Salavage business possible (now or with a script) ?

[Browser_ice]

Hi, was just wondering if salvage business could exist in X3AP but to be as close as the real thing as possible. Not something like I read where random abandonned ship/stations would appear giving you the opportunity to go salvage it.

I want someone that will :
- take what is current in the game (or becomes that way after being attacked)
- dismental abandonned/damaged ships/stations to get metals
- have some station where you could go and sell the metals you salvaged
- or repair whatever you found to make it your own

With all the fightings in this game, I think this is a part that is missing.

I am not looking into cheating opportunities, just added realism.

If this is in the form of a script, will it affect my Steam acheivements ?

[samoja]

Destroyed stations disappear, but for ships you can try NPC bailing, it allows NPCs to bail when attacked by other NPCs, but it mostly sticks you with a bunch of M5s, there is also http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=258753 this script, but i guess it aint exactly what you are looking for.

[Bill Huntington]

This is part of the game already. It is an important part of the early game, to pick up those first $. But battle salvage only occurs when you are in the sector. If you were in a sector managing your fleet, on a lot of battles could occur. Like if you put a Spacefuel station in Savage Spur, and the Yaki killed them for you. Or you found one of those Paranid - Argon fleet battles that go back and forth. Or Boron and Split. Plenty of loot.

In one game, I had a huge Laserfactory Complex grafted onto a HUB plot Complex. Sometimes I rested there while managing the fleet. And a lot of loot accumulated.

But you could make more money doing other things.

[TTD]

Best to ask in the s/m forum. There are some good scripts that enable you to either rebuild the junk ships, or to salvage the resources.

[Black_hole_suN]

- take what is current in the game (or becomes that way after being attacked)

in a vanilla, the only way that pilots bail from a fight is when you, personally, are the one shooting it until the pilot decides to "donate" his ship for your greater cause. there also Khaak ships that can be found in a random Pirate/Unknown/Xenon sectors ready to be claimed by the player

in a modded game though, there is this Shiploot script (link above - dont know how it works) and NPC Bailing Addons

- dismantle abandoned/damaged ships/stations to get metals

You cant dismantle a station in Vanilla AP but you can dismantle/recycle ships in the Player-HQ (this is a reward from a certain plot)

- have some station where you could go and sell the metals you salvaged

you can sell it to an equipment dock or just let your auto traders do the selling

Player-HQ can also use these resources to build ships (if you own the blueprints for them)

- or repair whatever you found to make it your own

You can repair damaged ships in the Player-HQ

you can also repaint them in unique colors..

If this is in the form of a script, will it affect my Steam acheivements ?

If you decide to go for a modded game then you will loose all steam achievements

[Nanook]

As TTD says, ask in the S&M forum. I'll help you by moving this thread over there.

[feygan]

NPC ship bailing addon and Salvage command suite. Tweak the settings of each to suit your taste and you have exactly what your after.

[Andyrids]

NPC ship bailing addon and Salvage command suite. Tweak the settings of each to suit your taste and you have exactly what your after.

I was doing it that way for a long time but it kind of got boring due to the fact the ships throughout the sectors really stated to pile up even early in game making it easy to earn a lot of credits fairly quickly, even with the NPC bailing addon settings on low...

Now I am playing Litcube's Universe and making use of the "tug" commands he has in game and of course the NPC bailing addon, this to me is kind of more realistic and proving to be entertaining again...

Obviously it's down to personal preference and how you play the game, but I thought you may like to hear my findings if that is the sort of play style your looking for... All awesome mods and addons they are of course none the less.