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CrimsonLightning
Tue Jan 04, 2005 9:32 pm
#1
Im sureyouve all been in the same situation. Your flying by yourself/with your friends doing a mission, duty, or just flying around, when you get attacked. You just barely take out your enemy, your engine is hit down to <37%, and you find yourself flying 156 top speed. The nearest repair station is 10km away. Anyways you get my point 
.Wouldnt it be cool if you could equip Tow cables to your ship. You could put it in your ordnance, or countermeasure??, spot, make it so you can dock with other player ships, then launch the ordnance/countermeasure (which is the tow cable) while you are docked, then fly! Higher level the Tow, the less strain it puts on your engine(if therewould beany in space) which could slow it down.
.Wouldnt it be cool if you could equip Tow cables to your ship. You could put it in your ordnance, or countermeasure??, spot, make it so you can dock with other player ships, then launch the ordnance/countermeasure (which is the tow cable) while you are docked, then fly! Higher level the Tow, the less strain it puts on your engine(if therewould beany in space) which could slow it down.
BillyBobthe50th
Tue Jan 04, 2005 9:53 pm
#2
it should be MP ship only as they need more functions to be useful.
Heres a few ideas that only MP ships should be able to do..
Dock with freighters and loot the contents after going in and kiling the crew.
Basicaly be the only ships able to dock.
lets add yours to the list ;D
inperial_lacky
Wed Jan 05, 2005 3:00 pm
#3
hm... tractor beams would be a much better thing to use, but yah, the ability to tow ships is a much needed thing. Because when your 17k away from a station you could just call your buddy to just tow yah, that would be neat... sighs, i can see this in the far future but the sad truth is it won't happen anytime soon and i agree with it being for only mp ships, makes them worth more and makes them not just flying targets which they pretty much are now really. better yet, make a support ship for shipwrights, yet them fly with a pilot and the pilot would fly it and the shipwright would do the repair, ordance/courter measure, towiing, and becausly this support ship would be great! shipwrights would group with pilots and be in space, waiting for people in trouble who are crippled to call em, and the support ship would come and with a small fee transfered, the shipwright and pilot would doc and fixed that cribbled ship, or for a lesser few, just tow em back to the station, this would add a whole new depth and stratigy to the space experence!
Starson
Wed Jan 05, 2005 8:02 pm
#4
I have had a mission where i wound up getting my engines disabled, my wing mates finished the mission, done no problem. At the time i did not have inspace repair, and ended up self-destructing.....bah, yes tractor beam would havebe wonderful.
Tianar
Wed Jan 05, 2005 8:50 pm
#5
Towwing capability is something I'd agree needs to be added, there is precident in the movies.
The Millenium Falcon was pulled into the Death Star by a tractor beam when they first encountered it.
Other Starwars games such StarWars: Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy also had tractor beams in the story line.
BillyBobthe50th
Wed Jan 05, 2005 10:26 pm
#6
Tantive IV was pulled in by tractor beams to the star destroyer in EP IV
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