Droid Engineer Archive

The vehicles are worth far more than they are being sold for. At 55k, my price, ROI should be in the neighborhood of 2 hrs.

You can make 32k an hour with a good Artisan Loop by just running. A vehicle, even a Swoop Bike, does not double your overall efficiency while running loops, but let's say it increases your earnings to 50k per hour.

That's a little over a 2-hour ROI at my price - 32k - but at your price it is about 3 hours. You only get credit for the extra earnings provided by the vehicle, not for all of them.

Either way that's pretty good. The real value of a vehicle, though, is that it helps reduce the drudgery of travel time. Unless I need to go more than 5k I don't even consider using a shuttle anymore. Even for an 8k trip I have to consider that the shuttle probably isn't "on my way" as the crow flies, so depending on where I happen to hit the shuttle cycle I might be better off just driving straight. A Swoop Bike covers a kilometer a minute... for an 8k trip you're guaranteed 8 minutes if you just drive straight there. Taking the shuttle could take well over 10 minutes if you arrive at the wrong time depending on how far from the shuttleports your start and finish actually are.