Where can you buy a tractor beam?

[robertbb99]

I have looked all over, where can you buy a tractor beam?

[Baddieus]

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Third Redemption

Or you can build your own if friendly enough with the Paranid.

[Playbahnosh]

I have looked all over, where can you buy a tractor beam?

Check your enyclopedia, it is listed under lasers if I'm not mistaken. The places selling and manufacturing it are listed at the bottom of the stat sheet. If it's not listed at all, you haven't yet visited a sector that has a station selling it, go exploring.

[dillpickle]

If it's not listed at all, you haven't yet visited a sector that has a station selling it, go exploring.

Or they have all been 'conveniently' removed from the Universe....

[brattbags01]

I have looked all over, where can you buy a tractor beam?

From me, ha. Fly to the unknown sector east of PTNI headquarters and dock at my PHQ and i'll sell you as many as you want (for a very reasonable price of course)

[AgamemnonArgon]

Best to buy ones own factory.

[VincentTH]

Early in every game, I place an M5 in one of the 2 Tractor beam fab in 3rd Redemption in order to save it from the act of GOD (or buy one and stash it somewhere to be used later in the Aldrin mission plot)

If you fail to do that, and there are no tractor beam fab in 3rd redemption, then I am afraid you will have to buy one and build your own.
The problem with building your own fab, is that there will be no Equipment Dock that would take them. You will have to sell them manually, or disable/destroy the fab after you make your first Tractor Beam.

//Ton

[glenmcd]

Each time I've started a new X3:TC game, there has been no tractor beam factories until I built one myself. Then suddenly they are listed in the enclopedia, listing two sectors that have one: The sector I built in (of course) and the sector that I purchased the factory from, and in my current game that was Third Redemption, right next to the shipyard that sold me the factory. This is the first time that I became aware of this. By this time I had fully mapped out most sectors, so where to buy a TB factory was listed both in Third Redemption and Heavens Assertion. So perhaps you have no choice but to build a tractor beam factory, however I'm not sure whether you actually have to put any resources into it, if all you want is a one of a few TBs. However, spending 303K on initial resources is nothing in comparison to the 14M it costs for the factory. Even spending six times this to fill up the product queue is insignificant.

[Rogue]

In fairness at mid to late game 14 million is pretty incignificant.

My TB fab in my main game never went boom so I was able to pick one up no worries. But considering how well all my other weapons seem to be selling I might well make a fab anyway

[Choublanc]

Tractor beams are the 2nd best product in the game at minimum price (196k of revenue per fab/per hour) and require only 13 cargo space per hour of production.
Excellent for bulk selling inside a TL/TS. Initial investment is high, but pure profit afterwards.

The problem with building your own fab, is that there will be no Equipment Dock that would take them. You will have to sell them manually, or disable/destroy the fab after you make your first Tractor Beam.

Destroying a TB fab

[Joe McCracken]

Why destroy the Fab? You can sell those things to an equipment dock for 777,000 each (or some where around that) IIRC. You get 5 at a time i think. Keep it and manually sell them, pure proffitssss i tell you

[AgamemnonArgon]

Terracorp in Home of Light likes to buy a lot of advanced weapons and devices