I was sort of under the impression that the various fields were disabled...but then I saw the commodity on sale on a player base...It seemed to me much like the way you can sometimes buy more valuable Ore types on player bases...perhaps I'm wrong about the above...but in any event, on this particular base you could buy scrap metal...I bought one unit...so I was wondering if any of the fields scattered about still drop scrap...much like the ice fields drop water etc.
I've played a couple ALG characters since the change, and no I don't believe there are any basic scrap fields. I do recall seeing that some npc ships will rarely drop regular scrap, so that may be how it was collected to stock the player base.
I do believe it would be nice to have a basic scrap field back, as well as a toxic waste field, as ALG really needs another disaster-type event to clean up.
Oh well...pretty much as I expected then...a pity I feel, there wouldn't be much pure profit in it, if it was buyable or mineable...but certainly, like in the similar case of toxic waste, plenty of scope for roleplaying type activities...thanks very much for the input and info.
No , there is no regular scrap to mine anymore , but some POB were left with 10.000 or more scrap in storage , and it was not still all sold out , thats way you can still find them on certain POB ( Beaumont spire for example ) .
Ah....there you are then , that's exactly where I saw the stuff, in fact. I'm assuming that it sells everywhere for 5 creds...otherwise I guess somebody would have hauled it away and sold it...haha...still, its good for RP purposes...I like a Junker to have a bit in his hold and it only drops rarely after a ship blows up...cool, thanks for the info guys.