Loot Difference between salvage lasers and just destroying wrecks?

[eastwood6510]

What's the difference between using salvage lasers on a wreck vs just destroying the blocks with turrets?

 

By destroying the blocks I get a decent amount of mods, and the few times I tried salvaging, I got basically the same thing (a few mods).

[Korhaka]

Salvage should be giving some minerals as well as modules/weapons.

[Quellcrest]

If you have really good salvage lasers, probably hard to come by, you could get tens of thousands of materials as well as the upgrades. Other than that, no difference.

[TurielD]

Salvage turrets don't seem to do enough 'damage' to be worthwhile. They really should have a damage bonus to 'wreck' type blocks.

[Falkenherz]

I think you are getting a bit too much loot just from shooting and too little from spending the extra time of salvaging. I wonder if loot from shooting could be removed altogether, or just be restricted to the "easy to extract" things like turrents?

[Excypher]

What I did was find a turret factory that could make some properly baller salvage turrets, and replaced my mining lasers with them.

 

They have the advantage of doing just raw damage, and the tech level 36 ones I got made do about 700dps, so if i get in close it really is noticeable to extra damage.

 

But now when I want minerals I just spend an hour in a salvage yard, I've found it much more consistent and in a lot of ways more interesting then mining, I can collect something in the region of 300,000 of a resource in half an hour with 10 of those lasers, 6 manual fire, and I built 4 with independent targeting to finish small bits off for me, but when you get a decent set of salvage lasers they absolutely chew through those wrecks.

[Quellcrest]

What I did was find a turret factory that could make some properly baller salvage turrets, and replaced my mining lasers with them.

 

They have the advantage of doing just raw damage, and the tech level 36 ones I got made do about 700dps, so if i get in close it really is noticeable to extra damage.

 

But now when I want minerals I just spend an hour in a salvage yard, I've found it much more consistent and in a lot of ways more interesting then mining, I can collect something in the region of 300,000 of a resource in half an hour with 10 of those lasers, 6 manual fire, and I built 4 with independent targeting to finish small bits off for me, but when you get a decent set of salvage lasers they absolutely chew through those wrecks.

That's basically what Im trying to do, with the small problem of not being able to find any god damn Conductors.

[Excypher]

What I did was find a turret factory that could make some properly baller salvage turrets, and replaced my mining lasers with them.

 

They have the advantage of doing just raw damage, and the tech level 36 ones I got made do about 700dps, so if i get in close it really is noticeable to extra damage.

 

But now when I want minerals I just spend an hour in a salvage yard, I've found it much more consistent and in a lot of ways more interesting then mining, I can collect something in the region of 300,000 of a resource in half an hour with 10 of those lasers, 6 manual fire, and I built 4 with independent targeting to finish small bits off for me, but when you get a decent set of salvage lasers they absolutely chew through those wrecks.

That's basically what Im trying to do, with the small problem of not being able to find any god damn Conductors.

 

Ah, I know that pain! I spent hours going around sectors trying to find a place that sold them, There are conductor factories, have faith! Make sure you check trading posts too, though i'm sure you probably are already. I make it habit now every time I visit a new place to put a note on the map if i find anything of interest in a trading post.

[Quellcrest]

What I did was find a turret factory that could make some properly baller salvage turrets, and replaced my mining lasers with them.

 

They have the advantage of doing just raw damage, and the tech level 36 ones I got made do about 700dps, so if i get in close it really is noticeable to extra damage.

 

But now when I want minerals I just spend an hour in a salvage yard, I've found it much more consistent and in a lot of ways more interesting then mining, I can collect something in the region of 300,000 of a resource in half an hour with 10 of those lasers, 6 manual fire, and I built 4 with independent targeting to finish small bits off for me, but when you get a decent set of salvage lasers they absolutely chew through those wrecks.

That's basically what Im trying to do, with the small problem of not being able to find any god damn Conductors.

 

Ah, I know that pain! I spent hours going around sectors trying to find a place that sold them, There are conductor factories, have faith! Make sure you check trading posts too, though i'm sure you probably are already. I make it habit now every time I visit a new place to put a note on the map if i find anything of interest in a trading post.

That's exactly what I do. I have notes all over the place for every station that makes mining/salvage lasers. I have multiples, I have like 20 steel factories, of every one...and 0 conductors.  >:(