Player Features and Ideas Discussion

What's the point in the "Packrat" unit? People shoot MTUs to bait you with a suspect timer, not to destroy it, so it's a useless bonus imo. The "Magpie" is clearly harder to scan down and also pulls things in faster and from further away. The 500% increased sensor strength basically means your battleship will be scanned down before the MTU anyways. (Obviously you don't want to be scanned down, and normally the MTU is scanned down long before your ship and screams, "I'm running an L4.")

From what I can gather the Magpie is substantially more useful and the Packrat is just there to fill some weird niche. Either way the standard MTU is going to be useless and only be worth using if you don't have the money for a meta version.

I would love to see some better options for the MTU's.

1. Launch for fleet and/or corp
2. Something like drone aggro selection or preset to tactor all or just full wrecks
3. MTU chaining so several can be used at the same time

Will cargo capacity be impacted by the above changes or will initial item size chang?

Sound fair. Your point is valid about the MTUs overshadowing other ships if they were able to tractor multiple targets at a time, or able to be used in pack.

Adding this is good

Adding these to ghost sites is better. MTUs are a lot more popular and disposable than 'Yurts.' Furthermore the bonuses here are way better than say that stupid wetu


Buff wetus. They're basically worse than meta0 depots because of the 50m3 extra volume.

Oh look new/old structures

Is there any outside chance of adding an auto-salvage feature to these?

Fozzie, while I appreciate the feedback on not changing this, I would like to propose a compromise. Currently I use both an MTU and noctis side by side. While I agree being able to use more than one MTU side by side might be unbalanced, I still have some minor issues with the current coding. The biggest reason I do this is because the Noctis is really great at salvaging things, whereas the MTU doesnt do that at all. So the reason for my setup is to reduce some of the click fest that looting/salvaging currently entails since eve can't seem to match other modern MMO's with a "loot all button"

I immediately tractor any wreck with loot in it near the MTU, from there the MTU scoops all the loot, removing half the clicks required to clear a pocket. Once all those are complete I scoop the MTU and salvage the remaining wrecks. What would help this process is when in other pockets I have alts fighting and with MTU's deployed as well. I would like to adjust the MTU to tractor all closets wrecks with loot FIRST, then tracker in closest empty wrecks last. That would speed up cleanup times slightly and boost the effectiveness of its intended role (loot cleaner) without making it OP.

I would like to make them un-scoopable if someone is actively targeting/shooting at them.

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Or maybe give the person scooping it up a suspect or a limited engagement timer. Its annoying in highsec to get one into structure, then have a retriever scoop it up on you.

This.. so much this

The MTU's lack target priority isn't just going against using multiple MTU's, it also seriously hampers those who would like to use salvage drones.

Seriously, anyone in their right mind who was building a mobile device used for pulling in distant objects for nearby processing isn't going to bother pulling the closest - already in working range - objects first.

Ideal Priority -
Wrecks with loot - furthest then nearest
Wrecks without loot - furthest then nearest
Cargo Containers - nearest then furthest