Missions & Complexes

In the current state of Eve, is looting/salvaging or blitzing Level 4 missions and/or complexes (that I can solo) noticeably faster ISK? When I left Eve over a year ago, it was about a 50/50 mixed bag of answers. Some people preferred one way, others preferred the other. Neither was majorly different ISK/hour over time.

So, how about things these days? Thank you so very much for any helpful input!

tl,dr: depends on lp conversion rate, and mission completion speed.

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After a year you will still find mixed answers that's for sure.

The new salvage drones help a lot and you can get the job done go less time than before, my personal opinion is that is better to salvage.

Some of the changes to ships, weapons and modules make blitzing faster than it was, so in the end things haven't changed that much for this question.

Personally I prefer salvaging.

Been waiting about 3 years now for someone to illustrate that theory with something better than a spreadsheet. Followed the blitz methodology presented on the forums, but was never able to beat the isk per hour per account that running the missions and salvaging them produces.

Running/salvaging also requires turning down a lot of missions also, for the record.

I seldom Blitz, though I try to focus on how to turn the room of fat red crosses into white triangles fastest. Building rigs, collecting bounty, and generating story lines missions are my priority. We are working on boosting the Corp members and alts standing to improve our mission selection.

Normally I run a couple of boxes, but a modern computer is fine with 2 clients, probably more if you lower some graphics settings. My salvage alt follows running as a 2nd or 3rd session flying her noctus that has a top rack of tractor beams and salvage droids. Those droids make wreck processing easy. The tractor beams are often enough to bring all the wrecks into drone range without needing to give that alt much attention.

If I know the missions salvage sucks as in has few NPC opponents I may not bother with the salvage alt and may fall back to salvage drones to quickly pick over the large wrecks.

Yes I think I will try something like that, my present setup has an AB on the Noctus, but the ability to follow the drones should make it more easy and hence require less attention.


Even if the ship (Algos or whatever) I choose has less cargo capacity the salvage is pretty compact,. It is not a major loss if some of the T1 module loot does not fit.

I tested this a bit last night. I was using a very unfamiliar hyperion, as well as taking unfamiliar risks, so I failed to succeed in blitzing the first 2 missions I attempted - once I got the hang of it, I got average mission time down to about 8 minutes, and with LP estimated at 1k conversion, 45mil/hr. For one mission I used a blaster navy mega with an MWD. note I wasn't actually rejecting anything yet (as I need the completion time data).

However you roll a chance of a shipyard theft (1.2bil item on rewards possibilities), and mats for war preps (if I recall 20-25mil for 5 minutes), every 16 missions, so one of the side effects of blitzing is giving yourself repeated runs at things that pay very nicely for time.

for those of you who single box i found the most efficient way to make isk/hour running missions and salvaging is to contract out your wrecks to prosynergy.

they have a website www.prosynergyeve.com

you get 45% of the profit which is a nice chunk at the end of each week depending on how many wrecks u have contracted out.

You need to have lv 4 agents at certain locations though. Join channel 'Pro synergy' and ask around.

ps its 45% to the mission runner 45% to the salvager and 10% to the corp