| Droid Construction: Chassis |
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| Written by Ryph Blackfeather | |
| Saturday, 03 February 2007 | |
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Page 1 of 8 Engineering Traders build all droids that players can use. Fifteen craftable droid chassis currently exist, plus advanced models of thirteen of these. These advanced models have more sockets and take more parts and resources than their corresponding basic models. In the descriptions that follow, Color Set indicates which of the droid color sets are used to customize that particular chassis. Each of these entries link to the message that shows the color set. If a droid has a personality socket, it can be equipped with a personality chip. Only droids that have this slot speak when you program them, whether or not a personality chip is actually installed. If it is not, a default personality is assumed. The available personalities are Geeky, Prissy, Sarcastic, Slang, Stupid and Worshipful. Be sure to specify this chip when ordering. The personality sockets are special ones that only accepts these chips. MSE “Mouse” Droid  MSE “Mouse” Droid Sockets, Advanced Model: two general, one armor. Color Set Used: Color Set Two. Personality Socket: No. Uses: Despite its simplicity, or maybe because of it, the MSE sees a lot of use in Star Wars Galaxies. The basic model is the easiest way to make a quick single-module droid, such as for crafting or entertainers who need an effects droid but are on a budget. Some basic ones also see use as storage droids when fitted with a single ten-space storage module. The small size of the MSE that makes hard to target for use also makes it hard to target in combat, so the advanced MSE chassis is often used in making detonation droids. CLL-8 Binary Load Lifter  CLL-8 Binary Load Lifter Sockets, Advanced Model: three general, three armor. Color Set Used: Color Set One. Personality Socket: No. Uses: On the other end of the size scale from the dimunitive MSE droid is the massive CLL-8 Binary Load Lifter. However, for all its size, this droid is almost useless. It takes more resources to build than any other droid and can do nothing better than other droids that take fewer parts and resources. The basic model has just one armor module, which means it can't actually do anything but follow people around or stand there looking stupid. The advanced model can be massively armored but since it takes only general modules, it can't actually fight, so its armor is a waste. The only non-combat droid that really needs armor is a creature harvesting droid (to survive trample attacks from annoyed critters that hit it when they are stepping on you), and this one has half the sockets needed to make the best ones. This droid sees infrequent use as a merchant barker droid, since its large size gives it visibility. One player I ran across wanted one simply to hide behind in combat. Whether this would be useful is unknown to me. |
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