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Good day.


I bought a few blueprints and its time to manufacture Mobile Tractor Units, a few hours later ...
Fresh off the line new Tractor Units , lets go lvl4 mission in a marauder and see what they can do :-)




1. Appears to be a 45 sec deploy time, which is a bit long, Half the room is dead already.

2. Tractor Unit pulls in a wreck, ten seconds later it decides to pull in another wreck. Good thing my marauder is packing tractor beams or we could be here a few hours...

3. All wrecks are pulled in, and nothing else is happening, Tractor Unit seems stuck.

4. Ok we have empty and full wrecks, lets salvage the empty wrecks. Ok that worked, tractor unit just emptied a wreck... wait it now seems stuck again. As long as I salvage the empty wrecks it will loot otherwise it stops or gets stuck.

5. Hmm thats odd, the Tractor Units green beam is on my ship... is it trying to tractor/loot me ? and why are my salvage drones beams on my ship, are they also trying to salvage me ? lol

6. Well lets try leaving a room while the Tractor Unit is tractoring in wrecks, an see what happens. 30 min later come back to room, tractor unit stopped when I left the room, it is however starting up again to tractor in some wrecks.




Some have expressed concern that the Mobile Tractor Unit would obsolete the noctis and the marauders ability to tractor/loot.
Its safe to say those concerns are moot.

Yup, that's my main interest in them. At their current level of tuning, it would be perfectly fine to have them continue operation when there is nobody around to watch them work. The Mobile Tractor Unit is not going to put professional salvagers out of work.

One option I am considering is to have an alt warp into the wreck field, deploy the tractor unit and some salvage drones and then just leave the alt sitting there. But then I have to deal with gankers :\ Perhaps a Battle-Nereus?

Operating unsupervised is something I'd pay handsomely for, even with the very low wreck-collection speed.

If they don't work while I'm not there then these are useless to me.

Glad I have a Noctis.

It sounds really glitchy but I can see it used in one scenario

I leave my alt on grid in a Algos with salvage drones while I occasionally loot wrecks it fails to when I tab over. I do this while running missions with my main. Yes it would be a lot less efficient than a Noctis but it requires a lot less attention. If someone is bored enough to suicide gank my Algos oh well it's a cheap destroyer and not a big loss.

Is this coming out in Rubicon? I saw it on the test server but it didn't even have a requirements tab on the info listing skills needed.

So structure has 2 days of "dying from loneliness" timer but your loot is gone anyway because you left grid and tractor stopped and wrecks expired after 2 hours?

If this is intended that is a really great feature
I hope yurt will trash modules deposited in it to make equally awesome gameplay.

needs a launch for corp option, i am not looting with my main

The thing is, if you're required to be on grid , then they should have made tractor drones and not a structure..
The purpose of basically all structures up until now is that they work when you're not around.

Good Day :-)



Played around with the Mobile Tractor Unit today, I really want to like this new module...
A few items I took note of.




1. 45 sec deploy time.

2. The unit performs an action, 10 seconds later it will try to do something else. It does not matter how fast
the units tractor speed is, the 10 sec delay between actions just kills any time efficiency.

3. The Unit will pull in all wrecks then it will attempt to loot, after looting the first wreck the unit will get stuck or stop,
In order to get the unit working again you have to salvage the wreck ( or blow it up maby ?).

4. I used a marauder to speed up the tractoring, however this created a problem. The unit would tractor the wreck
I just pulled in with my marauder 1000 or so meters then wait ten seconds and tractor the next wreck beside me.
Deploying the unit in this case is pointless.

5. Leaving a Unit behind to clean up a room does not work, as soon as you leave the room the unit will cease to function.

6. I know when the Unit is working because it hits me with its green beam, however I don't know which wreck is tractored
until I can spot that one wreck moving in a sea of wrecks. :-)





What could make this device useful imo ?....


1. Continue to tractor and loot when you leave a room.

2. Drastically reduce the 10 second delay between actions.

3. Have it tractor the furthest out wreck first.





The idea of Mobile Tractor Unit sounds really great, and I really want to like this new device.

I understand everyone wants to make ISK but CCP isn't going to make a module where you can AFK. The point of it is you can loot wrecks when you're not AFK.

Now if this module doesn't grab NPC aggro you could just deploy it at the start of the mission so while you're killing things the wrecks would be pulled to you. I'm not sure if it works this way since I haven't tried it on the test server.

This exactly.
The structure requiring you to be on grid promotes AFK probably more so than it not requiring you to be on grid because if you're not on grid, at least you're out doing something else.

This thing takes so long to tractor that showing up in a MWD salvage destroyer (old school method) is faster than waiting on grid for this.

I say again, if you're required to be on grid, it is useless and tractor drones would better serve this purpose.