Artisan Archive
Thread: Anyone regularly making/selling BARC Repair kits?
My understanding is that there is currently a bug which allows an owner of a BARC to repair it at a garage from a disabled condition, but that eventually the bug will be fixed so that the BARC repair tool will become a viable product.
I haven't tried making one, so I can't offer any input regarding pricing. Sorry.
ummm the selling point / good thing about the barc is it can never be permanently disabled
You can get about 50 cpu for many of the ateroid resources on my server. So 750 units of petrochem asteroid and 750 units of carbonacous asteroid and suddenly you have $75,000 worth of resources in the kit.
I made up a couple of these and mainly intended to keep them for myself. I tossed them on my vendor for $500K each just mainly as storage. POOF, sold 2 of the 3 I made pretty fast. I was not aware of the garage issue at that time and was thinking if someone had a disabled BARC, worth 5 mill or more if working, that paying 500K for a repair tool must not be too bad an option. It's too bad SOE had to step in and "nerf" the repair tools (making it so the garages did the same thing). People must have complained but as in any supply and demand economy if enough people needed BARC repair tools and prices were high on them more and more folks would start space mining and more and more BARC tools would be made. As it is now if they leave it the BARC repair tool will die a slow death.
A hint for you artisans who are trying to harvest your own space resources. Get a large starfighter cargo hold, a mark III mining laser, and a tractor beam. Usea ship wiith 2 weapon slots. Equip the cargo hold. Equip the mining laser in slot 1. Equip the tractor beam in slot 2. Toggle on the tractor beam and forget about it. Break off a chunk from the asteroid, break up that chunk.....now fly INTO the smaller chunks with the tractor beam running.....the chunks will be brought into your cargo hold without being puverized....this generates a great volume harvest. I see a lot of people out mining sitting right on top of the smaller chunks and pulverizing them with their mining laser to harvest them...this is wasted time, is not needed, and seems to lower your harvest volume. Now that i have practiced I can fill up a large cargo hold (1,550 units) in about 12 minutes. So in roughly 30 min of space work you can harvest enough mineral to make 2 BARC repair tools. Plus it's a nice change and entertaining.
Good luck.
From a CSR Ticket that I submitted, the fact that a BARC speeder can be refurbished at a garage is game intented and not a bug. My personal thought? I think they realized that a newbie, getting a free Barc speeder when they purchased the 'Trilogy" pack (lol), would not have enough credits to purchase a BARC repair kit ( good thinking), and so they just made it easier, disregarding the work ( space mining ) and the Artisanswho make these tools. I sell quite a few but only charge 50k. Who buys them? Players who have plenty of credits and want instant repair, out in the field or anywhere that is notclose to a garage. Kind of like a back up tool, just in case. I do like space mining so i get my own resources!
Amatron