After checking, I'm unable to find anyone with this same problem. I suppose the obvious answer is to ditch the ship and start another char, but I'm reticent to do this, cos I've spent quite a lot of time buildong up the rep to where I want it, and it also has a pretty good map. I'd also lost a fair old number of credits.
At this point, I'd be eternally grateful for and help, advice os assistance that anyone could give me.
After checking, I'm unable to find anyone with this same problem. I suppose the obvious answer is to ditch the ship and start another char, but I'm reticent to do this, cos I've spent quite a lot of time buildong up the rep to where I want it, and it also has a pretty good map. I'd also lost a fair old number of credits.
At this point, I'd be eternally grateful for and help, advice os assistance that anyone could give me.
Thanks.
You aren't the only one. This issue is happening to me too. Exactly same cause and effect... I find that the beam stays on until I press Shift + P
I also noticed that the tooltip for the tractor beam icon now says: "Toggle tractor beam (Shift + P)" Will update if I find anything.
Yup, I've had exactly the same problem, on an AI cruiser too. Funny thing is, I only had it for 2 ships, the cruiser and a GRN Cougar. I think it's a lag-based, client-side problem, as I had a friend flying exactly the same ship right next to me and he never had that problem, even when I did. While annoying, the items are eventually tractored in, usually after a delay of 5-10 minutes, and ridiculously long beams (the longest I saw was from the Gamma jump hole in Kappa to the Lambda jump hole). However, as it is lag based, I get it intermittently. In the beta, it occurred really often, but now, as the server performance improved, it is much better; however, it still happens from time to time.
I have this problem too, on all ships (IMG advanced train, GRN ID Linx, Outcast ID Sabre, Freelancer ID Sabre).
This is what happens exactly:
Cargo and bots/bats tractor in fine, but any sort of amo (CMs, Missiles, mines) will tractor in 1 item maximum, while the rest stays in space with a never-ending tractorbeam.