Missions & Complexes

"Is it worth it"? You need to define "worth it."

If you define "worth it" as "maximum isk per hour" then you will reach a point where your shooty skills will out iks per hour your salvaginjg skills as people correctly pointed out already.

Personally, I afk missions in a Gila and then salvage in a Noctis afterwards. (I own 3 Gilas and 3 Noctii, one paair of ships for each part of the universe I live in.)

I enjoy salvaging due to the convenience it brings me. Just yesterday I needed a Dominix in a remote part of space where everything is extra expensive. I just happened to have a Dominix BPC laying around and I went through and reprocessed everything I had in station that wasn't worth keeping. Suddenly I had enough Tritanium for a Dominix with about 3.5mil Trit left over. And that's just from one system. I mission out of 4 systems in that region, all which have boatloads (literally) of goodies.

I am fully aware that if I were to focus 100% on killing that I would make more isk/hour. However, if I wanted to focus on maximum isk/hour I would go trade. I can make about 100-500 mil isk per hour there. However it's painstakingly difficult and drives me insane doing all the research and calculations and .01isking. (I still do it when I need some isk. In fact I recently invested about 800 million isk. Ugh, and I really need to go update my orders and play the .01 isk games. :( I'd rather go salvage...)

Salvaging relaxes me. It is "worth it" for me to salvage my missions because it keeps me sane while providing me with income.

To each their own, however. It's your EvE, and so long as you are enjoying yourself, you are playing the game properly.

You accept bookmark contract only in one system and dont have ppl do do job.

Re OP.

I only occasionally loot / salvage, even if it's a fairly lucrative mission. For me this is because of a combination of:
1. Not based in any one mission-running location for very long. I run missions all over the place and usually do not see the hassle of dragging a salvager along as being worth it. I do have a perfect skilled salvager alt and, of course, did salvage and loot religiously in w-space.
2. Even with an uber-salvager noctis I figure the time it takes to loot / salvage is more lucratively spent running the next mission. When I am pushing missions I am running two or more in tandem and usually two-ship dual-boxing. Turning them over quickly does not leave me the capacity to also run a salvager.



Excellent stuff, and very interesting.

No doubt there will be variation in completion times and in items / values, but I think your efforts there are going to be of pretty wide interest ... and no doubt also useful for your marketing efforts :-)

Good luck with that.

Yes and yes...

Yes, we only do business in Osmon at the moment, which is no big deal. If you're not in Caldari space and dont do missions out of Osmon, this doesnt apply.

And yes, we are short handed at the moment. We do as many salvaging contracts as we can physically do, but if there are no salvagers on, then its hard to take care of it... right? Its the customer's responsibility to make sure there are salvagers on who are able to make the service work BEFORE contracting it to us.

Either way, we have an awesome system and it works well for people who use it... And we're still looking for salvagers and mission runners to join our happy family.


o/ Fly safe!

Ard