Just want to point out that vehicles can be traded after the deed has been used. I personally traded my swoop bike to a friend from my datapad.

Greetings everybody.

I really wanted to know if anyone had encountered what happened to me. I have a Swoop bike which I have been riding around to my heart's delight. I then decided to add some width to my vehicle repository and purchased a X34-Landspeeder. When I tried to "build" it from the deed I got the error message that I had too many vehicles in my datapad and would need to remove one before getting new ones.

Does anyone know? Is 1 vehicle really the limit?

Regards,
Yinn Sundancer
Bloodfin

Just wanted to point out that if you have trouble storing your vehicle you can simply get off, walk a few feet away, use the datapad to "generate vehicle" so that it's near you again..and then it will store with no problem. Hope this helps clear up the car lot!! Enjoy everyone! -Aelani

I haven't had a chance to use the vehicles live but I've been using them on the TC for awhile now. I can't believe they went live with this storing issue they have. it's been that way on TC from the start, I'v e wrote about it on the TC forum and still they come out with it like this! They also reised the repair cost, was 4 per on TC and even that was high! On to some other info, TH wrote that they do have plans for both different paint schemes on them as well as the ability to have a display version like pets and droids, yay! Just gonna take time. There also aren't any player city garages yet and no word on when they will be out, however they do have the building pictures on the PC buildings listing on the official site. So who knows? Also no word on if PC's will be able to have garages or if they are civic only.

I also made vehicles on the TC using just standard tools and a public crafting station and they turned out with 1800 hp. After running around with it for about 4-6 hours I had put over 3k in repairs on it! Man, that is WAY to much!!! Mentioned that on the forums to, what did they do? raised it!!! Oh well, thats my two credits worth.

Even after all that I still can't wait to get my swoop! :-)

Nightghaunt.

I'm gonna pay 50k so I can be laggy too.

the only way the machine is hurt when calling it is in NPC town near buildings. (aside from crashing and argo critters)
Building collisions seem to hurt, ramping does NOT hurt things.
I rode for hours with no losses, called it 20 times in my player town if no losses, called it and lost 13-25 pts in the standard NPC towns.

Repair costs vary by machine type, the faster it is easier it is to damage and more per point to repair.

There is no "walk" option and no brakes, so be careful :)

Garages are near most starports- just look for them

Good FAQ, I was really stunned how quickly people were buying up ANY vehicle without knowing a thing about them.

a couple little additions/adjustments:
You CAN trade generated and store vehicles like droids or pets (irk)

and I did a couple little time trials and figured that the swoop does about 25 m/s = 1.5 km/min
(so nice and speedy)

while its fun to jet across down the rivers and watch the water splash up behind you, the vehicles do go slower over water. Particularly the x34, which seems to actually drag its tail on the water...

the decay rates seem (for my vehicles that all topped at 95% durability) to be:
swoop - 25 pt increments (at spawning, and at a time interval I haven't figured out)
speederbike - 12 pt increments
x34 - 7 pt increments

so far there doesn't seem to be any collision damage. But do be careful, some red cons spawned near my house, where my swoop was parked, and one of them ran over and started blasting it. 1200 damage is a pain.

The garages are available at every non-player city, and they always seem to be on the edge of town. You'll get a message when you're close enough to repair it. But it isn't automated, you have to select repair from your radial menu and pay a fee (not sure of the costing method yet)

Hope this helps =)

As soon as I got the chance today, I logged on my crafter character on the Bloodfin server, and promptly crafted one vehicle of each type.

Now, I don't think this is merely coincidence, but about 4 days before the vehicles went live there was a perfect type of steel available on Tatooine(Bloodfin) with 1000 shock resistance. It's still there, as far as I know (I used my Landspeeder to drive out and do maintenence on my 7 personal harvesters about 1000m away from my workshop). As soon as I saw that stuff pop up, I uprooted every harvester I had, and used all of my available lots to harvest this super-steel for the past few days, because shock resistance is usually the only thing considered when making melee weapons, among other things (vehicles). Since I had about 30,000 units of this steel stashed away in my workshop, I decided to go ahead and use some of it to make myself one of each vehicle. I used a good aluminum for the non-ferrous metal with shock resistance around 760. Between the steel at 1000 and the aluminum at 760, and using my 11.65 kit and 34.75 crafting station, I was able to use 10 experimentation points on each of my vehicles and get them up to about 95% effectiveness. I figured that if the experimentation really did apply to the hit points of the end result, then I would use the best stuff I had to make my own vehicles. Unfortunately, they don't actually show you the health on the vehicles (not yet, anyway; I'm hoping they change that soon), so I couldn't really tell if using my super-steel was worth it or not. However, I did do quite a bit of driving around in my Landspeeder; from my workshop outside of Mos Eisley to my wind harvester outside of Bestine, then through Bestine and around town (where I first really noticed the ghosting vehicles problem), and finally back to my workshop, and I really didn't notice much degradation at all. A few times I was even shot at by various bandits and hermits. Hopefully, my Landspeeder turned out extremely well, and it has a ton of hit points, but I guess we'll just have to wait and see.

Also, as far as the ghosting thing goes when you exit the vehicle and try to store it... well, simply don't exit the vehicle. Just store it while you're riding on it, and I don't think it will ghost. I actually got out of my Landspeeder and went to store it, and since it wouldn't work, I went to the data pad to try, and it didn't show the store option in the datapad. Instead it showed the option to generate a vehicle... lo and behold, using this option would pop out a brand new Landspeeder, while I was still standing next to my first one! Well, I stored the new ghost, then climbed back into my original Landspeeder, and was able to store it from the driver's seat.

Hopefully the patch today will fix the problem of 100000000000 vehicles burning and exploding outside of every major shuttle and starport. Near most of these parking lots, my frames per second... err... my seconds per frame was simply horrible.

Public garages are available in (apparently) every non-player city. The /find command does not work for them, but if you view the overhead map (CNTRL+M) you can usually find them near the spaceports as perfectly square structures. Once in view, you will recognize them by their two "bays" lit with a white light. Just come within 64m of them and you'll get a system message saying you're within range. You will then have a fourth option on your vehicle radial menu to "repair" it. The cost is currently 5 credits per point repaired.

in response to darkflame FAQ

u flipped the resources around for the swoop bike and speederbike

also, the x34 apparently requires a private crafting station (maybe just a station) and cannot be crafted in the field on the fly unless u have droid with....lol...crafting station

USE GOOD RESOURCES -- Shock Resistance is the only attribute that you need to worry about..if its over 800...a master artisan with good tools and station can experiment durability considerably...

i saw people touting their vehicles as finely crafted best resources blah blah blah they are just trying to recoup their costs for gambling and hoarding tons of resources that had high OQ or whatever... Shock Resistance people...thats it

also, i sold mostly x34's but use speederbike (not swoop) myself ...i used it all day call ing storing idling and have yet to repair it....the red bar is at about 90%....i used 850+ Shock Resistance, 14.55 crafting tool and (i believe) 26+ crafting station...

btw..thanks for the info...i got bombarded by questions all day

i was selling x34 for 20k - speederbike for 28k - and swoop bike for 35k AND crafting with player provided resources for 2k any style and i backed up their resources if failed (none did - crafted about 20) i gave away about 3 or 4 sold about 10 and crafted about 3-4 more

thanks for reading/posting