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Codger

Codger
SCiARA said:
salvaging has always appealed to me, never tried it though just seams to be a very hit n miss thing
is there salvage on all planets or just occupied ones?
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Probably on most of them in the bubble, anyway. I chose inhabited because it just seemed more likely, but I haven't checked to be sure.

And it is certainly hit and miss. I found a few sites that only had illegal salvage, or low-priced stuff.

I would not recommend it for a high credit per hour activity :)

But it is fun, at least at that early level where a million credits matters.
 

Speedcuffs

Speedcuffs
Codger said:
Probably on most of them in the bubble, anyway. I chose inhabited because it just seemed more likely, but I haven't checked to be sure.

And it is certainly hit and miss. I found a few sites that only had illegal salvage, or low-priced stuff.

I would not recommend it for a high credit per hour activity :)

But it is fun, at least at that early level where a million credits matters.
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Love your attitude here Codger! When I first started on PS4, trade. Absolutely trade, learning how it worked, best ship, blah, blah, no interest in combat at all.
When I started on PC, messed up, used my experience to move up too fast.
PC alt. Combat, piracy, open. No rush.
Main thing I enjoy now is salvage and rescue.Who doesn't love those burning stations, or finding some poor souls rescue pod abandoned out in the black. I am old school, I make my own story.:)(y)
 

Codger

Codger
I'm continuing to goof around with the Salvager idea on my alt.

Today I tried space salvage, as opposed to the planet surface stuff I was doing before.

I went to Meene and delved into the wreckage sites there. I found Occupied Escape Pods, Black Boxes, and Wreckage Components. It was easy enough to jump between the various sites and grab stuff. I was attacked once, but I just ran away.

Coming back with my little haul, I made over 600,000 credits. To my alt, it was a good take! lol. Anyway I'm having fun with the whole freelance, no missions, gameplay.

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Tyres O'Flaherty

Tyres O'Flaherty
Hmm. 5D Guardian Shield Reinforcement Package.

On a Corvette with Bi-weaves (biggest going) and all but one utility slot with shield boosters. All items fully engineered.

Shall I or shall I not? Not sure it's worth it. Something to ponder!
 
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MishaTX

MishaTX
Tyres O'Flaherty said:
Hmm. 5D Guardian Shield Reinforcement Package.

On a Corvette with Bi-weaves (biggest going) and all but one utility slot with shield boosters. All items fully engineered.

Shall I or shall I not? Not sure it's worth it. Something to ponder!
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While I do agree that the Guardian SRP is one of the three Guardian modules worth having, keep in mind that you're working against your Bi-Weaves biggest advantage by installing one, which is their low recharge time. It works off of raw shield value, so you're going to up your recharge time by installing one. If you were using Prismos, on the other hand, I'd say why the hell not?
 

Ashnak

Ashnak
MishaTX said:
While I do agree that the Guardian SRP is one of the three Guardian modules worth having, keep in mind that you're working against your Bi-Weaves biggest advantage by installing one, which is their low recharge time. It works off of raw shield value, so you're going to up your recharge time by installing one. If you were using Prismos, on the other hand, I'd say why the hell not?
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If Coriolis is right, though, the bi-weaves also have a higher absolute recharge rate than regular A-rated:
8A: 2.4/9.6 per second (regen/broken regen)
8C bw: 5.8/14.4
8A pris: 1.4/5.4

Assuming those numbers are correct, and if shield recharge is actually an issue for your build (although even the naked 8C bw need ~3 minutes), then there's nothing wrong with adding GSRPs to bi-weaves - your shields will just seem to take longer to recharge because the rings only indicate relative shield status, not absolute shield values.
If, on the other hand, you tend to need a rearm/coffe break after your shields are depleted, then go for A-rated or prismatics.
 

Codger

Codger
Salvage Guy had his biggest haul so far -- 35 occupied escape pods for 1,024,800 credits.

And then one of the local factions asked him to grab a couple more very specific black boxes, for a cool half-million more.

And then there was this rich guy who was paying 10x what they were worth for a few Performance Enhancers, which was another 600,000 creds.

It's been most amusing.

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Ashnak

Ashnak
Tyres O'Flaherty said:
Woohoo. A whopping 41% dangerous...

Mind you, the payouts are quite nice these days.

On another note, I wonder how many people work, live or otherwise exist in a Coriolis startport... hmm. Given some outposts are called something "city", I'd imagine "quite a lot" would be the answer.
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While looking for the numbers to do this calculation, I found that the difficult part had already been done:

Coriolis Station Dimensions and Mass - Recalculated

A few days ago I contributed to a (now locked) thread on Coriolis mass. I've been going over the numbers since then as something didn't add up. First, there are no official numbers on Coriolis size that I can find. I reached out to Frontier yesterday on getting something more definitive, but...
forums.frontier.co.uk forums.frontier.co.uk

So, we get an internal volume of 6,302,464,571 cubic meters. 6 billion cubic meters.

If you stuff it with cabins the density of economy class passenger cabins, that's easily 1 billion people (give or take a factor of two). Depending on how much space you deduct for hydroponics, life support, storage and industry - and how large you actually want the living quarters to be - I would nevertheless put a lower boundary somewhere at 100k. So, for a healthy station, I'd guess somewhere around 1...10 million. Fewer for agricultural, more for tourist industry.
 

Tyres O'Flaherty

Tyres O'Flaherty
Ashnak said:
While looking for the numbers to do this calculation, I found that the difficult part had already been done:

Coriolis Station Dimensions and Mass - Recalculated

A few days ago I contributed to a (now locked) thread on Coriolis mass. I've been going over the numbers since then as something didn't add up. First, there are no official numbers on Coriolis size that I can find. I reached out to Frontier yesterday on getting something more definitive, but...
forums.frontier.co.uk forums.frontier.co.uk

So, we get an internal volume of 6,302,464,571 cubic meters. 6 billion cubic meters.

If you stuff it with cabins the density of economy class passenger cabins, that's easily 1 billion people (give or take a factor of two). Depending on how much space you deduct for hydroponics, life support, storage and industry - and how large you actually want the living quarters to be - I would nevertheless put a lower boundary somewhere at 100k. So, for a healthy station, I'd guess somewhere around 1...10 million. Fewer for agricultural, more for tourist industry.
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Oh. My. Days.

Or, even, "shut the front door".

Thems numbers I wouldnae ha' thought of.

(y)
 

Skürt Avil

Skürt Avil
Last night, I was poodling around the Tyche system and having a sniff at an old Mega Cruiser, when I was suddenly descended upon by about 20 NPC's. As I had no weapons (in the DBX), I was soon looking at the rebuy screen.
Today, I decided to take a trip to the Elephant's Trunk Nebula, as I needed a bit of peace and quiet.
I'm surprised by how many Degraded Emissions I'm still coming across and I'm trying to work out how to use the camera for taking pics.
Still got 2,198Ly's (64 Jumps) to go, so I think I'll have time.
Hopefully, I'll find a settlement out there, or a least an FC or a dozen.
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Tyres O'Flaherty

Tyres O'Flaherty
dysonl said:
Last night, I was poodling around the Tyche system and having a sniff at an old Mega Cruiser, when I was suddenly descended upon by about 20 NPC's. As I had no weapons (in the DBX), I was soon looking at the rebuy screen.
Today, I decided to take a trip to the Elephant's Trunk Nebula, as I needed a bit of peace and quiet.
I'm surprised by how many Degraded Emissions I'm still coming across and I'm trying to work out how to use the camera for taking pics.
Still got 2,198Ly's (64 Jumps) to go, so I think I'll have time.
Hopefully, I'll find a settlement out there, or a least an FC or a dozen.
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You could almost halve the number of jumps if you fully set up the DBx... yes, it does require a fair bit of engineering though ;)
 
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