Velcro? Really, really long strips of Velcro?
A case for tractor beams
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Velcro? Really, really long strips of Velcro?
YES!!!
I want this!
Harpooning a spaceship and then boosting through an asteroid field could result in hilarious combat mechanics
(Also a way to board a ship once we have space legs
)
I was going to post about how, back in my day, we used to have to scoop canisters ourselves, flying up hill, both ways, in the cold vacuum of space, to collect any cargo or mineral chunks at all. So, I did.
With nails in them!
...and wooden boarding planks.
With nails in them!
No it wasnt
Limpets take up 1 ton as it's a semi autonomous drone that you program depending on what controllers you have equipped.
And if you just send out a collector without having any of the stuff targeted that you want it will just keep collecting many more times it's original volume in stuff. It only does a single trip if you have a specific item targeted while you program it.
I often take a controller in one of spare slots on my cobra IV and a few limpets in the cargo just for the random stuff I find from time to time. Well worth the 101cr for a limpet imo.
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Perhaps adding a new Engineer who specializes in mining, salvage, collection and recovery would be a good idea? For example, "Shan Vinquar" could offer certain types of augmentations to mining lasers, prospecting controllers and various limpet controllers. In the former case, he'd offer enhancements to either make the lasers more efficient, more powerful or lighter (with balancing effects). He'd make prospector controllers more efficient or more detailed, and in the last case, boosting the amount of active limpets would be a benefit to miners everywhere.
A guy can collect a lot more ore with 15 limpets, that I'm sure
A guy can collect a lot more ore with 15 limpets, that I'm sure
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Rather than near-magic tractor beams, I prefer the suggestion of some kind of magnetic grapnel launchers. Fit them into utility slots and they will target nearby claimable objects within range, then launch a magnetic clamp on a tether (with tiny maneuvering thrusters as an extra option), which then reels the object in and places it into the cargo bay. It could also look pretty fancy, as a mining ship with multiple grapnel lines active at once from their various utility slots would end up looking like some kind of angry rock-eating squid.
Decent limpet blueprints for engineers would be nice too.
Decent limpet blueprints for engineers would be nice too.
Perhaps adding a new Engineer who specializes in mining, salvage, collection and recovery would be a good idea? For example, "Shan Vinquar" could offer certain types of augmentations to mining lasers, prospecting controllers and various limpet controllers. In the former case, he'd offer enhancements to either make the lasers more efficient, more powerful or lighter (with balancing effects). He'd make prospector controllers more efficient or more detailed, and in the last case, boosting the amount of active limpets would be a benefit to miners everywhere.
A guy can collect a lot more ore with 15 limpets, that I'm sure
I like where this is going. yes please
Lore wise, I really like the Harpoon. In the Elite Reclamation novel harpoons are used more then once to retrieve a ship. Talk about new mechanics for potential pirates to disable a ship and take it back to a black market station for salvage. Taking that one step further, other less scrupulous CMDR's could visit the ship yards at the pirate stations and the only options are previously loved ships that come with a WANTED tag and a few blood stains on the seats.
I'd like a winch to lift an SRV out of a rocky crevasse. Rescue and other fun awaits.
There is no artificial gravity in the Elite galaxy.
The Thargoids use a tractor beam. It exists, humans just haven't discovered it.
There is no artificial gravity in the Elite galaxy.
Than explain me please, how coriolis stations are working. Check how the buildings on the outer edges are placed, there is NO WAY one could stand there through coriolis gravity. They would allbe pressed into the edges of the rooms.
I say, there IS artificial gravity and IF we will be able to walk on our ships at some day, artificial gravity and inertia dumper will exist! Try to ram a wall with 400m/s in reality. Yes the ships would stop, but you not
To OP:
I think that a tractor beam in Elite would work more like a vacuum cleaner and just sucks everything in the cone of range into the hatch. For mining and salvage perfectly fine, for ships? No way
it would be at least a nice QoL feature.
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Than explain me please, how coriolis stations are working. Check how the buildings on the outer edges are placed, there is NO WAY one could stand there through coriolis gravity. They would allbe pressed into the edges of the rooms.
I say, there IS artificial gravity and IF we will be able to walk on our ships at some day, artificial gravity and inertia dumper will exist! Try to ram a wall with 400m/s in reality. Yes the ships would stop, but you not
Coriolis (and other spinning stations) use the spin to create a centripetal force acting on objects (from the deck resisting that which is on it flying off into space) which would appear to the observer to be similar to a gravitational force.
To OP:
I think that a tractor beam in Elite would work more like a vacuum cleaner and just sucks everything in the cone of range into the hatch. For mining and salvage perfectly fine, for ships? No way
A vacuum cleaner - in a vacuum?
That's not gonna work.... Minonian
Banned
Interesting, but nothing magical about it. It's simply playing with magnetic push and pull, the smallest outer 6 magnets showing different poles outward compared to the innermost, as a result, if the composition of 7 magnets attracting another magnet or magnetizing materials, than its keeps pulled by the stronger inner magnet, but when gets close enough also pushed by the weaker outer magnets, and as a result it's begin trapped between the opposing forces, and keeps a constant distance.
Getting back to the op, Do Thargoids have tractor beams?
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If we ever get boarding gameplay I suppose that this is the way to go.
Thar he blows. Get me mah harpoon. *harpoons Beluga*
Did NASA run out of money for their tractor beams before the 4th millennium?