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Thread: Problem with tractor beam mission
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Aurelius_Pendragon
Fri May 06, 2005 6:21 am
#1
I am having trouble with the first RotW mining mission with the tractor beam. When I get to the damaged ship, I turn on the beam, but aside from noise and light effects, nothing happens. When I /inspect I am told the ship has clothing (or grain or construction supplies), not resources (and I can /dock and remove these). If there are any resources, how do I access them from the other ship's cargo hold? It doesn't target.
Alixir
Fri May 06, 2005 6:41 am
#2
Aurelius_Pendragon wrote:
I am having trouble with the first RotW mining mission with the tractor beam. When I get to the damaged ship, I turn on the beam, but aside from noise and light effects, nothing happens. When I /inspect I am told the ship has clothing (or grain or construction supplies), not resources (and I can /dock and remove these). If there are any resources, how do I access them from the other ship's cargo hold? It doesn't target.
there is a certain place on the ship you have to hit with the tractor beam. just drag the beam all over the ship till u hit the point
Gaintlord
Fri May 06, 2005 8:26 am
#3
Make sure your cargo bay is empty.
Also make sure you have no space ore in you inventory...Either sell it or put it into your backpack.
I had the same trouble untill I did this....I guess its a bug that the game thinks your inventory is part of the cargo bay
Zade_Taerin
Fri May 06, 2005 8:28 am
#4
You will probably notice an "Increment Increased!" message. After a while I found that I got a number to pop up indicating that "X" was remaining. After using the tractor beam for a while the ship will explode. I just flew away and then came back a little bit later and it repopped. I had to do this 3 times and eventually the mission was completed. I believe you have to do so many "Increments" to be considered a successful pull. Not sure of the numbers.
Aurelius_Pendragon
Fri May 06, 2005 10:29 am
#5
Problem solved, when I moved the tractor out of the (apparently faulty) weapon slot 2 of my Krayt.
B-Funk
Sun May 08, 2005 4:46 am
#6
On the mining ship quest, I got the tractor beam and it sends me to Corellia to get the cargo off of a ship. I used the tractor beam by itself and i pulled out 3 units then it told me there wewre ships in the area so i destroyed them. The I continued using the tractor bema and kept getting a "incrementing....." message and my amount of resource was increasing in my inventory. I've tried using the beam fast and slow but I always blow up the ship but my wp stays there and i don't get a passed or fail message. What am i doing wrong. A guildee explained it to me and did it the same way i'm doing it but no dice.
ApollyonTB
Sun May 08, 2005 4:51 am
#7
just keep at it...as long as you get that message, your doing it right. It took me two times to realize this. If you stop getting teh message, try shooting the beam in different locations of the ship. You will complete the mission, once the ship self implodes....
B-Funk
Sun May 08, 2005 4:54 am
#8
I blew up the ship with only the tractor beam several times. I got like 3k of the cargo from it. I go to Corellia, target the ship, line up the crosshairs and use the tractor beam until i get the "ships in area" message, then I kill them and go back to the ship and continure with the beam until it explodes.
Rogue1970
Sun May 08, 2005 4:54 am
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B-Funk wrote:
On the mining ship quest, I got the tractor beam and it sends me to Corellia to get the cargo off of a ship. I used the tractor beam by itself and i pulled out 3 units then it told me there wewre ships in the area so i destroyed them. The I continued using the tractor bema and kept getting a "incrementing....." message and my amount of resource was increasing in my inventory. I've tried using the beam fast and slow but I always blow up the ship but my wp stays there and i don't get a passed or fail message. What am i doing wrong. A guildee explained it to me and did it the same way i'm doing it but no dice.
Don't hold the Tractor button down - hit it once and just point at the ship. You can break off and waste the spawns and come back and just point again to finish the extraction. If you hold the tractor button down, the ship registers it as a hit every second and you end up destroying it.
Took me 4 tries to figure this out.
nitestar
Mon May 16, 2005 2:09 pm
#10
ok,when trying to beam,the material onto your ship from the damage ship,this is what i did,i stayed almost 500 meters away from it,say like 496 meters,i did not fire on it at all,i started to beam the material onto my ship,make sure your beam is not asigned to any weapon slot,and not assigned to other weapons,keep back from that ship like i did,and start beaming,it will blow up after it says mission complete,lol,good luck
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