At the moment, if you attempt to tractor an unowned/yellow wreck in low sec, you receive the following message:
“The Small Tractor Beam II cannot engage a tractor beam on that object as it is not owned by you, a fellow fleet member, or another member of a corporation you belong to.”
This restriction does not make much sense, particularly in low security space. I do understand why this limitation may exist in high security space.
In low sec, I can legally engage other players under the appropriate circumstances and quite literally turn their ships into wrecks, yet I cannot use a tractor beam to pull an abandoned or unowned wreck toward me. If taking control of someone else’s wreck needs a consequence, then simply have it generate a suspect timer.
The restriction becomes even harder to justify when an MTU can already be deployed to tractor nearby wrecks and automatically collect their loot. The game already permits this behavior through the deployable while restricting the player from actively and manually doing it with a tractor beam.
Low Security Space should allow for more emergent behaviors and broaden player freedom. My suggestion is to remove this restriction, allow un-owned wrecks to be tractor beamed and if necessary add a suspect timer to the individual tractoring them.
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Seems good to me, and in highsec, on red safety, you should suffer CONCORDOKEN for tractoring yellow wrecks, no?
MTU does not allow looting of wrecks that are not yours.. at least in HS they do not loot wrecks not belonging to you..
so the ships have a safety block, to prevent you from doing a suspect status, so pulling/looting yellow wrecks and not realizing it, can be a suspect status, so therefore it will not allow you to do it.
MTU’s being automated, can pull yellow wrecks, but they cannot commit a suspect action (looting)
The Module Limit: A ship-mounted tractor beam is hard-coded to only lock onto white (your own), blue (abandoned), or red (NPC) wrecks. The module simply does not possess the code functionality to interface with a yellow wreck
Low = Tractor but not loot. The character can loot.
Null, W-space, Pochven = Tractor & Loot. Who cares about the laws?
And this has nothing to do with the current event, right…? 
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Surprisingly not. Lately been salvaging battles in FW space. Usually I just drop an MTU and gather the loot or prioritize capital / tech 2 wrecks. The day I posted I had brought out a Noctis to grab a bunch of wrecks on station only to find out it cannot even pull the wrecks.
nope, all ships as i have noted above, are hard coded to never allow the mods to do that.
There’s probably more of a downside than initially appears (there usually is with any suggestion).
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