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Definitely worth picking up Salvage!
Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2015 2:50 am
by IronDuke
Picked up some nice salvage on the way back from the California Nebula ..
An Imperial Clipper was blown to bits with this nice little trinket floating around in the wreckage
Edit: It's worth kitting out some cargo racks if you are going out exploring.
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Re: Definitely worth picking up Salvage!
Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2015 3:33 am
by Roger Wilco Jr
Yup, I brought home 8 of those from my last trip. The small data caches are only worth 8-10k (I forget), so I jettisoned them when I found more large ones.
I also ran across six occupied escape pods, but I didn't pick one up. I really should have dumped my cargo to save the occupants, but I was a bastard. Anyway, I figured they wouldn't want to be rescued until after Horizons is released.
Anyone know what occupied escape pods go for?
Re: Definitely worth picking up Salvage!
Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2015 9:05 am
by TorTorden
Unless you have mission for escape pods. Those show up in your cargo and the black market as "slaves" not imperial slaves but just plain slaves..
Funny world this
Re: Definitely worth picking up Salvage!
Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2015 9:56 am
by de Carabas
I'm on the way back to Azrael after a few days exploring and have one large and one small data cache. It's a real shame that the value isn't added to your exploration tally as it's survey data.
Re: Definitely worth picking up Salvage!
Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2015 11:11 am
by JohnLuke
Roger Wilco Jr wrote:Anyone know what occupied escape pods go for?
I picked up some over the weekend while looking for something else in a WSS. I didn't want to leave them out there to die.
I think they paid around $8-10k each at the black market.
Not much money, but at least I brought them back to civilization.
Re: Definitely worth picking up Salvage!
Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2015 4:08 pm
by Roger Wilco Jr
TorTorden wrote:Unless you have mission for escape pods. Those show up in your cargo and the black market as "slaves" not imperial slaves but just plain slaves..
Funny world this
Yeah, I figured it would be something stupid like that. I'd think slaves would be in cargo containers and escape pods would be reserved for crew. But FD wants to make you a criminal and fine you, as well as force you to sell them or jettison them, rather than allowing you to rescue and free people in escape pods.
Re: Definitely worth picking up Salvage!
Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2015 6:03 pm
by TorTorden
Think it's another nod back to old elite where I believe this also was the case.
Along with how if you accepted a passenger mission without life support they would become "meat" when you left the station...
Re: Definitely worth picking up Salvage!
Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2015 8:35 pm
by uvelius
TorTorden wrote:Think it's another nod back to old elite where I believe this also was the case.
Along with how if you accepted a passenger mission without life support they would become "meat" when you left the station...
Ouch! Didn't know that one
Re: Definitely worth picking up Salvage!
Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2015 10:07 pm
by Jeffers2112
I've only ever found stuff that wasn't flagged as "illegal" when it was part of a mission.
It does seem strange that you can't rescue people in escape pods and get some sort of reward for returning them to safety.
Re: Definitely worth picking up Salvage!
Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2015 8:04 pm
by smartroad
Jeffers2112 wrote:I've only ever found stuff that wasn't flagged as "illegal" when it was part of a mission.
It does seem strange that you can't rescue people in escape pods and get some sort of reward for returning them to safety.
I'd happily return them for no money just rep with the associated government/faction.