Tractor Beams

posted on January 18th, 2006, 10:08 pm

I was wondering, are they going to put tractor beams back on constuction ships?

posted on January 18th, 2006, 10:42 pm

Would be wise

posted on January 19th, 2006, 10:45 pm

I never thought I'd say this, but I actually miss them.

posted on January 20th, 2006, 10:12 am

What would you use tractor beams for
One idea would be to use the constuction ships tractor beam to toe turrets or stations
What ideas have you guys got

posted on January 20th, 2006, 12:36 pm

to toe turrets or stations

you cant do that, only on units that have engine hitpoints but have them at 0 (disabled or damaged) eg 0/250

posted on January 20th, 2006, 2:55 pm

Its easy for the feds to disable engines, so it would be fun just to go in there with a construction ship and tow them around a bit. ^_^

posted on January 20th, 2006, 3:45 pm

untill they blow the poo out of your ships as you forgot they have weapons lol

posted on January 20th, 2006, 6:53 pm

Exactly. Construction ships are expendable.

posted on January 20th, 2006, 10:29 pm

what i used to do was drag a con across an astyeroid field in like fedhell

posted on January 20th, 2006, 11:04 pm

lol

posted on January 21st, 2006, 8:23 am

what about adding them to almost all ships. if memory serves all federation ships have em.

just think about it before dismissing it.

posted on January 21st, 2006, 4:55 pm

hmmmm it would make it more realistic, and it shouldn't screw up the gameplay that bad....

posted on January 21st, 2006, 6:20 pm

i wonder why i didn't think of this earlier

posted on January 21st, 2006, 6:38 pm

I wouldn't mind to see the tractor beam back and installed on every ship.
At least you would not have to beam hundreds of crew on a damaged ship to get it back in service. It's not that realistic to send them into death until the life support is fixed...

But what about the repair ship then? Tractor beam vs. repair ship or both?
The tractor beam would be more realistic than a magic healing beam.

[Casper]

posted on January 21st, 2006, 6:42 pm

Last edited by Casper on January 21st, 2006, 6:44 pm, edited 1 time in total.

i never liked the healing beam on the repair ships. always looked wrong


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and now you don't have to send your repair ships to their death, the warships that survived can carry the disabled ones back to base or where ever.