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Thread: AV-21 ? What's the big issue?

Zymm-N
Thu Jul 28, 2005 8:05 am
#1

I will admit I'm new to the game.. so I'm a bit lost here. Why are AV-21 Speeders selling for 6-millon credits on Corbantis?


It is a 2 seater , kind of a flashy design. Other than that, why's it worth 6 mil?



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ilovedarkjedi
Thu Jul 28, 2005 8:16 am
#2

Pieces are hard to loot it's not craftable unless you loot the engine and th schematic off NPC's on the Corvette




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Dimear
Thu Jul 28, 2005 8:40 am
#3

It's also the fastest vehicle in the game. People pay lots to have the best of something. They pay too much, in my opinion, but some people have lots of money to throw around at the best stuff...





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sciguyCO
Thu Jul 28, 2005 8:41 am
#4

Getting the schematic is a little difficult, but anyone who does the corvette sucessfully gets one.


The hard part is usually the power plant. This is a required component for the AV21, and is only lootable from NPCs / containers on the corvette. A group of 8 may go up and complete the mission, getting 8 schematics, but may only come across one (or none) power plants.


That covers the supply side. As for why people would pay 6 million for it? Well, it makes a nice status symbol along the same lines as owning a Porsche or Ferrari in the real world. It's also a pretty useful vehicle: it's got the speed of a swoop (or maybe just a speederbike) but the terrain negotiation of an X-34 so it can handle slopes with little loss of speed.





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Zymm-N
Thu Jul 28, 2005 10:02 am
#5

Didn't realize the AV-21 was actually not a standard crafted item, wow. Learn something new everyday, thanks folks!



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Oreet
Thu Jul 28, 2005 10:09 am
#6

My AV-21 is by far, my favorite vehicle i own. the drawback though, is that post-CU, especially on Kashyyyk, NPCs like to target your vehicle, so i've been riding around in my AB-1 (or as i like to call it, my Mini Cooper) alot more lately.

HyeStringer
Sun Jul 31, 2005 9:15 am
#7

are these repairable? or toast if disabled like every other vehicle that is not a BARC



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KaingPu
Sun Jul 31, 2005 10:00 am
#8






HyeStringer wrote:
are these repairable? or toast if disabled like every other vehicle that is not a BARC




Nope... they are toast when disabled. Just delete, cry, and move on.



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JediSpam
Fri Aug 05, 2005 8:44 pm
#9






KaingPu wrote:





HyeStringer wrote:
are these repairable? or toast if disabled like every other vehicle that is not a BARC




Nope... they are toast when disabled. Just delete, cry, and move on.





Actually, there is a fix for this but it might be considered an exploit so I won't post much details here.


Hint:Remember the auto-repair bug right after vehicles were introduced to the game?



And to the original poster, I've been to the Vette around 300 times but AV Powerplants (the engine component needed to craft an AV) droponly about once in every 10 trips from the loot chests. I've never looted it from any NPC there.




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HawkBurn
Fri Aug 05, 2005 11:34 pm
#10

This exploit you speak of is for the BARC speeder, not AV21, unless there is a different one.



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KaingPu
Sat Aug 06, 2005 10:58 am
#11






HawkBurn wrote:
This exploit you speak of is for the BARC speeder, not AV21, unless there is a different one.






No... there used to be a /store /call /store bug (I'll not bother to go into particulars) if your speeder got attacked/diabled or was low on HP and it would respawn fresh and new. There were 2 versions of it really.... but that's for another day when I don't care if I get banned and/or my account yanked (probably never going to come).





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Farelli
Sat Aug 06, 2005 2:17 pm
#12






Dimear wrote:
It's also the fastest vehicle in the game. People pay lots to have the best of something. They pay too much, in my opinion, but some people have lots of money to throw around at the best stuff...





This is not fully correct. The AV-21 is in a tie for the fastest vehicle in the game. It is tied with the Speederbike Swoop, IIRC. The difference between the two, other than the obvious price, number of seats, and flashy-ness, is that the AV-21 is a bit more durable, i.e., doesn't decay as fast.


A swoop is worth far more for my money. I can buy a crate of them for less than an AV-21, and they are cheap by comparison on Ahazi, at about 3 million.





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KupyiLabe
Sat Aug 06, 2005 5:57 pm
#13



Farelli wrote:


Dimear wrote:
It's also the fastest vehicle in the game. People pay lots to have the best of something. They pay too much, in my opinion, but some people have lots of money to throw around at the best stuff...


This is not fully correct. The AV-21 is in a tie for the fastest vehicle in the game. It is tied with the Speederbike Swoop, IIRC. The difference between the two, other than the obvious price, number of seats, and flashy-ness, is that the AV-21 is a bit more durable, i.e., doesn't decay as fast.






The BARC Speeder is faster than the swoop; they might be the same on flat terrain, but run into anything resembling hills or wadis (canyons) and the BARC will leave it behind. Though it's not craftable at all...



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