One more thing to add: the fighter bay hangar can interfere with limpets. Some limpets will try to swing through the exposed fighter dock/gantry and suicide after delivering cargo.
Collector Limpets SUICIDE?!
- Thread starter Dunkan
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Another reason not to use that horrible variation of the T6....
After the latest patches, my limpet collectors have been expiring at a much greater rate. I have been forced to carry a greater percentage of my cargo capacity for drones, due to losses while mining.
Limpets get dumber and slower every patch. Why do they need to dive a mile under the ship to collect something? Why must the cargo hatch cycle to program the stupid things? Plus the absurdity of having to fly around with the cargo hatch open when the refinery has its own dedicated collection hatch.
As others have indicated, if you have something targeted when you fire a limpet, the limpet will get that one thing, bring it back, and expire. This is by design.
If you fire them with nothing targeted (or something they can't gather, like another ship) they will just keep gathering items - or idle near your ship if no targets in range - until their timer expires.
All that said, they are fragile, and often will get destroyed by running into debris. Sometimes they will even be destroyed if they try to drop off something fragile while you're moving - if the item blows up, they usually do too.
Honestly, I wish the devs would make them (and mission targets) more rugged. Trying to scavenge stuff while in a gravity well is extremely frustrating.
OMG, so funny and appropriate. +1 Rep
If you fire them with nothing targeted (or something they can't gather, like another ship) they will just keep gathering items - or idle near your ship if no targets in range - until their timer expires.
All that said, they are fragile, and often will get destroyed by running into debris. Sometimes they will even be destroyed if they try to drop off something fragile while you're moving - if the item blows up, they usually do too.
Honestly, I wish the devs would make them (and mission targets) more rugged. Trying to scavenge stuff while in a gravity well is extremely frustrating.
OMG, so funny and appropriate. +1 Rep
BINGO.
They are blind as bats! Situationally Unaware.
Make sure they have a clear line of sight path to the collection target. Otherwise they will run headlong into any obstacle and explode.
The limpet mechanics is stupid and sucks rocks.... you should be able to buy limpit controllers that come with their own X amount limpets with the trade off being more controller = more limpets thus faster pick ups but less cargo space due to each "permanent limpet" taking a spot in your cargo hold.
Too much RNG will do that to you.