Harpoon/Grappling Hook

Cerberusx32

Cerberusx32
With this new update, especially to mining. I think it would be useful to have a Harpoon or grappling hook; hardpoint added to mining. It be pretty useful to be able to pull apart broken up asteroids to get to the center.

It's not the best addition, but it would be neat to have none the less.
 

Hullster

Hullster
The mass of the asteroid fragment is greater than the mass of your ship, it would result in you being pulled to the asteroid !!
 

Arry

Arry
We already have one fitted to the ships; all ships.

It is fixed to the last docking point and reels us back there; when we lose our ship.
 

Arioch

Arioch
A grapple was something I thought we might see, as tractor beams weren’t a thing in Elite’s universe. I think the Starfury had one in Babylon 5, and I have a vague memory of the PS1 game Colony Wars having something similar.

I reckon there could have been some interesting gameplay there with Thrust-style underslung loads, but our SRVs leap back into our ships without visible means (maybe a really big magnet?) and now there’s Guardian tech, so the humble hook and cable is probably going to be a no-show :(
 

Daynen

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More than once I've suggested some sort of grappling cable/claw/hook/whatever as a middle ground between limpets and cargo scooping; I'd gladly use up a hardpoint or module slot to avoid needing limpets while not having to scoop manually. Even if it's some guardian tech mumbo jumbo with like a magnetic pulse or something I'd be fine with it, as long as it's less cumbersome than scooping and less aggravating then dealing with the headaches that limpets bring.
 
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