Your point is well noted. It helps somewhat, but I still have to wonder: how cheap is cheap today and how cheap is cheap 25,000+ years from now?Darth Wong wrote:Calculating rapid movements is not the same thing as actually making them happen. That's why we need control systems, hydraulics, servomotors, etc. And in those components, if you go cheap, you get poor performance no matter what the computer in charge tells them to do. The ordinary battledroids were designed to overwhelm the opposition with sheer numbers; they were not designed for performance. There is also the question of the brain's intelligence; the battledroids are stupid, and even a person with fantastic speed of movement still has to decide what to shoot at.The Silence and I wrote:Well if this is a sort of rant thread then yes the droid suckyness (TM) really bothers me.
My suspension of disbelief is strained every time I see the droids fight: Supposedly this is a civilization utilizing technology many millennia beyond what we have today. A society that by all rights should have the ability to easily store teraflop computer systems in a piece of paper and that has been programming droids for millennia. When I see the droids in action I see appalling reaction times and even worse accuracy of fire. I find this inexcusable in light of the technology; even a droid with zero personality programming (and unlikely to turn against owners) should have access to dirt cheap computer systems that will fit within its electronic eye and still have the power needed to calculate rapid, precise, fluid movement and accuracy no human hope to achieve in time frames smaller than we can percieve.
How much are we supposed to believe it costs to buy/make a servo that can only match human level force and precision in a civilization with millennia old FTL travel? Such a servo could improve the B1 droids (if the issue is mechanical not computational) as apparently they are using something well below human-level performance.
What their society should be capable of producing has to be many orders of magnitude beyond what we are shown; not just with computers but mechanical control as well. I don't know what the economics really are but it is hard to preserve my SOD--I happen to think the components required to make those B1 droids superior to any human should be readily found for lunch money on the civilian market. If you want Jedi level droid effectiveness you have to start paying more but human or better level performance should (IMO) be readily found as common items in the local hardware store!
I am apparently wrong about one thing or another, but while watching the movies I don't want to have to break down the theoretical economics of starwars to make sense of things; I want to see >>25,000 year old technology in action! Not something fricken Startrek can surpass...
