Hey there devs not sure it’s been through of but a new ore salvaging ship either frig or dessy so we don’t have to bring it a noctis
Thanks
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Dessies in their current form are perfect for salvaging if you dont wanna use a noctis
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We’ve been asking for a “light” or “upgraded” Noctis for a few years now..
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It’s kind of going in the opposite direction, but the Orca can also salvage.
Anyway, give the Pioneer Consortium Issue a try. Fit tractor beams in the highs, an MWD, and a flight of salvage drones. You won’t have the tractor range of a Noctis or an Orca, but you are significantly faster, and your salvage drones have a considerable speed boost, so what you’d do is fly around tractoring wrecks with loot in them while your drones handle the salvaging.
Op just doesnt realize dessies do salvaging otherwise they wouldn’t have asked for it
Yeah, the tractor bonus is nice - but no salvage bonus and only 6 high slots. A very expensive and slow salvager…
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Well, you wouldn’t be flying wreck to wreck, you’d be using your 90km range tractor beams to suck wrecks in while the salvage drones do the actual work, assuming you didn’t just drop an MTU when you were doing the site in your combat ship earlier and all the wrecks aren’t just already waiting in a big pile for you.
Gets a bonus to neither salvagers nor salvage drones though, so that part would still be fairly slow. Think of it more like an extra utility the orca has, rather than a main reason you’d be using it. Like if you’re using a single character you could use the orca to move your combat ship, ammo, swap-in modules, etc around with you, swap to the combat ship to do the site, swap to the orca to loot and salvage, and then haul weeks worth of loot back for sale once you’re done.
I used to use this, worked well. Pretty sure you can do something similar with any other destroyer you like.
[Thrasher, Ranka]
Expanded Cargohold II
Expanded Cargohold II
Eutectic Compact Cap Recharger
Eutectic Compact Cap Recharger
1MN Afterburner II
Salvager II
Salvager II
Small Tractor Beam II
Small Tractor Beam II
Salvager II
Salvager II
Small Tractor Beam II
Small Tractor Beam II
Small Salvage Tackle II
Small Salvage Tackle II
Small Processor Overclocking Unit I
This was before MTU, the tactic is to burn round picking up wrecks with the tractors, pulling them into salvager range then looting and salvaging. You can drop 1 or more salvagers to have more tractors. But the fit I have saved is 4:4 so I assume I found that optimal.
I’m not against an ORE destroyer with Noctis like bonii tho. Sounds not terrible, perhaps it could also fit combat probes for the ultimate ninja salvage boat.
If CCP/FC did a salvage frig/dessie based off of the ore mining frig/dessie hulls, id say it should focus on increasing salvage efficiency, since that’s what a new player with minimal skills would care about.
A t2 version would allow the fitting of a cov ops cloak.
I once created a really tanky Marauder-esque salvager that was kind of fun, but it’s really hard to beat the tractor range or salvaging bonus on the Noctis.