Droid Engineer Archive
Thread: Umm... did anyone catch the last line in the Patch Notes?
hehehehe
Now.. where didthat post go? The one about Pit Droids?
hmmm
starcraftWS:
you can have all three swoops or you can have a swoop, speeder, landspeeder, or any of the other7 combinations of the three.
We all knew that this would happen. the devs money sink just wasn't sinking, and now it will.
as a crafter/merchant I think this will only help business. now more and more people will lose bikes occasionally and have to replace them....good for business
they should degrade to the point of uselessness anyway. just like armor/weapons. do cars in real life last forever? I wish...
Message Edited by BriaArtisan on 04-13-2004 11:07 AM
Ill admit that they wear down way to fast (it shouldnt cost you an additional 5k for speeder repairs for a good hunting trip) but the money sink involved is a good idea. There is just too much money in the economy right now. Large twilek paintings from Jabbas palace go for 1 mil easily on Ahazi, WS and AS experimentationtapes go for 2 mil a point at times. I saw 4 NymBPH enhancments go for 500k recently, which are not that hard to get.
The speeder biz has bottomed out in the last month or two, but will no doubt pick back up. Lets just hope they fixed the repair bugs.
There is a safe way to fix your bike and have it stick, its just a pain to do it if youre on the go.
Store it, call it, repair it, store it, call it again.
If it doesnt store the first time, move on because it wont stick. Either that or abandon it and try againwhen it disappears.
i spent all day sunday at my in game house crafting and doing the factory...
i left my car parked outside.....after about 12 hours of just sitting it was at about 1/2 health...that is just wrong....
can anyone explain why a vehicle takes damage just sitting there...
Naufragus wrote:
i spent all day sunday at my in game house crafting and doing the factory...
i left my car parked outside.....after about 12 hours of just sitting it was at about 1/2 health...that is just wrong....
can anyone explain why a vehicle takes damage just sitting there...
It's not really damage, think of the red bar as your gas tank - it just happens you have to watch your gas tank because if it hits zero your car is disabled.
There are many gameplay reasons for this, chief among them the fact that they are meant to be a money sink in a game where there aren't nearly enough, not to mention the combat accessability.
However, I have to ask : why in the world would you leave it out there for 12 hours? Why not store it? If it was at your house, you should have no problem calling it instantly - if you don't have residence declared, it takes a whopping 15 seconds. Instead of asking why it took damage for 12 hours, I have to ask - why did you leave it out for that long if you weren't using it?
I mean, when you go to bed at night do you leave your car running outside? Hehe... 
AO
AudioOrgana wrote:
Why not store it?
Naufragus wrote:
AudioOrgana wrote:
Why not store it?
why should i have to store and call store and call...maybe i forgot about it...maybe i like the way my big car looks in front of my house....
Then that's the price you pay for that roleplaying...and 12 hours without using it isn't exactly "store/call/store/call". Come on, what is the big deal? Is storing your vehicle some issue of pride? It's a game mechanic so people can't endlessly have use/access to vehicles without paying for it. Maybe I forgot to pay maintainance on my house...maybe I forgot that the MOBs on Yavin IV can kill you in one hit. That doesn't mean I shouldn't have to pay the consequences.
the point is that it should take damage sitting idle in one spot....it shouldnt cost 100s - 1000s of credits a DAY....nothing in the game should decay within a day
Tell that to a combat person who when grinding can go through a 100K gun in a night. You are totally missing the point - you are the one that wasted it. The game didn't force you to leave it out for 12 hours. If you forgot, that's the price you pay. Static things shouldn't decay in a day, but a tool should. And 12 hours in an MMO is quite a long time.
Again, do you turn off your car when you get home? In SWG, turning off your car means storing it. You wouldn't leave your car outside running for 12 hours, you don't leave your speeder. If it's asthetics, you have to pay for it, and if it's forgetfullness...well, learn from your mistakes.
why doesnt my BANTHA take damage when i leave him sitting in front of my house.....i can use the bantha without incurring any additional expense...i paid 4000 credits for it and it will essentially live forever.....
Because that system wasn't very well designed? They should require food. As I said above, decay is like fuel for a vehicle. You have to fill it up when you use it.
but an advanced machine -- i built it myself and iots like 92% quality - takes loses HAM every couple of minutes...
Because there are very few moneysinks in the game, and vehicles are a luxury that require upkeep.
it makes no sense...
Makes perfect sense, unless you are looking for a "free ride". Just store your dang vehicle when you are done, lol. Now that we can call anywhere, Vehicles are no longer gated in use. We fought VERY hard for the right for you to be able to call anywhere - enjoy it!
but to bring this topic back to droids...
THERE SHOULD BE A REPAIR DROID TO REPAIR THE CAR NOT A GARAGE
make that ASTRO-MECHANICAL droid do some mechanics
I agree. Droids should be "charged up" at Garages to be used remotely. It should cost the same - or more - to fill one though.
Message Edited by AudioOrgana on 04-13-2004 10:42 PM