Player Features and Ideas Discussion

But, just thought it would be nice to have.

A MTU that will auto cloak up when not in use, in other words nothing being tractored and it auto cloaks so it stays hidden.

Let's hear it for auto cloaking MTU \0/

You didn't think this through did you.
What's the first (and only) thing an MTU will do when deployed?

K regardless of all that, what's the first thing an MTU does when you deploy it?

The reason delpoyables can be shot and only go suspect is because they are meant to increase interaction between players. Its one of the prices you pay for automated loot gathering. A price people are clearly willing to pay.

Edit- I also think ralph is trying to get you to realise that things cannot cloak if something is within 2km of them. But what does the mtu do?

How and why is this relevant?
It is not what it does WHILE there are things to tractor, this is about what happens when there is nothing left for it to tractor.
On the off chance that you were trying to be clever(and failed by the way) to mention the 2,000 meter thingy that is easily dealt with since you can loot from 2,500 the tractors simply stop the object 2,400 meters away. Still works for the looting thingy and having a tractor shut off the early is not something that could not happen.


Initial response is this post.

Having them cloak does not remove them as a content driver, it simply requires a little more effort on the part of the hunter.
But I cannot scan it once it has cloaked? Glad you mention that, because once the owner warps away and leaves it sitting alone in space to do it's work it loses virtually all of the content driving ability. In high sec it would not be worth the effort to hunt and kill the character that killed you mtu because you can earn more by simply using that same time to run another mission or site. In low or nul I do not know anyone that leaves an MTU behind anyway so this change may increase the chances that someone would leave an MTU behind.

No I'm not trying to be clever,
I'm stating the obvious issue here and I was trying to encourage the op to see it too.
The first thing these do is take all of the crap in space that they're able to move and surround themselves with it,
even if you prevent it decloaking itself and l have it stop at 2600 you're still left with a big sphere of crap centered on its exact location.

Basically. Why I never saw the point to MTU's. Not worth the headaches. When I clean up stuff, I just make that the 15 minute break in a noctis. Some of my fits are medium to high activity play style with tank and prop and cap control, drones, target management and such....few minutes of lazy wreck cleaning nice to wind down for a bit.

Avoids the people messing with your MTU problem.

And if I want privacy, it gets me that. Got 2 chances to find me or my stuff. In the mission ship, in the noctis. Small windows of opportunity there.

I don't even bother anymore, if someone comes in I either blue the loot or just blow up everything, depending on how apathetic I'm feeling about loot that day, also sold my Noctis, it mostly collected dust, I prefer a small frigate and some drones, deploy drones set to follow drones, take break, come back and fly off.

Now that I think about it, if I was working for CCP I'd give everyone a cloaky MTU just to see how players use them and how they complain when they figure out how hard it is to keep them cloaked.

Because they figure at some point, with enough of them, they will convince CCP it's a good idea even if we are not. People also tend to post BS (and I don't mean battleships) before a second thought, so that never really helps.