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want some one killed ? Give me a tell 
theoden-flurry
Sun Oct 24, 2004 10:58 am
#4
the schem comes in 8 peices and is given randomly from a shipwright reverse engineering
Naplam
Sun Oct 24, 2004 11:00 am
#6
not in beta but you need 8 data dics that randomly come from looted parts, i would say about as rare as GDK scales (finding all 8 that is).
RebelGeneral
Sun Oct 24, 2004 11:03 am
#7
So what you are saying is that while im grinding up Freelance pilot (very, very slow grinder) I could be lucky and find the parts ?
HeyHolo
Sun Oct 24, 2004 11:05 am
#8
Heh, if you're not a SW, you'll never be able to have one w/o paying a large large sum of money. Like he said the schem comes from RE'ing, through that you get fragments (8)of the schematic disc which lets you produce a firespray (presuming only 1 perdisc). I think it's fairly safe to say not too many people are going to be selling their first one, so you'd have to wait around for someone to be lucky enough to get enough fragments to get 2 of these, which will take a very long time as the "drops" from the RE'ing for these is fairly slow. In the time I was in beta I was only able to get 2 fragments.
I imagine though that the large/organized guilds will be the ones who do the best at this, just have all their guild bring all their loot to a designated shipwright and let him RE it once he has enough of the pieces. Will go a lot faster with 20 or 30 people (or more) all contributing their loot. So in a way the system favors guilds since the more you RE the better/faster your chance is of getting a fragment.
Either way, unless you're a shipwright and can do it yourself, don't expect to pay anything under 10mil for one, and I'd even say people will charge a lot higher than that.
HeyHolo
Sun Oct 24, 2004 11:22 am
#10
Are you surprised by that? I mean think about it, holos, krayt pearls, all that stuff that was at one point tagged "rare" or hard to find always came with a pricetag of up and near 10 million, hell I sold 3 krayt pearls for 7mil apiece back when the Jedi craze started and the first people were unlocking and needed pearls, then everyone started stock piling for when they made Jedi, so I madea small forture off that. Only thing with those examples is that stuff, far as time put in, took relatively no time to acquire, it's just not everyone was willing to do it, or knew where to go to get the holos, etc.
With the firespray, not only is it rare, but it does actually take a long time (from what I can tell of playing) to collect those fragments, especially if you don't have guild help.
It's possible I'm overstating how hard it is to get one, but I knw they won't be cheap, the first thing people do in this game is exploit the rarity of items to get rich.
Soltari-bacca
Sun Oct 24, 2004 11:37 am
#11
From what I heard the schematic would allow a limited number of ships to be made like the weapons. If that is so then it's won't be super rare but still in very high demand and like you said, 10+ million. I know I'd charge a buttload if I could make them.
WookieInLaw
Sun Oct 24, 2004 11:38 am
#12
Actually, once you put together the schematic, it's unlimited use.
snorbarnet
Sun Oct 24, 2004 11:53 am
#13
WookieInLaw wrote:
Actually, once you put together the schematic, it's unlimited use.
That was what we all thought. But when crafting it in beta the schematic went poof after having made 8-10 ships (since the crafter thought it was unlimited he didn't keep count). So that's the ballpark figure...
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