Missions & Complexes

I'm concidering running the level 4 missions with my eVen but with a mtu, just wonder in g weather it's worth it to help lootthe ships quicker?

Also Just wondering if anyone could just warp in and destroy my MTU and warp away is that true in high sec?

Many Thanks
John

MTU does speed things up, most of that is because you don't have to open and loot every single wreck, you can just open the MTU (or the can after you scoop it) and loot one thing. also since it loots wrecks one at a time it is like having a bonus tractor beam.

yes people can warp in and shoot your MTU, they go suspect (if they weren't already), probably a good idea to just scoop the MTU and not shoot them.

i like MTUs, one less thing to think about.

Also sometimes u want to fit smartbombs on the marauder and not tractors

To be fair, assuming my sec status was high enough to enter highsec (someday I will repair it) I really wouldn't care too much about looting some MTUs or blowing them up, idk maybe blowing them up to see if I could get a mission battleship to attack me but like it just doesn't seem very profitable.....

Now if you are dropping an MTU aand I saw probes scanning out sites then that might perk my Interest....but for l4 missions the loot is kinda big and not worth all that much compared to other activities.

So to be honest I wouldn't really factor people attacking your MTUs into the equation and if they do just don't agro them ever. Like it isn't thst much isk to lose and the MTU itself isn't that pricy either.

Confirmed ganking the mission bear's MTU is the easiest way to **** him off and get a limited engagement with a fit not designed for PvP. You can carry a depot and swap out for pvp fittings to blap the baiter but they so often have support alts or friends on standby that it's still risky. MTU is great, I use one for every lvl 4 I run but if it gets attacked by a griefer I would just scoop or write off the loss if you can't reach it in time. The only exception would be to contact corpmates or friends who are COMPETENT at pvp and arrange a surprise for the griefer. Also works better with depot > swap to pvp fit with scram and dual webs.

Marauders can tank. Burn within 48 km and tractor with 3 tractors, salvagr with drones. Mtus Will slow u down

The main appeal for the MTU is the autonomous "fire-and-forget" nature. It won't compete very well against something like a Noctis in terms of speed (though it really does beat using a utility high for a tractor beam on a non-bonused ship by a land slide), but it offers a rather convenient way to run a mission without the need to reship and return every time you go out in order to recover the loot drops.

You can quite literally run a mission, dropping an MTU during the op, and after having finished with the mission, dock and hop on the next run. Then, you can come back later on and sweep through all of the MTU's you set down at the end of the day and make one or two trips at the most instead of adding extra time after each mission.

Just make sure to bookmark your MTU's or you will have to scan them down with a combat scanner (the time it would take to do that to each MTU kinda defeats the whole point of saving you some time and making the whole process convenient).

They can be quite easily attacked by other players since the only real risk or penalty is a suspect timer even if the attacking player has no ingame right to commit such action. CONCORD won't stop them, and a mere suspect timer is not the same as a full-blown criminal flag, but they are rather cheap enough (the non-meta version anyways) to warrant that risk. As long as you don't operate in an area notorious for ninja-looters, it's a passable risk.

In quiet systems, mtu plus noctis feels like the best. Drop mtu from combat ship, bookmark mtu, kill rats, repeat for every room. When site is over and rooms despawn, all the noctis has to do is warp to each bookmark with 8 salvagers and scoop everything. Only feels worth it though on battleship heavy rooms.

Even if you doing this you still slower than anyone who drops MTU and comes back to salvage, or even just loots on the run. you may be faster in one or 2 specific missions, but over all its slower.

Drop mtu, shoot and move to next gate or mission. Come back in an hr or so to grab loot and salvage. Try it and let me know.. some people do enjoy a more relaxed method though.