Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I don't see any specific suggestion which would provide you the ability to hunt down wreck though.

Also, you can do this already. You can probe battleships in highsec - most likely they do lvl 4 mission especially when you scan around the popular lvl4 systems.

There has to be a new unique method of probing down wrecks that would facilitate new skills needing to be learned that would allow younger Capsuleer's to amass more wealth as well as older Capsuleer's learning new skills.

The new Wreck Hunter ship would be advantageous in normal space but would also be put to use in Wormhole space as well for those looking for Sleeper Wrecks to salvage.

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If you want loot and salvage run missions and then loot and salvage them. Alternately you can go to systems where mission runners are operating and request warp-to mission runner just as they are finishing up. Another possibility is joining existing salvaging corps and do it that way.

Assuming that mission runners dont want their loot isnt fair and it is mighty presumptuous on your part. Also, if a mission runner wants to just leave their stuff behind and let it vanish into nothingness that also is an option they deserve because they did the work.

If they leave their loot they clearly don't want it.
Why do they deserve anything beyond what they can enforce? This is EvE, you are entitled to nothing.

again why the added complexity?

... drones don't clutter things and a lot of the time there are far more drones than wrecks so i'm not sure what issue you are afraid of

-1 - we do not need a new ship. Maybe a few small tweaks to one or more of the ships we already have is all that we need.

-1 to the idea of a beacon that spawns we simply do no need it, as Lugh Crow-Slave says simply make wrecks scannable and add a filter to the results window to allow you to show or not show wrecks and call it a day. If you want wrecks then you get wrecks, ALL of them in your scan range, don't want wrecks then none of them will show easier for CCP that way.

If i had a cookie i would make it yours good sir

Again.... just let the wrecks be scanned.

You cab already scan active mission sites, you can already scan people salvaging only thing you can't scan is the fully abandoned ones at the moment

The Wreck Hunter would come in two types. The standard hull and the warp while cloaked hull.


The base hull design would be similar to the Echelon Frigate but in between a cruiser and a battle cruiser in mass.

The Proton being the name of the first Wreck Hunter would have a slot layout as follows:

High Slot : x4
Medium Slot X 3
Low Slot x 2

Cargo Hold: 250 cu meters
Salvage Hold : 500 cu meters

Rig Calibration: x2 slots w 150 calibration points

The Proton would fit the Proton 4 Receiver Module in the mid slot that would boost the Proton 4 probes detection signal by 5% per level learned for 25% increase.

The Proton would have a Proton 4 Probe launcher that would hold a single Proton 4 Probe. When launched the probe could be directed at an warp to object in the system, such as a station, combat site and even a data or relic site that has been scanned down. The probe would warp to the location and begin its ping of the area. Each level of the Proton 4 probe skill that is learned would give the Capsuleer a 10% chance to locate a mission site wreck with a total of 75% chance to find a mission wreck when the Proton 4 Receiver Module is used.

The Proton would also have a tractor beam bonus of 500 m second and a 5% increased chance to salvage a wreck

The Unrecovered Wreck Identifier skill adds an additional 2% per level learned to the overall skills needed that would boost the Caspuleer's ability to find un-salvaged wrecks for an overall total of a 85% chance to find a mission wreck.

The Tandem or the the TII variant would have the same slot layout as the Proton but could warp while cloaked and would have a ship bonus of 10% to find unrecovered wrecks bringing the total percentage to find wrecks too 95%. The Tandem would also have a tractor beam bonus of 1,000 m second and a 10% increased chance to salvage a wreck

Once the Proton has found a mission wreck the Capsuleer would need to complete a mini-game. In the mini-game the Capsuleer would have to filter out background noise or radiation using various tools that once the mini-game has been completed the mission wreck would be able to be warped too and the site salvaged. Filtering out the radiation would involve completing the mini-game within five minutes before the system had to be re-calibrated and started over. There would not be any failed attempts to worry about.

A Mobile Depot would be required to load the tools into the min-game browser however.

Each NPC faction Base such as the Federal Defense Union which is base Gallente would have a set of specialized tools to filter out radiation with. Capsuleer ships would also have a set of tools to filter out the radiation in the mini-game based on the racial design of the ship.

The Mini-Game tools would be manufactured via Planetary Interaction.