Why does the extension ladder has a timer?

[Hassio]

It makes no sense to bring into the facility if you have to jump back to it to use it again when using in a gap. Maybe if there was loot in high places that you couldnt reach and needed the ladder. If you are using one and having to carry back every time or you lose -60, you shouldnt have to extend again and again when they are already so many other things that require more attention like coil-heads, jesters, brackens, etc...

I even searched for a mod but it seems there is no mod that removes the timer and just leaves the ladder extended until you pick it back.

[POWER WITHIN USER]

You should be using the ladder for outdoors, one-way shortcuts (offense, has two), on Titan to drop things right on the ship's entrance then maybe when it's flooded and you have to carry heavy objects. Afterwards you can have the ship guy do something useful and haul it back or you leave it if people are going to be reusing the shortcut. And yes, it's worth it as long as you have the ship guy deploying it, ferrying whatever is near the entrance then returning to the ship with 4 scrap or 3+ladder.
When it's used in this manner, the timer literally doesn't matter - unless people can't do jumps and in such situation you point at them while laughing.

Using it for jumps inside facilities here and there is a waste. The only times where it's really useful is for when a pickle jar spawns near the ceiling on that two story tall room with the rectangular pit
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3084024833
or when the largest processing room has something spawn under the concrete stairs near the chute area both cases are way too rare and thus make hauling a 60 credit ladder an extreme risk.

You can reliably make jumps across the beam pits with everything besides a cash register/gold bar/the yield sign that's made from depleted uranium and is painted with literal yellowcake.

[Hassio]

Originally posted by POWER WITHIN USER:

You should be using the ladder for outdoors, one-way shortcuts (offense, has two), on Titan to drop things right on the ship's entrance then maybe when it's flooded and you have to carry heavy objects. Afterwards you can have the ship guy do something useful and haul it back or you leave it if people are going to be reusing the shortcut. And yes, it's worth it as long as you have the ship guy doing something useful by say, deploying it, ferrying whatever is near the entrance then returning to the ship with 4 scrap or 3+ladder.

Using it for jumps inside facilities here and there is a waste. The only times where it's really useful is for when a pickle jar spawns near the ceiling on that two story tall room with the rectangular pit
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3084024833
or when the largest processing room has something spawn under the concrete stairs near the chute area both cases are way too rare and thus make hauling a 60 credit ladder an extreme risk.

You can reliably make jumps across the beam pits with everything besides a cash register/gold bar/the yield sign that's made from depleted uranium and is painted with literal yellow cake.

I tried using outdoors to haul loot also but the timer is also a problem late at night when there are monsters outside. I cant go outside and deploy the ladder if there are dogs or giants nearby. If it didnt have the timer it would be more useful outdoors and it would be a reasonable item to brind indoors to make jump areas saver, faster and possible to haul loot when you are heavy.

[POWER WITHIN USER]

Originally posted by Hassio:

I tried using outdoors to haul loot also but the timer is also a problem late at night

It's not for taking loot to the ship (unless it's Titan); it's meant to make you and your friends reach the facility faster.