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Thread: Useless Droid???
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novakaine
Sat Aug 21, 2004 1:16 am
#1
The otherday I bought a droid that was touted as being a Super Self Healing Droid. I thought that may be the perfect thing to help me grind rifleman. A self healing mini-tank. I bought the droid at the expensive price of 42k. Well I undeed the droid and low and behold the droid has no combat abilities whatsoever! Am I missing the point here? Or was this droid created by a clueless DE?
I cant see any point in a droid that can heal itself yet never be likely to get damaged. Well, all I can say is I dont have much experience with buying droids but next time I will be more aware. 
Drashk
Sat Aug 21, 2004 1:34 am
#2
Sounds like you bought a droid from a clueless post-hologrinder.
Only the Probot and DZ70 have inherent combat ability. I'm going to guess that you bought a R3 or LE unit with max Auto-repair modules and no combat modules. I'd suggest that you get in contact with the DE that sold you the droid and have him/her do some reading up on this mistake, after he/she builds you a new droid.
novakaine
Sat Aug 21, 2004 1:50 am
#3
Yeah it was an R3. I've tried contacting the DE in question, but have had no luck so far. Thanks, not what I wanted to hear, but truth is truth. Caveat emptor I guess 
Ackdel
Sat Aug 21, 2004 5:39 am
#4
I would suggest asking three questions of a DE before buying. This is a very finicky prof, and the good DE's know the ins and outs, while many grinders are completely clueless, as you found out the hard way.
I'd ask:
1. "Can you put max item storage into a surgical droid?"
2. "Can anyone use Droid Reconstruction kits?"
3. "What's the max armor a droid can have?"
Correct answers:
1. Nope, the surgicals are bugged when it comes to item storage.
2. Nope, it's a DE-only item.
3. 20%, although a current display bug will show 40%.
If a DE answers those three questions correctly, I would buy with confidence, because that DE would seem to have a good handle on the profession.
Drashk
Sat Aug 21, 2004 11:04 am
#5
Great list of questions Ackdel, since these 3 simple questions can easily be answered by anyone that has paid attention to thier craft of choice. If the person can't answer these questions correctly, they need to be directed to this forum, so that they can get a refresher on what it really takes to be a Droid Engineer and not someone that simply runs around with the MDE title over their heads.
Ackdel wrote:
I would suggest asking three questions of a DE before buying. This is a very finicky prof, and the good DE's know the ins and outs, while many grinders are completely clueless, as you found out the hard way.
I'd ask:
1. "Can you put max item storage into a surgical droid?"
2. "Can anyone use Droid Reconstruction kits?"
3. "What's the max armor a droid can have?"
Correct answers:
1. Nope, the surgicals are bugged when it comes to item storage.
2. Nope, it's a DE-only item.
3. 20%, although a current display bug will show 40%.
If a DE answers those three questions correctly, I would buy with confidence, because that DE would seem to have a good handle on the profession.
WarHero1016
Sat Aug 21, 2004 5:34 pm
#6
The droid should have had 1 combat module and 5 auto repair modules (and max HAM). That way the droid tanks for you while not doing much damage to take away XP. This droid you bought must not have had a combat module put into it. The Probot does not need a combat module to have combat capibilities but the R3 must have at least one combat module.
These auto repair combat R3's work great if they are made by a good DE and you know how to use them.
novakaine
Sat Aug 21, 2004 10:53 pm
#7
Thanks for all the great answers guys. Now Im only waiting to hear back from the DE I bought it from. Im not going to hold my breath though...
Eaca
Sun Aug 22, 2004 5:42 pm
#8
This droid isn't so much useless as just intended for a different use than you thought. What you can do is get a few friends with probots with pure combat and have this droid sit in the back and just auto heal, see a auto heal module doesn't just heal the droid its in, it heals ALL droids in the group. With say 4 probots and 2 of these droids the probots are going to be able to absorbe quite a bit of damage being as they're being healed for 200 or so every 10 seconds. Now for solo use, yes this is pretty useless, its a group use droid. For what you want get a probot with 5 heal modules, only does 1 damage but heals itself pretty well.
PanaGo
Mon Aug 23, 2004 5:55 am
#9
Great posts guys,thx!They helped! I also have another question. Do Surgical Droids have inherit medical capabilities?They work as like a Lvl 6 Medical Module was installed, even without me installing it?Or they do have some medical capability but nerfed like a Combat Module-less Probot that makes a damage of 1?Or it doesnt work as having a medical module at all?...U can see I am confused,no?
Thx!
PanaGo
Ackdel
Mon Aug 23, 2004 6:02 am
#10
Without a medical module, surgical droids have no medical capability at all.
RasalTheWise
Mon Aug 23, 2004 10:49 am
#11
Ackdel wrote:Without a medical module, surgical droids have no medical capability at all.
Nor do they add any kind of med bonus over other chassis if you add a module. That's what really bothers me.
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