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Thread: Back to the disabled Barc

Amatron
Mon Jun 20, 2005 12:51 pm
#1

Anyone know if the bug that allows Barc owners to repair a disabled Barc at any garage has been fixed?

I don't see any Barc repair kits on any bazaars or vendors on Valcyn. I made a bunch and have 2 in my vendor but they don't sell. Used to be a hot Artisan item.
Ravvii
Sun Jul 03, 2005 1:42 pm
#2

The bug to repair is still not fixed, you can repair at any garage once its been disabled..



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rols_cerentz
Tue Jul 05, 2005 4:22 am
#3

I would like to see that get fixed soon.

It will be nice to start selling those BARC Repair kits that I have just sitting in my bank box right now...



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Dpjarrett
Tue Jul 05, 2005 2:22 pm
#4

Maybe now would be a good time to buy them up from other artisans who are also trying to unload them so that when the bug is finally fixed you have a surplus of repair kits...



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CaptainAshcart
Wed Jul 06, 2005 9:35 am
#5






Amatron wrote:

Anyone know if the bug that allows Barc owners to repair a disabled Barc at any garage has been fixed?

I don't see any Barc repair kits on any bazaars or vendors on Valcyn. I made a bunch and have 2 in my vendor but they don't sell. Used to be a hot Artisan item.






please understand this is coming from a fellow Artisan, but I do not see them fixing it anytime soon if ever. how many of you still have the deed in your pack or bank with the yacht that allows you to make more than one. the broken, AGAIN recycler sub components. I have lost even MORE belief that they want to fix what is in game. something tells me they are more concerned with the idea of more content, that will be bugged, then making a stable game.






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rols_cerentz
Wed Jul 06, 2005 10:26 am
#6



CaptainAshcart wrote:


Amatron wrote:
Anyone know if the bug that allows Barc owners to repair a disabled Barc at any garage has been fixed?
I don't see any Barc repair kits on any bazaars or vendors on Valcyn. I made a bunch and have 2 in my vendor but they don't sell. Used to be a hot Artisan item.



please understand this is coming from a fellow Artisan, but I do not see them fixing it anytime soon if ever. how many of you still have the deed in your pack or bank with the yacht that allows you to make more than one. the broken, AGAIN recycler sub components. I have lost even MORE belief that they want to fix what is in game. something tells me they are more concerned with the idea of more content, that will be bugged, then making a stable game.






Uhm... The Yacht Deed that allows the creation of more then one Yacht was a feature that was always to be present. It is a reward item that you can always bring back to being if you needed/wanted to.



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CaptainAshcart
Wed Jul 06, 2005 1:13 pm
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rols_cerentz wrote:





CaptainAshcart wrote:





Amatron wrote:

Anyone know if the bug that allows Barc owners to repair a disabled Barc at any garage has been fixed?

I don't see any Barc repair kits on any bazaars or vendors on Valcyn. I made a bunch and have 2 in my vendor but they don't sell. Used to be a hot Artisan item.






please understand this is coming from a fellow Artisan, but I do not see them fixing it anytime soon if ever. how many of you still have the deed in your pack or bank with the yacht that allows you to make more than one. the broken, AGAIN recycler sub components. I have lost even MORE belief that they want to fix what is in game. something tells me they are more concerned with the idea of more content, that will be bugged, then making a stable game.










Uhm... The Yacht Deed that allows the creation of more then one Yacht was a feature that was always to be present. It is a reward item that you can always bring back to being if you needed/wanted to.





i was unaware of this and was informed that it was more of a bug that was to be fixed...i might have been misinformed.



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PaladinX333
Thu Jul 07, 2005 6:30 pm
#8

Are you sure this is a bug? The code to fix a disabled Barc would have to be added in special, since normal vehicles can not be fixed once disabled. In other words... I doubt very highly this is a bug. Bugs don't generally add new features to existing code. The only way that the garage could possibly repair a disabled Barc would be if some developer sat down and changed the functioning of the garage.


Having said that, Barc repair kits do sell very well. My friend cannot keep them in stock. The repair kit allows you to fix a disabled Barc even if you are in the middle of nowwhere (like on the way to or from the FS villiage). They are quite valuable and I keep one in my backpack with me. If you are not able to sell them either your price is too high or your marketing strategy is flawed.


Elyssa
Thu Jul 07, 2005 7:53 pm
#9

My guess is that the bug is tied to the fact that BARCs are the only disabled vehicle that can be repaired.
The repair kit code is probably hooked into the same code that powers the garages.


There's no way it can NOT be a bug because:

1) They wouldn't put in a system that allowed you to bypass a player function (crafted repair kits).
2) If they did put it in, there's no way in the world they wouldn't take the opportunity to make it a huge money sink.

The fact that it's free is probably the single biggest indicator that it is indeed a bug.



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JeCy
Fri Jul 08, 2005 1:35 am
#10

have to agree with elyssa on this one.. personally id rather see it a huge money sink.. there certainly are not enough of them.


how about 500k to fix that bad boy !


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Anakroid
Fri Jul 08, 2005 4:27 am
#11

I'm almost positive that this issue was addressed in the HoC chat, and it was said that this may or may not be changed. This leads one to believe it's not a bug at all.



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KupyiLabe
Fri Jul 08, 2005 6:37 am
#12

The bug is probably pretty simple -- when I repaired a disabled BARC at a garage, it repaired it but gave me a message that it was already fully repaired (which is why it was free, probably). So it's probably a dumb little error like

if (barc.damage = 0) { doSomething(); }

in C instead of

if (barc.damage == 0) { doSomething(); }

Just a theory and it's probably slightly more complex than this, as damaged but not disabled BARCs don't give the same messages and there's a cost associated. Anyway, it's clear that it really is a bug just based on the weird system message, but honestly, it's really a low-priority problem compared to all the other insanity we all deal with. Personally, the blue ?'s over just about every freakin' NPC's head bothers me much more.



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Skare99
Sun Jul 10, 2005 12:46 pm
#13






Elyssa wrote:


The fact that it's free is probably the single biggest indicator that it is indeed a bug.







Doubtful. The Total Experience is being advertised for noobs to SWG. A Noob getting used to the game gets his Barc blown up, then is required to pay upwards of 100k or more for a repair kit?


The Barc being fixed in garages is a feature and I doubt they will be removed anytime soon...there are more pressing matters in the game....




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