How exactly do collector limpets work?

[imwithdummy]

Because I decided I'd be smart, and take along eight of them with me while collecting random bounties at a disputed nav beacon, rather than trying to scoop up each dropped cargo item in the hold, right?

So I blow up a ship, a bunch of random cargo stuff scatters, I pull up in front of it, target my item of choice and release a collector limpet. The item gets collected, I target the next item for retrieval...aaand that first limpet has somehow vanished from all space and time in the interim, having apparently served its life purpose. So I release another limpet for the next item, rinse and repeat.

This is my first time using them, maybe I'm doing something wrong, but a limpet per item seems a little rough...is that generally the case?

This doesn't seem very economical...OR eco-friendly. A bunch of limpet parts being scattered across the galaxy here...no good could come from that...

[Bubba Fett]

If you target something the limpet collects only that item and self destructs. If nothing is targeted when you release the limpet, it will collect everything in range.

[Husker_85]

If you have no target selected at the time you fire the limpet, it will hover under your ship until you come within range of some goodies. At that time it will automatically start scooping them up one by one until it's time runs out. If it runs out of objects before it runs out of time it will go back to following you.

[One Eye Jack]

And if anything is between you and what you’re trying to collect they will smash headlong into it destroying themselves. They are either stupid and or suicidal.

Tried to get professional help for my limpets suicidal tendencies but. Sadly. No. They can’t be cheered up at all. They seem to delight in self destruction. Sigh.

[Bubba Fett]

Originally posted by One Eye Jack:

And if anything is between you and what you’re trying to collect they will smash headlong into it destroying themselves. They are either stupid and or suicidal.

Tried to get professional help for my limpets suicidal tendencies but. Sadly. No. They can’t be cheered up at all. They seem to delight in self destruction. Sigh.

That's not entirely true. Mine will slowly move along the surface of an asteroid fragment for quite a while before they finally die. I've spent plenty of time mining waiting to some stupid collector to kill itself so I can deploy a replacment.

[One Eye Jack]

Originally posted by Bubba Fett:

Originally posted by One Eye Jack:

And if anything is between you and what you’re trying to collect they will smash headlong into it destroying themselves. They are either stupid and or suicidal.

Tried to get professional help for my limpets suicidal tendencies but. Sadly. No. They can’t be cheered up at all. They seem to delight in self destruction. Sigh.

That's not entirely true. Mine will slowly move along the surface of an asteroid fragment for quite a while before they finally die. I've spent plenty of time mining waiting to some stupid collector to kill itself so I can deploy a replacment.

My limpets are all fun and games while I am docked at a station. But as soon as I launch they are all doom and gloom. “Oh God Oh God we’re all going to die!”

Nothing I do will cheer them up. Sigh.

[Bubba Fett]

Mine are never happy. The survivors must have told the new ones about all the limpets I abandon at signal sources after they gather loot for me.
(I'm really just giving them their freedom)

[Husker_85]

Originally posted by Bubba Fett:

Mine are never happy. The survivors must have told the new ones about all the limpets I abandon at signal sources after they gather loot for me.
(I'm really just giving them their freedom)

• can travel 300m/s
  
• 500Ls from the nearest object

"Freedom" XD

[imwithdummy]

Thank you!
So...just don't target anything then, huh? Just park yourself in the middle of whatever's left of that npc ship, release a limpet and let the loot roll in?
Sweet! Knew there had to be something more to it...thank you!

Lol limpets remind me of that little guy from Hitchiker's Guide. Oh...why bother...*explodes*

[One Eye Jack]

Originally posted by imwithdummy:

Thank you!
So...just don't target anything then, huh? Just park yourself in the middle of whatever's left of that npc ship, release a limpet and let the loot roll in?
Sweet! Knew there had to be something more to it...thank you!

Lol limpets remind me of that little guy from Hitchiker's Guide. Oh...why bother...*explodes*

Now that you mention it. I wonder if the same guy programmed both? That might explain a lot......... 🤔

[Wesker]

Another thing you can do is look in the contacts list on left panel and toggle selected items to be ignored, this will remove them from the sensor screen to reduce clutter and also keep your limpets from picking those items up, comes in handy when you want to grab mats but not the stolen illegal cargo floating in the same wreckage.

[torax+*****]

I have a problem with limpets just hitting the debris after picking up the materials (or on their way to the materials). Even at just above 100 credits each, with two mats and two limpets dead before I manually scooped the mats it seems a bit, well, useless? The issues I have is that in the USS there is just too much debris for the limpets to survive more than a few seconds. much less a 400 meter round trip.

[pappitts]

Originally posted by One Eye Jack:

And if anything is between you and what you’re trying to collect they will smash headlong into it destroying themselves. They are either stupid and or suicidal.

Tried to get professional help for my limpets suicidal tendencies but. Sadly. No. They can’t be cheered up at all. They seem to delight in self destruction. Sigh.

Some of mine loved the cracked asteroid chunks. It just stay there watching the chunks while there are materials to collect lol

[piddlefoot]

Some of the posts in here, sound like they are talking about slaves, lol, limpets !

I know, its a limpets argument !

[inetwebguy2001]

LLM - Limpet Lives Matter