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Thread: BARC worth keeping?
+ Looks good. Best looking vehicle in the game. The Speederbike is iconic and looks good, but the devs many patches ago made its performance very underwhelming.
+ Performance is very good on level ground, but not as fast as a Swoop.
+ Ability to climb terrain is good.
+ Repairable with a BARC Refurbish Kit. Watch for and be loyal to an Artisan that provides these kits cheaply. Some will gank you for hundreds of thousands of credits.
+ If you're Imperial, having on Scout Trooper Armor with a White Trim / Black BARC Speeder looks DAMN good.
+ Once you sell it away or whatever, it is gone for good. You may very well have to do some ridiculous transaction to get one back.
The BARC is held in such high esteem that I have had offers to trade my BARC for someone's AV-21 w/ 1m extra credits... but once an AV-21 is destroyed, THAT IS IT.
Sorry, I don't need that money.
Message Edited by Warmaker01 on 07-23-2005 07:14 PM
"If they can be fooled, they can be killed."
lemontowel wrote:you dont need a repair kit to repair a barc.... just take it to the parking garage. i dont know why everyone keeps saying you need one of those kits. maybe that was the original idea but for now you dont need any such thing. and some guy just said it was slower than a swoop? i dont believe that is true either. i think its the fastest vehicle in the game. so yeah, keep it. you can make credits other ways and the barc is worth it to keep. there are many players who spend 5 million credits to get one, i think that should tell you somethin about its value to ppl.
The Refurbish Kit is for when it gets disabled... destroyed.
Everyone knows that you can repair the condition of the BARC at Vehicle Garages. I haven't tried it with Disabled BARCs, and I will not try with mine. Well, unless it really happens, LOL
Also, it is SLIGHTLY slower than a Swoop. Getting up in speeder groups from hunting groups makes you notice things in boredom.
You should keep your BARC.
..and bythe way, you can by BRAC repair kits from me (if you're on Sunrunner!)
lemontowel wrote:
you dont need a repair kit to repair a barc.... just take it to the parking garage. i dont know why everyone keeps saying you need one of those kits. maybe that was the original idea but for now you dont need any such thing. and some guy just said it was slower than a swoop? i dont believe that is true either. i think its the fastest vehicle in the game. so yeah, keep it. you can make credits other ways and the barc is worth it to keep. there are many players who spend 5 million credits to get one, i think that should tell you somethin about its value to ppl.
Some people think this is a bug and that to use the garage is an exploit. Yet it would be SO simple for the devs to fix, and it hasn't been!!
I think the garage fix is INTENDED!! And the repair kits are there for when you aren't around a garage (like in the middle of Dath and your only speeder was trashed - quick fix-up).
Though there have been people who didn't even know that BARCs could be repaired (either at the garage or by a kit)! Was always saddened to hear someone detroyed a BARC because it was disabled! 
I know you dfecided to keep it, but I thought this dead hrose needed one last swift kick... Keep it!
I use it all the time. If you get ganked by a factional turret, fiesty NPC or alert Special Ops player, you can always repair it (for free atm, butthat will likely change). I am not sure why people keep saying it is a bit slower than a Swoop; it not. I have riden the BARC next to a swoop many times and we always stay the same distance away from each other. That is, until we hit a hill; I smoke the swoop everytime. And belive me, there are few places you will go where you will not run across a hill.
You can easily make what ever creds you are offered (and you will force another veteran into purchasing the TE, take that vets!).
If you do decide to sell it, look me up. I will give you 50K for it on the spot 
Warmaker01 wrote:
lemontowel wrote:
you dont need a repair kit to repair a barc.... just take it to the parking garage. i dont know why everyone keeps saying you need one of those kits. maybe that was the original idea but for now you dont need any such thing. and some guy just said it was slower than a swoop? i dont believe that is true either. i think its the fastest vehicle in the game. so yeah, keep it. you can make credits other ways and the barc is worth it to keep. there are many players who spend 5 million credits to get one, i think that should tell you somethin about its value to ppl.
The Refurbish Kit is for when it gets disabled... destroyed.
Everyone knows that you can repair the condition of the BARC at Vehicle Garages. I haven't tried it with Disabled BARCs, and I will not try with mine. Well, unless it really happens, LOL
Also, it is SLIGHTLY slower than a Swoop. Getting up in speeder groups from hunting groups makes you notice things in boredom.
actualy what he means is that you can repair it disabled at a garage with no cost of money so its free to repair once disabled. It is this way on test center anyway, seems to be a bug we have had awhile and devs don't seem to care or just don't know because they ignore or don't get our bug reports so if u take into consideration the free repairs ts apriceless bike. On tc i've repared my bike well over 50 times, when a near disabled bike would cost me 5k-6k to repair
(also barc has slower decay and cheaper repair)
50x5000=? any way that is alot of saved money on my part and that is just in the last few weeks. Since tc has only been able to clame vet rewards for about a month now 