Politician Archive
Thread: Militia Droids for Player Cities & Mayor Protection? Oh yes!
Hello there!
Hope that you are all still loving your players cities as much as we are - we had 25 people in our Cantina last night- the lag was rough, but we could watch those dancers wiggle in slow motion... 
Anyway, I happened to be on the Droid Engineer board, and some of the guys over there want to make special Militia Battle Droids that can only be used by mayors and could act as additional protection for cities.
Where we are in Tatooine, we regularly get Squills and Tuskens chasing people into town, and a couple of Droidekkas at the entrance to the Cantina would give people people of mind.
The proposal is that they would turn on any red MOBs in the area, rather than be manually controlled by the mayor. My militia are nearly always out of town, so I really need something like this.
I love this idea - I think that we should give these guys our support to get this in their next patch!
What do you guys think? Sign if you like the sound of it!
Yours,
http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=droid_engineer&message.id=39989&highlight=#M39989
To provide an executive summary, there's a "police droid" chassis described in the Essential Guide to Droids which gave me this idea to start with. I'm talking about having a special model of droid, somewhat like the BH droids.
- It cannot be used as a player pet.
- It can only be deployed in a city by the mayor or militia leaders, who can assign it patrol routes.
- It cannot be ordered to attack, but if an unwelcome player comes into the city, all of that city's police droids would be red blips.
- They can't move outside city boundaries to attack you, and you can't sit outside city limits and snipe them (to prevent griefing).
- Larger cities and/or more experienced mayors can place more of them.
- They don't run on droid batteries, but instead draw on the city's maintenance pool.
Funny, I was just thinking of something similar. But I was thinking more towards BE & master CH combined abilities to make pets available only to patrol the city.But props to the DE's for thinking this up as well.
Great idea, and I think I like this one better than mine. finally giving more reason to make droids other than crafting stations...
Why not both? I DO think that the droids should be more powerful, but it would just add some variety if pets could be BE'd for the same purpose.
As long as its not kimos. Lets use some sense here. 
~~Shabhaii, Mayor of Tombra, Naboo
www.cityoftombra.com
The REAL BT
"The FS system only rewards the Veruca Salt's of the MMO world . . . not the Charlie's"
love the driod police idea (at least that will keep mobs out of the city in the more hostile environment. Drawing from the maint pool would work.
Excellent idea - this would be so much fun! Should come from City funds... Would give people in hostile areas another reason to move into town.
They should also protect citizens when a Citizen is being attacked!
/SIGN
As long as they cannot be told to attack a baned\warned player, the I am all for them.
The point being that the milita is not there to keep banned\warned citicezns form voting. Having droids do that automatically would be bad. But for attacking NPC's, no problem here, I love it!
well.. the driods should only be use to protect citizens (and visitors) from red monsters in the citys.. as for PVP tool.. is a nono.. that is what the militia is for.