Role Play - Scavenging

Maymo · May 9, 2019

Definitely my absolute ideal role, my current CMDR started out as a scav and I loved every minute!

Bought a Hauler (Salvage & Rescue) and pursued planetary treasures and pods. Did a few black box’s and degraded spots. Dropped into the HGE’s of course...

Had NO idea about the threat 3 degraded containing Painite, I’ll be looking into that for sure!

Oooo, something I did learn....

Degraded USS that contain valuable survey data actually sound different than normal degraded USS when using the FSS. They sound like a distress USS, which allows you to pinpoint them...

I do wish planetary salvage was more seamless. Ferrying stuff 2 by 2 to your ship isn’t fun, especially when your ship lands over a km away when you call it...

Collectors should totally be capable of planetary salvaging as well! I’m going to start hammering ‘Suggestions’ every week to FD on improving collector limpets...

...for all us small time salvagers and miners!

Extra note: I love me the Keelback for salvage, tough and ungainly...

[Diplomacy] Carnegie · May 9, 2019

Tip for surface scavengers:

When your ship lands 1km away and you have 8 cannisters you want to pick up, drive to your ship, then FLY it back (slowly) to where the cargo is - you can follow your tire tracks.

Unless you're in REALLY rough terrain you should be able to manually land much closer than ship recall will put you - especially if you're in a small ship. Then you have much less ferrying to do.

Alone Wulff · May 9, 2019

CMDR Oh seven said:
o7 CMDR again! I might add another thing to consider. I always set a rule that I have to A-rate my current ship completely and then save money to buy the next ship. No trading in the old ship. Just food for thought. o7 CMDR! May your cargo hold be filled with treasure!

That's also a rule I've set myself. I didn't do it in the Sidey because there's no real benefit and I needed the higher speed to boost away from pirates while I have E-rated shields.

Alone Wulff · May 9, 2019

DrewCarnegie said:
Tip for surface scavengers:

When your ship lands 1km away and you have 8 cannisters you want to pick up, drive to your ship, then FLY it back (slowly) to where the cargo is - you can follow your tire tracks.

Unless you're in REALLY rough terrain you should be able to manually land much closer than ship recall will put you - especially if you're in a small ship. Then you have much less ferrying to do.

Yeah I had to do this but couldn't one time because I couldn't find any suitable surface to land. The couple of spot it would let me land happened to be on a bump of sorts so although I could deploy the SRV I couldn't get from under the ship. And didn't want to dismiss it to have it land far away! It definitely added fun to the challenge. Like that one time I fell (I mean drove) into a deep ravine in the SRV and took a whole day to get out using the thruster to 'hop' up ledges. I think surface-side is very underrated and could certainly use more love from FDev to draw more in to it.

[Diplomacy] Carnegie · May 9, 2019

CMDR Oh seven said:
o7 CMDR again! I might add another thing to consider. I always set a rule that I have to A-rate my current ship completely and then save money to buy the next ship. No trading in the old ship. Just food for thought. o7 CMDR! May your cargo hold be filled with treasure!

I was the opposite - I never A-rated a scavenger ship. I mean, why would a scavenger have the best kit?
I really wanted a raider/corroded skin for the Dolphin - those ships were just too shiny.

GreyAreaUK · May 9, 2019

Well - I did it. Cleared the save on my alt-PC account. Was NOT given the opportunity to change my Commander name, incidentally.

So I’m now in the good ship Don’t Call Me Tiny, and we’ll see how this goes

GreyAreaUK · May 9, 2019

Aaaaaand here we go!

GreyAreaUK · May 9, 2019

I should point out that I reset again. I got off to bad start by accepting a data mission “just to give myself a little cash to be going on with”. But that’s counter to my rules, so I reset. And renamed the ship.

So far I’m up to 6,000Cr !

Maymo · May 9, 2019

GreyAreaUK said:
Aaaaaand here we go!

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Very nice!!

It’s really cool to see good paint on one of the um...less popular ships!

I’m considering painting up a T7 and taking it out exploring at some point. Love that ship!

Maymo · May 9, 2019

GreyAreaUK said:
I should point out that I reset again. I got off to bad start by accepting a data mission “just to give myself a little cash to be going on with”. But that’s counter to my rules, so I reset. And renamed the ship.

So far I’m up to 6,000Cr !

For salvage, I start in the Horizons sidey and go hunting for shiny things in the dunes near the surface base in the SRV.

GreyAreaUK · May 9, 2019

CMDR Maymo said:
For salvage, I start in the Horizons sidey and go hunting for shiny things in the dunes near the surface base in the SRV.

Exactly what I did

Flew about 10km, saw a blue POI, landed, deployed, saw a perimeter with canisters and snagged a couple. Flew back, sold them (not at an ideal price but beggars can’t be choosers) and called it a night there.

Think I’m going to like this.

GreyAreaUK · May 9, 2019

CMDR Maymo said:
Very nice!!

It’s really cool to see good paint on one of the um...less popular ships!

I’m considering painting up a T7 and taking it out exploring at some point. Love that ship!

Thanks! Yeah, I thought that paint was worth a quid.

CMDR Endincite · May 9, 2019

I tried to scavenge as a career when I got my second account - I've been rich in the game, and wanted to try more moderate/interesting/involved income streams.
Way too much that's dropped in space is credit-worthless (materials) or otherwise low value, and surface POIs with salvage have only a few canisters laying around. I would have settled for finding a few tons of gold or palladium, but instead it's almost always stuff worth 1/10th the credits. Additionally, instead of battlefields (CZs) providing a wealth of salvageable stuff as one would assume, nothing is dropped if you don't kill the ship yourself.

Overall: IMO you'd have to have a pathological amount of patience, because it'll take you months of playtime to make enough for simple things like better modules, let alone the millions needed for a better ship.

Alone Wulff · May 9, 2019

CMDR Endincite said:
Overall: IMO you'd have to have a pathological amount of patience, because it'll take you months of playtime to make enough for simple things like better modules, let alone the millions needed for a better ship.

Oh I dunno - earned 140k CR after four hours collecting legal salvage from a planet last night and earned around 210k CR collecting from the same planet this evening. About 4 hours yesterday and 3 today. That's pennies compared to opals I know, but that's the point. It's slow work but I reckon I'll actually feel like I earned a new ship and I reckon I'll be so much more thankful for more cargo space and stronger shields - than if I spent two hours CR farming.

Maymo · May 10, 2019

GreyAreaUK said:
Exactly what I did Flew about 10km, saw a blue POI, landed, deployed, saw a perimeter with canisters and snagged a couple. Flew back, sold them (not at an ideal price but beggars can’t be choosers) and called it a night there.

Think I’m going to like this.

Tried out the threat 3 decoded emissions for painite drops last night.
It proved, as the poster earlier in the thread described, a very reliable and profitable way of getting credits by salvaging.

Despite having a threat level I didn’t encounter any other ships.

They seem to pop up more in low security systems, they are also illegal and will need to be sold on the black market.

So an ideal situation would be a low security system and an outpost with a black market to easily avoid scans.

Shouldn’t be too hard to find a system with the above criteria that buys painite for a high price.

GreyAreaUK · May 10, 2019

CMDR Maymo said:
Tried out the threat 3 decoded emissions for painite drops last night.
It proved, as the poster earlier in the thread described, a very reliable and profitable way of getting credits by salvaging.

Despite having a threat level I didn’t encounter any other ships.

They seem to pop up more in low security systems, they are also illegal and will need to be sold on the black market.

So an ideal situation would be a low security system and an outpost with a black market to easily avoid scans.

Shouldn’t be too hard to find a system with the above criteria that buys painite for a high price.

Tempting...tempting...

Alone Wulff · May 10, 2019

Well... if you don't mind scavenging illegal goods... hang around a Haz Res until a miner gets attacked and throws out Low Temp Diamonds! I remember the other day on my main account in a High Res, I had a problem with my limpet picking up dumped cargo which I'd set to ignore and gained a fine when abandoning it. So I popped into a Haz Res today to see if anyone would drop anything. The first drop was gold but a pirate beat me to scooping it up. The next drop was fruit & veg, beggars can't be choosers, I scooped it up. This didn't seem to draw any attention so I hung around. Third drop was LTDs! A Python had a limpet scooping them up so I shot in, grabbed three with some narrative about "Hey, that's mine!". Immediately got scanned so I high-tailed it out straight to the nearest Black Market (Unarmed, E-rated shields, no hull protection).

656k CR for ten minutes work.

Now someone tell me scavenging isn't a worthy route! If I had limpets on me I could no doubt have doubled or tripled that before getting shot at by someone who wanted it more than me.