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Cal Ackerman
Caldari
Eve University
Ivy League
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Posted - 2007.04.28 00:39:00 -
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I do a lot of rat hunting and hear that the salvaging skill is a really good way to make ISK; you're essentially "mining" wrecks.
So, what do I need? The salvaging skill and a mining laser? I've got about 7 million, what should I buy?
Thanks!
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Stefx
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Posted - 2007.04.28 00:40:00 -
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A tractor beam is useful to bring the wrecks to you
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Farrellus Cameron
Sturmgrenadier Inc
R i s e
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Posted - 2007.04.28 00:58:00 -
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The mod is called a salvager, not a mining laser. A lot of people use destroyers because they have a lot of high slots and decent sized cargo hold. Using four salvagers and four tractor beams is popular. However, if you are salvaging other people's wrecks the tractor beams are useless because they can only be used on wrecks belonging to you, your corpmates if you are in a player corp, or gang mates. Also, salvage doesn't take up much space so cargo hold capacity isn't that important. So I would probably recommend a frigate with the highest amount of high slots, maybe a tristan or kestrel. Either that or a frigate with an astrometrics skill bonus, like an imicus. I believe the astrometrics skill bonuses reduces the time to it takes for a salvaging cycle. I doubt more than four salvagers is necessary, more than four is pretty much overkill.
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Daeva Vios
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Posted - 2007.04.28 07:54:00 -
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I'd recommend getting Salvaging skill to 4 to make a decent career of it, and a Destroyer to make a dedicated career out of it. With four tractor beams and four salvager units, you'll be pulling in big money in no time.
Fit salvage tackles in your rig slots when you've got the cash to buy them (they're about 10-15m each right now) and you'll bring in the salvage even faster.
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Ethaet
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Posted - 2007.04.28 08:34:00 -
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Astrometrics skill does nothing for salvaging, and an imicus has too few slots and a very small cargo.
Salvage guide:
http://www.battleclinic.com/forum/index.php/topic,8560.0.html
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Daeva Vios
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Posted - 2007.04.28 10:16:00 -
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Edited by: Daeva Vios on 28/04/2007 10:14:16
Edited by: Daeva Vios on 28/04/2007 10:12:56
While I agree the Imicus has too few high slots to make an excellent salvaging ship, the cargo hold is larger than a Catalyst's, which is the most prevalent salvager destroyer out there. 320m3 of cargo space means you can fit 3200 pieces of salvage, which is hardly something to scoff at. If they introduce salvaging drones and they're small, the Imicus would be an excellent basic salvaging ship.
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NightF0x
Gallente
Chicken Coup Raiders
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Posted - 2007.04.28 10:49:00 -
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Personally, I just use my Megathron after missions to salvage. Just dock, put on 6 salvagers and 2 tractors and I have more than enough to keep me busy. The more salvagers that you focus on a target the faster that it will salvage (or tell you that there wasn't anything to salvage). Salvagers can take several cycles before you get any feedback so I have found it better to use around 2-3 per wreck.
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Cal Ackerman
Caldari
Eve University
Ivy League
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Posted - 2007.04.28 12:42:00 -
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Wow, thanks for the guide.
So, how's this for a plan:
Already got a destroyer
-Outfit it as my salvager
-Run missions and 'rat hunt with frigate or second destroyer.
-Before turning mission in, jump into salvager ship and clean up the wrecks.
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pandymen
Caldari
Red Dwarf Mining Corporation
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Posted - 2007.04.28 13:05:00 -
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Yup, thats basically how its done. When you start getting larger ships like a battlecruiser, you can just outfit that with a bunch of salvagers and tractor beams. You honestly do want to have at least 4 salvagers if you plan on getting through a large amount of wrecks. The guy above who said use 2-3 per wreck as you get in range to tractor them in was spot on.
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Velodra Gison
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Posted - 2007.04.28 18:59:00 -
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 Originally by: Cal Ackerman
-Before turning mission in, jump into salvager ship and clean up the wrecks.
You can bookmark the wrecks when you are doing the mission, turn it in and then go back to the bookmark and salvage. The wrecks will stay when you turn in the mission.
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Shimakaze
Arcturia Starfleet
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Posted - 2007.04.28 19:15:00 -
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Originally by: Velodra Gison
Originally by: Cal Ackerman
-Before turning mission in, jump into salvager ship and clean up the wrecks.
You can bookmark the wrecks when you are doing the mission, turn it in and then go back to the bookmark and salvage. The wrecks will stay when you turn in the mission.
Yup, that's actually the better idea because mission structures disappear after you complete the mission, so you can fly at high speed without worrying about bumping off asteroids and whatnot.
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Thaddeus Brutor
Minmatar
The Sobani
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Posted - 2007.04.28 19:17:00 -
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Yeah, like the above, bookmark a wreck (preferably at one end of the wreck pile) before leaving each pocket. Then after turning in the mission get into the salvager and fly to each bookmark. I like a Coercer with 4 tractor, 4 salvager, 1 ab, 4 cpr. Can run all the modules 24/7. I'm always tractoring 4 wrecks, salvaging the wrecks I'm tractoring, flying to the next set of wrecks (keep speed under 500 m/s). If I hit a big enough cluster I shut of the jets and keep pulling them in.
If I fill the hold (with modules) then I drop a jetcan and tow it along with one tractor, and just move modules straight from the wreck to the can. Bookmark the can before leaving and come back with an industrial to pick it up. (This only happens occasionally on L4s with a lot of BS-sized modules.) So no matter how much loot a L4 mission has, I'm taking no more than 2 trips.
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LegendHawk
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Posted - 2007.04.28 20:42:00 -
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What I am doing are to only fit 1 or 2 salvager on my fighting ship.
So I can Salvage and Kill Rats at the same time. =D
Though thats because I'm only doing LVL 3 missions.
Easy enough for such tasks. 
Lvl 3 Mission gets me 2 to 10 mil each run, while half of each are from Salvaging.
The Closest I remember is the LVL 3 Storyline mission "Angel Strike"
I made 30 mil on Bounty/Reward, 20 mil on Salvage, and 15 mil on Implants.
So Salvaging does the job.
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Cal Ackerman
Caldari
Eve University
Ivy League
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Posted - 2007.04.28 22:58:00 -
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Originally by: LegendHawk
What I am doing are to only fit 1 or 2 salvager on my fighting ship.
So I can Salvage and Kill Rats at the same time. =D
Though thats because I'm only doing LVL 3 missions.
Easy enough for such tasks.
Lvl 3 Mission gets me 2 to 10 mil each run, while half of each are from Salvaging.
The Closest I remember is the LVL 3 Storyline mission "Angel Strike"
I made 30 mil on Bounty/Reward, 20 mil on Salvage, and 15 mil on Implants.
So Salvaging does the job.
I was actually gonna do that until I've got the skills, and the backup cash to make a dedicated salvager.
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Brian Kith
Caldari
The White Star Consortium
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Posted - 2007.04.30 16:16:00 -
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Also, if you bookmark one wreck in each room of each mission you can then do multiple missions before salvaging. Spend less time traveling, more time making money.
I do it like this:
Check EVE time.
Start doing missions as quickly as possible. No looting, nothing, just burn the missions.
In each room, set a bookmark to one wreck. Name it Mission #, Room # . . . ie M1, R1 would be the name of my first bookmark.
After each mission is complete, check Eve time. If less than an hour has passed, get another mission. If over one hour, go salvage every bookmark, deleting each bookmark as you go. (Alternatively, you can turn each bookmark into a safe spot if you so desire).
Once all missions are cleaned up, start again.
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