Limpet improvements (in game customisable)

[Awarkle]

So you can spend credits to improve

Speed : make them faster
Health : make them more robust
Amount collected : (effectively a larger drone that has say 1,2,3,4,5) cargo capacity
Heat shielding : (allowing pickups from within burning stations)
Duration : currently they explode randomly even after launching.
Cargo hatch controls : (so you can just fly around a combat zone and the limpets will automatically request the cargo hatch to drop)

Admittingly I would prefer it if the collector limpets were just replaced with tractor beams and just replace the collector unit with a 1 2 3 4 beam array.

 

[Limoncello Lizard]

Speed - yes please. You can outrun a limpet with a Type-9. And worse, prospectors get destroyed if you are moving above a crawl - which completely ruins the old style of mining for me.
Teh deploy delay also needs removing.

Health - not much point unless the flight path of limpets is improved - which desperately needs doing

Amount collected - again, not much point unless the flight path is fixed

Heat shielding - The heat isn't an issue using limpets in burning stations. However , the flight path again causes problems

Duration - either you've targetted something, or again it's the flight path

Cargo hatch controls - good point. Curiously, limpets don't need the cargo hatch to deploy, they will do it even if you switch the cargo hatch off.

 

[Daynen]

Collector limpets need scrapped and reworked from the ground up. Collectors should include their own set of limpets which can return to their controller to refuel/recharge/repair/whatever instead of self-destructing. Not ammo, not CARGO , but a component of the collector itself. They also need at least the barest hint of self-preservation so they STOP FLYING STRAIGHT INTO OBSTACLES. The station services menu could be cleaned up, restocking could be made part of the "restock all" function and NO MORE would we have to sell all our damn limpets when switching ships.

 

[Azariah1991]

Collector limpets need scrapped and reworked from the ground up. Collectors should include their own set of limpets which can return to their controller to refuel/recharge/repair/whatever instead of self-destructing. Not ammo, not CARGO , but a component of the collector itself. They also need at least the barest hint of self-preservation so they STOP FLYING STRAIGHT INTO OBSTACLES. The station services menu could be cleaned up, restocking could be made part of the "restock all" function and NO MORE would we have to sell all our damn limpets when switching ships.

That is a great idea! I would like to see it reworked this way.