Warfare & Tactics

Do people often salvage wrecks after pvp fights? Is it worth salvaging someones wreck, using up a hislot in the process, or better just loot the wreck?

Whats your experience?

I was ridiculed until I removed it. Now I'm only occasionally reminded of doing this.

If you literally cannot fit anything else that is useful and you have a spare high slot, fit one. Salvaging t2 wrecks can give you quite a bit of isk back. We usually have 1 or 2 people that fit a spare salvage mod on their hulls and it's a great way to replace losses after the roam is done.

On ships with spare highslots, a salvager is a fine pickup for a utility module. On fittings which are heavily capped by grid, but light on CPU, you can even leave it online. it's a particularly common fitting on t1 frigates, and 7-gun destroyers, as fitting unbonused missiles in the last slow has extremely marginal utility, and top-end guns leave no grid for a small nos. The possible extra money for new players means every single mentor program frigate gets a salvager, or sometimes even two.

Some people may give you a hard time about it, as (even offline) a small remote armor or hull rep, or a cyno can be quite useful in some situations. However, a salvager is great for getting added value out of wrecks, as well as cleaning up the signs of a gate camp for profit. With the proliferation of bombers, interceptors, and even assault frigates as affordable, useful t2 ships, it's not uncommon to find elite wrecks in PvP.

That said, even if it's not a bad fitting option, be wary that undertaking or under gunning your fit to cram in a salvager is idiotic (in the best of ways). If you decide to go whole hog, bringing a noctis to a gang is probably not the best way to go about it. Fitting out a salvaging destroyer and blending in until there's a field of wrecks clear of hostiles can net good money.

Yeah seriously, what morons take a fully capable combat pilot and thow it in a salvage ship that takes less than 100k lp to use? Those guys shure are dumb!

edit -- in case my sarcasm wasn't thick enough, I meant you. You, guy above me, are dumb.

Good fit? No cpu or PG left?

Offline salvager imo.

Kill something like a zealot or a vagabond, even a t2 armor frigate.

can yield anything from nothing to 100+ lol.

Only problem is spare highs are only normally spare on frigates, so yeahhhhh.

If you have any covops scouts, it's a reasonable use of their extra high (assuming no cyno). I wouldn't want to hang around in a combat ship waiting for someone to stumble into me salvaging.

Money is the sinew of war. Therefore, a salvager is the single most important mod you can fit.

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Rule 37 - There is no 'overkill.' There is only 'open fire' and 'I need to reload.'

When I spent time in RvB, I remember a FC that would check if there were any salvagers in the fleet before the Lowsec Roam would begin. If there wasn't one in the fleet he would request that 1 or 2 do a quick refit before it began. He felt the ability to salvage after a fleet battle was a good thing. I can't remember his name at the moment, but I know that the better FC's do take salvaging into consideration. 'If your not planning on salvaging your kills, then you aren't planning on winning the field are you?" - unknown, but memorable quote.