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jupjupy

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Metal and Machinery?
« on: January 16, 2015, 08:22:00 PM »
Seems like every fleet I destroy - be it a trade fleet, war fleet, patrol, pirate fleet, whatever - is to some degree carrying like 10 Heavy Machinery and ~100++ Metals.

Whats going on?
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Re: Metal and Machinery?
« Reply #1 on: January 16, 2015, 08:57:01 PM »
Not too sure about the heavy machinery, but I think the metal might be the salvaged metal from the broken ships you shoot up.
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Re: Metal and Machinery?
« Reply #2 on: January 20, 2015, 05:18:16 AM »
These are the 'parts' of the ship that you manage to recover after the combat. The more ships participated in the fight - the more you get.

Metals are armor plating and structure broken into simple metal compoents. Heavy machinery are probably some ammo replicators, loading/unloading equipment, turret rotors and whatever machinery a ship may have.
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Re: Metal and Machinery?
« Reply #3 on: January 20, 2015, 05:55:42 AM »
Are you in a system that specializes in those?
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Re: Metal and Machinery?
« Reply #4 on: January 20, 2015, 06:00:00 AM »
I would assume you would get different loot when you destroy a fleet with high tech ships ???
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Re: Metal and Machinery?
« Reply #5 on: January 20, 2015, 06:04:29 AM »
Quote from: icepick37 on January 20, 2015, 05:55:42 AM
Are you in a system that specializes in those?

No, it just seems to occur with every fleet.

Quote from: spoortje1 on January 20, 2015, 06:00:00 AM
I would assume you would get different loot when you destroy a fleet with high tech ships ???

Yea, that'd make sense, but I think there aren't any significantly different cargo we have in SS right now. Electronics might be something new to look into.

The weird thing here is why my fleet is spending its (hypothetical) time scrounging up crap like scrap metal and ammo replicators instead of, say, readying their own ship for another combat.
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Re: Metal and Machinery?
« Reply #6 on: January 22, 2015, 07:21:02 PM »
Quote from: jupjupy on January 20, 2015, 06:04:29 AM
The weird thing here is why my fleet is spending its (hypothetical) time scrounging up crap like scrap metal and ammo replicators instead of, say, readying their own ship for another combat.
It's a post-apocalypse, remember? That's what people do!
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