2-Person Salvage Crew | Star Citizen 3.21 4K Gameplay

This video showcases Star Citizen multi crew salvage gameplay, stripping an entire A2 Hercules of weapons, cargo, and salvage, and then going to sell up. The video is set against some gameplay footage from Star Citizen patch 3.21.
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00:00 Introduction
00:48 Setup
03:24 Salvage
28:34 Sale
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[@obaniehia]

Fun Fact - The Vulture fits perfectly inside of the 890J. slides in like a foot in a shoe... just nerve wracking hearing the grinding as you pull in or out

[@Farrister]

Well now I have to try that....

[@obaniehia]

@@Farrister nose in facing the rear of the ship and slide it in like you're putting on a shoe, best way to explain it...

[@inrevenant]

Can't be worse by the grinding decapitation that should occur if landed in the Carrack 😂

[@Drycewalker]

Farrister scrapes hulls like I mow the lawn.

[@Farrister]

To the satisfaction of the wife?

[@Drycewalker]

Absolutely :). Have a great holiday this year, you’re a Gem in this community.

[@Farrister]

@@Drycewalker thank you :) best holiday wishes to you!

[@priority6885]

would love to see some reclaimer gameplay, especially if you can get it fully crewed :)

[@Farrister]

Fantastic, I may or may not have a session scheduled...

[@Tainted-Soul]

I would say its not all about " how much per hour " its about how much you enjoyed playing SC this 2 person type game play is a great way to show its better to play with people than solo

[@Farrister]

Yes! And we did :)

[@bigbar4be]

Thank-you for this great and chill video. You give me some ideas for my own salvage operations I never have tried to sell the weapons.

[@Farrister]

Hope you enjoy!

[@stormycatmink]

They have fixed the cargo stacking/selling bug, by the way, in the current live PU build. I've tested it several times with various 'bad' stacks and it was all good. Would leave floating crates, but no sell issues.

[@Farrister]

Jolly good!

[@fx3channel356]

Very nice! Press G I think it is to gimbal the salvage heads so you don't need to move the ship as much, very nice. Only works when guns are powered on tho

[@Farrister]

I have issues with it, linked to my control scheme. I've tried various fixes but to no avail. I think it's to do with how I have it all set up for recording footage

[@inrevenant]

​​​@@Farrister(fellow Tobii user here): it's not your control scheme, it's related to your game's Options > Game Settings > scroll about midway down (at least in 1440p pixels) to find: *Pilot - Weapons - Manual Gimbal Mode - Default Slaving* and set it to "Use Vjoy" instead of "Use Look Direction". Set the associated *... - Freelook Slaving* setting to your preference as well. Also decide for how you want ground vehicles to behave as well, with the 2 options just below, called *Driver - [same text otherwise]* Hope this helps! Edit: Also, when you use "Use VJoy" for this, you might need to activate it by long-pressing G whenever you reenter your seat, similar to how to enable gimbaled weapons. This is the case for me, because I've set my ships' gimbal mode's default to "fixed weapons", a couple of settings up from here.

[@BosieYouTube]

Another nice chill video, keep it up man!

[@Farrister]

Thanks Bosie!

[@andyandreson3989]

Salvaging is a worthwhile game loop. I haven’t mined in forever because I’m always salvaging.

[@Farrister]

I know the feeling!

[@OneTwoMark]

The old salvage missions from a few weeks ago were honestly broken with the type of cargo you’d find inside. This is more in line with what I’d expect to make, infact it might even be a little bit too much. But not by much. It’ll be nice to see how ship munching with the upcoming patch in a reclaimer will be like too. Multi crew gameplay is what this game is all about.

[@Farrister]

Agreed!

[@snaggletoof1927]

I absolutely enjoy a good salvaging video. Throw in some ship cargo looting and it's a fantastic day spent watching/doing. Thanks for sharing this, Farrister!

[@Farrister]

Thanks Snaggletoof, we did a Reclaimer mission at the weekend, so that'll be up soon too!

[@johnhighhouse123]

Love your content. Started Star citizen in 2016. But just picked it up and put it down a few times. Haven't played much. Recently by chance upgraded one of my ships to vulture in the pledge store. Wow, just can't get enough salvaging saving towards a reclaimer now. Just love it.

[@yolomcduff6620]

ASMR Star Citizen. I love this so much. Subbed and liked. Keep em coming!

[@Farrister]

Thank you, welcome :)

[@nilsgerdes6747]

Absolutely love how your teammate flattens himself against the Hercules at 22:45 🤣 Quite a haul, even divided by two. I will finally have some time on my hands, to make such a run on myself. got a few podcasts lined up, some finger food and that's it. You are by far the most relaxing and entertaining creator, just the casual "oops" as your friend get's pancaked against the ship just tickles my funnybone! And yes, I DID feel a ton of bricks drop from me, as I saw the salvage was still there!! such a relief! Awesome stuff!

[@Farrister]

Haha thanks Nils, glad you enjoyed :D

[@MysteicVoltronus]

When solo in the Vulture its best to move the box out of the ejector and eject the one in it and move it too. Doing them in sets of two will cut the trips to the back in half. If you switch modes to target, you can move the scrapers without moving the Vulture. Then you can leave the back bay door open and your friend can handle moving the boxes while you work a spot with the Vulture. He may even want to just stay in the Vulture's rear and move boxes to the Herc as they come out. Then you can both just organize the boxes as needed when finished.

[@Farrister]

2 boxes at a time is exactly what I do :) but the gimbals don't work for me, so I'm stuck with fixed for now :(

[@Bartek-K]

Maybe not the most profitable run but i'm sure it's most enjoyable one :D my buddy used to grind bunkers one after another but after couple salvage runs with me he now owns his own vulture :D

[@Farrister]

Haha I feel that

[@shawnc5188]

Did a group play session a couple days ago that made over ten million - we did an ERT and found two C2s with weevil eggs. Then another player in a C2 tried to start a fight over Brios - we had a Talon, an Ion and a Corsair.

[@Farrister]

Oh wow!

[@flyExor]

Oh wow.. now I know why I recognised your name haha. Nice video btw.. love the whole atmosphere with the soundtrack in the back. I had so much luck with ship spawns and cargo the days before that I didn‘t even think about fighting you guys. Its really relaxing somehow flying around, mostly alone in the area, no matter if your in a vulture or just looting the cargo like i did.

[@Farrister]

Ah, the mystery pilot reveals themselves!

[@SKNehoray]

Farrister, your content always makes me happy at downtimes and it's always high quality content at the perfect phase... Keep up with the content, it's just always good🫡

[@a.k.1902]

Thank you for another nice video. I always enjoy watching your content 🙂 I have been doing mostly just cargo runs from the 50k salvage missions (whilst we can as I can't see that lasting), but it seems a shame that for the time per run, this means not actually doing the salvage work (which I do enjoy). I've found the C2 salvage missions give the most cargo, followed by the M2, then A2 (not really tried many other ships). Using my C2 Hercules means I can fit 3 runs in usually before heading off to sell, sometimes with some extra bits from free ships floating nearby if there are any. MIC-L1 is my favourite place as it seems the safest regarding rogue asteroids, but otherwise HUR-Lx points are pretty good to, although HUR-L3 is quite densely packed with asteroids making it more likely to hit something on the way, depending on patience vs. speed! When I am salvaging in the Vulture, the most crates I've managed to fit in was 26 I believe, but it's risky as 24 is safer (26 means using the grid that spits out the crates too. It takes a bit of work to get them in, including unloading in space and fitting them in from outside the ship, but it all works!

[@Farrister]

Thanks :) have you tried the Reclaimer?

[@a.k.1902]

@@Farrister I have as a friend has one and it was good fun, but the two of us weren't that efficient. I felt we needed maybe 3 or even 4 of us to take advantage of it by having someone in the pilot seat to move around when areas have been scraped, 2 people in the salvaging seats, and then someone in the cargo hold to move the boxes. I'm tempted to pick one up to at the IAE if they're not crazy expensive!

[@jaag6453]

I find it interesting that people often relate the success of a mission/adventure to the amount of money made. More often than not it is @UEC/hour that seems to be the metric against which success is measured. For me success of any mission or adventure is all about whether or not I enjoyed/had fun doing whatever it was. I enjoyed the video a lot and really like the way you keep in the bits like getting distracted and not closing the door. I think it was a great way to showcase the team gameplay of SC. Keep your videos coming they are always informative and well just good to watch.

[@Farrister]

Great point!

[@friendlyspacedragon7250]

Thank goodness the salvage rates were fixed. The previous patch was too slow to bother with. And weapon sell prices have gone up at some time since I last checked too. A neat profit for the run even with two players splitting the reward.

[@Farrister]

Yup, not the most efficient, but we had fun

[@nekomancer4641]

1:54 Really make me missing watching traffic going in and out of PO

[@Farrister]

RIP PO :(

[@user-vi5wv9ht8l]

I love this it's just like I pictured in my head with multiple players,if you had three or 4 even you could do two vultures and move the cargo from the bays very fast,and from the Hercules.This would be very fun for a group of 4 everyone moving and doing their part,then just keep taking contracts till you run out of room in the H2.You will all make a lot of credits and doing this a couple times a week would really pay off.thank you great video keep them coming.See everyone in the verse.

[@Farrister]

I think we're gonna try Reclaimer next!

[@qboid4763]

We do this as a group of 3-5, and crew the reclaimer, its just good fun. Hull Munching is coming, and cant wait for wreck diving for modules.

[@PiercedBrosmen]

I've had the issue of having to spawn my ship in order for the TDD to recognize the cargo after every 30K I've experienced, since I came back to SC about a week ago (had a 1.5 year hiatus). It only affects cargo on the cargo grid. All my loose boxes were detected without issue. Loving the salvage gameplay and trying to stay on the lawful side too. Couple days ago I took a salvage contract with a C2 containing 116 SCU of Quantainium. Had to rent a cutty black to get it all out of there, but those hauling trips got me a lot closer to be able to buy me a C2 for myself, which is the current goal. Loving your videos Farrister.

[@Farrister]

Glad it wasn't just me! And 116 SCU of Quanta? You're in the money! Thanks for your kind words

[@olivierpelletier9643]

Salvaging is relaxing but what I dislike about the Vulture is the fact that you are soooo limited by your cargo capacity. So you either gotta do it with another player/another ship, or go for smaller contracts or simply know youll lose salvage when running out of space if the job isnt finished.

[@Farrister]

Agreed, although in this case we were using the Vulture to tackle the biggest contract in game, it's probably not as suited to that task!

[@reamoinmcdonachadh9519]

That sounds like an idea, arrange the cargo so you have room for the RMC you scrape off the hull of the ship you are scraping, put it all in it's OWN cargo hold, and go bring a cargo ship to take the lot in one go.

[@StanWoods]

Using the cargo hold from your salvage claim as temporary storage will certainly work, but it's a bit risky. Because it's not a player owned ship, all the cargo (both the salvage and your produced RMC) is at risk for being lost if the server 30k's. I'd rather park the Vulture with a good view and use gimbal mode so it doesn't need to move around to salvage, and park the cargo ship directly behind and in range for offloading the Vulture without interruption.

[@Farrister]

It's an interesting idea

[@carlhinton4849]

Great vid Farrister :) just a PSA, if you side strafe from the top deck of the vulture, you fall down the stairs and you dont take damage, is faster, and also is avoids the falling out of the ship bug :)

[@Farrister]

Good to know, thanks!

[@mr.j3751]

Fully crewed reclaimer video would be awesome! Great job, love the videos!

[@Farrister]

Coming soon!

[@nanoman172]

it's like watching a power washing video but in space with lasers

[@Farrister]

It's the vibe I was going for...

[@ronkrueger-capt_koron6112]

Not a bad haul for scrapping that A2. 433K each would be worth it for two of you working 2 hours isn't too bad. I liked this video Farrister. Having had the chance to use my Vulture once, so far, was fun. Kind of like mining in a Prospector. I only wish the cargo bay was bigger so I could not only strip the hull, weapons and cargo in one run without needing a second ship. Thanks for the video. You keep making them, and I'll keep watching. Take care my friend, fly safe, and I'll see you in the verse.

[@Farrister]

Thanks Koron, as ever :) hope you continue to enjoy yours!

[@yakyuk337]

Thank you!

[@Farrister]

Glad you enjoyed!

[@supertomasan]

Nice gameplay! I can't believe how many times you needed to unload the Vulture. I can't wait till I'm up to making large hauls (huh, just a single ship) like that. Just like you stated nice and chill, of course it helps when you narrate it all in your signature chill voice. Btw... Congratulations! - on being featured in last weeks RSI Newsletter on your visual guide on Pyro - you deserved it!!!

[@Farrister]

Yeah, but to be fair, these salvage contracts are kinda oversized for the Vulture anyway, so it's fair enough really! And thank you, it meant a lot to me to make the MVP :)

[@MylesJacobSwie]

I think with Vultures that having a Salvaging Operation with several vultures in different locations and one to two people on a Herc is probably the best course of action. Just have the Herc moving on a rotation between each of the vultures whenever they are full or nearly full.

[@Farrister]

Or switch to a Reclaimer? :O

[@MylesJacobSwie]

@@Farrister Haha, true that would just be the objectively better option. Still, for a group of players who are all in Vultures, would be a fun little operation :P

[@geoffreycompagnon7485]

stacking different cargo types is no longer an issue in 3.21.1 btw. Makes it quicker to stack your boxes !

[@Farrister]

Jolly good! Thanks for sharing

[@truecolours4116]

You can save time when you walk towards the ladder backwards, because then you jump down and don't have the ladder animation

[@Farrister]

Good to know!

[@truecolours4116]

@@Farrister I'm so grateful right now because i've done the same mission with a c2 and had a ton of luck. The cargo from the c2 was worth 1.6 million auec Thankyou so much for your videos

[@aipilot6795]

Did this once with a friend and the hull a. Was a good time! I found while salvaging solo I like to put the RMC in the ship I’m salvaging then come back with the C2 and take everything at once.

[@mouseclick92]

This was maybe the best salvage tip I've heard! Feel stupid for never thinking of that!

[@irgendwie9510]

@@mouseclick92 nice idea indeet but i would have lost 1 1/2-2hrs of work today if i would have done that :D with the "i put it in my own cargo ship" tech you are 30k safe. If you put it in the Salvage ship it most likley will be gone than :D

[@aipilot6795]

Very true it is definitely a risk right now. But on the PTU it’s forcing you back to the same server and when you log back in it puts you back in the same spot you were when you left.

[@Farrister]

Gotta get that 30k protection ;)

[@VICT0RLAZL0]

Thank you Good video 👍

[@Farrister]

Glad you enjoyed!

[@splaff666]

I did a bit of reclaimer salvage last night with my sons character (when he was asleep) and managed about 40 boxes inbetween 30k's and 2 m2 contracts.

[@Farrister]

Damn, I'd have thought 2 contracts would have been closer to 125 boxes :(

[@splaff666]

@@Farrister I had 3 30k's i just called it after the 3rd one and sold.

[@josephdurnal]

picked up a vulture at New Deal a couple of days ago, alpha 3.22 has some good changes for salvage, I've almost made enough with it to get a Corsair. With the new buffer system able to hold 13, I generally get 38 boxes in one vulture run. When I get the Corsair, hope to have some help like this, transfer the boxes from the Vulture.

[@solid244]

Absolutely take out the reclaimer!

[@Farrister]

It's gonna happen!

[@johncantwell5907]

Great vid Farrister,thanks! Is there a potential problem with the reclaimed material boxes moved to the C2 being considered as “stolen” because it’s originallly “yours” when you trying to sell it?

[@Farrister]

No, because both the Vulture and C2 are my ship :)

[@NORKIE]

a ship will save to whatever pads you are near as long as you are within request landing range of said pads and or area. 30k, death and a few other things other than the ship blowing up it will be fine. (if the ship blows up, you lose everything on it)

[@Farrister]

But it was nowhere near!

[@crowcomics9256]

Hi mate, good to see you back in the vulture. I know I asked before but you replied with the footage was a bit old. Are you having issues in the vulture with cargo snapping? The most I can get to snap is only 7 out of the 12. I'm pretty new to the game so am unsure if I am doing something wrong or if this is a bug in the game right now. Cheers Watching your video looks like you're not. The only thing I can think of is maybe it's bugged cos I upgraded my starter pack from the mustang to the vulture on the website.

[@Farrister]

No, I'm really not :(

[@SirAroace]

reclaimer sounds good.

[@Farrister]

Reclaimer it is!

[@pureowner74]

Me and my friend have been doing this for a few days. What we do is he parks at one side of the Hercules top or bottom typically or whatever ship he salvaging I bring my M to ride up behind him, and then he gimbal locks the scrapers and then I just pull the boxes out from his ship from inside my M to as they come out so he can do one whole side of the ship before we both move to the underside and neither one of us ever have to leave our ship

[@billkranz8035]

What ship is the "M", a Mole???

[@Farrister]

Really interesting concept

[@StanWoods]

Not using gimbal mode on the Vulture for salvage? It's really easy to park youself in one spot, hit G to enable gimbal mode, and rotate the salvage heads without needing to move the Vulture at all. Makes doing the broad top and bottom sides of a herc effortless and allows you to stay in one position so a crewmate can offload the RMC boxes to a cargo ship while the Vulture continues to salvage in place without interruption.

[@Farrister]

I have issues with it, linked to my control scheme. I've tried various fixes but to no avail. I think it's to do with how I have it all set up for recording footage

[@eavdmeer]

This also certainly does not work well with Tobii eye tracking. Having to stare at the same spot for long periods of time is very straining. There it works way better by just rotating the ship

[@nekomajutsu]

Would love to see some Reclaimer gameplay!

[@Farrister]

Yay! Coming soon...

[@efanchen2440]

Just a little tip: the ladder on the vulture can be buggy and is slow.. if you want to go down don't use the ladder. just run in the back of the ship and when the ladder is left of you just go left (not look, strafe) and fall down. Its way faster and safer because you won't bug through the bottom of the ship.

[@Farrister]

Thanks for the tip!

[@SuperRedman76]

If CIG made it to where there was a conveyor belt system on the salvage ships, it would make things much easier if there's just one person on the ship.

[@Farrister]

It would - not sure if they want that or not!

[@Badboyf2000]

I must know your video encoder settings, videos looking this good is why i hate recording on my PC

[@Farrister]

I record the footage with Nvidia game capture (formerly ShadowPlay). I have an encoder preset based on the Google guide for KZbin uploads (or at least, what it used to be, not sure if it changed!). H.264 target 60 fps, target bitrate is 100 Mbps, and software encoding vs HW accelerated. It takes a little longer to encode but feels like nicer quality. Hope this helps!

[@Badboyf2000]

@@Farrister Thank you very much! Wasn't expecting a response. Def helps knowing you use 100Mbps. Hope your days have been well and continue to stay that way!

[@Farrister]

@@Badboyf2000 I do my best to answer! Best wishes

[@pilgrim9608]

Wonder if you could use the Vulture tractor beam to unlaod the salvage boxes and place them on another ship

[@Farrister]

An interesting idea

[@Jacob-er1tt]

17:06 this is an alright habit to have while parking in gravity but without gravity it is better to actually leave everything on when getting out of the pilot seat though this usually doesnt happen

[@Farrister]

It's a good point! One I haven't really had to worry about, until now!

[@eavdmeer]

When exiting to EVA was broken, I had an issue with this in a reclaimer mission. My kick off nudged the ship. When I came back out, my ship was 8 km away

[@chevy7912]

the zeus cl with the extended tractor beam boom I think will be good for this just use the tractor beam and reach in your ship and tractor beam it back to the cl.

[@Farrister]

Could be!

[@curryeanking]

I’m really hoping 2 vultures can barely squeeze onto a liberator, be cool to have salvage runs with a couple of snubs to protect and plenty of cargo room as well. Also hoping we see the actual cambio salvage tool someday.

[@Farrister]

That would be awesome!

[@herbaceousboredom9584]

That bloody Vulture ladder: if you enter it sideways from the top you will fall to the bottom (no damage taken), saving a few seconds and avoiding getting caught on the ladder or falling out of the ship. I believe you can slide down ladders too but haven't bothered to work out how. I can't wait to be able to leave internal doors open, I'd hate to know how much time I have lost waiting for doors to open on the Vulture or any Crusader ship... . When I do salvage runs with a friend I usually empty the cargo, empty their Vulture then head back to the local station to bank some revenue against potential 30Ks. Then I either head back with a smaller cargo ship or my Vulture to speed up the salvage job (depending on how much RMC was stored in the first run). I truly hope CIG automate or otherwise improve the SCU handling in the back of the Vulture and Reclaimer. I'm sure Elliot Maltby said he might try and push for something for the Vulture (at least) a while back... ! Most RMC I've ever stripped from a Herc is 73 SCU, most SCUs I've stacked in my Vulture has been 22 or 23 :)

[@Farrister]

That damned ladder.... :D I've not really had issue with 30ks for a while, the protection always seems to kick in OK. You saw it on this one, it gave me my Vulture back at New Babbage, even though I had left it abandoned in space!

[@herbaceousboredom9584]

@@FarristerSadly we've been plagued with 30Ks since 3.18 (and inventory problems). I don't know whether it's peak play time problems or just bad luck. The protection system has been very hit and miss too. It's getting better but we've swapped to doing bounties and bunker runs, haven't even had much luck doing the ship boarding mission - we have to race through!

[@eavdmeer]

Sliding down a ladder is initiated by holding left shift while pressing the key to move down. It tends to kill you some of the times however, so use with care. What drives me nuts is the bug that puts you straight back on the ladder as you try to come off. Sometimes three or more times

[@herbaceousboredom9584]

@@eavdmeer Yeah, that ladder bug. I especially love that when I'm in my C2 and I think "I know I'll use the ladder instead of waiting for the elevator"... . Sometimes up to 20 - 30 seconds waiting for each door from the cockpit, then that :D

[@eavdmeer]

@@herbaceousboredom9584 the elevator has its own issues (apart from being slow). It can trap you inside with the control panel no longer working. The really terrible thing is that the doors are controlled by the server. That's why they're so slow. We need server meshing just to get normally working doors

[@thomasszombath9498]

Farr at 5:56 you climb the ladder i found its faster and more reliable to look at the bulk in front with a sidestep left and fall down to the door! You take no damage and no glitches so for your hurk salvage i did it in around 1 houre!

[@Farrister]

Oh goodness!

[@lorienninavah6696]

I sort of want to see it where the contracts that might have cargo are separated from normal contracts, since they are going to be possibly more profitable. And then there is a chance someone has already looted the wreck, leaving only the salvage for you.

[@Farrister]

An interesting idea!

[@grundika]

i am kind of excited for the new argo tractor beam little ship, it could make cargo sorting, placement faster

[@Farrister]

SRV looks awesome!

[@grundika]

i meant the argo (cargo?) with the tractor beam, it was teased at citizencon :D@@Farrister

[@rocky258258]

see, this is the part where it gets me, I don't have a friend

[@Farrister]

You can do a bunker mission, and then tractor beam one of the victims to your ship. If you call them Wilson, you can pretend they are your friend.

[@51ghardy]

So Cool. I want to link up with Someone for an Op like this.

[@Farrister]

You should!

[@jjgardiner4798]

Please do a 3 person Reclaimer crew salvage run!

[@Farrister]

How about a 5 person Reclaimer crew salvage run? Coming soon ;)

[@dracoflame8780]

Reclaimer would be 2x faster. or with 3 people 4 times faster. each turret is like 2 vultures on the reclaimer

[@Farrister]

Watch this space ;)

[@katalistic]

I like putting my salvage arms in gimbeld mode.

[@Farrister]

Yeah, most people do I think!

[@0giwan]

Dely! Long time since I've heard his name. He's such good people. Let me know about the reclaimer run if you don't have a full crew yet. And if it's a time i can make it.

[@Farrister]

THAT'S A LIE OGI HE IS JUST ONE PERSON

[@BunkerSquirrel]

I like to toggle my ship in decoupled mode and just glide up and down. Makes the process a lot tedious

[@Farrister]

Oh that sounds relaxing!

[@ThePearlJam]

Sadly, the value of the cargo is SO much higher than the scrap+weapons. Assuming you get something like 50SCU of RMC, and strip all of its weapons, the combined value (weapons + RMC) is around 500k. The typical value of the cargo I find in a Hercules (from the 30k salvage missions) is almost always 1m or more, and its fairly common for me to find 1.5m worth of cargo, not to mention the occasional Maze jackpot of 10m+. Additionally, in the time it takes to fully salvage a Hercules, I could've likely run at least 2 more 30k salvage missions. So, in the time it takes to make less than 500k in salvage (RMC), I've probably made at least 3m in cargo. Minimum. Of course, the "fun" factor needs to be taken into account, and I get much more satisfaction from fully stripping a wreck (weapons, RMC and cargo) than just blitzing through missions for the cargo alone. But currently, the payoff discrepancy is just too great. The gameplay should incentivize fully salvaging/stripping vs just taking the cargo and buggering off.

[@Farrister]

I dunno, I've seen the cargo value really drop a lot in 3.21 vs 3.20...

[@UnknownMoses]

Can the Vulture fit inside the C2 Hercules?

[@Farrister]

No, far too big

[@Solitear666]

Me and my friend do this. He drags his vulture. I bring the cargo connie and we stuff it full of salvage and whatever cargo. I run and sell it off when full and ship needs stripping still I return we clean it up and go on to the next melting :D! How I got enough for C2 herc. So we can be more efficient in stuff it.

[@Farrister]

This is the way

[@JayjiNZ]

Why did you choose the m2 over a c2?

[@Farrister]

I think explained best here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/opXIpZKXoKmLZqs

[@Chacesumica]

Only turn engines off when landed in gravity, Rest of the time it's station keeping.

[@Farrister]

Wise suggestion

[@Gaza8143]

Would this work with a single reclaimer or would that be too clunky?

[@Farrister]

It would work! But with 2 people it's not the easiest - 3 would be ideal

[@qboid4763]

@@Farrister 5 is best, 2 turrets, one in cargo, one eva'ing to get cargo boxes and the captain to move the ship, and have a kip in his quarters while everyone else is working.

[@ramirolopez7548]

Can you keep salvaging after a box is full?

[@Farrister]

Nope :(

[@northernsarcasm7616]

This is something ive been wanting to do for a while, but it's been difficult to get my friend to actually join a server 😢

[@Farrister]

:(

[@shanetackett8276]

Do they not shoot you when you get scanned???

[@Farrister]

No, it's just NPCs. I don't do or carry anything illegal, so they're always cool.

[@eN1X]

Did this last night but it wouldn't let me sell the boxes from my friend's vulture!

[@Farrister]

Yeah, I think the person who owns the ship needs to do the selling

[@maldog5118]

yes do a reclaimer video please.

[@Farrister]

We did one in November - kzbin.info/www/bejne/i4uyc32Qn8mSZpI ; I already need to do another!

[@maldog5118]

Thanks Farrister, I just watched that one also. I like your calm clear speaking style. I use your videos to try to entice my friends into joining me in Star Citizen.@@Farrister

[@grundika]

haven't played for a few weeks, i see those pesky ladders still a thing

[@Farrister]

Always a thing lol

[@0Metatron]

And of course Dely heads out completely unprepared for a random piracy attack in a sperm suit lol. Pretty easy to find 50k from the station

[@Farrister]

Better to run, than to fight, I think ;)

[@0Metatron]

@@Farrister if you get tackled with a mantis and boarded that’s not an option though 😊 Better to be able to fight back and cause the pirates a more difficult time than just backspacing like too many ppl do ☹️

[@Farrister]

@@0Metatron if a Mantis shows up, I'm leaving. If it gets close enough to stop quantum, I'm certainly not gonna be stopping and opening the doors to be boarded. FPS fighting is not the best way, and I don't exist for the enjoyment of pirates lol. I tend not to bring FPS weapons with me either, because it's not the part of the game I have much interest in

[@0Metatron]

@@Farrister the mantis doesn’t let people leave though, that’s the point. With good piracy crew you don’t have that luxury. You will be soft deathed, doors opened and boarded. We do it all the time and it’s far too easy for us right jow

[@Farrister]

@@0Metatron maybe you're right. But a Mantis is weak, easy pickings for the M2. So they would need to have more ships, in which case, it's 2 vs many, and I don't like those odds anyway. Which comes back to carrying an FPS gun is pointless for me, it's wasted expense that doesn't get used, or if it does get used, gets lost when we lose. We were out to salvage, not play victim to a pirate.

[@jeremyanderson6395]

This would be the best game without the server crashes and bugs. You guys got lucky, but far too many times this multi hour endeavor would have ended in a waste.

[@Farrister]

I dunno, I find crash protection is usually fairly forgiving these days

[@reamoinmcdonachadh9519]

You SHOULD BE BOTHERED, you aught to act as if it did matter, one day, it will.

[@Farrister]

And when that day comes, I will be ready! But until then [shrug]

[@Cheesebread42]

im tired of musical chair every 2 SCU personally.

[@Farrister]

Yeah, that's fair enough. It was SO much faster with somebody pushing boxes

[@eavdmeer]

I feel this is another aspect of CIG trying to force multi-player on us, like the ludicrous capacitors on turrets

[@Cheesebread42]

@@eavdmeer it just forces an extra player to be second string. Players should be able to pair up in a pair of ships and be efficient with it. Eg. A tractor beam in the hold. I suppose you could have a cutty pilot use theirs by shooting into your open cargo bay but holy hell

[@eavdmeer]

@@Cheesebread42 there is just not enough money in a salvage job to have two people there. Even a C2 will barely net you 600k. I do the salvage for fun sometimes, but it's not great money, even solo

[@Cheesebread42]

yeah I agree, especially when this ship costs what, more than the prospector? Should be raking in a killing, not Chair Citizen@@eavdmeer

[@sneakyfildy]

You can jump down the Vulture ladder standing sideways

[@Farrister]

Will give it a go!