Salvaging Overhaul
Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2016 4:48 pm
With the overhauls to combat and mining I feel it's high time for a overhaul to the salvaging system. I have an idea for a 2 prong approach.
First, it would be nice to have a setup similar to the mining or combat system. Instead of the salvage laser picture, it displays the scanner. You click on the scanner, it's spends 1 unit of fuel and brings up 5 boxes of loot according to what is currently unlocked. Each box you salvage, it uses 1 unit of fuel. Pretty simple.
The second problem is an extremely outdated loot table. But, many captains have worked very hard to unlock the levels they have for certain resources, so simply changing the loot tables would undo a lot of work from many captains as opposed to the combat and mining tables since that was just an upgrade without undoing anyone's work. So my idea would be to make more scanners that would have different loot tables. The standard scanners keep the current loot table and if you equip the new scanner then it would have more modern loot as well as older loot. It would be more for standard salvaging than alien salvaging, since there haven't been alien resources added as much as non expanse resources. That would modernize salvaging as well as giving it another element that might get more captains involved in salvaging.
First, it would be nice to have a setup similar to the mining or combat system. Instead of the salvage laser picture, it displays the scanner. You click on the scanner, it's spends 1 unit of fuel and brings up 5 boxes of loot according to what is currently unlocked. Each box you salvage, it uses 1 unit of fuel. Pretty simple.
The second problem is an extremely outdated loot table. But, many captains have worked very hard to unlock the levels they have for certain resources, so simply changing the loot tables would undo a lot of work from many captains as opposed to the combat and mining tables since that was just an upgrade without undoing anyone's work. So my idea would be to make more scanners that would have different loot tables. The standard scanners keep the current loot table and if you equip the new scanner then it would have more modern loot as well as older loot. It would be more for standard salvaging than alien salvaging, since there haven't been alien resources added as much as non expanse resources. That would modernize salvaging as well as giving it another element that might get more captains involved in salvaging.