Salvaging: Difference between revisions

Salvaging is finding useful items from wrecks. After a ship is destroyed (NPC or Player), a wreck is left behind. This wreck may contain loot and salvage. Salvaging is an important part of most PvE combat. NPC wrecks can drop valuable modules or items, and the salvage from wrecks is used to manufacture rigs. 

Salvaging is easy to train into (under 2 days for salvaging III, ORE Industrial III to fly a good noctis).  

The salvage in level 4 (and some level 3) missions is on par with and can sometimes surpass the worth of bounties and mission rewards. Also, you're not (usually) being shot at while salvaging.  

Low skillpoint characters can become salvagers for level 4 [[FLEETS101 - Introduction to Fleets|locust fleets]] and individuals and gain higher profits than doing their own relative mission levels. Salvaging does not need lots of skills, expensive ships/modules, is relatively safe, and suitable for new characters.  

Salvaging is easy to train into and can be done in almost any ship.  

[http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Small_Salvage_Tackle_I Small Salvage Tackle Rig] (also comes in medium and large sizes): Increases your salvage change by 10% per rig. Adding this to a salvage destroyer or noctis can greatly increase the speed at which you salvage.  

<blockquote>Mechanic I (8 minutes, 20 seconds)<br>Mechanic II (38 minutes, 50 seconds)<br>Mechanic III (3 hours, 39 minutes, 30 seconds)<br>Electronics I (8 minutes, 20 seconds)<br>Survey I (8 minutes, 20 seconds)<br>Survey II (38 minutes, 50 seconds)<br>Survey III (3 hours, 39 minutes, 30 seconds)<br>Salvaging I (25 minutes)<br>Salvaging II (1 hour, 56 minutes, 26 seconds)<br>Salvaging III (10 hours, 58 minutes, 34 seconds)<br>Science I (8 minutes, 20 seconds)<br>Science II (38 minutes, 50 seconds)<br>Science III (3 hours, 39 minutes, 30 seconds)<br>Spaceship Command I (8 minutes, 20 seconds)<br>Spaceship Command II (38 minutes, 50 seconds)<br>Spaceship Command III (3 hours, 39 minutes, 30 seconds)<br>ORE Industrial I (33 minutes, 20 seconds)<br>ORE Industrial II (2 hours, 35 minutes, 14 seconds)<br>ORE Industrial III (14 hours, 38 minutes, 6 seconds) <br><br>'''Total time: 2 days, 1 hour, 1 minute, 40 seconds'''<br> </blockquote>  

<blockquote>'''Remap 1&nbsp;:&nbsp;Intelligence 27 / Memory 21 / Perception, Willpower and Charisma 17'''<br><br>Mechanic I (6 minutes, 40 seconds)<br>Mechanic II (31 minutes, 4 seconds)<br>Mechanic III (2 hours, 55 minutes, 36 seconds)<br>Electronics I (6 minutes, 40 seconds)<br>Survey I (6 minutes, 40 seconds)<br>Survey II (31 minutes, 4 seconds)<br>Survey III (2 hours, 55 minutes, 36 seconds)<br>Salvaging I (20 minutes)<br>Salvaging II (1 hour, 33 minutes, 8 seconds)<br>Salvaging III (8 hours, 46 minutes, 51 seconds)<br>Science I (6 minutes, 40 seconds)<br>Science II (31 minutes, 4 seconds)<br>Science III (2 hours, 55 minutes, 36 seconds)<br><br>'''Remap 2:&nbsp;Perception 27 / Willpower 21 / Intelligence, Charisma and Memory 17'''<br><br>Spaceship Command I (6 minutes, 40 seconds)<br>Spaceship Command II (31 minutes, 4 seconds)<br>Spaceship Command III (2 hours, 55 minutes, 36 seconds)<br>ORE Industrial I (26 minutes, 40 seconds)<br>ORE Industrial II (2 hours, 4 minutes, 11 seconds)<br>ORE Industrial III (11 hours, 42 minutes, 28 seconds) <br><br>'''Total time: 1 day, 15 hours, 13 minutes, 20 seconds'''<br> </blockquote>  

Every time a ship is destroyed, a wreck is left behind. If you have enabled wrecks in your overview you should be able to see a downward triangle with the name of the wreck. If this triangle is full it means the wreck has loot and if the triangle is empty the wreck has nothing. If it is grey, it means you accessed the wreck and opened it and took a look inside. You can loot every wreck if your distance to it is under 2500 meters  

#1. Salvage is successful and you found something of value, look into your cargo hold. The wreck disappears.

#2. Salvage is successful but you didn't find anything of value. Better luck next time. The wreck disappears.

#3. Salvage was unsuccessful. The salvager will start another cycle and continues until you get message 1 or 2.

This is especially profitable during wartime when E-Uni operating under [http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/WSOP#During_Relaxed_SOP... Relaxed SOP] and people are allowed to do missions in pvp fitted fleets of at least 3 E-Uni members but cannot salvage. They can and will use an out of corp salvager. If you dropped from the Uni for war or have a salvager alt, this is prime time.  

Remember that others in the fleet can see what you looted/salvaged in loot history window of fleet, so if you keep stealing and report lower numbers they will eventually catch you and it is also against E-Uni rules to steal.  

You did all the above and now have a load of salvage materials.  

Salvage materials are used to manufacture [http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Rigs rigs]. You can start manufacturing them if your industry skills are high enough and you have access to the blueprints. Be advised that without high industry skills, your wastage factor will prevent you profiting from producing rigs as you will be competing with near-perfect industrialists with researched blueprints, so it may be more profitable to sell the materials directly. When in doubt you can always make spreadsheets.<br>  

[ Taken from [[Salvaging 101|Salvaging 101 Class]] because I thought it is already concise and good, please say if I need to para-phrase or write my own].  

== The Dark Side of Salvaging ( Ninja Salvaging ) ==

 

NOTE : Ninja Salvaging is against E-Uni rules. If you do it, you will be punished. I haven't done any Ninja Salvaging so I don't know much about it. This section is here to help you when you encounter Ninja Salvagers or if you want to become one after leaving E-Uni. If you dropped out during war and want to be back, don't do it. If you have a ninja salvager alt and it can be traced back to your character in E-Uni, don't do it.

 

 

 

The rule that makes ninja salvaging possible in high security space is that salvaging someone's wreck is not a CONCORD offense. You will not be flashy to the owner of wreck and they can't shoot you but taking the loot will result in you becoming flashy (the same as Can Flipping).

 

 

#2. Initially run a D-Scan of the system to find the type of ship that you want to scan down. Scanning down bigger ships is easier, also if you want to provoke the mission runner into attacking you and then destroying him, you might want to scan down ships of a certain kind. Remember that maximum range on D-Scan is 14 AU and mission usually don't spawn further than 4 AU from celestials. You can warp to every celestial and run a D-Scan. When you have found a ship that you would like to scan down. Start by reducing the range of D-Scan and seeing if the ship is still in range. This way you can find the approximate location of the ship to scan it down faster in step 3. For example you want to scan down a Harbinger. You start reducing the range of your D-Scan and write down the range. You can warp to a celestial in that range (the sphere with the diameter of that range centered on your current location) to run more D-Scans and reduce the range.

#4. You cannot tractor yellow wrecks. So don't put any on your ninja salvaging ship. You must fly to each wreck, lock it up and start salvaging when under 5000 meters. Remember that if you don't take any loot, wreck ownder cannot shoot you. A MicroWarp Drive (or AfterBurner) is also useful hereto get to each wreck faster.

 

 

1. Don't panic, at most he can only salvage your wrecks. But cannot take any loot.

Sleepers (Wormhole NPCs) don't have bounties, so the income for WH site runners comes from Salvage and Loot. Often a salvager also doubles up as an extra picket when not salvaging. Beware that you are the treasure ship and the prime target. A solo stealth bomber can destroy your ship very quickly, so be ready to warp out to your safe spot and cloak up (or inside the POS shields if it is your home WH system). If you are new to salvaging wormholes, don't take your Noctis, instead fly a cheap destroyer.  

Wormhole salvagers should always have a cloak and probe launcher (with probes) fitted and online. A damage control II and warp core stabilizer are also suggested. Expanded Cargoholds are not required as wormhole loot is not very large.  

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