thank you, everyone, for your advice. it turned out that the MTU is the best solution if you don't want to leave the loot aside. personally i think looting is still worth it. it pretty much doubles your income from mission running in average. sometimes you even find items which still might be useful.

i will give the noctis approach a try when the time is right. at the moment i'm still stuck in level 3 missions. it might be worth on lvl4.

Loot with an MTU or two. Salvage with a Catalyst. Blitz through (and drop your MTUs and boomark them) and then come back for the wrecks.

Or contact Pro Synergy and somebody will do it for you.

hello everyone,

at the moment i am running a myrmidon for level 2 security missions (still waiting for unlocking level 3). one thing which takes the largest, yet most boring part of the missions is the looting procedure after the actual fights are over. is there any way to speed up looting?

ofc i could loot infight, but would have to suffer from suboptimal target ranges and so on. i also read in a salvaging tutorial about using tractor beams or a deployable mobile tractor unit. i hesitate to mount a tractor beam because the lack of dps would make me feel uncomfortable. does anyone recommend the mobile tractor unit? or am i doing it wrong in the first place? *g*

thankful for every advice.

cho

Hi

I also struggle with this greatly, especially coming from all the other MMORPGs on market. I did come to a sort of more efficient set-up.

1st off, you absolutely do not need a battlecruiser for lvl 2 missions, I was doing them in T1 frigates and destroyers, really not that long ago, about 2 months.

Go for support skills rather then larger ship, always have eitehr afterburner or MWD, collect loot, dont bother with salvage.

I started using battlecruisers on some of teh tougher lvl 3s, like blockade, thief or extravaganza where I wanted to kill everything. With a battlecruiser and looting this way I made approximately 40-65 mil per gaming session, usually 3-4 hours on lvl 3s, and by the time I even got to lvl 4s and joined a corp out in low / null sec, I had 8.0+ factions with both galente and caldari navies and jumpclones ready.

Back to looting, its a huge pita. The only way to loot effectively in this game is to dual box a noctis (or noxis or whateverthefk) and pay an extra monthly sub, this seems to be the status quo of this game, pay an extra monthly sub for every single simple function and multi-box, and it is bad to the point where it is one of the main reasons I will not be renewing my sub once my times up.

This sort of business model as a whole encourages and thrives on multi boxing and botting, where other games perma ban multi boxers and bots as they are kept in same categories.

Wait till you get out of high sec and see all the other multi box bots. scout bots, thousands of cyno bots, indie bots (multi boxes, whetever) anal bots.

Sorry bud, but looting is bad and it will just get worse, your ships will get progressively slower and have progressively more inadequate cargo (inventory) space. this is purely intentional to get you to multi-box the noctis and pay extra monthly sub, and its like this with literally everything as you will discover.

noob question:
a catalyst was mention a couple of times as a ship of choice for salvaging. anything special about this ship? would any destroyer do?