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 Wirt 
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Posts: 2
(3/18/02 7:15 pm)
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Salvaging siege weapons
Hello all, I recently had my first experience with battering doors down with rams, and I had a question...
I'd heard you could /salvage to get back some of the wood used in creating the ram...so after we beat the last door and took the keep, I did just that. Or, I thought I did...
I sat around the ram for about 2 minutes after hitting /salvage on it, and it still hadn't finished. Does it really just take a super long time or did I do something wrong? I eventually just gave up and started to upgrade the doors instead since we were deep in enemy territory, heh.
Thanks much.
Edited by: Wirt at: 3/18/02 7:15:58 pm
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Fralnina 
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Posts: 266
(3/18/02 9:46 pm)
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Re: Salvaging siege weapons
Well, I remember this experience coming up in the past with someone... And they even did a test. They crafted a ram, and they /salvaged it... And then waited... And waited... and waited..
The ram decayed naturally, the /salvage did nothing... You'll recieve some wood at the time when the siege device naturally decays.
At least, that is what I've read and know.
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hobbitboy
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(3/19/02 12:22 am)
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Re: Salvaging siege weapons
I thought I had read somewhere, and my own experience bears this out, that it takes something like 15 - 20 minutes to salvage a seige weapon.
Actually our test piece took a bit longer becuase I playfully snuck in a /repair during the salvage while no-one was paying attention. Well, I thought it was funny anyway.
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Fralnina
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(3/19/02 12:41 am)
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Re: Salvaging siege weapons
Heh, well the decay you see, is the natural decay of the weapon, and not salvaging of it. Siege weapons naturally decay over time, and need to be /repair now and then, to keep them working.
I think it's been said a ram only has a lifespan of ten or fifteen minutes, without a repair..
Twenty to thirty minutes for Catapults and Balistae.
I remember hearing that somewhere, but I'm sure someone more effectively could tell more of what they know.
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Wirt
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(3/19/02 3:39 am)
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Re: Salvaging siege weapons
Thanks guys (gals) I think I'll just make sure not to count on the wood from salvage next raid, hehe.
15-20 mins is way too long to sit and wait to save a few gold =P
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Illyanna
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(3/19/02 11:51 am)
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Re: Salvaging siege weapons
We usually use the leftover wood to upgrade the doors.
Oak rams drop oak.
Ironwood rams drop elm
Elm rams drop elm
Use the Oak rams until the bug gets fixed
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Ookseer
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(3/19/02 8:09 pm)
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Re: Salvaging siege weapons
Yes, use oak rams. Espeically if you're an enemy of Midgard. 
Middies on the other hand will be using Ironwood becaue they do noticably more damage to a door than Oak. The couple gold you'll save on what falls just isn't worth using an inferior wood.
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