Tractor Beam

posted on March 4th, 2004, 3:29 pm

no i think you should only be able to tractors certain ships depending oin your size eg if a sov still has engins and a enemy scout ship comes then they are not going to be able to tractor the sov are they? but the sov will be able to tractor the scout. but i don't think this is right to have in a game.
How ever i do think all shaips should have tbs and they can tow ships of the same class or lower. (same class if engins are out)

posted on March 4th, 2004, 5:25 pm

if a ship has no weapons than the ship should be able to be pulled by anything, in space it wouldent have weigt.

posted on March 4th, 2004, 5:38 pm

No weight, but mass. The acceleration would still depend on the engine power. Yes, you can push a starship with the recoil of a hairspray bottle, but it would take a looooooong time.

posted on March 4th, 2004, 6:06 pm

That's correct Lt.Cdr.White. This si concluded from 2. Newton Law in physics: F=m*a.
And because in space there are no gravity forces (except from object that have mass like planets, stars, black holes) the ship can't have weight (a=0), but still has mass.

posted on March 4th, 2004, 8:12 pm

no i think you should only be able to tractors certain ships depending oin your size eg if a sov still has engins and a enemy scout ship comes then they are not going to be able to tractor the sov are they? but the sov will be able to tractor the scout. but i don't think this is right to have in a game.
How ever i do think all shaips should have tbs and they can tow ships of the same class or lower. (same class if engins are out)

Thats exactly what I said.

posted on March 4th, 2004, 9:26 pm

did you sorry

posted on March 4th, 2004, 10:52 pm

At least Cruisers and up should have tractors.

posted on March 5th, 2004, 1:51 am

NP, just try to read thoroughly, I make mistakes too.

posted on March 5th, 2004, 1:16 pm

Hey, maybe on Destroyers and Scouts, Tractors would take Special Weapon Energy. On a scout, you could move a ship for 8 Seconds. 20 Seconds On a destroyer.