Login

**Sombs**

So here is the new write-up for the salvaging concept. If you have to add something constructive about it without drifting away from the topic like feeling the need of hating people that put effort in fleshing out their characters or anything else, feel free to share it. I think I gave this enough limits now. No Cruisers, no Battleships.

Salvaging Concept

Requirements

To salvage debris, at first you need a ship that is capable of salvaging larger objects. The following ship classes are or can be suited to use for this job:

Avatar	Ship Class	Salvaging Capacity per run
	CSV	1 Small Sized Wreck
	CSF	1 Small Sized Wreck
	Surveyor	1 Small Sized Wreck
	Collector	2 Small Sized Wrecks
	Recycler	2 Small Sized Wrecks
	Scraper	2 Small Sized Wrecks
	Plier	2 Small Sized Wrecks
	Wrecker	3 Small Sized Wrecks
	Salvager	3 Small Sized Wreck and 1 Medium Sized Wreck or 5 Small Sized Wrecks
	Bustard	3 Small Sized Wrecks and 2 Medium Sized Wrecks or 5 Small Sized Wrecks and 1 Medium Sized Wreck or 7 Small Sized Wrecks

Salvaging

Old wrecks are useless. They drift away too fast, become worthless due to radiation and micro-impacts of dust and rocks or are simply already salvaged by people that were faster than you. The best way to get your hands on good debris is to watch lawfuls and unlawfuls fighting each other.

Stay in range, but don't get yourself into trouble. You need to watch the fight. The better your sensor range is, the better it is. Cloaking Device? Yes, but make sure you don't piss off the wrong people. Cloaking Devices are allowed in Liberty and Bretonia, however, you want to make sure it stays that way and don't annoy your lawful friends.

Scan all ships in range (F9 + Screenshot), as you will need the information on the ship while it's still functioning. You want to know what you're collecting, as it is easy to mix up debris. Now just stay in range and alive until the scanned ships pop. Go to where the ship popped, use the tractor beam to prevent everything from drifting away and use your salvaging tools to get the debris. Keep in mind you have to drop your shields during the salvaging process, no matter what kind of tool you are using, be it salvaging drones or grippers. You may want to wait for the fight to be over and the combatants to have left the are. Remember: Your security is more important than any debris. You don't want your ship to be turned into debris, right?

However, if you didn't manage to claim the debris within two hours, it's very likely that other Junkers will arrive and pilfer what is left. If not that, then the radiation or other hostile environmental aspects will damage the debris, making it useless.

When a scanned ship pops, make a nice survey scan of it (Screenshot the blue kill message), so you always know how the remains looked like before you have a mountain of scrap in your cargo hold, unsorted, chaotic. From experience I know how much time it usually takes to salvage different kinds of debris. I added the average values to the table you find when scrolling down.

And now? You need a place to drop the debris off. That pretty much depends on what you're going to do with the scrap. The Culebra Smelter in Puerto Rico is a good stage to drop the debris off to recycle them, but you could also use the scrap to repair ships, or even restore them, if you have the know-how.

One last thing: Be careful with people knowing what you're doing. Some people don't mind salvagers, some people celebrate them and pay them for keeping the systems clean, and some people will hate and hunt you, as you are about to pilfer from the dead and take what was theirs once. Try to reason and deal with people. Find a compromise. Some people will don't care, some people will contract you. Some people will compete with you.

Restoration

If you decide to restore ships, you need to be really sure about what you're doing. It's dangerous and can put yourself into trouble. However, the higher the risk, the higher the reward. The black market is always interested in buying ships of all kinds. It's only a matter of time and connection until someone will show interest in what you have to offer. However, that requires you to actually have something to offer.

First you need to have a bit of knowledge about what you are going to restore. That requires you to try and puzzle together the debris you have, just to dismantle everything step by step again. And you will need to do that over and over again, and you need to record, catalogue and document what you're doing. (Forum-RP, get creative here.) Usually, it takes so many debris that you could have put together the ship three times if you had the knowledge. And don't try to cheat yourself here. Use only the fitting scrap parts. You don't want to have your test pilot suffering from a catastrophic decompression.

Once you have reverse-engineered the ship class, you should have enough knowledge to at least put together new found debris of that ship. Usually, ship facilities have their unique ways of manufacturing ship parts, and you won't be able to recreate those processes without having a giant facility or a Seamus-Harper-esque genius with you. That means even with having reverse-engineered blueprints, you have to rely on the right set of debris to rebuild a ship. See it as a challenge. They say the Junker Congress once was able to even restore a Hellfire Arbiter Dreadnought. Who knows what you will be able to pull off?

Size	Salvaging Time	Debris: Reverse-Engineer	Debris: Build
Light Fighters (S)	3 minutes	9	3
Heavy Fighters (S)	5 minutes	15	5
Very Heavy Fighters (S)	5 minutes	15	5
Super Heavy Fighters (S)	5 minutes	15	5
Bombers (S)	5 minutes	15	5
Freighters (S)	5 minutes	15	5
Gunboats (M)	10 minutes	30	10
Transports (M)	10 minutes	30	10
Liners (M)	10 minutes	30	10
Other	7 minutes	21	7

TEMPLATE Rebuild

TEMPLATE Reverse-Engineering 09 Light Fighters

TEMPLATE Reverse-Engineering 15 Snubs and Freighters

TEMPLATE Reverse-Engineering 21 Other

TEMPLATE Reverse-Engineering 30 Gunboats and Transports

Login
Username:
Password:	Lost Password?
	Remember me