and 2) SOE won't do anything about it. I would start a thread to get the DE community hopping mad about the situation in hopes that SOE would listen but I don't think they are really doing that either. I could quit but, hey, what purpose would that serve? So, what do we do? What can we do?

Anyone got any suggestions on how to start a revolution?