Engage is a hostile act, salvage is separate from this. You can choose to tell them what to salvage, or let them salvage the field automatically.

Is the MJD coming out on Dec. 4th or not? I didn't see it on the test server, wanted to mess around with it.

Hold on a sec.... even if the player hasn't commited any criminal act

To answer some of my own questions and provide feedback:

Cycle time is 10 seconds, same as Salvager modules.

They do potentially get aggroed by NPCs. I ran a couple of missions, and the only two frigate-sized targets I found did switch to and start popping the salvage drones. Any chance of changing this? They have precisely zero combat benefit, so it's sort of odd that the AI that's supposed to be a bit smarter would pay any attention to them at all.

They all seem to target the same wreck at the same time. Any chance this can be changed so they spread themselves out more? Seems quite inefficient.

Other than that, I love them with the Vargur. I can fit three tractors, pull the wrecks in, and the drones deal with the salvaging about as fast as I can kill things and pull them in (and I'm only at skill level 3).

One issue I ran into, though, and I'm not sure if this is a bug or user error. After finishing my last mission, I had four wrecks sitting near me. I gave the drones the salvage order, and they picked one wreck, salvaged it, and then went idle again. I had to keep issuing the salvage order, and they continued to salvage one wreck, return, and go idle. Earlier, they were merrily going from one wreck to the next without extra orders, so I'm not sure what the difference was.

Yes; doing so does not give you kill rights to that player, though.

You will have had Focus Fire enabled Zor'katar. They act the same way as drones do with that enabled. Turn it off and they will go their separate ways. However, in this case it is far more efficient to let them focus fire as they do not have the best chance of salvaging by themselves.

As for the bug you mentioned, I would need to have known the status of the wrecks. I will look further into that myself.

I couldn't care less about any kill rights! I'm a PvE player and I don't want a bullseye painted on my back just because i salvaged someone elses wreck or snatched the loot under the nose of some slower player in DED complex.
Screw that!
I thought the winter expansion will be called Retribution and not Retaliation?!

So... you want to engage in activities hostile to other players -- yes, that's PvP, even if it isn't directly shooting someone else -- and you don't want those players to have any formal ability to retaliate?

I couldn't care less about any kill rights! I'm a PvE player and I don't want a bullseye painted on my back just because i salvaged someone elses wreck or snatched the loot under the nose of some slower player in DED complex.
Screw that!
I thought the winter expansion will be called Retribution and not Retaliation?!

It would appear that the new way of saying "Hello" in eve to players is to slap bounties on them.

So far, a player will add a bounty to you if:

* You mention the bounty system.
* You comment on the fact that you've just being given a bounty for mentioning the bounty system
* You tell people to stop giving you bounties.
* You stay quite for too long after having told people to stop giving you bounties.
... and so on.

I don't mind the system, but before the novelty wears off - if at all - the "Wanted" red sign will basically be on EVERYONE character, and then people who notice you don't have a bounty will just slap 100k on you to get you to conform.