Newcomer / Intro Salvage from planetside wreckage

[King Drax I]

I found a pile of wreckage from a crashed ship on a planet surface. Cargo canisters and some mats easily collected, of course.

But one of the items was a Cargo Rack, like the ones you could buy for your ship. The scarab system could lock on to it no problem, but the scarab could not scoop it up - my scoop was deployed and my scarab's cargo hold was empty - it simply drove over the wreckage.

I then tried boarding my ship and flying very low over the wreckage to try to scoop the cargo rack using my ship's main cargo scoop, all to no avail.; it didn't even show up as a potential target on my ship's scanners.

How, then, do we salvage a piece of (what looks like) valuable wreckage if the scarab can't scoop it and the ship doesn't show it as a target?

 

[Para Handy]

shoot it

it produces raw material (elements) cannister(s)


The Elite Design philosophy - scan it / shoot it / run away from it (delete as appropriate)

 

[King Drax I]

Aww bum. Never thought of that... Still, once again I have learned something. Thank you!

 

[aRJay]

Old adage, if it moves shoot it, if it doesn't move shoot it anyway!

This is a game where we map planets by bombarding them from orbit.

 

[BinakAlgo]

Shipwreck salvage would be a fun profession for the game. Then you piece all together and get you own ASP Cobriper Defender 7 Conda.

 

[wAsh67]

Shipwreck salvage would be a fun profession for the game. Then you piece all together and get you own ASP Cobriper Defender 7 Conda.

Tried that with bits of old photocopiers once. Got a device that turns sheets of A4 paper into wafer thin dark brown crinkle cut crisps.....