Everyday Eve

The great thing about Eve, possibly its biggest strength, is that you can escape having to grind missions quite early in the game.  Rather than waffle on about the game I am going to get straight to the point.  The aim of this guide is purely to help a new player get into salvaging.  With minimum fuss.

For the full set of abilities you will need approximately 15 million ISK (Prices may vary according to region).

The following are the ways you can get involved in salvaging associated with these methods I have given a very basic rig setup for each style.

Approaches to salvaging.

There are a number of ways to approach salvaging. The first thing you ought to do is join the “Free Wrecks” channel in game.  The channel is very friendly and a lot of the people there the channel is modded by Lady Aja, Riozuil, Sturmwolke, and Alex Kariik.  Pop in there and let people know who you are and be prepared to travel to get access to those wrecks.

a) Consensual Salvaging

This seems to be the most profitable method but it can be hit and miss because not everyone wants to share salvage. In one evening you can be confident in getting around 25-35 million ISK by simply talking to people and asking if anyone wants a salvager to come along to the pocket.  Basically post something like “Salvager looking for salvage.  Will negotiate a good split on mods and salvage, please convo me for details.”  A few tips:

• Make sure your CSPA Charges are set to zero – there is nothing more off putting when someone has to pay to talk to you.
• Think about the conversation, this is a client and you want to be useful to them.  Being useful means finding out what they want and making sure you give them more.  You want them to ask you again don’t you?  So follow their instructions and be friendly.
• Don’t go demanding things from them after all you are their guest.
• Join their fleet, if they ask you not to take loot or to give them big guns, or the mission tags do it.
• Make sure that whatever the split you decided to give them a good deal and you stick to your word.
• Ask if you can add them to your watch list, if they agree add them and make a list of clients.  The idea is you want repeat business.
• Buy a station container for their loot, put everything into it and contract it to them after you have finished.

This is a good way to get to know players.  Its a nice entry into the game and you can be earning good money very quickly with minimal fuss and at a reasonable cost.  Another thing.  The risk is very low so you will find that whilst there might be better places to make isk those will carry a much higher risk.  Your immediate ISK problems will be more or less solved.

There is another way to salvage without having to find pockets.  Take yourself off to a COSMOS exploration site located in the Deltole system of the Algintal constellation.  In there you will find spaces full of wrecks.  They will all be yellow and the down side will be that there will be red ships in them as well.  This can make salvaging tricky, with this setup I had to warp in and out a lot and I ended up getting a lot less ISK for the time I had to spend messing around with warping in and out.  So although you can get wrecks by roaming these pockets – you will need to come up with a different type of setup to what I have here.  This setup is a very light fit.

Basic Salvaging rig

Thrasher (Ship) 670,000 ISK

• Small Tractor Beam I 1,089,000 ISK
• Small Tractor Beam I 1,089,000 ISK
• Small Tractor Beam I 1,089,000 ISK
• Small Tractor Beam I 1,089,000 ISK
• Salvager I 33,000 ISK
• Salvager I 33,000 ISK
• Salvager I 33,000 ISK
• Salvager I 33,000 ISK
• 1MN Afterburner I 5,000 ISK
• Small shield extender II 669,000
• [Empty Med slot]
• Expanded Cargo Hold I 1,394 ISK
• Expanded Cargo Hold I 1,394 ISK
• Small Salvage Tackle I 820,000 ISK
• Small Salvage Tackle I 820,000 ISK

Ship Total 7,474,788  ISK

Skills

• Afterburner 44,000 ISK
• Armor Rigging 90,000 ISK
• Destroyers 90,000 ISK
• Electronics 18,000 ISK
• Engineering 18,000 ISK
• Hull Upgrades 54,000 ISK
• Jury Rigging 54,000 ISK
• Mechanics 18,000 ISK
• Minmatar Frigate 36,000 ISK
• Navigation 24,000 ISK
• Science 28,000 ISK
• Survey 32,000 ISK
• Shield Upgrades 75,000 ISK
• Salvaging 200,000 ISK

Total Skills = 781,000 ISK

TOTAL = 8,255,788 ISK Total (subject to regional variation).

b) Non-consensual or ninja salvaging

Now this is something I have been forced to do on a quiet night.  Here you will need to be good at scanning.  I am not going to write about that here because there are lots of good tutorials out there.  Especially on uTube.   So get familiar with scanning and especially combat scanning.  It can be hit and miss so a lot of practice would not go amiss!  The point is this you want to find battleships in pockets with large wrecks.  So using the scanning skills is really important.  Find the pocket and then you are in. Here are a few tips you might find useful.

• Insure your ship!
• When you enter the pocket always open a conversation with the mission runner and offer a deal.  It is by far more efficient and much more profitable to do salvaging by consensus.
• Be prepared for them to either ignore you or to become unpleasant.  Many mission runners love their salvage and loot. They will hate you for going into ‘their’ pocket.  Going into the pocket AND salvaging is however a perfectly legal thing to do in game.  So if they get rude simply say that and get busy.
• It always makes sense to be co-operative but if they decide not to then you can just ignore them and get on with it.  But always offer a deal.  I have managed to persuade quite a few to eventually just work with me.  I always give them a good split
• Looting is illegal.  That is taking anything out of the wrecks.
• Do not  loot wrecks that are yellow not even if the mission runner you are with is friendly.  You cannot trust anyone in eve.  You will be flagged and they can shoot you.
• If they are pissed off – go for large wrecks first then smaller wrecks.
• In some ways you want to emphasise that salvaging by consensus is better so make sure that if they don’t agree that you work hard and get everything done quickly.  Maybe they might co-operate more in future.  Do you get the idea?