Signaldog
Gallente Venom.
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Posted - 2007.04.03 04:14:00 -
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So I lost my Hyperion, no big deal...but it really puts a damper on your wallet. So I decided to take part of the insurance money and start a Salvaging/Looting Business. Bought a ship, couple of tractors, etc. and got started. This is when we realized we had some problems.
1) The only good way to do it is through a Gang arrangement where the salvager/looter follows the gang around during a mission to police up wrecks. The reasoning for this is simple, in order to get the loot/salvage before the wreck pops, you have to be there in less than an hour. Here's the problem. Once the mission finishes, the pilot who accepted the mission runs off to station or gate to speak to an agent. During this time, the slavager, still in the gang, cannot tractor and receives an aggression flag from the corporation of his own gang members. This makes it very dangerous (more than just being in the same space as a bunch of NPC Killers in a ship with no guns :D) to provide a service to other pilots.
I've been going this for awhile now, and the response has been immediate. Everytime I log on, someone convo's me and asks me to pull out of the station and get their stuff while they kill baddies.
2) There is no contract option that is easy to understand for the hiring of another pilot for either a specific amount of time (such as the duration of a mission or a player set time) or to hire for a specific system (star system, sorry) to complete the salvage mission. This means that everything is done on the honor system, which while usually okay (has been for me so far) is always a risky business. People in EVE will get you if you let them. This problem also does not allow the "client" who hired the salvager to verify that the salvager has, in fact, given up all the salvage/loot that was collected.
Problem 1 above is of course the most important, as this severely limits the salvager/looter business venture as pilots in the gang must be outside a station and in the same system to allow me to loot. The easy fix for this is to remove the constraint and allow any member of an active gang, whether the actual owner of the wreck/can is there or not, to tractor and/or loot/salvage the wreck/can without receiving and aggression flag.
Any comments? Thanks to all the EVE pod pilots who fly straight and play honest. We do appreciate it. :D
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