Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Alternative to MTUs and single tractor beams.

Rundown:
-A high slot ship module that drags all wrecks and jetcans within a spherical area (bubble progressively shrinks over time from center of ship; tractor bubble animation travels with ship.)
-Range: 40km before ship role bonuses
-Module resource build cost: 1.5x-2x times build reqs for standard MTU.
-Slightly slower in pull speed than T1 tractor beam, however target locks on wrecks are not required to pull objects.
-Tractor bubble cannot be interrupted by ECM.
-Ship is unable to cloak or warp while module is active. Maximum Velocity Modifier -50%
-Cycle cannot be canceled after activation, however the ship can be dragged off by warp field (tractor bubble duration remains active, but ship is in different part of grid likely now out of range of wrecks and support).
-Module can be fit to any ship, yet ships with bonuses for tractor beams will project a larger sphere, faster tractor pulls, and thereby shorter cycle times before warp becomes available again.

Why:
Offers speedy option for wreck and jetcan collection with a single high slot module at the expense of losing cloak and warp capabilities for a timed duration.

Update:
Module has a 3 minute cycle time than cannot be canceled. Cycle time is not reduced by skills and there are no ship bonuses for shorter cycles. When module cycle completes pilot regains access to warp and cloaking. Thank you for the feedback.

I think she means that even if the ship can't warp, it's still affected by the command destroyers' micro jump field and the GTFO.

- 3 minute cycle time
- No way to reduce the cycle time.

Add these and we're golden.

I am behind this idea with the 3 minute cycle time.

I would like a non-targeted tractor on my Noctis, definitely. For the obvious lazy reasons. AOE salvager too.

This seems a bit gimpy, though.

How would this work on random activations in empire space, though, and ninja salvaging, and most importantly, unowned wrecks?

Might be better to make it just an OP and expensive AOE tractor, and only work on owned or abandoned wrecks?

I think I figured out the mechanics related to other tractor beams and MTUs used at the same time.

The tractor bubble has an "optimal range" 5km, and a "falloff range" 20km. The tracking speed increases as it gets closer to the ship, Noctis gets +100% falloff range and some tracking velocity per ORE industrial level. I think no other ships should get bonus.

The optimal range is where the "being pulled by a tractor beam" status triggers, so as long as the wreck or container is in the falloff zone, targeted tractor beams have priority, but if it's in optimal range, it can't be pulled away anymore. The optimal range also reacts to this status, so a tractor beam can pull a wreck through it with no problem.
The falloff zone also reacts to MTUs presence: if a wreck is in the "proximity radius" of an MTU, it won't be pulled away. This prevents the situation where the MTU would pull the same 2 wrecks alternately over and over again, for ever.