This is why I sometimes camp the wrecks with my pirate chars
once someone shows up and gets the codie..
PEW PEW
WHAM, BZZZZZT WTF
QEW QEW
to several of them...in the end I get all these codies...I either blow em up...or I sometimes go to penny and give them to nubs along the way. Sometimes I take the good codies for myself