Since once you finish a bot battle, you have seconds before your in another one, there should be a tractor beam to help with collecting items. Maybe this could integrated with the mining beam. This could be a wide spread beam.

I would not spend a S)mall or L)arge weapon slot for a tractor beam equipment.

I would!

What if there are several people botting, maybe a group?
I'd like to be able to rapidly collect cargo.

Besides, the whole "fly into cargo to pick it up" is alot more "SpaceQuake" and a lot less "Vendetta" IMHO.

(For you new guys, SpaceQuake is what we used to call Vendetta before there were missions or lisence levels)

just picture your ship having little cargo doors that open up and are able to allow the cargo in when you run it over.

The tractor beam idea, no matter how many times per week I see it still is not that good imho. Maybe the devs will suprise us all and come out with something incredible but who knows.