Science & Industry

Hi,

Be looking into doing a lot more Salvaging, My question is can one make a career from just Salvaging wrecks, am aware you can build rigs from it,

How much are the salvaging components in demand on the market ???

I have tried Ninjer Salvaging as well not sure its worth doing it.

below is what CCP have put on there main site about salvaging ?


In capsuleer combat valuable ships often get wrecked
I search for wrecked ships or follow combat gangs
If I find wrecks, I scan them and extract useful salvage
With skill and care I can get rare intact components
I sell my finds on the market or use them to build rigs


"I search for wrecked ships or follow combat gangs" how does one follow gangs into combat if not in fleet with them ? or cant it be done


Whats players view on Salvaging and how many players make good isk from it ???

Blacksuns

Lot's of salvagers follow RvB gangs around (we tend to opereate in the same 4 systems in The Forge, so we are pretty easy to spot). Lots of ships to salvage and if you are quick there is ninja loot as well.

If your exploration skills are good you can also visit mission hubs (Osmon is close to RvB territory). Scan down Battle Cruisers and Battleships and then Ninja Salvage/Loot the mission sites.

Can be quite lucrative on some days :)

If you're thinking of making salvaging your primary career and source of isk I would suggest getting into manufacturing and selling finished goods instead of selling the salvage.

Salvage BPO's are very cheap and shouldn't take you very long to get a few researched, or you can buy pre-researched BPO's. The market is fairly saturated though and very competitive, so you will want to research what you will be making before you start investing in it.

Start with a Noctis and hit up L4 mission runners.

Give them a good deal. Most use 50/50 split.

Some use items or salvage for the mission runner.

You can do flat isk as well.

Look for those with a 5.0 sec status in mission hubs.
Strike up some convo's and you'll be suprised.

You can also join a corp that runs L4's / complexes and be a dedicated salvager for them.
This is a supplemental way to get more work.

If you dont fancy giving away half your loot, you can scan down mission runners using Combat Scanner probes.

You want to get L4's to make this worth while so look for Battleship or Strategic Cruiser class ships.

The downside to this, if the player does not disown his wrecks (which they rarely do) is that you can't use your Tractor Beam and you can't loot the wrecks without gaining a Criminal Flag to the player and his corp. This doesnt mean you can't do it, and I would recommend you at least look into the canisters to see what loot is available without getting flagged, but there are some precautions you need to take which I will outline.

>Do not use a Noctis. These are extremely expensive, and the Tractor beam range wont matter if the other player owns the wrecks. Use a Destroyer with a handful of salvagers, an MWD or AB, and an expander (II) fitted. If you have a flag, and the players corp catches you then you will be glad you only lost a 1m dessie instead of a 75m Noctis.

>Keep an eye on your D scan. Set your D scan range to around 1,000,000km. This is important if there are multiple rooms in the mission. The player may appear to have gone but they could be in a different room and return at any moment. If your dscan is set to your PvP overview settings then anything within 1,000,000km should still be in the mission.

>let your aggression run out before you return to station - self explanatory, in case they're waiting for you.

Most players wont return to the mission once they've left it, so take advantage of that. Just be aware of whats going on around you. You can make tens of millions of ISK per hour off other peoples wrecks they cant be bothered to loot and salvage.

Another thought is to find a L4 mission running corp. Many folks will just hand over a BM to wrecks to help a corpmate, or at worst ask for a cut of the salvage. Most L4 mission runners are all about speed of running missions.

Buy yourself a crapton of rig BPOs, get them researched (Mediums typically only need ME3 for perfect production if you have Production Efficiency 5, Larges, ME15, and smalls no ME of any kind except for a couple exceptions.), and use them to produce rigs.

Pick some popular rigs to produce and purchase some salvage to start you off. Then go salvaging for the rest of your resources. I make energy rigs and armor rigs for my alliance in nulsec. On a good day, I can pull in over 100M isk in profit.

Not gross income. Profit. And that just buying salvage off the market in a limited environment.

So yeah. It's profitable. Extremely.

search for "Ninja looting fits" under "Ships & Modules" the author is "Gogela". A nice thread about Ninjaing

Surprised no one has said this...

Salvaging in a wormhole is some of the best isk that can be made in the game. How you go about getting those precious sleeper wrecks is entirely up to you.

FYI: if you think you'll make big money salvaging NPC wrecks, you're doing it wrong.

(Possible exception being higher classes of wormhole space.)