Droids - Power and Recharging

[Merrick]

How long do the batteries last on a droid before it needs a recharge for full functionality?

I would imagine it probably depends on the design of the droid, Utility vs Exploration or Military. Not that it comes up in game terms very often, but I have a party that relies pretty heavily on droids. If they got into a stranded scenario with a droid (Second degree interpreter droid) how long would you suppose it could continue to function?

I was thinking a week with while walking around maybe?
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[garhkal]

For me a lot boils down to the type as well as use..
Say a binary load lifter, who is only occasionally called to fully work, could go months between charges, while he sits idly by on the ship as it spends a lot of time in hyperspace, vs a combat droid doin a lot of fighting, might need a recharge every other day.
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[Naaman]

Might be easiest to treat it like a human/human-like creature:

Require a recharge once every 24 hours, with the droid needing 8 hours to fully recharge. Each hour of charge allows for 2 hours of operation.

Not convenient, but could make reliance on droids a little less appealing.

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[MrNexx]

I'm sure CRM will soon be in to provide us with detailed rules on Battery Life for droids.

However, I'd be inclined to say that droids can function a standard week without charging, but that many like to keep as close to peak charge as possible... closing down when unneeded, charging when available, etc.
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[Zarn]

From the fluff of the 74-Z speeder bikes, there's apparently ZPE (zero-point energy, or "vacuum energy") cells in the Star Wars universe. I see no reason to why a droid equipped with two of those could completely forgo recharging.

... Except, what if the recharging is just part of it? Humans - and, it seems, most sophonts - need to sleep every now and then in order to parse new experiences, to rest their head, and to facilitate learning. Similarly, a computer database with lots of additions will occasionally have to regenerate indices, perhaps normalize their tables, and so on and so forth. "Defragmenting" the database, so to speak.

Droids, seemingly occupying some middle ground between sophonts and computers, might need some occasional downtime in order to defrag, basically - in addition to recharging their batteries.

It also fits with the occasional malfunctioning droid being unable to cope with rapid changes in their surroundings - ZZ-4Z may have this to some degree, for instance.