EVE New Citizens Q&A

They are frequently used by mission runners to collect all the loot while they are completing the mission. This makes looting much easier than flying between all the wrecks. Some people like to combine this with salvage drones to get some of the salvage work done by the time they're finished fighting.

This also makes them hot targets for gankers, who will loot/destroy the MTU to provoke an attack by the player, giving the ganker a LE flag and allowing them to destroy the mission runner ship.

thanks for the links .. i knew i could get the google response which would be cold and dry and informative without really telling me how players use the things .. there is CCPs plans and there is what actually happens .. but thanks for taking the time to link them .. i will read them to supliment what wise worse people may, or many not, write in response.

Its very hard to lose an mtu if you are awake. They can be scooped to cargo even if they are under fire. Ofc you have to be sitting within range of the mtu to scoop it. Folk will typically try and bump you off the mtu to prevent you from scooping as they kill it. Also the loot/salavage you get from missions is generally not worth the effort it takes to collect it. Blitz the missions for better profit. Ignore any attempts to bait you unless you are prepared for pvp.

Mobile Tractor Unit -

What is it? - Mobile tractor unit is a personal mobile structure which, when deployed will begin tractoring all friendly or neutral wrecks and cans within range (125km) towards itself and looting them.

Skill Requirements - None

Useage - The most common useage is to drop it in a mission and let it tractor your wrecks/loot them and come back later to pick up the loot and/or salvage the wrecks.

Criminal Activities - While only you can access the inventory or scoop your own MTU, other players can shoot it which will only get them a suspect flag. When destroyed the MTU has a 50% chance to drop each item in its inventory just like a ship. MTUs can be scanned down with combat probes which means it may be destroyed if you leave it for a while.

Other Mobile Structures -

- Mobile Depots -
These structures allow you to refit in space and store items. Again they can be scanned down and attacked however these structures have a 2 day reinforce timer.

-Mobile Cynosural Inhibitor-
Prevents standard cynosural fields (but not covert ones) from igniting within 100km of the structure. The structure lasts 1 hour, cannot be reclaimed and the effects of multiple structures cannot overlap

-Mobile Siphon Unit-
A Mobile structure designed to be deployed around a moon-harvesting POS which will steal a portion of the materials being mined/processed by the POS. Starbases will not automatically engage them, players engaging them won't be flagged.

-Mobile Scan Inhibitor-
A 1-time use structure which will hide all ships within 30km of it from D-scan. The structure itself is still visible on D-scan.

-Mobile Mico Jump Unit-
A deployable which allows any ship to jump 100km in the direction it is facing after a warm-up. One use structure.

-Encounter Surveillance System-
Along with the expansion that released these mobile structures, Nullsec NPCs had their bounties reduced to 80%. To get the full payout you now need to deploy this structure which stores the missing part of the bounty in a pool as well as loyalty points (increases activity leads to extra payout up to 105% of the original). The structure can be accessed by any player and a choice made to share the pool between all contributors or to take all the whole pool (in tags).

whats the range on the MTU .. and have they had a negative impact on the use of alt Noctis pilots ?

Yes they are used. But they are more trouble then they are worth. They attract folk (such as myself) who wish to shoot them. Its better just to fit a hauler (such as an orca) with a tractor beam mod.

See Sig for a hilarious failure at this , (the myrmidon from last night)

are you stalking me Feyd?