Tractor Beam
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Help pleaseI need a tractor beam for the Aldrin Plot X3TC.Can someone tell me where to obtain.In earlier versions it was Paranid but I cant locate a source.Thanks.Walneyite
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That is bad comedy. Are you being serious? How do you even access Thrid Redemtion sectors? You have to plough in 20 million+ just build an item so we can move an asteroid a bit to the right?!? The developers can't be that cruel.SIMON POPPLEWELL wrote:There should be two tractor beam fabs in Third Redemtion iirc. Unless GoD has removed them, in which case you will have to buy a Tractor Beam Factory from the Paranid.
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I think Egosoft tweaked 'GoD' a bit in one of the latest patches to keep at least one TB factory in the universe. Too many complaints about those factories going AWOL, I guess. And it's all because there are no equipment docks, corp HQ's or outposts that buy and sell them, so the NPC traders never empty the factory. Problem could've been easily fixed simply by giving the NPC's some place to trade them. I know, because in one of my games, I added TB's to several Paranid EqDocks, and due to NPC trading, both factories stayed put. Oh, well.
Anyway, there's always been at least one in Third Redemption in my last few games. Not sure what patch it was, though.
Anyway, there's always been at least one in Third Redemption in my last few games. Not sure what patch it was, though.
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I just checked, and the TB factories in my game are... gone. Version 3.1. Good thing I bought several while the factories still existed.Nanook wrote:I think Egosoft tweaked 'GoD' a bit in one of the latest patches to keep at least one TB factory in the universe. Too many complaints about those factories going AWOL, I guess. And it's all because there are no equipment docks, corp HQ's or outposts that buy and sell them, so the NPC traders never empty the factory. Problem could've been easily fixed simply by giving the NPC's some place to trade them. I know, because in one of my games, I added TB's to several Paranid EqDocks, and due to NPC trading, both factories stayed put. Oh, well.
Anyway, there's always been at least one in Third Redemption in my last few games. Not sure what patch it was, though.
Bad thing, I suppose, that I've neglected to do what you did, and just add the ware to a few docks. I think I might go ahead and do that, and the same for FAA and CFAA, and see if GoD responds.
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Was this an ongoing, upgraded savegame, or was it a new 3.1 start? It may make a difference, especially if the factories had disappeared before the patch. Then again, perhaps GoD didn't remove them, enemy action did. I recently saw an Argon task force come through and wipe out several stations in that sector, which may account for me only having a single TB factory left. I dunno, though, this is all speculation based on what I've experienced in a couple of new 3.1 game starts.Painman wrote:...
I just checked, and the TB factories in my game are... gone. Version 3.1. Good thing I bought several while the factories still existed....
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It's a fresh 3.1 gamestart. It could have been enemy action destroying the stations... really not sure.Nanook wrote:Was this an ongoing, upgraded savegame, or was it a new 3.1 start? It may make a difference, especially if the factories had disappeared before the patch. Then again, perhaps GoD didn't remove them, enemy action did. I recently saw an Argon task force come through and wipe out several stations in that sector, which may account for me only having a single TB factory left. I dunno, though, this is all speculation based on what I've experienced in a couple of new 3.1 game starts.Painman wrote:...
I just checked, and the TB factories in my game are... gone. Version 3.1. Good thing I bought several while the factories still existed....
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I thought so but was wandering whats all the fuss about. Buy factory and produce few, well one is really all you need. After that you could leave it in some core sector, possibly with and TS CAG, and perhaps small food half loop addon (you would need 1M soyfarm, 1M soyery and 2 factories) or just leave it as a single factory or just destroy it, up to you. If you are in complex building phase you ought to have money for small exhibition such as this.
I thought so but was wandering whats all the fuss about. Buy factory and produce few, well one is really all you need. After that you could leave it in some core sector, possibly with and TS CAG, and perhaps small food half loop addon (you would need 1M soyfarm, 1M soyery and 2 factories) or just leave it as a single factory or just destroy it, up to you. If you are in complex building phase you ought to have money for small exhibition such as this.
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As an update to my previous postings, it seems that GoD has been changed wrt the TB factories. I reported above that I had a single TB factory still in Third Redemption. Well, I revisited that sector for other reasons last night, and, lo and behold, the second factory was back. And both were fully stocked. It seems I was right about the patch.
So if you are currently playing v3.1 and have no TB factories in that sector, be patient. GoD will either respawn them in place (most likely) or have the Paranid rebuild them using a local TL (probably not, since the new one was fully stocked with TB's and resources, and it would've taken a long time to build all those TB's, much longer than since my previous visit).
Happy towing.
So if you are currently playing v3.1 and have no TB factories in that sector, be patient. GoD will either respawn them in place (most likely) or have the Paranid rebuild them using a local TL (probably not, since the new one was fully stocked with TB's and resources, and it would've taken a long time to build all those TB's, much longer than since my previous visit).
Happy towing.
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There is a way to automatically sell them. Command a freighter to do a manual trade run from your tractor beam factory to any equipment dock of your choosing, and tell it to repeat indefinitely when it asks (I forget which software it requires, when it doubt, buy them all!). You can sell unlimited quantities of weapons to equipment docks which do not sell that item, and since no equipment dock sells tractor beams, you will be able to sell unlimited quantities of tractor beams to any equipment dock for the average price. I use this trick to unload all my extra hurricane missiles from my factory. Again, if the equipment dock does not sell it, it will buy unlimited quantities of the item.
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