Ships & Modules

I found a weird bug with one of our new toys, the mobile tractor unit.

This thing has 27,000 m3 of storage, but itself only takes 100m3. It's supposed to empty itself into a can when you scoop it up, but it doesn't always do this.

The problem is when ships are within the unit. I haven't tested with packaged ships dropping from a destroyed hauler, but there's a complex with a structure that, when destroyed, drops packaged shuttles into a can. This can is happily tractored in by the MTU, its contents are gobbled up, but not ejected when the MTU is scooped. I guess the internal reason for this is the same why you can't eject packaged ships from a ship's cargo - whatever it might be, it causes this weird bug.

When the MTU has one or more ships in it, it won't eject anything at all when it's picked up. The ship stays inside, and if there's anything else in there, that's not coming out either.

Admittedly this is a rather inconvenient way of increasing your ship's cargo space 270-fold, as the storage is only accessible when the MTU is deployed, and the only thing you can do with it then is move stuff from it to your ship's cargo bay. But hey, if you REALLY need to get 60,000+ bastion modules into a tiny blockade runner (you know, for eventual reprocessing and building 6 titans) now you can. Just have your friends eject them around your 50 deployed MTUs, each with a packaged shuttle inside.

Until this is fixed, that is.

This is one of those exploits that CCP wouldn't have banned you punished you at all for using if you kept quiet about, because you're not using it to **** over other players or generate resources from nowhere.

But um yeah. Hope you get plex for snitches or something at least to make it worth your while, should probably submit an actual bug report or petition though.

It's made to hold a lot while deployed. It dropped stuff into a can for me too when I put it back in my cargo.