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==Loot and salvage== | ==Loot and salvage== | ||
[[File:Loot_and_salvage.jpg|thumb|370px|right|wrecks in the overview for looting]] | [[File:Loot_and_salvage.jpg|thumb|370px|right|wrecks in the overview for looting]] | ||
Security missions almost always involve killing | Security missions almost always involve killing NPC ships. This creates the opportunities to loot and salvage wrecks. | ||
The | The value of loot and salvage generally rises with mission level. The point at which it becomes worth while to loot and or salvage the wrecks will depend greatly on the ships destroyed and the speed at which the pilot is completing the missions. The faster the pilot can complete sucessive missions the less value the wrecks become as more ISK is earned from bounties, completion rewards and loyalty points. | ||
If you | If you plan to loot and/or salvage the mission, you should consider investing in a mobile tractor unit (MTU). MTUs are deployable structures which automatically tractor all nearby wrecks (and containers) and loots their content. While MTUs don't salvage wrecks, they do collect them into a compact space, alleviating the need to tractor them (or to fly to them). They have an enormous range (125 km for the basic unit), but only tractors in one wreck at a time, and doesn't do it particularly quickly (1000 m/s). However, once deployed they continue to work even if you fly away. Place the MTU down at the start of the site and bookmark the MTU so that you can warp back to it once the mission is complete. | ||
Certain missions have very low chance of having a faction ship present. | Certain missions have very low chance of having a faction ship present. These ships drop faction modules, implants or blueprint copies which can be worth a lot of ISK. A pilot should be on the lookout for these ships and ensure to destroy and loot these ships if they appear on grid. | ||
===Farming a Mission for Loot=== | ===Farming a Mission for Loot=== | ||
Farming a mission means to do the same mission over a few days by NOT completing the mission. | Farming a mission means to do the same mission over a few days by NOT completing the mission. For example, in the mission 'Vengeance', you can kill everything except one NPC in the last pocket and then redo the mission after downtime (all the NPC ships will respawn) until the mission expires. This is very good for high value missions like Angel Extravaganza, Blockade, Worlds Collide, Vengeance, or Cargo Delivery. | ||
While farming select missions can be profitable, it does lock out that mission agent from giving you additional missions until you complete the mission being farmed. Before farming, one should check the availability of other agents in the area. If the next nearest available agent is a significant distance away, you may find that it is not only more profitable but also more convenient to complete the mission than to farm it. | |||
Notes: | Notes: | ||
*To check the viability of farming a mission you can use [[mission reports]] to see if your mission has a 'completion trigger'. | *To check the viability of farming a mission you can use [[mission reports]] to see if your mission has a 'completion trigger'. | ||
* | *If an NPC ship is still in site that you wish to loot/salvage, you will need either a second pilot to draw the NPC ship away or bring a ship capable of tanking the damage while looting and salvaging. | ||
[[Category:missions]] | [[Category:missions]] | ||