From jmamais@activision.com Wed Oct  2 15:33:03 EDT 1996
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From: "Jack Mamais" <jmamais@activision.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action
Subject: Re: MW2 - Mercenaries, What's the deal with salvage?
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1996 18:28:39 -0700
Organization: Activision Studios
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Salvage works this way:
  Your patrons, be they Draconis Combine, Comstar or whoever collects all
the salvage that is taken during a particular mission.  They then
distribute it too you as they see fit.  What does this mean to you?
Simple, the salvage is predetermined by the Designer (In this case Dustin
Browder) and then the computer randomly determines what you get depending
on the terms in the contract.  What you kill does have an affect on you
because you get additional money for each enemy you vanquish, but it has
no effect on salvage.

Hope this helps...
Jack Mamais
Director
Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries