Droid Engineer Archive
Thread: Do you suppose when we call BLLs 'useless', some think it's hyperbole?
Just a thought brought on by sleep deprivation, caffeine addiction, and my server being brought down.
In my experience, BLL's have not always been useless. They give 4k DE XP to make them and 4200 in Practice mode. I did my grind off of these. I did make a few to Advertise with. I made some to target practice on too (during the grind). since the RELEASE command was removed, I can't make'em and Shoot'em anymore. since the droid battery requirement has been brought in, Advertising with a BLL has become a bit of a chore. But hey, you can still grind with them, eh?
Droid_Engineer_Rho wrote:
Just wondering, since they've been utterly useless for months, if a lot of folks, devs included, believe that we use the word 'useless' or the term 'does nothing' as meaning 'The BLL does nothing more than any other droid'... When we really honestly DO mean 'The BLL does NOTHING'.
Just a thought brought on by sleep deprivation, caffeine addiction, and my server being brought down.
Those that haven't spent a few mintues talking to a Droid Engineer fit in the 'so all droids are useless' realm. I would have to say that even Thunderheart falls into this realm, at least until I re-educate him a little. 
All Droid Engineers really need to start thinking towards the future and the negative spin that has been placed on droids since the Probot Nerf.The L33T DewDs and disgruntled Droid Engineers seem to be the worst culprits in influencing popular opinion that all droids are useless.We have to start re-educating the populas now.Droids may be limited to crafting stations, storage, and roving med centers, but they can still be quite useful.An R3 with the full Crafting station regiment and a Medical Module gives the Holo-grinder freedom to level up all of the crafting and medical professions anywhere.Droidswith Item Storage protect acrafteror PvPer from the threat of their armorbeing damaged. AProbot with a 110 Medical Module givessomeone in the Medical Profession the ability to have a tankthathelps them healbetter in combat.
Its all about the spin that you put advertising Droids.I tend to put a positive spin on Droids, which is why Drashk, on Shadowfire, is still a Multi-Millioniare after almost 2 months of not having any sales.
CapnSteve wrote:
I suppose nothing's useless as long as you can use it for decoration, but you have a good point.
Lol, I have made exactly one of these in my 6 or 7 months as MDE and that was just to decorate my house. I have never been asked to make one, and see no point since they hold absolutely no modules. The BLL's would make nice melee battle tanks if they would only fight. If armor experimentation actually did anything, a heavy armor BLL would rule.
Thanks for the g-mail, I got as high as 51% before server down came up, but it turned out I was waaaaaay too close to Kaadara. I'll be trying again this afternoon.
3 armor slots for the BLL...and yes, I bet the clueless *do* believe the wrong interpretation of the word "nothing". We ought to break out the Thesaurus.....
Definition: purposeless
Synonyms: aimless, carefree, careless, feeble, fustian, futile, good-for-nothing, hopeless, incautious, incompetent, ineffective, ineffectual, irresponsible, meaningless, reckless, shiftless, uncareful, unpurposed, useless, weak, wild, worthless
Antonyms: competent, effective, efficient, important, purposeful, responsible, useful
Concept: unusefulness
Drashk wrote:
Its all about the spin that you put advertising Droids.I tend to put a positive spin on Droids, which is why Drashk, on Shadowfire, is still a Multi-Millioniare after almost 2 months of not having any sales.
Well, I wouldn't say I am poor. I could have well over 5 million if I wouldn't be blowing a wad trying to get skill tapes and fiberplast ( I can only mine so much of my own stuff you know? We need EVERYTHING!!!!).
That said, this thread was about the BLL's. Now admit it, they are utterly worthless. They do nothing, hold no modules whatsoever and have 1100 HAM with 2 armor slots....Why? They aren't even good walking adds because you can't use numbers in the name. They are just big house decor....that is about all.