Newcomer / Intro Conrtol Limpet ?

[wpmaura]

So I use this a bunch mining, but when I use them to pick material that drops from ships they only pick up one and then die is that normal. Instead of how with mining they stick around and pick up everything

 

[Factabulous]

Don't target anything

 

[wpmaura]

thank you so much for that

 

[aRJay]

When a collector is fired at a targeted item it will switch its drive to high power and get to the object and bring it back around twice as fast, then it self destructs.
When a collector is fired with nothing targeted it will run more slowly and will try to bring in everything it can see whether you want it or not, until it hits something and breaks or times out.

 

[CMDR Jago Kain]

Or gets shot. Collecting in a CZ can attract a lot of point defence fire!

 

[varonica]

When a collector is fired at a targeted item it will switch its drive to high power and get to the object and bring it back around twice as fast, then it self destructs.
When a collector is fired with nothing targeted it will run more slowly and will try to bring in everything it can see whether you want it or not, until it hits something and breaks or times out.

Also if there is stuff you don't want, filter it out, that won't affect the limpet, it will just ignore those items.

 

[Esteban]

Re: targeting vs not targeting items to collect with limpets.

This may not seem sensible at first, but the feature is useful. In some scenarios, such as salvage/black box ops, the faster collection of a single/few items is handy.