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Droid Power Usage Mechanics

Droids require power. With publish 11.2 droid battery lifetime was expanded from 1 hour to 4 hours. Every droid begins at a 100% charge and without using any additional command abilities and modules, will take 4 hours to reach 0%. While being without power, the droid will not respond to voice commands, will not group, will not learn its name, and most modules such as Combat Modules, Medical Modules and other special abilities modules will not function. The only modules that will work when your droid has no power are the Crafting Station modules and item storage modules if you have them installed.

When a Droid is low on power, it will say, *low power.* If you give a command or attempt to use a droid's features while it has no power, the player will see a *Low Power* message over the droid. When a droid is at 0% power, it will issue the "Low Power" message every 30 seconds.

There are two sources of power: batteries, and power droid.

Using Batteries:

Batteries may be used to recharge droids using two methods, the radial menu and directly out of the inventory.

Radial menu usage:

1. Click the Droid Options menu
2. Click the Recharge option

In order for the droid to be recharged, the battery must be in the main inventory of the player. If no battery is used and this option is chosen then gold text will display indicating You Don't Have a Power Storage Device. Once you use the recharge option successfully you will see a "Recharged" fly text over the droid. 1 Battery charge will be expended per recharge use.

Inventory usage:

The second option is to use the battery directly from the inventory. To use a battery, have a battery, out of the crate, in your primary inventory.

1. Get within 7 meters of the droid
2. Target the droid
3. Select the battery radial menu in inventory
4. Click on RECHARGE option.

This will draw a single charge out of the droid battery.

Using Power Droids

Power Droids also produce the same function as using a battery, but can not target themselves for the recharge. A power droid can be used to power one other droid at a time - hence, if you own a power droid, you can only power someone else's droid, as you can only have one droid out at a time.

Power droids can power multiple other droids before needing a recharge of their own, presumably up to 10 times.

A power droid can be used to recharge another droid in two ways.

Method 1: Radial

1. Target droid needing a recharge
2. Clicking the radial on the power droid and then using the Recharge Other Droid option

Method 2: Programmed Verbal Command

1.Target droid needing a recharge.
2.Issue programmed command. The command for power droids is labeled under Trick One. Trick One can be given a custom command to enable the droid to respond.

example :

• Your Power Droid is still called 'Bob', and you programmed it to 'recharge' when saying 'Bob recharge'.
• Target the Droid to recharge.
• Type 'Bob recharge' (owner doesnt have to consent or be in your group).
• The Power Droid will briefly go toward the targeted Droid, then '*recharged*' will appear over the Recharged Droid and in your Chat Window, meaning the operation was a success.

Additional Notes

Recharging your droid will heal all accumulated mind wound damage instantaneously. Droid charges does not appear to stack. So, if you dump 20 batteries into a droid at once, it will not make that power last any longer than if you had just dumped one charge into the droid. Additionally players cannot recharge a droid using a battery while they, or the droid are in active combat. A player must cease attacking in order to recharge the droid and the droid must cease attacking in order to be recharged.

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