Sometimes I don't mind people helping themselves to salvage. For example today i was doing Angel Extrav on my main and I just could not be bothered to think about going back in the noctis and picking over the wrecks. So when I was joined in the last room by a salvager I just abandoned all the wrecks and said he could help himself. Seems such a shame to let it all go to waste.

Yes, they're annoying, yes they're carebears who prey on mission runners, and yes most of them are cowards and won't fight 1v1. These things we know.

The most annoying thing is if you're in the middle of a fight and a ninja salvager turns up and starts to loot, you still have the aggro. Wouldn't it be great if the aggro switched to the newcomer.

Is there a stage for missions where you're better off killing, turning in and grabbing another one rather than salvaging?

LoL.

LoL'ing isn't trolling, right...?

p.s. You can switch the aggro to the newcomer. Every right click in space and try warping out? Idealy, while said ninja is close to a horde battleships/battlecruisers...?

What rationale could there possibly be, for a change like that? The Angel Cartel suddenly doesn't mind that you blew up all their friends?

"OOOHH!!! There's a ninja, let's stop going after that guy with 8 large blasters pointed at us, and kill that little pest in his frig......!!!!!"

"He looks SUPER annoying!!!"

If I have time after running a mission, I'll abandon my wrecks just so someone else can have them if they want them. Same with dead rats in the belts. The stuff's going to go poof at downtime anyway.

Not this again, as CCP have mentioned more times than I care to remember "Salvage isn't yours until you salvage it.!

So you want to eliminate ninja salvagers' fun because you want more risk-free, effortless space money. Okay.

ninjasalvagers money is also risk-free and even more efforless. bumping exhumers is also fun, im sure, but very risk free.

In 2 hours they go poof anyway. Any salvaging newbie knows that

At least they do in anoms.

"ninja salvaging" is specifically intended gameplay and precisely what CCP had in mind when the introduced salvage. Salvage was explictly not intended as part of the mission reward.

So it is the exact opposite of an "exploit".

I think they'll always be confusion over this.

Problem being the wreak is made up of two parts the loot and salvage and the wreak has the ticker of the corp it belongs too, clearly shown.


Edit: Maybe it would have been better to have wreaks that had no loot, be shown blue with no corp attached to it.

2) Shoot your wrecks. If they're after salvage, blow up any wreck they approach. It's a clear message that they won't profit and they won't get fights. Again, they'll go in search of easier targets.