Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Hi, an interesting thought occurred to me about a logical possibility for those who trained their probing skills high enough.
Make it possible to scan down wrecks with combat probes.
It would create an entire mini-profession for pilots favouring probing ships with salvagers.

Wrecks could be made harder to scan down, then, say, mission running ships, so as to not give unfair advantage to gankers.

We can already scan for abandoned (or active) drones. Presumably drones tend to be smaller then the wrecks of the ships that launch them. A logical assumption, therefore, would be that it should be possible to scan down wrecks.

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I wanna tracking freight wreck

It would be salvager gank in easy mode, At least we have to scan down the site, and the ships, before the salvager moves in currently.

The proposal offers just free kills, no other benefit.
so no thank you, Quite happy to work for the kills, don't need easy mode thanks.

This idea would also would decimate LS missioning and anomaly running. Ship too hard to scan down? just scan the wrecks instead.

Everything could be worked round and solutions found, but why? for a problem that does not exist, for such little gain, and with such potential for imbalance.

The idea is that scanning down wrecks is harder then scanning down ships. Perhaps the biggest wreck should be of the scanning difficulty of a frigate.



As far as missioning imbalances go - drone boats can be scanned anywhere they operate as of right now (drones are scannable), there is your imbalance. By making wrecks scannable as well, you correct it, making all ships leave a small footprint in the form of wrecks at the combat sites. The high skill requirement, combined with the need for a specialized ship to sucessfuly scan the wrecks (=>60 base sensor strength to scan the biggest wreck, for example) will ensure that any aspiring PVP boat would require a dedicated scout to succeed.

As far as gains go - it turns 'salvager' into an actual profession, instead of an afterthought reserved for mission runners' alts.

This would be pretty neat. In fact, it is perhaps necessary in order to make salvager a true and separate profession of it's own.

I want to be the garbage man of EVE. Mining just isn't low and dirty enough anymore. I want to sit in Osmon or something with my legion of alts scanning down wreck sites and cleaning up the nasty mess left behind by littering blitzers.

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That's a good concern. I wouldn't know the technical side of things, of course. If large number of wrecks affects lag in the system, then it would have to be addressed.

Possibly combining all wrecks on the grid into a single 'Wreckage Site', which would then count for 1 signature? With an attributed value to differentiate them amongst themselves:
Small Wreckage Site - Average Wreckage Site - Large Wreckage Site - Very Large Wreckage Site - etc.

If numerous wrecks don't affect lag, then instead of combining them into the aforementioned sites you could instead choose which ship types to scan for, just like you do when you scan for ships. This way you could ignore results on frigates/cruisers for example and focus on those juicy battleships and higher.

Let's not forget why this would be worth doing and why, even if certain changes are necessary it might still be a worthwhile pursuit.
On EVE's official site (http://www.eveonline.com/sandbox/salvager/) salvager is one of the core professions that the developers invite you to experience. Amongst other things it's being described as 'economic, scientific and SOLO' endeavour, and we all know that as of right now there is no such thing as a solo salvager. Desn't exist. Can't exist. There is no solo content, and as a result most salvagers are alts of mission runners.

Yet, as far as gameplay's 'food-chain' is concerned it would seem that there is a natural place for salvagers in EVE.