Two words:
Tractor
Beams
A tool with which would allow players you pull themselves and their target closer together.
Notice how i said that they pulled themselves towards each other.
The concept here is that an object with a small mass is going to end up pulling itself toward a more massive or stationary object, thus allowing it to speed up faster, close the distrance on a target faster, or change vector alot faster.
For large obejcts this would also be quite useful. Say you have a Battleship, and its primary defence system is Plasma Turrets. Now, while Plasma Turrets are very useful, up until a certain range, at which point its like throwing waterballoons filled with urine. Of course, because you dont want your enemy to just keep on shooting at you from a distance away, and your ship is not neccisarily the fastest or most energy efficent in the universe, you could have a Tractor beam turret that can pull smallships towards you, allowing your ship's turrets to whip them out.
Of course, combat isnt the only application for this. Tractor Beams could also aid in docking, as well as pulling a ship who had its thrusters damaged or was abandandoned away from its current location, perhaps as a captured ship, perhaps for easier salvage.
Now, because there are tractor beams, there should be of course Inversion Beams.
They are effectivelly the opposite of the Tractor Beam. They push away instead of pull. This would allow massive ships to possibly cause smaller ships to spinout with a large enough beam, and allow smaller ships to stop on a dime.
But hey, thats just my idea, please tell me what you guys think
Tractor
Beams
A tool with which would allow players you pull themselves and their target closer together.
Notice how i said that they pulled themselves towards each other.
The concept here is that an object with a small mass is going to end up pulling itself toward a more massive or stationary object, thus allowing it to speed up faster, close the distrance on a target faster, or change vector alot faster.
For large obejcts this would also be quite useful. Say you have a Battleship, and its primary defence system is Plasma Turrets. Now, while Plasma Turrets are very useful, up until a certain range, at which point its like throwing waterballoons filled with urine. Of course, because you dont want your enemy to just keep on shooting at you from a distance away, and your ship is not neccisarily the fastest or most energy efficent in the universe, you could have a Tractor beam turret that can pull smallships towards you, allowing your ship's turrets to whip them out.
Of course, combat isnt the only application for this. Tractor Beams could also aid in docking, as well as pulling a ship who had its thrusters damaged or was abandandoned away from its current location, perhaps as a captured ship, perhaps for easier salvage.
Now, because there are tractor beams, there should be of course Inversion Beams.
They are effectivelly the opposite of the Tractor Beam. They push away instead of pull. This would allow massive ships to possibly cause smaller ships to spinout with a large enough beam, and allow smaller ships to stop on a dime.
But hey, thats just my idea, please tell me what you guys think
