Missions & Complexes

How long are you waiting? I don't know the amount of time wrecks stay in space, but it's no longer than a few hours.

noticed this also, its like you have to bookmark each room in a site or some loot vanishs,

i have noticed this when i mark the final room and in a 2-3 room mission its like the loot does not all compress to 1 room

When working large missions with multiple rooms, best to salvage and loot each room after it's been cleared. That way you make sure none of the wrecks despawn as well as cut out the chance of a Ninja Salvager being able to collect it.

I've noticed that the actual amount of NPC wrecks containing loot has seriously dropped, been like that for a little while now, basically since CCP decided to cut out Gun Mining in an attempt to urge players to do mining in ORE ships. I believe it happened around the time of the removal of Rogue Drone loot, also all Meta Level 0 modules and Cap Booster Charges have been removed and replaced with 1x Metal Scrap.

I don't think OP is being NInja'd. He would have seen some flashy red by now.

@OP: Either bookmark each room. Or loot *before* you "complete" mission. Or get a maurader and loot-as-you-go.

Kinda strange, I can go collect loot and salvage AFTER turning in missions like Extravaganza wich has 5 rooms plus a bonus room, 1 wreck bookmarked in each room.................

Guess OP has to check the time from killing first NPC till turning in the mission. If that stay's under 2 hours the wrecks should be there if not ninja-ed.
Be sure to have no down time between completion/turning in and salvaging/looting.

The longest missions i do are the extravaganzas and they take me about a hour or so. I go back to my station pick up my noctis and can loot everything in about 15 minutes flying back through every pocket of the mission. There is not much reason to turn the mission in before looting due to how long they give you before you lose the bonus reward.

I have been doing AE4. I would do first three rooms, then bring noctis to loot and salvage. Then do last two rooms, then bring noctis again. I have not seen anything unusual.

Gone Berserk is good mission. Every wreck has loot.

A couple of days I have run missions back to back, making bookmarks as I go and keeping an eye on the time the bookmark was made.
3 times now, before it had hit the 2 hour mark (say 10-15 minutes before it) and the wrecks are gone.
From now on, I only allow 2 missions max before salvaging/looting, or one if it's a real long annoying one, like when the npcs are scarred of playing with multis :>

Chances are OP that you had left it too long. To be safe, grab your space vacuum ship after each mission

I normal do 6-10 missions at a time, what ever i can within 1 hour.

Each pocket i bookmark SYSTEMNAME TIME like Nakugard 19:41.

When iv been doing missions for one hour i finish the one im doing and then start salvage going to the bookmark with the lowest time stamp.

But i also make sure i have at least 15 min from the 2 hour limit when i warp to the first bookmark.

If someone steals your loot, they will show red in local and if you're on the same grid, will flash red. However, it is legal for players to salvage any wreck they find regardless of it's color and they will not turn red.

White = owned by you, your corp and your fleet members.
Yellow = owned by someone else.
Blue = abandoned, free for all

I understand not wanting to switch ships after each pocket has been completed but if you want the loot and salvage, then it's the best option to do, especially for high level missions with multiple pockets. Some players say wrecks and cans last for 2 hours before despawning, I think it's less than that and I always try to loot and salvage them within 1 hour. If you loot and salvage each pocket after completion, you won't lose anything other than maybe the mission bonus pay, depending on how long it takes you to complete the mission.

What I do is keep an eye on the bonus time. Usually loot and salvage each pocket when completed and when the last pocket is done, just bookmark a wreck, turn mission in, warp to bookmark and collect the last bit of loot and salvage. I haven't had any problems doing that and always get the bonus time pay.


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