Player Features and Ideas Discussion

So yeah, feel free to listen to this funny story; this here (T1) Salvage Drone just spent half an hour (I **** You not) orbiting & trying to salvage yonder Shadow Serpentis Spy wreck.

'Your salvaging attempt failed the 352nd time.'

T2 Salvage Drones are SO overdue.

Discuss.

There are more than one or two choices of tools that are suitable to achieve the aim you have of salvaging a faction spawn wreck.


Instead of using a blunt tool for the job use one of the appropriate tools rather than asking the GMs for a skeleton key.

Priorities would put Tech II Salvage Drones near the bottom of the list for game improvements anyway.

I hate to be "that guy", but...

...search bar? Top right? Ring a bell?

And, as others have said, the more dedicated alternatives need to remain as dominate ones in comparison to any T2 Salvage drone proposal. Let's face it, CCP will not likely go with something that overshadows the Noctis and Salvagers. T2 salvagers could have much better tank or be a bit faster for instance, but something like buffing the access difficulty multiplier is not a solid suggestion.

My 5x Salvage drones sometime work faster than my t2 salvaging module... Just saying

Hull repair drones were rolled after salvage drones, right? Even they've got TII versions and Heavies.
But like most things, you didn't know you need them until you need them and don't have them.

salvage drones are just their to supplement your salvaging they aren't meant to be the dedicated system to do it

Have you trained Salvage Drones to V? Because I am pretty sure you haven't or they would have succeeded.

I just made a post in another thread about skills that are not worth training to V no matter how many SP you have, but forgot to mention Salvage Drone Operation which might even deserve to have a top spot on that list. Introducing T2 Salvage Drones might change that, though. Though they would still be near-worthless.

This is the most important thing mentioned in this thread. That tick box is a joke. Even if i have it ticked it, unless i dont order my combat drones manually to attack the same target, after some time they will split and attack different target. I get it that some bugs just remain, but why the **** do salvage drones ALWAYS focus the same target, doesnt matter if focus fire is ticked or not ...

I dont mind that salvage drones have worse access chance, as you should be rewarded for actively salvaging and not just semi-aft, like with drones. But wth is with the focus fire function, it doesnt work at all.

I guess that tick box doesn't affect salvage drones at all. But they DO NOT always target the same target. As far as I know they target the nearest wreck to your ship. So when I begin to fly around wrecks the drones begin to target different ones.