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When do we get the deployable tractoring thing?

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CMD Ishikawa
New Eden Public Security Section 9
#101 - 2013-11-03 01:04:12 UTC
According to another thread in this section the unit's tractor beam was slowed down to 1000 m/s, well done to the ones asking for increasing Marauder's tractor bonus, yeah like you were going to get that...

Worst than the tractoring speed, it seems that the unit stops working when you leave the grid, those thinking on leave it working and go for something to salvage forget about it.
Vassal Zeren
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#102 - 2013-11-03 14:39:16 UTC
Joe Risalo wrote:
gascanu wrote:
Joe Risalo wrote:
CCP Fozzie wrote:
You can scoop and reuse it. If you scoop it while it has items in the cargo, it will spawn a jetcan with those items which you can then loot what you'd like from.

Tractor speed is currently set at 2000m/s, but very well may change. We're aiming to tune it as a useful item but still leave value to be gained by going with a marauder or noctis tractoring instead. The key advantage of using a ship or course is the option to use more than one tractor beam at once.



HOLY SH!T B@LLS!!!!!




i JUST REALIZED YOU CAN JET CAN MINE AND THE STRUCTURE WILL PICK IT UP FOR YOU!!!!!



That's way better than getting can flipped, and would be awesome for fleet mining without Orcas.


untill someone shoots your thingy Cool



I'd rather them shoot my thingy than my ship....


What kind of a man are you? All else comes before getting your thingy shot.

A bad analogy is like a leaky screwdriver.
Justin Perelta
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#103 - 2013-11-04 15:02:41 UTC  |  Edited by: Justin Perelta
Michael Harari wrote:
Edit: In case its not obvious, I feel these are some particularly overpowered and exploitative uses of the depot, particularly the using it to constantly refit ecm, since jammers being race locked is the main balancing factor for ecm.



Or buffer tank any PVE site with 1600mm plates x 150? Lol (assuming rats don't shoot the thing.

Justin
Lilliana Stelles
#104 - 2013-11-04 19:35:23 UTC
Will the new structures have an exception timer for being near a starbase? Aka, if they're anchored the minimum distance from a tower but on grid with it, they won't expire?

(https://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Secure_containers#Anchoring_and_setting_the_password)
last paragraph, cans.

Not a forum alt. 
Lilith Shea
Multiplex Gaming
Tactical Narcotics Team
#105 - 2013-11-13 18:20:27 UTC  |  Edited by: Lilith Shea
What I'm more curious about is with the tractoring... they can pull off the same wreck/can

Example, Me mining, I drop a can and abandon, gets tractored in, gets withing range of a second tractor, gets tractored into that one, repeat until you reach a POS.

I know it would involve millions of tractors but I just want to know if the theory is possible :)
Imagine making a protective sphere of orbiting cans to protect me from getting bumped while mining :-p
Rexxorr
Perkone
Caldari State
#106 - 2013-11-13 18:42:56 UTC
Lilith Shea wrote:
What I'm more curious about is with the tractoring... they can pull off the same wreck/can

Example, Me mining, I drop a can and abandon, gets tractored in, gets withing range of a second tractor, gets tractored into that one, repeat until you reach a POS.

I know it would involve millions of tractors but I just want to know if the theory is possible :)
Imagine making a protective sphere of orbiting cans to protect me from getting bumped while mining :-p



Having played around with the MTU it seems there maybe a limt to how many will funtion at one time.
Cole Derrib
Catskull Horizons
Grimskulls
#107 - 2013-11-13 20:37:40 UTC
Perhaps I am confused but if I use this tractor unit to tractor in my wrecks and don't have to abandon them for it to work. Why then would I need to abandon my mining can's to do the same thing. My understanding is this will be a personal structure and will not go after other pilots can's / wrecks unless they are abandoned. But would it not make more sense to allow it to grab my cans in mining without having to abandon them first? Seeing as they are already personal cans...