Zaknussem
Intrum Industria
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Posted - 2009.03.23 15:45:00 -
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I am not an expert on Salvaging by any means, and I can only relate my experiences of salvaging in the hope that something solid comes of it and shut some people up.
For the longest time I had Salvaging at III. During this time period I salvaged propably thousands of wrecks, most of them small rather than large. Since then I have trained Salvaging to V and upgraded by Salvagers to T2. Here are the facts I have gathered since then:
# If you salvage a wreck of a Rookie Ship or a Shuttle, you only ever get 1 unit of Metal Scraps.
# Even after I trained Salvaging up to V and got myself a Salvager II, this did not change. They still only give 1 unit of Metal Scraps.
# T1 and T2 Frigate (player owned, not NPC wrecks) have a very high chance of giving only 1 unit of Metal Scraps. However, there is also a chance the wreck will also give a couple of units of salvage components. For T1 this can be as many as 4 units (though rarely that much) and up to 2 units for a T2 wreck.
# Again, training up the Salvaging skill and upgrading the Salvager has not changed this for me.
# What defines how much is salvaged from a wreck is the wreck's size, not your skill at Salvaging. Mercenary wrecks (Known in-game as "Generic Mission wreck") almost always give Metal Scraps, with Small wrecks giving 0-2 units, and Large wrecks as many as 16 units.
# With the exceptions of the wreck type determining what types of salvage components you will get (as well as the odds of you getting a particular type of salvage component) and the wreck's size determining roughly how much you should get, the salvaging process is based on random number generation.
Conclusion: I have not seen any evidence that suggests that a higher level of the Salvaging skill increases the amount of salvage received from wrecks. Quite the contrary, in fact.
In addition, there is one other factor of Salvaging I would like to mention, but I do not have any hard facts on that. It is in regards to salvaging T2 wrecks. From what I've heard, salvaging T2 wrecks incurs a 10% penalty on your Salvaging chance, which is why you need at least Salvaging III when dealing with them (as that puts your base success rate at 15%). However, I do not know if you explicitly need Salvaging III for T2 wrecks, or merely a base success rate of 15%. Is it possible for someone with Salvaging at I or II to use a Salvage Tackle rig to salvage T2 wrecks to see whether this is the case? Also, does anyone here know of other wrecks (with certainty, not guesswork) that have a similar penalty to the Salvage success rate? |