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The Mobile Tractor unit

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Doctor Bonn Young
Drunken Reprobates
#1 - 2014-01-20 16:27:40 UTC
I have used the Mobile Tractor Unit now for several weeks and it does work.. But not in combination with salvage drones.
The drones always go for the wrecks closest to the ship. The tractor unit does the same... In the end the unit is pulling wrecks in from 100+ km and the drones travel to it and salvage the wreck. And then slowboat back to the ship.

It would be more practical if the MTU pulls in the wrecks first that are at the greatest distance from the unit. That way the drones would behave better and they have not to travel so far.

Just a suggestion...
Kimmi Chan
Tastes Like Purple
#2 - 2014-01-20 16:33:04 UTC
Or you know it could just pull whatever wreck is on grid at the time.

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Lucas Kell
Solitude Trading
S.N.O.T.
#3 - 2014-01-20 16:44:45 UTC
Doctor Bonn Young wrote:
I have used the Mobile Tractor Unit now for several weeks and it does work.. But not in combination with salvage drones.
The drones always go for the wrecks closest to the ship. The tractor unit does the same... In the end the unit is pulling wrecks in from 100+ km and the drones travel to it and salvage the wreck. And then slowboat back to the ship.

It would be more practical if the MTU pulls in the wrecks first that are at the greatest distance from the unit. That way the drones would behave better and they have not to travel so far.

Just a suggestion...
That would break grids with multiple MTUs as you'd have to place all of them miles away from each other so they wouldn't fight with a wreck. The great news is though that both they and salvage drones are automatic, so you can just leave them to it. The salvage drones may fly off if they run out of nearby wrecks, but usually by the time they get back there's another 3 or 4 for them to salvage. It's only if it's the last wreck that it's really an issue, and if you are active enough to care, you could easily call the drones back and manually set them on the wreck once it's nearby.

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Erufen Rito
The Dark Space Initiative
Scary Wormhole People
#4 - 2014-01-20 16:49:14 UTC
Lucas Kell wrote:
Doctor Bonn Young wrote:
I have used the Mobile Tractor Unit now for several weeks and it does work.. But not in combination with salvage drones.
The drones always go for the wrecks closest to the ship. The tractor unit does the same... In the end the unit is pulling wrecks in from 100+ km and the drones travel to it and salvage the wreck. And then slowboat back to the ship.

It would be more practical if the MTU pulls in the wrecks first that are at the greatest distance from the unit. That way the drones would behave better and they have not to travel so far.

Just a suggestion...
That would break grids with multiple MTUs as you'd have to place all of them miles away from each other so they wouldn't fight with a wreck. The great news is though that both they and salvage drones are automatic, so you can just leave them to it. The salvage drones may fly off if they run out of nearby wrecks, but usually by the time they get back there's another 3 or 4 for them to salvage. It's only if it's the last wreck that it's really an issue, and if you are active enough to care, you could easily call the drones back and manually set them on the wreck once it's nearby.

Wait, are you suggesting to bot manually? What kind of savage are you?

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Feyd Rautha Harkonnen
Doomheim
#5 - 2014-01-20 16:53:11 UTC
Doctor Bonn Young wrote:
I have used the Mobile Tractor Unit now for several weeks and it does work.. But not in combination with salvage drones.
The drones always go for the wrecks closest to the ship. The tractor unit does the same... In the end the unit is pulling wrecks in from 100+ km and the drones travel to it and salvage the wreck. And then slowboat back to the ship.

It would be more practical if the MTU pulls in the wrecks first that are at the greatest distance from the unit. That way the drones would behave better and they have not to travel so far.

Just a suggestion...

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Billy McCandless
Zacharia Explorations Group
#6 - 2014-01-20 17:02:42 UTC
Takes about 30 seconds to melt it with a HAC

Seems fair to me

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Tuttomenui II
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#7 - 2014-01-20 20:05:01 UTC
MTU in conjunction with a noctis is a dandy little auto looter, the tractor beam is useless. Although it does well in missions you don't plan to bring a noctis back to. Stop killing **** outside your marauders tractor range except maybe ****** frigs and its fine let it get the close stuff and you focus on the far stuff.
Hasikan Miallok
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#8 - 2014-01-21 00:36:19 UTC
You can tell the salvage drones which wrecks to chase.
I Love Boobies
All Hail Boobies
#9 - 2014-01-21 03:44:17 UTC  |  Edited by: I Love Boobies
I use a MTU with my Noctis so I don't have to spend time to loot every wreck. Suck the wrecks close with my Noctis, let the MTU loot as I salvage. When I am done, I just scoop the MTU then empty the cargo container after I scoop. It's very effective. As to the salvage drones, dunno about those. Tried them when they first came out, they wouldn't salvage anything unless I told them to since I use one account to mission, the other to salvage. Found it annoying, so haven't used them since.
James Nikolas Tesla
Tesla Holdings
#10 - 2014-01-21 04:19:50 UTC
The MTU allows me to have 8 Salvagers and some Light Scout Drones just in case. My Mongo just chews through wrecks.

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Rhatar Khurin
Doomheim
#11 - 2014-01-21 09:00:11 UTC
I Love Boobies wrote:
I use a MTU with my Noctis so I don't have to spend time to loot every wreck. Suck the wrecks close with my Noctis, let the MTU loot as I salvage. When I am done, I just scoop the MTU then empty the cargo container after I scoop. It's very effective. As to the salvage drones, dunno about those. Tried them when they first came out, they wouldn't salvage anything unless I told them to since I use one account to mission, the other to salvage. Found it annoying, so haven't used them since.


if you tell salvage drones to salvage when you have either have no targets locked or only enemy targets then the salvage drones will go about salvaging stuff on their own without any input from the user.

I use my alt afk salvaging with an MTU doing just this with a couple of drone links
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ISD Alliance
#12 - 2014-01-21 09:43:15 UTC
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Cheng Musana
Native Freshfood
Minmatar Republic
#13 - 2014-01-21 11:28:39 UTC
I dont think this is a issue. I use it while ratting in null. Drop one of them in a site before shoting rats, repeat this around 4 times and then return to the 1st bookmarked MTU and salvage with a noctis and 8 salvagers. Which is super fast and effective.
GunsABlazn
Tribal Liberation Force
Minmatar Republic
#14 - 2014-01-31 22:54:56 UTC
Is there any way to hack and thus open the tractor unit (if it's not yours)?
Danika Princip
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#15 - 2014-01-31 22:58:59 UTC
GunsABlazn wrote:
Is there any way to hack and thus open the tractor unit (if it's not yours)?



No, but aren't they open for anyone to loot anyway?