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Currently, vehicles differ mainly by their speed (13 / 15 / 17 mps), theirterrain negotiation (negligable)and their cost. Since the swoop is faster, it requires more resources and is thus more expensive. This is both unrealistic (as the other two vehicles are inarguably larger) and a weak representation of Vehicles.

Vehicles are great as transportation, but currently pretty much everybody is running around in swoops since they're the fastest and nothing really differentiates them besides speed. Here's something that had been suggested before theVehicle patch went live that would improve the versatility of vehicles, add definition to the different vehicle types, and improve the market for different types of vehicles.

First, the schematics are going to need to be changed. They will include components, some optional. Second, vehicles need to have all of their hitpoints increased 10x This is because they are no longer going to loose condition as a form of refueling (very unrealistic) and repair costs are going to be cut by five (so a fully damaged vehicle will require twice as much to repair, but they won't need to be repaired very often). Instead, vehicles are going to operate off of energy cells similar to droid batteries. A single energy cell would cost about 500 resources and last for 2-3 hours of driving time (depending on the vehicle). A vehicle repair kit would also be available for field repairs, but be more expensive and time consuming than repairing in a garage.

Schematics:

VehicleEnergy Cell:

Casing -100 units of metal

Protective Lining - 25 units of Inert Petrochemical

Reactor Fuel - 375 units of radioactive energy

This item is not experimentable.

Vehicle Repair Kit

Case -200 units of mineral

Scanner Circuitry - 150 units of copper

Spare Part Compartment - 300 units of Alluminum

Vehicle Lubricant - 75 units of lubricating oil

Damage Annalysis Unit - 1 droid control unit

It would be experimentable based on overall quality anddecay resistance forcharges and effectivenessand would repair between750 and 1.5k damage per charge, at between3 and 10 charges per unit.

X34 Landspeeder

Frame - 4200 units of ferrous metal

Chasis - 1800 units of non-ferrous metal

Guidance System - 1 micro sensor suite

Ignition Circuitry - 1 energy distributor

Storage Compartment (optional) - 1 droid storage compartment

Armor Plating (optional) - 3 similar composite armor segments

Storage Compartment will provide a 10 unit storage compartment similar to the ones droids can be equiped with.

Armor plating will increase the resists of the vehicle by 25% across the board except Blast vulnerability.

X34 landspeeder would be the highest-HAM vehicle at around 25k HAM, and most fuel efficient at 3 hours per fuel cell.

Speederbike

Frame - 3400 units of ferrous metal

Chasis -1600 units of non-ferrous metal

Guidance System - 1 micro sensor suite

Ignition Circuitry - 2 energy distributors

Armor Plating (optional) - 2 similar Composite Armor Segments

Armor plating will increase the resists of the vehicle by 15% across the board except Blast vulnerability.

The Speederbike will be comparatively fragile at 15k HAM, and only gets 2.5 hours to the fuel cell

Swoop