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Mobile Tractor Unit - Reinforced Mode
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FoxFire Ayderan
#1 - 2016-05-04 18:21:27 UTC


As the title indicates this would create a reinforced mode for Mobile Tractor Units.

This is a mode that you could put your MTU in, that signficantly increases its hit points and defense capabilities. However, while in this mode it is incapable of tractoring and scooping items.

Good for when you want to temporarily leave it out in the field and not come back to find it 'sploded in under a minute after you've left.

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Ralph King-Griffin
New Eden Tech Support
#2 - 2016-05-04 18:23:30 UTC
no, mtu's are a conflict driver as much as anything els, lets keep it that way

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Lugh Crow-Slave
#3 - 2016-05-04 18:23:45 UTC
the trade off for letting it do an automated task is the risk of losing it

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FoxFire Ayderan
#4 - 2016-05-04 18:32:19 UTC
Lugh Crow-Slave wrote:
the trade off for letting it do an automated task is the risk of losing it



But it can't do anything automated while it's in reinforced mode. Except sit there looking pretty.

It could still be destroyed but it would take a lot more fire power and/or time to do so.
Lugh Crow-Slave
#5 - 2016-05-04 18:37:42 UTC  |  Edited by: Lugh Crow-Slave
... then just scoup the damn thing

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FoxFire Ayderan
#6 - 2016-05-04 18:58:12 UTC
Lugh Crow-Slave wrote:
... then just scoup the damn thing


Sometimes you need the extra 100m3 it takes up.
Reaver Glitterstim
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#7 - 2016-05-04 19:52:38 UTC
Mobile depot has a reinforce timer in which it indestructible.



Why not give both reinforcement, but make it a weaker reinforcement: have it gain resistance and self-rep instead of being invulnerable. That way a passing ship won't be able to just pop it in their spare time, but if someone is dedicated to making it disappear, they can do it during the reinforcement.

Why do mobile depots get special treatment?

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Arya Regnar
Darwins Right Hand
#8 - 2016-05-04 20:13:41 UTC
These damn things are already too hard to kill, takes quite some time for anyone in a ship that doesn't have a ton of dps.

No way in hell.

Not to mention these devils are so cheap.

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Ralph King-Griffin
New Eden Tech Support
#9 - 2016-05-04 20:16:35 UTC
FoxFire Ayderan wrote:
Lugh Crow-Slave wrote:
... then just scoup the damn thing


Sometimes you need the extra 100m3 it takes up.


then you dont need the mtu anymore do you

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Agondray
Avenger Mercenaries
VOID Intergalactic Forces
#10 - 2016-05-04 22:01:42 UTC
Arya Regnar wrote:
These damn things are already too hard to kill, takes quite some time for anyone in a ship that doesn't have a ton of dps.

No way in hell.

Not to mention these devils are so cheap.


they aren't that hard to kill, perhaps you shouldn't try killing them in your rookie ship.

im for a reinforce mode, if not than lets take the reinforce timers away from mobile depots, they are left everywhere as billboards because of it

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Angelique Duchemin
Team Evil
#11 - 2016-05-04 22:28:32 UTC
If tractors were indestructible then ratters could just sit on one. If pirates come and blow you up. You can just come collect your modules later on from the indestructible tractor that looted you.

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Viziam
Amarr Empire
#12 - 2016-05-04 22:48:30 UTC
It's a tiny can with a tractor beam ontop and under it... Not a freaking POS.

Heck no.
Donnachadh
United Allegiance of Undesirables
#13 - 2016-05-05 14:16:50 UTC
FoxFire Ayderan wrote:
Lugh Crow-Slave wrote:
... then just scoup the damn thing


Sometimes you need the extra 100m3 it takes up.


Now we get to the core of the request, so let me paraphrase this.
I have so much loot that my MTU will no longer fit in my cargo hold, but I do not want to warp away and leave it to the fates and whatever may happen to it while I am gone.

My response is choices, you either leave some of the loot behind so you can take the MTU or you take the loot and leave the MTU. Either way it is the very core of the choices and consequences aspect of EvE at work and it is intended to be that way.
There are options you know, like a ship that has enough cargo space to hold it all, there are secure containers that could be anchored in space to store the loot that will not fit in your cargo hold because MTU, and god forbid in a game of alts you could always use a second character to fly a larger ship that can pick up the loot so all you have to worry about is your MTU.

Considering all of the options you have to use to solve this, options that are already in the game I give this idea a heartfelt

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FoxFire Ayderan
#14 - 2016-05-05 15:56:54 UTC
Angelique Duchemin wrote:
If tractors were indestructible then ratters could just sit on one. If pirates come and blow you up. You can just come collect your modules later on from the indestructible tractor that looted you.


I'm not thinking an indestructible reinforce mode, but rather one that simply makes it far more difficult to destroy, so that it either takes considerably longer to destroy or a lot more firepower.
Ralph King-Griffin
New Eden Tech Support
#15 - 2016-05-05 16:04:49 UTC
FoxFire Ayderan wrote:
Angelique Duchemin wrote:
If tractors were indestructible then ratters could just sit on one. If pirates come and blow you up. You can just come collect your modules later on from the indestructible tractor that looted you.


I'm not thinking an indestructible reinforce mode, but rather one that simply makes it far more difficult to destroy, so that it either takes considerably longer to destroy or a lot more firepower.


What like a noctis?
Cos we have a noctis.

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Lugh Crow-Slave
#16 - 2016-05-05 16:05:09 UTC
the idea behind them was that they would be easy to kill.....

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Ralph King-Griffin
New Eden Tech Support
#17 - 2016-05-05 16:11:00 UTC
Lugh Crow-Slave wrote:
the idea behind them was that they would be easy to kill.....

They were also very deliberatly excluded from concord protection,
they are suposed to be easy to pop , you are suposed to get angry and mess upthe little fecker that shot it and you can because hes suspect.

Shooting mtu's is a fantastic inroad to pvp for newbros, lets not take it away .

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