New Droid

[Nivek Tholmai]

Hello,
I'd like to suggest an additional interactive droid for us to use. Basically since our shields are supposedly battery powered etc, rather than constantly walking back and forth between the medbay to the spar room, could we have a Gonk droid we could click on that would.... recharge our shileds 100 points at a time or something?


Ty ^_^

[Moza Ferorn]

Not a bad idea.

[Yon Vash]

/support

[Aslyn Denethorn]

Since we're also on the topic of new droids, would it be possible to request one for the Archives? Master Elusido has designated particular areas of the Archives as pertaining to particular information, and having a droid be able to direct students to the appropriate places would be helpful.

[Alkur Tekeil]

Personally I abhor the dialogue droids, and whenever I need shields I go to the "lab" in the back of the medbay.
Sure the dialogue aspect is a neat, new feature, but ultimately its redundant to the point of spam.

"What can I help you with, Master?"
"I need more shields, droid-I-never-interact-with-otherwise"
"Ok, here you go. Do you need anything else, Master"
"No, I need to hurry up and go spar some more"

If a gonk could serve as a shield generator, that would be great.

[Nivek Tholmai]

and whenever I need shields I go to the "lab" in the back of the medbay.

Me to, I would suggest the Med droid hands out Health packs instead, and the gonk does shields in the spar room.

[Vantus]

and whenever I need shields I go to the "lab" in the back of the medbay.

Me to

Me Three.


If the NPC Dialogue did not show up on other people's screens then I wouldn't mind so much.
Right now I almost feel like apologising in OOC for the spam when I top up shields via NPC.

[Kael Sekura]

Could always see about making it client only instead of global but I dunno. I like the feature!

[Nivek Tholmai]

I personally like the interaction, however I just feel we need to have A48 deploy quicker health restoration. Whether that's by giving out health packs instead of shields or giving us the ability to recieve (and hold obviously) more than one bacta at a time.

What would be good for A-48 would be instant health regen instead maybe, so you don't have to wait for the other player. You can just ask him to treat you, screen goes dark "There you go sir, do you need anything else?" "Nope, thanks" and you're off!

Since we're technically supposed to spar to shields anyway, (that varies depending on what most people feel like, meh) It'd be a good touch to remove the shields from A48 and have them placed with a Gonk droid in the spar room ^_^ Just click on him and ::Charge Shield batteries:: AND HE HAS TO SAY *GONK*

[Jared]

A-48 distributes shield batteries as a temporary measure to the issue of battery placements. His primary function was to distribute bacta, akin to band aids or something equally mundane. His role play function is more a medical overseer and if you need massive health boosts use the bacta tanks themselves.

I think the Gonk idea is sound. Gonk's are power droids after all. As far as I know though there would still be dialogue due to the nature of the scripts.

It's perhaps worth asking if extra shields can be placed on the map using a script. That might be the best solution to avoid dialogue spam.

However I still think the RP interaction with either a Gonk or A-48 is far more realistic than having batteries just lying around on a map but if they can be added I'm sure that would please the most number of people.

[Nivek Tholmai]

A note on the Bacta tanks, they only fill you to 100hp, no matter how many times you use them. I step in, and if i'm at 138, it'll take me DOWN to 100.

[Soh Raun]

Could always see about making it client only instead of global but I dunno.

You're lucky, it can be (and has now been) toggled with a Cvar . Now droid dialogs will be private. I wasn't sure whether to enable public dialogs or not, I guess it could be useful if ever used in a (private?) mission, but for every day interaction it can quickly become spam, indeed.

As for using a gonk in the training room... the idea is fine, but I haven't tested how dialogs would behave if I used a single dialog line with a duration of 0 seconds. The camera would probably move quickly on the client side.

But the original plan was to have a holo-droid in the training room, to get medpacks (not bacta) and shields, and to spawn various training droids (astromech, single saber, dual sabers, sentry for deflection). I was waiting to release RPMod 0.4.0c server-side to enable it, because training droids need rank restrictions - and of course they should only be used with care. They don't have much HP anyway, so they shouldn't be much of a problem if they get out of hand.

So you can expect "JH-101, Jedi Holo-Droid" (voice credits to Jared Quell as usual ) to appear soon with a corresponding NPC pack update.

[Jared]

Just so we're all clear, I actually just kidnapped Anthony Daniels (his favourite biscuits are bourbons and his favourite artist is Elton John) and I don't at all sound like any of the droids.

[Yrael Grekkis]

Ah man, I thought you had a sexy voice :'( Its all liez!!

[Aslyn Denethorn]

Coming from a guy, that's an extremely disturbing statement...