Artisan Archive

ok, so this new vehicle that was promised to us,is only going to be available to frickin newb players that bought a 3pack of this game? it is so stupid that newb players will be able to get something that is meant more for veterans or at the very least ppl that pre-ordered the expansion regardless of time spent on this game. since its not clear to blame who, the devs or the farts at Lucas Arts, i'm just glad in their infinite knowledge that they once again took more content out of this game. at least they should have made this speeder available to everyone based on quests(no limit) or made it a schematic that is craftable by master artisans. never seems to end on the endless downward spiral this game is going.

For me it's simple economics. I can pay $29.95USD for the box set, make a new character, transfer the BARC to my main, cancel subscription of new account. Or, I can save millions and millions of credits and buy one. I choose Option 1, and I already have the money set aside.

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Mott_Kruger wrote:

Last night I saw a listing for one of the resourses (100 units of the Carbonaceous Asteroid) on the bizarre going for 20,000cr.

If a Master Artisan, who did not have ROTW bought these resourses at this price and made one BARC repair kit, it would cost them 300,000cr just for the resources alone. (100 units @ 20000cr... 20,000 / 100 = 200cpu... 1500 units are required... 200 x 1500 = 300,000)

300k for a repair kit

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Dpjarrett wrote:

Not a bad idea, but I think they're too worried about how many people that would tick off.

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Like ticking off the players who bought JTL? Then SOE givesJTL to everyone who buys ROTW?
(Which is the resaon that I will not buy ROTW)

Message Edited by Mott_Kruger on 05-14-2005 02:08 PM

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nefarious wrote:

A Master Artisan can craft a repair tool for when it gets destroyed,

I was looking for info on what it takes to make them, but my guess is that it will be much like a new speeder.

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The repair tool requires the following to craft:

General Crafting tool (under Misc) or a Weapon, Droid, General Item Crafting tool.
750 units of Carbonaceous Asteroid
750 units of Petrochemical ASteroid.

Last night I saw a listing for one of the resourses (100 units of the Carbonaceous Asteroid) on the bizarre going for 20,000cr.

If a Master Artisan, who did not have ROTW bought these resourses at this price and made one BARC repair kit, it would cost them 300,000cr just for the resources alone. (100 units @ 20000cr... 20,000 / 100 = 200cpu... 1500 units are required... 200 x 1500 = 300,000)

Message Edited by Mott_Kruger on 05-14-2005 02:31 PM

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Dpjarrett wrote:

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Mott_Kruger wrote:

Last night I saw a listing for one of the resourses (100 units of the Carbonaceous Asteroid) on the bizarre going for 20,000cr.

If a Master Artisan, who did not have ROTW bought these resourses at this price and made one BARC repair kit, it would cost them 300,000cr just for the resources alone. (100 units @ 20000cr... 20,000 / 100 = 200cpu... 1500 units are required... 200 x 1500 = 300,000)

300k for a repair kit

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Keep in mind a few things though:

First, space mining is still very new and not many people have the mining ship yet so there's no competition for space resources.

I'd suggest not using the mining ship... talk about a gimped ship, the arc and placement of turrents is counter-productive. So expect most miners to probably use fighters

Second, 99% of people who sell stuff on the bazaar have no clue what they're selling or how much it's worth; they're just going through their inventory, clicking on anything they don't want, and pricing it at the max (which just happens to be 20k). I think the person selling that pitiful lump of resources for 20k was probably guilty of this.

I suspect you are right... server prices havent been established yet

However, I agree that these BARC repair kits are never going to be inexpensive to make. I haven't tried space mining yet, but from what I've been told gathering a good pile of resources is about the most mind-numbing experience in the game to date. A friend of mine compared it to grinding out weaponsmith before he knew how to write a crafting macro.

Ohh yeah... mind-numbing and time consuming... plus the pesky ships that keep attacking-- lag... 10cr a unit increase due to the lag the devs placed in space lol

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Theres only one box (Total Experience) and no single RotW version. So you will get the speeder if you buy this. Practically you just pay for Rotw and get SWG and JtL and a speeder for free.