EVE New Citizens Q&A

You will get 2 different answers, depending on who you ask:


1.) Yes. As a new player you can use all the ISK you can get. So salvaging your missions can give you a bit of extra income to help you get started.





2.) No. The stuff you get from level 1 and 2 missions is generally not worth your time to spent the extra time salvaging. From level 3 and specially level 4 salvaging becomes more viable.



Which one applies to you...that's also a bit personal preference. When I did missions, I never ever stopped to salvage my stuff.

Only just started to do some salvaging and my first target is generally to gather enough salvage to equal the cost of the ship and fittings and ammo. Of course the fun bit is reducing ships to wrecks in the first place.

Thanks for all your help, due to the nature of how little is in lv 1 missions, would i need any cargo expanders at all, as i need the lows for cap stability otherwise i last only like 30-40seconds atm which would be a waste of time.

No, the salvage you get from level 1 and 2 missions is tiny in volume = think of a piece of salvage as like a unit of tritanium.....your cargo hold may fill up if you acquire 50,000 pieces before you unload, but it will take you quite some time to get 50.000 bits of salvage.

Low level salvaging is like playing the lottery....most of it is worth almost nothing, but the odd ship will giveyou 4 x Tripped Power circuits at 125,000 per unit. Just cruising asteroid belts for wrecks in a 0.6 or 0.5 can earn money at a quicker rate than mining in a venture, with just a little bit of luck.

Running salvage for mission runners is profitable, but some players can get a bit snippy if you roll up in your ratting destroyer with a single salvager and maybe a tractor beam - which I can't really undertand. I mean they can go off and do other things while you chug away salvaging and looting the wrecks. The site won't despawn while you are in it, and you just contract them the cash and any loot (like tags) you find after agreeing the split/reimbursement. So they aren't losing out if they have to wait half an hour to get money from salvage that they weren't going to bother with themselves anyway.

You don't need a Noctis to salvage missions for other people, although it is more efficient. You will want to get salvage trained up to at least 4 however, so you can salvage all the wrecks they produce.

Thanks again for all the help, i think i will salvage my lv 1 missions, to clarify this about doing my own missions not someone elses, thanks for the info about social 3, when i am able to do them on my own i will train that skill or hold off untill im close to lv 3 after doing lv 2's for ages. Thanks mara for the guide in your signature too.

I am aware of ninja looting also ninja salvaging (the only ninja thing i would do) however i am not interested in stealing of other people... at this moment anyway.

When it comes to lv 4's if you only have one acount, whats better for isk/hour blitzing or killing everything then salvaging in a noctis (all one account, solo)

I vote for making all the red crosses into wrecks, then contracting the room to Pro Synergy to loot and salvage the wrecks while you do other things. Of course, it's a game and if you enjoy salvaging your own wrecks, go for it. Enjoyment of game > isk per hour

Depends on who you are, some people like to do 3 or 4 fast missions, skipping everything unnecessary, some like to do one mission, kill everything, loot everything, salvage everything.

It is about you and in reading the above you probably know which you are.

You run your missions as usual, bookmark each pocket, abandon all the wrecks, turn in the mission then contract the bookmarks to Pro Synergy. The loot is split 45% to the mission runner, 45% to the salvager and 10% to the corporation. While you may make more per mission if you salvage yourself, doing business with us will allow you to rush through missions thus increasing your isk/hour. We keep track of loot and customers using publicly available spreadsheets and payments are made on a weekly basis. Check out our website for more info http://prosynergyeve.com/ or join the channel Pro Synergy and just ask around.

From a salvager's point of view, as far as i know we're always recruiting. When i joined PS about a week ago my char was only two days old, and i only started to play eve two weeks earlier on a trial account. And while a noctis is recommended, there's plenty of guys who salvage in a destroyer in the beginning. After your first paycheck you'll be able to afford a noctis anyway. While obviously not the most lucrative thing one can do in eve, it's definitely the most lucrative thing a new player such as myself can do, with limited sp and knowledge of the game.

If you're a trial or you plan to salvage as a freelancer, there's also a channel called Free Wrecks, where mission runners give away their wrecks, often for free.