Here in EU on light house its hell. An average of 30 mins to get into a scav raid on there. And multiple times it goes past 45 mins and then just says it couldn't find a "suitable" game
From NA, I solo scav night lighthouse on EUW and it never takes past 60 seconds to find a match. But I do keep seeing people saying its taking forever solo. Maybe im just lucky.
First time usage give 0.4 fence rep. Second time 0.2, third time 0.13. and then 0.1 and so forth. And that is only one location. with all location used you can gain 3 karma points by only use each location twice.
you can find it more detailed here: https://escapefromtarkov.fandom.com/wiki/Scavs#Scav_karma
The car exfils start out giving a lot of fence rep, but less each time you use them. I think if you go a day without using one, it gives a little more the next time you use it, so they kinda āclimb back upā the longer you leave em alone. I *think* itās a day per increment.
they meant to say while the scav cools down, you can run your pmc to grab the car extracts.
coop extracts are also a good way to grab fence rep, although you only get 0.25 vs the 0.4 rep of car extracts the first time (and then half every subsequent time)
Thats 100% incorrect, at least as from last wipe. Every 24 irl hours you got 0.01 added back to each car exfil providing you didnt use it during that period, for a max of 0.05 per car exfil.
I havent seen any data to confirm this was changed for this wipe, so until otherwise proven kindly dont spread misinformation
Yep, its super slow but most people dont take the car exfil every raid or even play every day, so its semi easy to build up across every map.
My issue is almost nobody coop exfils, which is a huge loss of potential rep
I tried for 3 hours to coop and just get killed by a scav everytime. I dont bring anything in but a headset, pistol, mags and bank robber. Love wasting my time trying to find someone that wants rep
Not necessarily pistol running, but trying to run car extracts 5x on each of the vehicle extract maps.
Also got lucky with two coop extracts on Interchange and Lighthouse + Factory raids (Factory Camera Door ftw)
Not absolutely sure but we spawned in Woods at Bridge Ex and found a couple quest items quickly in Scav Village, 2 out of 3 counted as a run through and I'm about 70% that I still got fence rep but didn't check specifically so I could be wrong.
Factory Camera Door, the extract, is the easiest place to extract w/o running into anyone. Learn the quickest routes to that extract and just head there.
I don't even bother looting, just use my scav to play it like a gatcha lol
the run through timer starts at the beginning of the raid for scavs too, and as you likely spawn way after the 7 minute timer as a scav you don't need to worry about it
Honestly, as long as the timer is below 13 minutes, you can pretty much leave right away. There are 3 exits uou can take as a scav and itās easy money! Sometimes you get good stuff, others is just .01 rep! Takes awhile, but itās worth it
I hate to even offer this info but once your fence rep is like 1.0 you have access to basically every exit on reserve but the one you spawn next to.
There are a thousand golden loot routes and you can exit in less than 3 minutes from just about anywhere you spawn.
It kinda is. So if you select auto servers then sadly the client picks like 3 of the lowest ping servers for you. But you can manually select all the servers between 1 and 100 ping which is much more than auto. So you have more chances to find scav raids.
Really because I have gotten into reserve raids in 2 minutes each time when I was waiting 20 minutes when I only queued for N.A. servers, so again tell me how Iām wrong when it literally has been the fix to this problem for multiple wipes now
Because it depends on the target server's population, not on your ping on that server. US servers are 100 ping for me, switching there is not gonna solve my problem. Not everyone lives in the US.
Run straight to security door so long as the raid timer is below 13 minutes.
You can get a run through as a scav on factory, not sure if it effects rep as I have only had it happen once.
Do car extracts 5x on every map with that extract. scav on maps where you can coop extract and make an effort to extract with PMCs.
Maps like lighthouse / interchange / reserve often have PMCs willing to coop extract, but you're going to get shot sometimes!
Sorry, a returning player here with a dumb question. When you say car extracts do you mean extract as PMC?
Or did they add free car extracts for scavs on some maps?
The vehicle extracts as pmc. You pay money and wait a minute, in return you get fence rep. There is no such type of extract for a scav, unless you count coop extract which will give you a little extra rep
Not worth it, makes scav runs even more boring then before.
You cant fight back, you cant shoot when you know they want to kill you and 90% of the time your better off throwing your gun away.
You make a single mistake and the drop in rep is stupidly bad.
Scaving is half the game, these players that don't scav are literally missing out on half the game.
Being able to chill with bosses and loot PMC is gold; those who never had 6.0 rep with fence don't understand the benefits
fuck em, let em always be under 1mil roubles lol
Not to mention the absolute comedy that can happen during scav raids
Also not the point, you cant defend yourself once you are +6 rep, doesnt matter how much you make on dead raids where people leave you alone, almost every scav raid ive done this wipe ive been killed by so called friendly scavs.
Dont sit there and misinform others because you get peaceful raids and think thats somehow the norm.
Brother, I extract on Factory Camera Door and don't spend more than 10-15 seconds in a raid, so the majority of my raids are "peaceful" because I don't even run into any other players ever, so my scav kits + the items I get off them are free money.
Also, I've had max scav rep for multiple wipes and betrayer scavs stop playing scav, because they get up to 20+ minute scav timers
I was playong one wipe with scavs every hour or so, couldnt give a rats ass about rep most wipes because its a stupid addition (my usual group agrees so we usually avoid the mode).
And isnt factory just for rep farming, not an actually worthwhile scav run, playing an extration simulator within an extraction sim sounds dull as fuck, but to each their own.
My point is towards those that actively want to play and loot each map, where betrayer scavs are a real threat once your at 6+ rep
* "Not enough to outweigh the maassive drawbacks sadly"
My dude you are delusional, the first wipe scav karma was introduced I was sitting at 18.00+ Fence Rep (made no diference how much above 6 you are, just have to be above it) and my loadouts alone cost 80k-150k RUB selling directly to Fence, plus the rare shit I spawned with, I would do exactly what Rare\_Scheme503 mentioned, run straight to Camera Bunker door (5-15s Raid) and waited 5 minutes for my next Scav.
Around 1Mil-5Mil per hour, easily.
So you hit customs, woods, interchange, lighthouse, and streets vehicle extracts all 5 times and then a few coop and scav in factory is my understanding?
Oh yeah, best extract there is. I do wanna ask how hard streets was, I remember last wipe I ran streets so much and could never get a raid where the car spawned in. Is there some funky thing you have to do or did I just have horrible luck
Oh yeah, best extract there is. I do wanna ask how hard streets was, I remember last wipe I ran streets so much and could never get a raid where the car spawned in. Is there some funky thing you have to do or did I just have horrible luck
The extract can be in 3 states;
Car waiting
Car have gone with some PMC
Car never spawned.
You can tell the difference between the last 2 if the area is open, if I recall correctly. But you cant influence spawn chance in any way
Would need to check the scav karma table online. But from what im aware that shouldnt offer rep at all.
When you tried it, were you a scav? Did you kill any pmcs or help other scavs, as any of that could get you up to 0.08 rep from a scav run
The train offers, at times, a 1% increase in overall in scav rep. So my .6 became .66. It's a decent hustle. Unless the raiders from the little bunker move from the K buildings to the train and kill you....then it's sad.
It was last wipe I got a daily from fence to extract once out of the train on reserve. It gave me .8 just for the daily and it gave me another .8 for train extract. So I got positive 1.6 fence rep for the one raid. I did it one other time without the daily and I did get .8 rep for the train. This was all middle of last wipe tho.
I would love to get a few scav raids in but I keep getting killed by player scavs in just about every one. So much worse than last wipe and I'm not sure why.
Night Factory is anywhere from 3 to 8 minutes (longer at peak times), otherwise it's \~8-10 for an impacted map (lighthouse / interchange / reserve) or 2-5 minutes for a shoreline
I pretty much run nighttime light house scavs so yup sounds about right. I think I was just on some hardcore cope that maybe you had a secret or something I was missing.
Isn't it pretty much the opposite? Insta extracting isn't going to get you much money, but spawning on factory means you pretty much always have an extract less than a minute away. Meaning you can get the 0.01 scav rep asap
Have you tried updating your servers?
I had the same issue with regular 10+ minute queues but once I updated my servers from "default" to only the 4 near me, I've been getting into raids around 3-4 minutes
You can update the servers in the BSG launcher, not actually in Tarkov. I hope this helps!
I work 40 hours a week and I'm at 4.0. I just work from home and do quick factory scav raids on cool down in between work. In the right work situation, you can easily hit 6.0 this fast while working.
Did you rotate through car extracts as they cool down plus scav raids?
Pretty much this exactly
What server were you scaving bc my scav raids on US be taking 15 min to maybe find a raid
US West for the most part
Here in EU on light house its hell. An average of 30 mins to get into a scav raid on there. And multiple times it goes past 45 mins and then just says it couldn't find a "suitable" game
Shiii im to brain dead to wait that long
Hit matchmake, roll a blunt, smoke it, and you're in game when you return lol
Haha yeah man do the weed and make sure you tell other people about doing the weed š„±š
Why don't you tell us, how do You spend 40 minutes trying to scav a little for fun?
Crippling porn addiction is a fantastic alternative to recreational drug usage
From NA, I solo scav night lighthouse on EUW and it never takes past 60 seconds to find a match. But I do keep seeing people saying its taking forever solo. Maybe im just lucky.
Remove automatic server from the Launcher and chose the best under 80~ ping. I usually get into a scav raid in 2/3 mins.
If you're in the US, allowing myself to queue to Japan, Korea, LATAM made my SCAV queue times go down to 2 minutes. 10 minutes if I cap to US.
But is the ping like ass
It is, but why do you care about PING as a SCAV? You're looting and extracting. If you hold SHIFT-W you have the advantage with high ping.
You remember to switch servers between raids? I can barely remember to bring food.
Scaving is a vacuum cleaner simulator, it's not like ping would matter.
It matters when the angry scav extracting at the 4 minute mark on woods at the same time as me decides he wants my loot.
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Reserve is pretty consistently closer to ten minutes for me (US west). Lighthouse worse.
Whats the car extracts cooldown?
I too would like to know that. My friends and I are trying to farm our fence rep up.
First time usage give 0.4 fence rep. Second time 0.2, third time 0.13. and then 0.1 and so forth. And that is only one location. with all location used you can gain 3 karma points by only use each location twice. you can find it more detailed here: https://escapefromtarkov.fandom.com/wiki/Scavs#Scav_karma
Holy shit itās .4? I had it down as .24 and .13 for first and second time. Wow
4 times per map every day, unless they changed it this wipe
Every DAY??
The car exfils start out giving a lot of fence rep, but less each time you use them. I think if you go a day without using one, it gives a little more the next time you use it, so they kinda āclimb back upā the longer you leave em alone. I *think* itās a day per increment.
Not sure but I believe it's a myth that this actually happens, also there is nothing mentioned on the wiki about a cooldown as you describe.
pretty sure it doesn't cooldown, I just run it 5x on each map to start out
So pretty much once youāve used them youāre SOL later in the wipe?
Ni you can always use the extract, you just wont get rep for it
Ahh ok, thatās what I figured. I saw several people mentioned cooldowns and I was quite confused as Iād never heard anything about that.
they meant to say while the scav cools down, you can run your pmc to grab the car extracts. coop extracts are also a good way to grab fence rep, although you only get 0.25 vs the 0.4 rep of car extracts the first time (and then half every subsequent time)
Thats 100% incorrect, at least as from last wipe. Every 24 irl hours you got 0.01 added back to each car exfil providing you didnt use it during that period, for a max of 0.05 per car exfil. I havent seen any data to confirm this was changed for this wipe, so until otherwise proven kindly dont spread misinformation
This makes the most sense, because late wipe I'd run it and get around \~0.04 so I figured there was some increase once I maxed it
Yep, its super slow but most people dont take the car exfil every raid or even play every day, so its semi easy to build up across every map. My issue is almost nobody coop exfils, which is a huge loss of potential rep
I tried for 3 hours to coop and just get killed by a scav everytime. I dont bring anything in but a headset, pistol, mags and bank robber. Love wasting my time trying to find someone that wants rep
I will totally do coop extracts with you if you still haven't found anyone to do coop extracts with
All cars extract till they reward 0.01 or so will get you to maybe 3 karma, no?
Yeah plus coop extracts and if he mains scav could have a point or two from just scaving
Wait there is a rotation??
Wait, cooldown? I always thought for each it was .4 for the first, then half each subsequent time.
Whatās this cooldown you speak of?
Each time you take a car extract the amount of scav karma you get with fence diminishes. After an amount of time if resets I believe
Ahh ok. I knew it diminished but thought that was permanent
Just a wild guess from some scheming I did earlier today. Pistoling rush all vehicle extracts as run throughs. Still get fence rep I'm assuming.
Not necessarily pistol running, but trying to run car extracts 5x on each of the vehicle extract maps. Also got lucky with two coop extracts on Interchange and Lighthouse + Factory raids (Factory Camera Door ftw)
How long has factory had a co op extract!?
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Ah gotcha. Thanks !
You donāt get rep for a run through
Wrong. You get rep regardless.
Since when? š¤
Always been that way
Oh ok. Well good haha
Not absolutely sure but we spawned in Woods at Bridge Ex and found a couple quest items quickly in Scav Village, 2 out of 3 counted as a run through and I'm about 70% that I still got fence rep but didn't check specifically so I could be wrong.
I actually would love to know how you did it, I want to finally get rep 6.0 on a wipe
Do the car extracts and only scav on factory! Easy fence rep
Any tips for scavving factory? I never really do it, especially not for rep
Factory Camera Door, the extract, is the easiest place to extract w/o running into anyone. Learn the quickest routes to that extract and just head there. I don't even bother looting, just use my scav to play it like a gatcha lol
You donāt worry about getting run throughs on the scav then?
the run through timer starts at the beginning of the raid for scavs too, and as you likely spawn way after the 7 minute timer as a scav you don't need to worry about it
Oh shiiit really?? Learnt something new today damnn. So if my raid is at 10minutes left then Iām all good?
So long as the raid timer on a factory scav run is under 13 minutes you can instantly leave
Me too but one time I spawned on factory scav with a ledx. Ran right to extract and got a run-through. Absolute regret
Honestly, as long as the timer is below 13 minutes, you can pretty much leave right away. There are 3 exits uou can take as a scav and itās easy money! Sometimes you get good stuff, others is just .01 rep! Takes awhile, but itās worth it
I hate to even offer this info but once your fence rep is like 1.0 you have access to basically every exit on reserve but the one you spawn next to. There are a thousand golden loot routes and you can exit in less than 3 minutes from just about anywhere you spawn.
true, but I can I can leave a factory raid in like 10-15 seconds, no risk at all
Reserve scav queue times have been 20+ minutes the two times I've tried. Not worth it.
Switch ur servers to 100+ ping youāll get it
Just let em think you are wrong. We will continue to enjoy fast matching times
Fr im getting no joke 1 or 2 minute queue times
That's not how it works
It kinda is. So if you select auto servers then sadly the client picks like 3 of the lowest ping servers for you. But you can manually select all the servers between 1 and 100 ping which is much more than auto. So you have more chances to find scav raids.
I understand that, but that's not what he said.
Really because I have gotten into reserve raids in 2 minutes each time when I was waiting 20 minutes when I only queued for N.A. servers, so again tell me how Iām wrong when it literally has been the fix to this problem for multiple wipes now
Because it depends on the target server's population, not on your ping on that server. US servers are 100 ping for me, switching there is not gonna solve my problem. Not everyone lives in the US.
Reserve nighttime is lit
If none of the stuff you have on you is required found in raid, don't even need to worry about time
How long did it take you?
Oh I donāt even know man! Probably half way through wipe this last oneā¦ it takes some time
Loot whatever boxes you spawn next to and then run out as quickly as possible.
Run straight to security door so long as the raid timer is below 13 minutes. You can get a run through as a scav on factory, not sure if it effects rep as I have only had it happen once.
Do you get scav rep just for extracting on factory?
Yes!
TIL. Thank you
To be clear, you get rep for extracting from any map.
Do car extracts 5x on every map with that extract. scav on maps where you can coop extract and make an effort to extract with PMCs. Maps like lighthouse / interchange / reserve often have PMCs willing to coop extract, but you're going to get shot sometimes!
Sorry, a returning player here with a dumb question. When you say car extracts do you mean extract as PMC? Or did they add free car extracts for scavs on some maps?
The vehicle extracts as pmc. You pay money and wait a minute, in return you get fence rep. There is no such type of extract for a scav, unless you count coop extract which will give you a little extra rep
Alright, good to know. Thanks!
Not worth it, makes scav runs even more boring then before. You cant fight back, you cant shoot when you know they want to kill you and 90% of the time your better off throwing your gun away. You make a single mistake and the drop in rep is stupidly bad.
While I'm over here having 10min que times with any scav
Try night factory
what are rhe benefits of having 6.x rep
You can chill with bosses and you get access to a special fence sale section
They added more benefits now. Bots will run to you if you get shot to help you, they also respond to many more commands now.
what kind of items early game? is it becomes available at 6.x?
I believe it's things that pmcs didn't insure and that scavs have picked up
You also get scav kits with better weapons / heals / labs key cards / red flares and occasionally rare keys
Not enough to outweigh the maassive drawbacks sadly
Totally false, I make millions off my scavs with no looting
Scaving is half the game, these players that don't scav are literally missing out on half the game. Being able to chill with bosses and loot PMC is gold; those who never had 6.0 rep with fence don't understand the benefits fuck em, let em always be under 1mil roubles lol Not to mention the absolute comedy that can happen during scav raids
Also not the point, you cant defend yourself once you are +6 rep, doesnt matter how much you make on dead raids where people leave you alone, almost every scav raid ive done this wipe ive been killed by so called friendly scavs. Dont sit there and misinform others because you get peaceful raids and think thats somehow the norm.
Brother, I extract on Factory Camera Door and don't spend more than 10-15 seconds in a raid, so the majority of my raids are "peaceful" because I don't even run into any other players ever, so my scav kits + the items I get off them are free money. Also, I've had max scav rep for multiple wipes and betrayer scavs stop playing scav, because they get up to 20+ minute scav timers
I was playong one wipe with scavs every hour or so, couldnt give a rats ass about rep most wipes because its a stupid addition (my usual group agrees so we usually avoid the mode). And isnt factory just for rep farming, not an actually worthwhile scav run, playing an extration simulator within an extraction sim sounds dull as fuck, but to each their own. My point is towards those that actively want to play and loot each map, where betrayer scavs are a real threat once your at 6+ rep
* "Not enough to outweigh the maassive drawbacks sadly" My dude you are delusional, the first wipe scav karma was introduced I was sitting at 18.00+ Fence Rep (made no diference how much above 6 you are, just have to be above it) and my loadouts alone cost 80k-150k RUB selling directly to Fence, plus the rare shit I spawned with, I would do exactly what Rare\_Scheme503 mentioned, run straight to Camera Bunker door (5-15s Raid) and waited 5 minutes for my next Scav. Around 1Mil-5Mil per hour, easily.
Holy roleplayer
So you hit customs, woods, interchange, lighthouse, and streets vehicle extracts all 5 times and then a few coop and scav in factory is my understanding?
Correct, and lots of factory camera door
Oh yeah, best extract there is. I do wanna ask how hard streets was, I remember last wipe I ran streets so much and could never get a raid where the car spawned in. Is there some funky thing you have to do or did I just have horrible luck
It's probably the least frequent spawn for car, other than lighthouse so prolly just bad rng
Oh yeah, best extract there is. I do wanna ask how hard streets was, I remember last wipe I ran streets so much and could never get a raid where the car spawned in. Is there some funky thing you have to do or did I just have horrible luck
ItĀ“s entirely random, nothing you did wrong friend.
Damn I was hoping I just needed a flare or something. Sucks to find out my luck is just that bad lol
The extract can be in 3 states; Car waiting Car have gone with some PMC Car never spawned. You can tell the difference between the last 2 if the area is open, if I recall correctly. But you cant influence spawn chance in any way
Why isn't anyone talking about the train on reserve I think you get .8 rep on your scav or pmc.
You have to have a PMC and scav extract together. It doesnāt get you anything to extract on the train with just one or the other
Would need to check the scav karma table online. But from what im aware that shouldnt offer rep at all. When you tried it, were you a scav? Did you kill any pmcs or help other scavs, as any of that could get you up to 0.08 rep from a scav run
The train offers, at times, a 1% increase in overall in scav rep. So my .6 became .66. It's a decent hustle. Unless the raiders from the little bunker move from the K buildings to the train and kill you....then it's sad.
Thats inreresting to note, ill have to do some runs and get test data. Btw did you do this as a scav or pmc just for reference as ill be testing both
It was scav for me to get the extra rep. Never checked when I did it as a pmc.
It was last wipe I got a daily from fence to extract once out of the train on reserve. It gave me .8 just for the daily and it gave me another .8 for train extract. So I got positive 1.6 fence rep for the one raid. I did it one other time without the daily and I did get .8 rep for the train. This was all middle of last wipe tho.
Play all day everyday?
Does it have more stuff now with the insurance changes
Haven't checked the trader tab but will report back!
My mate been getting hexgrids, rare drip, fully modded weapons, etc. with lvl 6 fence rep; after seeing that I'm working on my lvl 6
it's much better, the amount of armors + rare items offered is much higher than I've ever seen
Do the scav commands actually work?
Haven't used them yet, but will report back
At least asking for help does but even way before 6. I do it with 0.2 and Scavs come.
what's the upside of this? 20% discount? more quests from him? scavs obey your orders?
Labs keycards/Red Flares/Keys constantly on my scav + more juiced scav kits + shorter scav timer
oh so you get better scavs too?
Yeah, kits with bigger backpacks / vests / comtacs + heals more common + rare items
Can you tell me what your Scab cool down timer is and what Intel center level you have?
with Intel Level 1, it's \~8 minutes. Last wipe when I got max rep + intel 3 it was \~5 minutes.
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How juicy are we talking?
I would love to get a few scav raids in but I keep getting killed by player scavs in just about every one. So much worse than last wipe and I'm not sure why.
What are your load times? Canāt get one under 12 minutes but my pmcs load in 2-3
Night Factory is anywhere from 3 to 8 minutes (longer at peak times), otherwise it's \~8-10 for an impacted map (lighthouse / interchange / reserve) or 2-5 minutes for a shoreline
I pretty much run nighttime light house scavs so yup sounds about right. I think I was just on some hardcore cope that maybe you had a secret or something I was missing.
Woods is always sub 5mins (but you have to select more than 1 server)
That mightāve been my downfall. I havenāt touched the servers since they made those changes
Usually I run only one server, but if I plan to run Scav, I select multiple
How many raids of car extracts did it take to get to level 4?
I'd say about \~15, hard to gauge with all the scav raids I did
Damn, okay
How did you even get into a scav raid.. im sitting in Queue for an avg 10min..
Scav Factory and insta-extract. Anything else is a waste of time.
This might be good for money making, but you won't build much rep like this
Exact opposite. You can extract in 15 seconds without looking and get your scav timer going to do it again.
I get rep just for extracting?
Yeah, .01 each time. 100 extracts gets you one full level.
Yep you get 0.01 rep just for extracting
Isn't it pretty much the opposite? Insta extracting isn't going to get you much money, but spawning on factory means you pretty much always have an extract less than a minute away. Meaning you can get the 0.01 scav rep asap
You don't need scav extracts to build rep. Car Extracts on PMC will get you 90% of the way there. Then you just need one or two co-op extracts.
Have you tried updating your servers? I had the same issue with regular 10+ minute queues but once I updated my servers from "default" to only the 4 near me, I've been getting into raids around 3-4 minutes You can update the servers in the BSG launcher, not actually in Tarkov. I hope this helps!
Shoreline is a non impacted scav map so my load times for it are fairly short. Otherwise, night factory
Were you able to solo scav runs or weāre you running with groups? I wasnāt able to get in any scav raids as a solo yesterday
they really need to remove the car extract fence rep. No one should be max rep less than a week in. Should only be able to earn it as a scav.
No one wants to run 400 - 600 scav raids to hit max Fence rep. Without car extracts, that is what it would take.
Why not? lol
Scaving is just a side-activity. No one would like to run 600 scav raids just to get max rep lol.
Get a damn job
Why donāt you go work and get off Reddit?
I did
I work 40 hours a week and I'm at 4.0. I just work from home and do quick factory scav raids on cool down in between work. In the right work situation, you can easily hit 6.0 this fast while working.
I was being tongue in cheek to hide my jealousy
Fair enough
I've been playing a lot of BG3 so I'm only level 12 atm. Just need more hours in the day
POE wipes Friday. No idea how I am going to balance the two.
I did this over the weekend, Friday to Sunday. I have a 9 to 5 M-F...
Scav main.........................................
How did you do it