EVE New Citizens Q&A

You're correct to avoid a tractor on your missioning ship. There may be some ships that have a spare high-slot for such things, but usually not. Instead you should use specialty ships, like a tractor & salvage destroyer, a Noctis, or a mobile tractor unit. One decent procedure is to rack up a handful of completed missions, preferably in proximity, and salvage them each consecutively, instead of going back and forth.

However there's a very good chance that you will gain the most income over time by skipping the loot and salvage, if you can clear missions fast enough.

A Mobile Tractor Unit is a useful thing to bring. Drop it at the start of the fight and it will (slowly) collect all the wrecks. If you have a free high slot you can fit a Salvager module and start salvaging while you're still blowing up enemies. Optionally you can take a flight of Salvage Drones along that you deploy once the pocket is clear.

While an MTU is useful, it is also quite slow. It takes about 10 seconds to lock a new target and tractors the wrecks at 1 km/s. So if you have several wrecks at 50+ km, it'll take several minutes for them to be collected. As your killing speed goes up, the MTU will start to slow you down.

In higher level missions (L4, maybe L3) it can be worthwhile to have a Noctis docked in the mission hub. Bookmark one wreck in each pocket and after 2-3 missions, reship to the Noctis and go on a tractor/salvage spree.

thank you, everyone, for your advice. it turned out that the MTU is the best solution if you don't want to leave the loot aside. personally i think looting is still worth it. it pretty much doubles your income from mission running in average. sometimes you even find items which still might be useful.

i will give the noctis approach a try when the time is right. at the moment i'm still stuck in level 3 missions. it might be worth on lvl4.

You will find, as you graduate to level 3 and 4 missions, that the NPC bounties will go up and so will the loyalty point awards, and the loot value will not keep pace.

The best bet, IMO, is to drop a Mobile Tractor Unit when you get into each pocket, kill what you need to for the mission completion, then set up a filter in your cargo to 'show only worth >100k'. Hit that filter, loot all, scoop the MTU, and just ignore those wrecks that didn't get to you in time.

You'll get all the mission payouts and bounties, 60% of the loot, and only spend 5% longer than just blitzing the missions without looting.

so you really come back a second time with a catalyst for salvaging? is it really worth it? sounds like taking forever to exchange the ship. i know some people who play with multiple accounts simultaneously to minimize any time consuming delays. but i didn't really want to follow this path. a single account should be fine for a casual player. ^^

If you quit running missions, you won't have that problem, and you'll also dodge the problem of getting bored with missions.

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I also struggle with this greatly, especially coming from all the other MMORPGs on market. I did come to a sort of more efficient set-up.

1st off, you absolutely do not need a battlecruiser for lvl 2 missions, I was doing them in T1 frigates and destroyers, really not that long ago, about 2 months.

Go for support skills rather then larger ship, always have eitehr afterburner or MWD, collect loot, dont bother with salvage.

I started using battlecruisers on some of teh tougher lvl 3s, like blockade, thief or extravaganza where I wanted to kill everything. With a battlecruiser and looting this way I made approximately 40-65 mil per gaming session, usually 3-4 hours on lvl 3s, and by the time I even got to lvl 4s and joined a corp out in low / null sec, I had 8.0+ factions with both galente and caldari navies and jumpclones ready.

Back to looting, its a huge pita. The only way to loot effectively in this game is to dual box a noctis (or noxis or whateverthefk) and pay an extra monthly sub, this seems to be the status quo of this game, pay an extra monthly sub for every single simple function and multi-box, and it is bad to the point where it is one of the main reasons I will not be renewing my sub once my times up.

This sort of business model as a whole encourages and thrives on multi boxing and botting, where other games perma ban multi boxers and bots as they are kept in same categories.

Wait till you get out of high sec and see all the other multi box bots. scout bots, thousands of cyno bots, indie bots (multi boxes, whetever) anal bots.

Sorry bud, but looting is bad and it will just get worse, your ships will get progressively slower and have progressively more inadequate cargo (inventory) space. this is purely intentional to get you to multi-box the noctis and pay extra monthly sub, and its like this with literally everything as you will discover.

noob question:
a catalyst was mention a couple of times as a ship of choice for salvaging. anything special about this ship? would any destroyer do?