Tractor Beam Doesn''t work

Fri Jul 11, 2003 1:13 am by kkizzee

First time poster and new to the game so I hope this is a simple thing that I'm overlooking. I'm supposed to tractor in Ashcroft's life pod but always fail mission for taking so long. Thing is I think I'm doing it right; select the target and click the tractor beam button.

I went back into space and tried to beam in other objects with no luck. No error messages or warnings, just hums and does nothing.

Very troublesome as I can progress no further. Please help.

Fri Jul 11, 2003 1:50 am by Stinger

Make sure you have the default setup on the keyboard and just hit "B"

If you've changed anything on the keyboard mapping, be sure you have assigned something to the tractor beam. Go into options and look.

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Fri Jul 11, 2003 4:20 am by RILMS

Make sure your cargo hold has space.

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Fri Jul 11, 2003 4:21 am by Sirius

Mission cargo useually dosn't take up space

Fri Jul 11, 2003 7:20 am by Puke Barwalker

Are you sure you are in range? Objects will show up on your screen, but you can't beam them in unless you are close enough to do so.

Fri Jul 11, 2003 12:31 pm by bogsnot

Are you looking in the right place after you tractor the item in?

Mines, batteries, missiles, guns, torpedos thrusters and countermeasures go into a seperate part of your hold. If you tractor one of them in and look in the "cargo" area of your hold, they wont be there.

If you look under the various loadout sections, you might find them in there. (Maybe you havent noticed your battery/nanobot amount in your right HUD increasing?)

Just my $0.02, but it could just be the cardamine talking.
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Fri Jul 11, 2003 5:39 pm by kkizzee

Well, I tried re-mapping the tractor beam to another key. No help. I have plenty of cargo space available and it's not that I can't find it, it isn't even moving through space!

Is there something sill like distance to target that I'm overlooking? I try to get as close as possible but still, no dice.

Getting very frustrating but thanks for all the help thus far.

Sat Jul 12, 2003 5:41 am by [RSSF]--FLancing

All I can say is WEIRD!! I have no idea why it would'ent work...

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Sat Jul 12, 2003 6:10 am by Imagine

only other idea I'd try is to use the single-item-tractor function, shift-b or something like that.

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