Straygun
Caldari
Caldari Navy Volunteer Task Force
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Posted - 2007.10.08 15:56:00 -
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Yesterday i tried my hand at a much vaunted and hated profession: ninja salvaging. I did this mostly out of curiosity and following my principle of ''eve is a pvp game if you want to get ahead in this universe you must do your best not to work hard but reap the benefits of other players hard work''.
So with this in mind traveled to Dodixie in my shiny malediction and purchased a new ehm what's it called, oh well an amarr frig capable of fitting a recon probe launcher and some probes 5 au and respectively 10 au probes as my skills don't allow for better ones to be employed.
My first find:
After making a bookmark at a resonable distance from all objects i started scanning for drones and got a result after my first scan: myrmidon and a drake running a lvl3 angel mission. Could be better but what the heck. I bookmarked one of the wrecks and off i went for my salvaging ceptor. The two players seemed unaware of my presence at first as i quickly went through the wrecks, they were busy clearing the room but then they started shouting quite coloured epithets in local about me, my corp and my maternal anscestors. They also stopped fighting for the duration of my presence sitting there idly for about 10 mins. That sure helped. Having salvaged all the large-medium wrecks I decided went through to the second room bookmarked there and left to find more targets while they made some more wrecks for me.
Second find:
This proved to be an abandoned and closed serpentis mission. Pretty quick to salvage but with little gain expept the items i took the liberty to steal. Later on i would come to regret this. 
My third and fourth find:
By this time i devised a system: I would bookmark all interesting results with my scanning frig then board my interceptor to check them out making notes as to which results are worth salvaging. Having found 4 such results i got in my interceptor to check them out. The first one proved to be dismal as the wrecks had already been salvaged and only 1 freighter was still present there. Desilituined i decided to chill at the mission spot while i took a look at the market,failing to notice that the hauler belonged to the same corp i had stolen from a mear 10 minutes ago (yes i was still flagged).
Lo and behold a vexor cruiser warps in a few minutes later. He starts targeting my interceptor. Then nothing. This was of little consequence to me so continued browsing the local market. The pilot kept targeting me....he eventually decided to deploy drones. At this point i was wondering what the he wanted. I insta warped when I saw which corp he belonged too.
At this time i decided to go back to my first lvl3 find, which was had been completed. This time there only was a destroyer there, which i beat to all the good wrecks. His corp didn't take it lightly and went on to make threats such as wardec'ing (like I care). This grim fate could be avoided for a payment of 750 million isk.
How about my third and forth finds?
The second contact proved to be an empty serpentis mission, empty as in the missioneer warped out and no wrecks in sight but full of not so friendly battleships.
The third one was a two room angel lvl4 full of nice juicy wrecks which i began to salvage. I was half done with the first room when an exequror warped in and started salvaging too (no doubt the owner). Having salvaged all the battleships i went to the second room and left the cruiser to his own devices.
The fourth and final find was also a lvl4 mission, this time blood raiders (JACKPOT!!!). The mission wasn't quite complete yet and the missioneer was salvaging as he went but this was a golden oportunity. As a side note i found the mission by scanning drone a hammerhead I drone  ...
All in all these four finds netted me around 15 mil in salvage in one hour of hard work. My luck then dried up as i spent 1 hour with no notable results.
Reading local on the other hand more than made up for my missfortune.
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