EVE New Citizens Q&A

At the moment i am in a cormorant destroyer having a go at solo salvaging.
i have 2 x salvager 1 units on it and 1 missile launcher, i feel i have not got the ideal setup could anyone please give me a decent ship/equipment setup to use. take into account please am limited fund wise.

my other question is what is the best way to approach salvaging? i am doing lvl 1 missions killing the npc's and looting/salvaging that way. would it be easier to just roam round from system to system looking for wrecks?

thanks

Early on use two ships. One to fight and the destroyer build mentioned to salvage.


Actually it might be better to get to level 3 missions as the salvage doesn't really begin to make isk until then.

Thanks for the tips

@flakey when you say use 2 ships 1 to fight etc and 1 to salvage lets say i kill 5 npc's from a mission do i not risk the chance of loosing these bits of salvage to another salvager, while running back to get MY salvaging ship?

@Hijeri at the momnet i am just salvaging in the vicinity of my corp ie yona area, i just want to geta few things corrected then i intend to fly off into the wilderness and see what crops up, i need to find myself a nice system with lots of activity etc but not too low sec that i become cannon fodder.

I would just use a fully combat ship for missions and bookmark wrecks, then come back to those wrecks when the mission is done with a ship fit for salvaging.

This also has the advantage of being able to use a microwarp drive, as the deadspace restrictions go away after turning in the mission and the site despawns, but the wrecks remain (for about 2 hours).

Anybody that ninja salvages either needs it a lot more than I do, or was really trying to provoke a fight that I wasn't interested in. I usually abandon all wrecks, and let ninjas take whatever they want. The ones that only want a fight will usually leave.

1) It is extremely difficult to find wrecks using an on board scanner and they do not show up on scan probes - what ninja's do - is scan YOU. Therefore - they usually won't find your wrecks unless you are with them. Also - Ninja's are mostly interested in Level IV Wrecks - so if you're in a quiet system without an Level IV Agent's Missions being run there - you'll probably not find any Ninja's. Thus - leaving the wrecks unattended works fine. Just remember to bookmark their location before you leave so you can find them. You have two hours to salvage them before they go away.


2) Starting out 4 salvagers and 4 tractors is good. You don't need the cap rechargers if you watch your cap but they won't hurt as long as you're not skimping on tractors or slavagers to fit them. As your salvaging skills improve you can go to 5 tractors and 3 salvagers.

3) Navigation skills improve you cap by either letting you get their faster or use less cap to do it.

4) The best salvager destroyer is the Catalyst as it has a drone for self defense. If your mission was in a .8 or lower system - the belt rats may come by for a visit and that drone comes in handy.

5) If you are running your missions with a destroyer and only have one - you can save your fits in the fitting tool - then keep all the stuff for each fit in your items hangar and switch back and forth.

6) You can usually run several missions in your mission boat, bookmark a wreck in each wreck field, then switch to your salvager and come back and get them all. Just note the time of your oldest wreck, salvage it first, and allow sufficient time to get all the others done before they expire. If you have lots of missions with low numbers of wrecks you don't need to worry about running out of time but if you have several that have large numbers of wrecks you do.

7) Gallente and Cadari space wrecks are not as good on average as those in Amarr and especially Minmatar space.

8) Salvage is hit and miss. You can get a bunch of crappy salvage and then a bunch of really good salvage. it's chance based but it averages out.

9) Level I and II mission wrecks yield poor salvage but then at that level each ISK counts for more. You just have to be the judge of whether or not what you're getting in salvage is worth the time you spend on it. Many people will advise you to just skip the salvage at that level. If you're looting the wrecks though - you may as well salvage them - as it doesn't take much longer.

10) There are several salvaging strategies you can use - which you implement as you are flying the mission.
a) The Ball of Wrecks - here you orbit some point and let the rats come to you, killing them all within a 20km sphere so that your tractors can just pull them all in when you come to salvage them without moving your ship.
b) The Bigger Ball of Wrecks - this is created by herding your rats and is a form of Kiting. As they close on you, you turn in a large circle around them. This tends to produce a bigger ball of wrecks but is less dangerous than letting yourself get swarmed trying tactic (a) above.
c) The Wreck Stream - here you kite the rats - getting them to follow you - but periodically sweeping back and forth over the same area between groups of rats, this creates a stream of wrecks. You bookmark one at one end, warp to that point when you come back, then move down the stream tractoring them to you and salvaging them as you go.

11) When you start doing Level III missions you might think about getting a dedicated salvaging ship. They're very expensive compared to a destroyer but do a better job of salvaging.

12) Pretty much all the things you can do - Training Salvaging, Getting T2 Salvagers and fitting Salvaging rigs, lets you salvage things faster. Training your Salvaging skill is necessary to salvage some of the better wrecks - but since it also speeds up your salvaging - is well worth training to at least 4 - and if you want that T2 Salvager to Level V.

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T2 Tractors are neat. Especially in a Noctis. About double the price, but an extra 100m/s and 4 km range helps a great deal. Especially when the Noctis bonuses then kick in. Sure, Science 5 isn't /that/ needed, but when you have some research agents cooking as well, it's a must.

thanks for the info and tip.
you all have a good christmas.

If you have a dedicated salvager there's no reason not to salvage level 2's, especially if you're a broke newbie.

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