What's wrong with salvaging?

It's bland, boring and is not a viable end game skill, you make more isk in salvage by doing relic sites then you would by actually salvaging in a salvage ship.

Salvaging was not forgotten in Crius.
In fact, it was subjected to the tender mercies of only having efficiency cut in half, as opposed to total obliterations in other activities.

I think this meme is appropriate somehow:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsW9MlYu31g

I know im a bit late to the party, with the patch already delivered, but why the hell was there no salvaging overhual/changes? Of all the industrial professions, salvaging was the one that needed the most help. Are there any plans to even look at salvaging?

One think i would like to see.

Marauders getting a salvaging bonus instead of a tractor bonus, The mobile tractor unit has made the bonus obsolete. Considering maruaders were designed to be the most efficient level 4 solo ship in part because of the tractor beams.. it only seems fair.

The noctis could use something as well..

It's bland, boring and is not a viable end game skill, you make more isk in salvage by doing relic sites then you would by actually salvaging in a salvage ship.

Well since reprocessing was nerfed, if less salvagers decide to salvage/loot wrecks as a result, then salvage value will increase again.

Most activities in general are losing value it seems. Not enough conflict drivers as of late to boost demand for new ships and modules to replace blown up ones.

The noctis is the very reason that salvage is worth so little.

Why is it so hard for people to understand this: when you have a resource that's widely available and easy & convenient to gather, then income per hour from that resource will always be low. The only way to avoid this is for CCP to put in artifical price support.

If you want to make ISK from being a salvager, then you should campaign for a nerf to the Noctis, resist a salvage bonus for Marauders and ask CCP to reduce the opportunities for salvaging.

They didn't forget about salvaging. They nerfed it like everything else, LOL. Have you tried to reprocess modules you got while salvaging yet? If not, just wait, you will see what I am talking about.

Throws in the obligatory - "This is Eve, adapt or die."

This has nothing to do with salvaging. Said loot would exist whether the wrecks were salvaged or not.
There were no nerfs to salvaging.

Depends on you definition of salvaging.

If you are taking about just recovering wrecks using the salvage module, then you are correct nothing changed.

If you incorporate the entire value of everything in the wreck (including loot for reprocessing) then it did indeed get nerfed. The reprocessing % recoverable from reprocessed loot has been drastically lowered. Most people are affected by this.

I agree. It should be possible to scan out wrecks without having to look for the ships that created them or the anomalies or sites in which they were spawned.

It's bland, boring and is not a viable end game skill, you make more isk in salvage by doing relic sites then you would by actually salvaging in a salvage ship.

I agree. It should be possible to scan out wrecks without having to look for the ships that created them or the anomalies or sites in which they were spawned.

Depends on you definition of salvaging.

I like salvaging sleepers

Holy freakin' hell. Look what we have here!

Salvaging was not forgotten in Crius.
In fact, it was subjected to the tender mercies of only having efficiency cut in half, as opposed to total obliterations in other activities.

I think this meme is appropriate somehow:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsW9MlYu31g

This. Make it so.

Even if CCP had never introduced the noctis, salvage drones and the ever so handy MTU, salvage prices would still have fallen over time. Players simply get more efficient at doing things.

Lower rig prices are not a bad thing, they grant everyone more options to customize their ship for less cost. T1 rigs are almost, though not quite yet, inexpensive enough to become a consumable item. And Eve needs more consumable items.

What we have is a suggestion that will not do what many people imagine it will doGǪ

It's one of those GÇ£be careful what you ask forGÇ¥ suggestions.

Or, alternatively, kill missioners

It's bland, boring and is not a viable end game skill, you make more isk in salvage by doing relic sites then you would by actually salvaging in a salvage ship.

Free kills for the terminally lazy are not currently a supported feature.

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"Your definition" of salvaging doesn't matter, just what CCP says "Salvaging" is.

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^ This is salvaging.

hint -- salvage (Smashed Trigger Units, Alloyed Tritanium Bars, etc) wasn't affected by the Crius repro changes.

What's wrong with salvaging?

Safe ratting for the terminally lazy is not currently a supported feature.

Stop being a hypocrite. Try using D-scan while you plex once in a while. It's more effective than any number of ECCM modules, and in case you haven't noticed a good portion of the rest of Eve lives by this method, so it's not exactly an inconvenience for anyone but you.

You do this in every thread that even off-handedly suggests scanning wrecks. It's been kind of amusing up to this point to watch everyone just casually ignore you but enough is enough.

didn't every corp used to keep one or two newbies as salvage monkeys? whatever happened to that