Borg Tractor Beams

posted on June 29th, 2010, 3:57 pm

If the Borg were to get a tractor beam. It should be given to the weakest  powered ship class, like the probe. Duration of the tractor effect should be for  5 seconds and should use special energy at a  extremely high rate .  I also feel that  the ability should have a long  cooldown  time before the ability could be used again. I feel a slot based (max cap of 2  refitted ships )  build   method should be a way to  affect the  cap the  # of  outfitted ships that  could use the ability . This  way  one can add a tow    ability  with out  adding the ability to SPAM or ABUSE  the ability.

How do you spam tractor beams? These aren't holding beams we're talking about. They're tractor beams, just like the ones on non-Borg constructors. Also, how do Borg spam large ships? If you manage to get a dozen Spheres then you don't need any special beams to win.

The whole anti-tractor argument just seems silly to me. Borg can't disable your engines for more than a few seconds with their two subsystem disablers (both only disable random subsystems.) You expect to be able to tow away a vessel once it regains engines and the tractor beam stops? I agree with ARES on this, there would be no effect on combat.


Now for aesthetics I think it should be the same color as the holding beam (as that is the Borg's tractor beam, FO just gave it a name based on how they tend to use it mostly), but behave like a normal tractor beam (as now you're basically using the holding beam on a ship that can't move.) Also, the holding and tractor beam shouldn't be able to be used at the same time as each other, that way it's like there is really only the holding beam.
This would also make holding beam modules a little more useful.