[TC] How to for tractor beams???

[chinookmike]

I have equipped my Large freighter with a tractor beam, but I can't get the tractor beam to do anything.... It's almost as if it doesn't work at all. I've even tried backing away from the factory or asteroid from a distance of 100 meters to more than 5 km at very low speeds. Nada. Zip. Nuttin. What am I doing wrong??

[Crellion]

Did you target the object and shoot the laser at it first?

[chinookmike]

I target the object first. The laser has been replaced with the tractor beam

[Catra]

when you shoot at the object in question, does an orangeish beam form between you and the object?

[tidurlagi]

AFAIK, freighter doesn't have enough laser generator to fire tractor beam. Try using M6 or bigger. Im using Boron Hydra.

[Catra]

AFAIK, freighter doesn't have enough laser generator to fire tractor beam. Try using M6 or bigger. Im using Boron Hydra.

freighters have very sufficient laser energy to use the tractor beam.

[Carlo the Curious]

I have equipped my Large freighter with a tractor beam, but I can't get the tractor beam to do anything....

What kind of freighter? As tidurlagi says, most TS ships don't have enough energy to fire a TB (1000) - see the FAQ.

[Ulan Dhor]

Caiman Miners are the only freighters that can actually use a tractor beam. There are many others that can mount the tractor beam, and the other Split TS have enough laser energy to shoot it, but only the Caiman Miner can do both.

[maphys]

Is it your factory/mine?

Can't tractor NPC ones and shooting them with a TB just annoys them IIRC.

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[cheezy379]

Where do you purchase a tractor beam from? I've explored everything thats not an unknown sector (I think) and I cant find anything. The only way I can see is to buy a factory for it, which I dotn really want to do.

[TTD]

for my tutorial,I bought one from Third Redemption and fitted it to my Hydra

[cheezy379]

Thanks dude.

[chinookmike]

Thanks. I have installed a beam on a Skiron, and it works fine now.
Your help has made my day

[Retiredman]

Nice thing about a tractor beam.. besides pulling objects.

It acts as a repulser beam when moving towards the object.

If your off center mass then you can rotate the object to your satifaction.

Had to straigten a number of SOWP, and it works nicely.

[TTD]

Neat idea.

[chinookmike]

Another neat thing to use a tractor beam for ....complete destruction of an asteroid while leaving the mine framework intact. This happened to me rather suddenly while towing a mine at about 8 meters/ second....

[Reaper Jack]

Where do you purchase a tractor beam from? I've explored everything thats not an unknown sector (I think) and I cant find anything. The only way I can see is to buy a factory for it, which I dotn really want to do.

Or you can buy a tractor beam factory!! Though it costs a lot the rewards are massive, every laser sells for near to 800000C and you make 5 per cycle, However it requires lots of resources and is a 19 hour cycle. I bought a tcb factory and put it in the unknown sector that was Avarice in Reunion, it's so busy by now that it takes longer than Argon Prime to load up, I've got 16 stations in it, I bought the tcb fac. so that I could tow them together and make a complex. The sector is currently making me near to 2mil per hour with Uts making 1-2mil per hour, so I make 3-4mil per hour+extra from doing missions!!