Idly hammering away at an NPC one day the notion occurred to me "Wouldn't it be nice if, as well as enemies, the battle tab occasionally threw up a derelict for salvage (i was thinking of players who haven't logged on in months) allowing the recovery of an omicron injector, computer or other equally useful device, or a grateful crew eager to join your own ship."

Talking to someone else a home planet was mentioned, a base safe from invasion...

What does everyone think?

+1 to the derelicts. they would have to be a quitter tho. but i think it would be cool to have more of the mission rewards. although it people could salvage the limit of 10 omicron injectors then their energy recharge rate would be at -38 seconds. lol. i'm all for the AI computers, crew members, and looted modules tho!

+1
Yea no energy things tho i love my energy recharge rate and would like to have more being able to put a bunch on not so much. The mission items great idea except for some of them shouldn't. Crew I think would be the better way and some modules.

Well the injectors were a misty eyed dream, but crew and modules would be the most useful i guess.

I like this idea too. Perhaps there could be fights or derelict equipment. They could be quite the nice finds.

I wouldn't mind even an NPC that dropped crew.

Rescued Crew: +3 Tactical Officers, +3 Helmsmen
Rescued Scientists: +5 Scientists

nust be an uncommon NPC. lol. thats worse than the artifact reward.

Assuming you are talking to me, I'll say you're just being greedy. Nothing says that it has to be better than the artifact reward. Either of them are worth more to me than another module I can't use. The Rescued Crew is equal to 3 RP, the scientists 1.5 RP. Either of them are worth more than complex parts.

I was thinking of two options, a ship which gives a larger number of rescued crew or an escape pod that gives half the crew. Pods could be all scientists as they'd be more likely to abandon ship before Tac and Helm officers.

i like that. like, the pods can be uncommon and the decompressing ship can be a rare find. lol. i wouldnt even mind a few floating decompressed bodies in the picture. but then again, this is GL, not dead space.

+1

1+ to this.

Awww and here was me about to suggest being able to take control of ya cannons and shoot giant space slugs

A salvage type thing would be fun. It also makes sense. In such a galactic community, there should be lots of trashed ships floating around.