Is the Vulture most effective in a fleet, or can it truly do well solo?
TL;DRJohn Crewe says the Vulture can do well solo on small ships, while a fleet can take bigger targets, though they would need to agree on shares, and a really big ship cannot be fully stripped.
It can do well solo. There's plenty of ships that we're envisioning... Because I think we said the Reclaimer can take essentially a full Connie's worth of salvage. I think probably it can take a little bit more now; the back hold is quite large, it could probably fit a Connie in the hold, let alone crushed up. So for the Vulture, we're looking at something in the extra small ship range, M50, 85X, maybe a little bit larger, Gladius-wise, if you take everything out of it, and that's a lot of volume to grind and come back down. If you're in a fleet, you can obviously take bigger things, but then you've got to come up with some gentleman's agreement on how much of each you take. Oh, you take the left wing, I'll take the right wing, and we'll meet in the middle of the hull somewhere and then get into an argument.
It could be like a whole scene from The Matrix where you've just got a whole bunch of Vultures and they're all just basically stripping a ship.
On something really big, then, yeah, a pack of them is not going to be able to strip everything. So it's just going to be this sort of feeding hotspot. It should be great for other ships and players to come across. All these little, not defenseless, but not designed for combat, salvagers.