Artisan Archive

i (and i'm sure others) have said it in other threads that they should have always made the speeders/swoops craftable by component - like weapons, food, armour and basically anything other semi-complex item, so that each one was slightly different and was a reflection of the skill and resources of the crafter. this would allow for customised hot-rods, and would actually make the ingame race-tracks a valid contest, rather than who gets away quicker from the droid (and he should be doing a countdown, dagnabbit, not telling each individual to just go) - a faster bike might handle less well, might have less hitpoints, or whatever.

so anyway, the point of this is that it's not too late to introduce this -it would be easy enough to add 'customisation' to each vehicle and let artisans with the engineering tree 'slice' them to add to speed, handling, hit-points or whatever, and even introduce a system similar to the new slicing system wherein you need certain looted components to add the highest level of customisation to the individual.

feedback requested.

(and yes, i know it'll likely never happen so please avoid telling me the obvious like "SOE will never introduce this" or worse, "this is illegal in the timeline, they'll never do it", let a launch-day player have his little dreams, ok?)