Player Features and Ideas Discussion

You say you don't need things explains but continue to ask dumb questions... "Why do I want a tractor beam?" To tractor ship towards me of course! "why do I want to pull ships towards me?" Do you play eve?!

It would potentially change the vector of your ship and relative velocity, not the direction in which you are aligning.

Do I really need to repeat the fact that existing mechanics are not my problem moron? CCP obviously have the power to change the mechanics.

As I said, I want a ship based tractor, so whether the citadels have one is irrelevant... But since citadels will have them, that would indicate that a ship based tractor is possible.

I fully understand the basic concept of your idea that is why I stated that it has some possibilities. Now I need more information on this "equation" so I can take your idea out of the fat kid and his dog basic concept and apply it to real EvE interactions between ships of various speeds and mass. Have you even thought that far through your idea, or is this just another I want because it is cool idea and someone else will have to figure out how to make it work things.


Alignment in EvE is the ability to attain 70% of your sub warp speed heading towards a defined place in space, place defined by where you told the game you want to warp to when you initiate your warp. Anything that can prevent you from attaining the required speed, or that can move your ship off of that original vector can and will prevent you from warping. Amazingly your tractor beam idea would have the ability to do either one and possibly even both of them at the same time and yet you think it would not prevent anyone from warping?

Can I tractor a ship and use it as a slingshot device to escape tackle? Think frig vs frig where you slingshot to get away, can I use this alleged tractor and a change of direction to throw a tackling ship past me and get out of tackle range.

I think your idea would be much more interesting if you didn't limit it to large ships.

I can almost see this as a stealth BS suck thread.

I can see any implementation of this being a huge boost to turret tracking when used with a bit of skill.

What if you and I both tractor the same ship? I'm obviously cooler and smarter than you, so would my tractor be better?

What if 4 of my friends all agree to tractor you at the same time I do.... What happens?
What if 1000+ goon pets all tractor a guy at the same time (you know they will)... What happens then?
What if there are 200 ships on the field, 60 of them have tractors and they randomly tractor everyone and each other?

My personal take is that handing out a bunch of rubber bands to eve pilots and stepping back will on the one hand be hilarious, but on the other it would lead to a lot crap game play. 1 patch to put into the game and 4 years to balance out.


What if I destroyer jumped a ship tractoring or being tractored? Can I tractor a cyno ship off an undock? Can I MJD if I'm tractored? Does bastion stop a tractor beam? Siege? Does tractoring create an aggression timer?


Put some meat on this idea so we can sink our teeth into it.

...do you play EVE? "LOL LOL, because I want to" has never been a good reason to change the mechanics in any game, ever. Give a well thought out reasoning behind why this is beneficial over the current mechanics and I will start to take you seriously.

I think it has zero merit, and don't understand why you're proposing it beyond "golly, this might be neat". You need a better line of reasoning than that.

Shots fired!

Could I interest the both of you in a thunderdome style discussion to settle your differences? (check C&P threads on the topic for anyone not familiar).

Historically Rek's idea posting has been a few eggs short of a dozen. He means well, you just have to work with him. Heck I'm not a detail gal myself. I personally love the various math nerds and perfectionist that hammer out the details. This idea just needs a bit of fleshing out to have a proper discussion. (respectful hugs to all the nerds that make this game totally awesome!)

Rek, the onus is on you to fill in the details during the discussion. You don't have to code it, but it's your idea, so you do have to own it during this phase.

I already asked you just under a dozen question.

This defiantly would add more cool to the game, comeon its a staple of sci fi, its olny in the first few of the first original star wars movie and knows how many others sci fi inspired by them.

And might not even need a new module if could just allow tractors to lock on to anything both wreaks and active ships, could have the pull be based on the mass of the ship using it, so a ship needs to be one size larger than the target to work, and larger size difference the better.